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My name is Susan DuQuesnay Bankston. I live in Richmond, Texas, in the heart of Tom DeLay's old district. It's nuttier than squirrel poop here.
I am honored and privileged to know Miss Juanita Jean Herownself, hairdresser extraordinary and political maven. Since she does not have time to fiddle with this internet stuff, I type her website for her and you can read it if you want to. If you don't, she truly does not give a big bear's butt.
A lot of what I post here has to do with local politics, but you probably have the same folks in your local government.
This ain't a blog. Blogs are way too trendy for me. This is a professional political organization.
I think my first experience actually listening to a politician was the 196o Democratic Convention, not because I wanted to but but because my parents were watching it and I didn’t have anything else to do. But I did listen and I remember being mesmerized by one John F Kennedy speaking in a manner I’d never heard. Believe it was his acceptance of the nomination for president. I remember thinking that’s what a president should sound like. Then in 2004, I listened to one Barack Obama speaking as a senator at the Democratic Convention, and I thought at the time- he should be president.
1Boston twang and all. First time old enough to care also.
2The Kennedy campaign was the first one that I can remember in detail, too. He was an eloquent speaker, in a way that neither the other candidates nor President Eisenhower could match. Now, of course, I give most of the credit to his speech writers–but their words were enhance by the way Kennedy spoke them. That, of course, is also true of Barack Obama.
3I was a junior in college at the time, still not old enough to vote as the age limit at the time was 21. That didn’t keep me from working like pack of dogs for JFK’s election. What really attracted me was the fact that he had served in uniform in WWII and had even 1.) received a back injury that would last his life, and 2.) despite his own condition at the time, rescued what was left of his crew by getting them to an island and then eventually to full safety. He was from a rich family with a daddy who could have kept him in an office during the war but he struck out on his own to get into active duty! That says it all!
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