Arlen Specter....."Magic Bullet Specter".......

[Mind_your_head]

I don't *believe* anything from this man after that "GREAT BIG LIE" some 46 years ago......

sorry, I just can't/won't.

[aquart]

1. A long memory is a handicap in politics.

Me, I don't forgive the Thomas/Hill hearings.

"Specter began by assuring me that he was simply trying 'to find out what happened.' Nevertheless, in short order, any hope that Senator Specter would transcend the political was dashed. He began his questioning with an unmistakably prosecutorial tone. He used a familiar cross-examination tactic--a tactic common in sexual harassment cases. He ridiculed my reaction to Thomas' behavior, suggesting that I was being oversensitive, even to the point of misrepresenting my testimony....

The tension between Senator Specter and me was measurable. The process seemed to break down completely. Senator Specter would repeat the same questions until he got the answer he wanted.... To the press and spectators, we must have sounded silly and ill tempered. More than one sigh erupted from the seats behind me as Specter returned to the questioning and I once more gave my explanation. Clearly, neither of us would budge from our position.

Something in the back of my head said, 'Just say what he wants you say and get on with it.' But I was much too stubborn to do that. And the more he pursued it, the more inclined I was to resist. Digging in was, perhaps, for me one way of hanging on to some amount of my dignity. By now I knew that his questions were both insincere and ill informed. Though I tried to answer him, I was equally determined that the senator not put words in my mouth.

With every question he asked, it became clearer that despite any declaration to the contrary, he viewed me as an adversary. Rather than seeking to elicit information, his questioning sought to elicit a conclusion that he had reached before the hearing began."

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[pnwmom]

4. It was definitely one of his lowest moments. n/t

[jobycom]

2. Without getting into the whole debate, most ballistics experts and computer mockups

have also arrived at the same conclusion about the bullet. With the Zapruder evidence it becomes very clear that the bullet wouldn't have had to zigzag or do anything magical to cause exactly the wounds created if it were fired from the SBD window.

Not saying that means the shots came from there--just don't want to get into it--but the argument that the Warren Commission required a "Magic Bullet" is completely disproved by science now.

[stopbush]

3. Agreed. It would have been magic had that bullet not hit Connally after exiting JFK.

[patriotvoice]

5. Please, call us simulations.

We're easily offended by being labeled as merely static "mockups."

[zbdent]

6. his voting record is enough evidence for me ...

don't mind what he says he will do, mind what he actually does when the time comes to put his money where his mouth is ...