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DEL.ICIO.USTom Bell drops off the Thompson bandwagon
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Tom Bell, the CEO of Atlanta-based Cousins Properties, has given up his job as top fund-raiser for Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson.
This according to the Washington Post.
Thompson’s people say Bell’s departure was expected and is not to be confused with the musical chairs game that other members of the campaign staff have played.
“He is going to remain active with the campaign but, we’ve known all along, and he’s been up front with us, that once we got past the testing the waters portion of this adventure that we needed to find a full-time campaign finance chair for the actual campaign,” said Thompson campaign spokeswoman Karen Hanretty.
On his visit to Atlanta earlier this month, Thompson used Bell’s spacious 36th floor suite of offices on Peachtree Street as his field headquarters.
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By Dave P
October 31, 2007 9:19 AM | Link to this
I’m sure the media will try and spin this as something major but it simply is not. Fred Thompson is a good man and will make a great President. He has integrity which is hard to find among the other candidates.
By O. P. Ditch
October 31, 2007 10:47 AM | Link to this
That’s right Dave P. Fred has integrity above and beyond the other candidates. That’s whey MILITARY VETERANS are signing up for Fred at:
http://Vets4Fred.net
By Vic Lundquist
October 31, 2007 12:04 PM | Link to this
Respectfully:
FT will continue to lose supporters as he continues to lose steam.
FT does not have answers. FT has a team. No person, no matter how intelligent or educated, can have all the answers — that is true. However, in today’s fast paced, Internet world of new media, every presidential candidate must be prepared with answers to every major domestic and international issue that confronts a President. FT has a team of advisors. It is precisely their job to know the answers and to advise FT. It is FT’s job to articulate the answers as he sees fit. If he cannot do that, he cannot be President.
FT has not been a true leader of anything really. He has not effectively run anything except a campaign. That is it.
FT does not have any experience to run the largest enterprise the world has ever known.
This is not criticism, but nobody in the FT camp ever shows how FT IS NOT lazy. They just make excuses for why FT does not work hard campaigning. You got those guys Giuliani and Romney meeting with people in several meetings a day like their lives depend on it. FT has chosen to take an easy path.
I do agree that FT is a nice man and that by in large, he has been a good conservative his whole life. That is true. But my grandfather has been a true conservative his whole life and his work ethic is second to none.
What is so compelling about FT that should cause me to support, promote, and vote for him?
By Will Jones
October 31, 2007 12:48 PM | Link to this
9.2 million Americans answered the Call and served honorably during Vietnam. The faction of fascist plutocracy (GOP branch) trots out three draft-dodgers: Thompson, Giuliani, and Romney. Hmmm. Whodathunk?
By Tim
October 31, 2007 1:11 PM | Link to this
I love these liberals that throw accusations out like there nothing. “Draftdodgers” So does it mean all those that didn’t get drafted are draftdodgers. Where is your basis for making this claim. Also, do you mean all those that chose to go to school, furthering their education make someone a draftdodger. I have the utmost respect for those that served our country especially in Vietnam. LEt me say this though, those individuals that spew baseless accusations and/or commentary lose all credibility and serve no purpose in a forum like this. If you want to contribute don’t try to manipulate others try to seek facts and then share them. Otherwise you look very silly and shortsighted.
By Will Jones
October 31, 2007 1:30 PM | Link to this
Yeah, Tim, you and “other priorities” Cheney really have National Defense down cold - have the “other guy” do it.
E Pluribus Unum. The Nation’s blood is being spilled in uniform, a man, or boy who wants to be a man, runs to the fight or lives his life like closet-queen Bush drinking and deluding himself (ultimately the tool to commit 9-11)…or “justifying” cowardice by sidling up to the criminals who sent us instead of bringing the traitors to justice.
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.
Those who stayed in school, particularly who chose law school as a rat hole, had the duty to ensure The Law was upheld for the 58,000 and our lost honor. Instead the three in question just cashed in with the treasonous faction that killed Kennedy and fabricated the Gulf of Tonkin Hoax to put us there.
By Anonymous
October 31, 2007 1:32 PM | Link to this
Tim: Don’t mistake Will Jones for a liberal. He’s in a class—heck, on a PLANET—all his own.
By Will Jones
October 31, 2007 1:49 PM | Link to this
Liberals founded America. Rome’s fascist, pedophile, closet-queen Fifth Column wants us to turn from appreciation of Our Founders. I am liberal and proud of it.
23 The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.
24 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
25 The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
G-d wants us to be liberal. That’s “good enough” for me.