Well here is a vote for Al, I found nothing offensive in his post.  And
David, if you did, then why did you re-send Als post with your message?

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:47 AM, David Marshall
<mailinglist@fastforward.ca>wrote:

> Ya know... I'm gonna go into a rant here....
>
> <RANT>
> I can go to cnn.com or news.google.com and get all the news about the US
> election.  The Canadian election came and went and not a peep on the
> list - nor would I expect it to be on this list.
>
> Politics, sex
> and religion are not conversions for mixed company nor the Vanagon list...
> unless there is a polling station in your Vanagon I and most others don't
> want to hear about it.
> </RANT>
>
> David Marshall
> VW Adventure Driver and BMW Adventure Rider
>
> http://www.hasenwerk.ca
>
> On Tue, November 4, 2008 06:47, Al
> Knoll wrote:
> >
> > It's going to be crowded at the polls.
> There'll be a lot of people
> > you don't know there.  Some will be
> there to vote and some to
> >
> > help others vote but
> another group will be there too.  They're quiet.
> > You hardly
> notice them there in booth with you.
> >
> > With names like
> Smith, Jones, Brown, Gonzales, Nakamoto, Chan, Begay,
> > and others
> they stand there with you.  They
> >
> > wear odd clothing.
> Some have three cornered hats, some have rags
> > around their feet,
> others are dressed in tattered and
> >
> > faded, blue or
> grey uniforms.  Some wear the baggy stripes of
> > prisoners, some
> have tiger stripe fatigues, they're all  with you
> >
> >
> there in the voting booth.
> >
> > They've stood before in
> places as close as the bridge at Concord or
> > the angle at
> Gettysburg or in places as far away as
> >
> > Belleau Wood,
> Bastogne, Iwo Jima, Chosin Reservoir, Ia Drang, Khe
> > Sahn,
> Mogadishu, Fallujah and others.  They're truck
> >
> >
> drivers, nurses, mechanics, pilots, rebels, cooks, clerks, riflemen,
> > artillerymen, tank commanders, rangers, and patriots.
> >
> > They're standing with you today as they stood for you in places
> and
> > times far away to be sure you excercise your freedom
> >
> > and responsibility to vote.
> >
> > You'll
> not see them, but they're there just the same, watching while
> >
> you make your mark on history.   Vote today.
> >
>