Legion World Forums LEGION COMPANION The Anywhere Machine So, South Carolina has a guy win the US Open...

Cobie, when I was a kid and to young to know better, I didn't realize that a Gamecock was a bird. I thought it was a dragon of some kind. I thought the neck was a part of its head. Hey, I was a strange kid. I liked dracula after all.

But yeah, the logo is definitely cool. Actually went to USC for a year. Found out I'm just a country boy at heart and finished up at Francis Marion University. But I still have a huge soft spot in my sports lovin' heart for USC.

And thank you all for the kind responses. My state rarely gets in the news, and when it does, it is almost exclusively bad. As a native Carolinian, it gets frustrating and more than a little sad some times.

Hey, didn't you guys attack that Fort Sumter place a few years back?

What attack, we went over for some Mint Julips and the next thing we know, some Damn Yankees are trying to take advantage of us.

Fresh!

As to gay elected leaders, well, look at Lindsey Graham...oh, wait, he's still a don't ask don't tell. And he lied to our faces and changed the way he voted after election. But we elected him.

And now we have the serial killer in Gaffney in the news.

Good news is, he's dead. If, that is, he in fact was the killer. Not gonna say he isn't, but its awfully convienent. I'm just waiting to hear that after his time in prison, he was a quiet guy, kept to himself, a real loner...

Has anyone checked where Gov. Sanford was when the killings took place?

Probably holding yet another press conference to tell everyone that yes, the guy was a serial killer, but the Governor would be trying to fall back in love with his wife, so that should solve the problem.

I lean conservative. I don't agree with everything they say or believe in, but this guy is an embarassment to every south carolinian, not just conservatives at this point. he needs to shut the hell up, serve out his term, and disappear.

I think it's obvious to anyone with half a brain that there's a direct link between same-sex marriages and serial killing. I mean, there were no serial killers before there were same-sex couples, and everyone knows same-sex couples were only invented after 1959 A.D.-- That being the official end of America's Golden Age.

The same is true of divorce and adultery. Before 1959, nobody had eaten of the Tree of Knowledge outside the U.S. borders and we all lived and worked together like happy little elves.

It's true. Shut up.

The sad thing is, the guy ran on a fiscal responsibility platform. I would have love to have seen that. And even the thoughts behind trying to refuse the stimulus was good. I didn't agree with the package and still don't. However, when it became clear that even if we didn't accept the package, we were still going to be billed for it like the rest of the nation, good sense should have taken hold. Not common sense, good sense.

But, I'm starting to believe that politicians are like hollywood stars, they are needy people that constantly crave attention, can't live without it. We had a state rep. that was the thrown away child, either a bastard or just left behind by a prominent member of a family that was big in the Charleston, SC area politics, the low country area. He had the world by the tail because he didn't trade on the family name, went out and built himself into a man with a good name inspite of his family that had nothing to do with him. And then he gets clipped for dope.

People that demand the spotlight seem to always have this ingrained, unconquerable flaw that they cannot or do not want to overcome.

Whats the old saying "I wouldn't want anyone in office that actually wanted the job!" or something like that.

I'm not sure if politicians on average are more flawed than other people. It may just be the nature of giving people a certain amount of power or authority or spotlight that it kinds of lets their flaws fester more than that of ordinary people.

Actually, there are some quiet, capable people in politics. They are elected not for their good looks and rock-star mojo, but for other reasons. It may be off-base, but I'd surmise that there's a connection between extreme craving for a spotlight and an extreme sense of entitlement to engage unpunished in behavior that one's own constituents would not get away with unpunished.

Or, it may simply be that the quiet ones are more adept at covering their tracks.

One reason I get exasperated trying to talk politics with friends and family IS that it seems everyone wants charisma in their elected officials before everything else. After so many years following local and national antics, I'm pretty much the opposite. Maybe I can't really rely on the stoop-shouldered, stammering nerd to conduct his private life like a Boy Scout. I can't read minds. There's still a chance that I can count on him not to engage in his extramarital activities in some brazen fashion that guarantees he'll eventually be caught out. Ignorance is bliss, and all that.

(Oh, and I have some SC residents in my sig line now, if that eases the pain any. )

So... about that Democratic Senate candidate?

Ugh.