RAT: politix in theater space (ready your delete)

[Rebecca Gray <smith@avn.com>]

sorry ahead of time to those of you who find this pollution. please purge now.
it's meant to be a scavenger hunt:

>If you support the guy, please accept my apology, delete this, and
>let's both move on with our lives. We can still be friends.
>
>Otherwise, PASS THE WORD!!
>
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>From: "Zack Exley" <info@gwbush.com>
>To: gw_bush@eGroups.com
>Subject: [gw_bush] Quick, before he's President!
>Date: Tue, Dec 21, 1999, 5:49 pm
>

> Please forward this e-mail to anyone you know who fears 8 years of a
> "Dubya" White House!
>
> That homeless guy might be running for president today if W hadn't
> stolen his place at Yale back in '64.  That name on the Wall might
> still be alive today if he hadn't gone, in George W's place, to
> Vietnam.
>
> The parody site www.gwbush.com is producing some hard-hitting, funny
> political ads on George W Bush for radio and TV.  But we need your
> help!
>
> We need to locate people who meet the following descriptions.  We know
> they're only a couple degrees of separation away.  Please contact
> info@gwbush.com if you know--or ARE:
>
> 1) A straight 'A' student who was rejected from Harvard Business School
> in 1973, the year Bush was accepted despite terrible undergrad grades
> at Yale.
>
> 2) A straight 'A' student with high SATs who was rejected from Yale in
> 1664, the year Bush was accepted despite bad high school grades and
> mediocre SAT scores.
>
> 3) Someone who was on the long waiting list to enter the Texas National
> Guard around 1968, but never made it in, and who eventually was drafted
> to Vietnam.  Bush jumped to the head of that waiting list thanks to
> help from then Texas House Speaker Ben Barnes and Texas oilman Sidney
> A. Adger.  George Senior was a US Congressman at the time.  (See:
> http://www.dallasnews.com/specials/bush_campaign/controversies/0907bush
> 1111guard.htm )
>
> Bush often speaks against "social promotion," or the practice of
> advancing bad students rather than forcing them to suffer the
> consequences of their poor performance.
>
> He also opposes Affirmative Action on the basis that merit--not gender,
> race or CLASS--should be the only thing that counts.  But because of
> W's race, gender, and especially class, he is on the verge of being
> 'socially promoted' all the way to the White House.
>
> I think it's clear what fun we'll have with these ads if we can find
> real people who fit the above descriptions.  We know they're out there,
> so please: FORWARD THIS EMAIL!