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Hmm. Extremely interesting. Not certain if they really ken "The medium is the message"...

Seems to me this is all about controlling and enforcing the message. It does not look like it is about promoting open conversations between citizens. It sounds a lot like classic thinking from the broadcast era. What else can the Bush team do as they are the party of the wealthy few in the center? Only their rigidly dogmatic ideology keeps them "secure" so they must enforce the message and not tolerate deviations from it. One give away is their monotonic insistence that all life is "business" best explained by theories of unregulated markets.

Maybe I need more coffee.

Jock

Please send me e-mail address of Ken Mehlman. I really need to get in touch with him. Thanks if you know. Linda Coates Tucson, Arizona

Is there anyway to contact Ken Mehlman? If there is, please contact me.

I have a school project, I REALLY need the email adress of Ken Mehlman! Or else i will have to use KERRYS campaign manager!

Rapid Response: Memetic Engineering in the 2004 Presidential Campaign

http://dijest.typepad.com/eastbaypapers/2004/05/rapid_response_.html

I need to get Ken Mehlmans email address stat.
In regard to the convention today, The comments
John Edwards, "If you question John Kerry's
Military record and leadership, ask the vets here?
You can run Bush but you can't hide".
We will destroy you.

Has anyone seen John Kerry's fitness report
on leadership in his record?

I have it, it shows that he lacked any
leadership.

This is the smoking gun for Ken Mehlman to
win the election...
To prove with empirical evidence, Kerry had
no leadership!!!!!!!

Please give me his email.
thank you

To Mr. Ken Mehlman:

Regrettably, When I cannot find an E-mail address to contact GOP HQ or BUSH Campaign HQ I get the very distinct feeling, you really do not care to hear what people do have to say, not even if some of it is positive and some negative, which is the case here. It is tough to balance what one views as outright lies, deceits, and hocus-pocus manipulations with some core beliefs one feels can only be satisfied by the Republican Party.

Like many others I am extremely concerned with three critical areas within our country but not all will agree with me on how to balance these issues. I do know a lot of military people I have talked with over the last few years absolutely agree with me on what I place as # 1 issue, and almost everyone I speak with on issue # 2 agrees with me also, which tells me I am more right than wrong in my thinking. So, #1. Safety in the United States from Terrorsist: I strongly believe that we must return to the draft for our military for several reasons; (a) Statistically, we cannot do what we are currently doing on a minimum military manpower and using the same troops over and over to the point of exhaustion; this also leaves our stateside United States soil virtually unprotected;(b) We are better off with the draft when we can freely in our military swear our people in with Allegience to the United States Of America "--- One Nation Under God ---- ". The point here is we need to reinstall in our young people the fundamentals of our Constitution [so much is disallowed in our public schools now that the military is the only place where this history can be instilled in our youth], our many freedoms and the price we have paid and repeatedly pay to keep those freedoms, and we must look at the enormous amount of various peoples coming into this country and/or being indoctrinated by those set on destroying the U.S. from within, that want nothing to do with the historical doctrines of our country and our Christian doctrines, which our Forefathers most definitely had woven into our Constitution. Only by having a requirement that all of our young people at age 18 must serve in our military for at least 2 years will we ever begin to regain some of the lost patriotism and core beliefs that our Forefathers wrote into our Constitution. When a person swears allegience to this country in our military and then intentionally cooperates with terrorists to harm our country, that person should either be put to death or at the very least, spend the rest of his or her life behind bars in a Federal Prison. When I say all at age 18, I do mean all -- males and females, and I do not care if they are straight, bi, gay, or if they totally abstain from sex. The fact is one person being gay has not a damn thing to do with whether that person is a good soldier or not. There have been for too many men and women booted out of the military for being homosexual that were awfully good soldiers and our military lost the good of those individuals.Currently we have people in our military whose allegience is elsewhere -- to Islam, to radical militants in the U.S. and to whatever else has been allowed to grow under the lack of the draft and the liberalized courts. I personally cannot stand the thought of one more liberal judge going into our Supreme Court and allowing the possibility that the statement "One Nation Under God" in our Constitution, or "In God We Trust" on our coins being removed. One could write a book on these issues alone. We need to go back to a draft period. Our youth for far too many years have had it to easy, have not been required to fight for their God Given Rights in this country. The flip side of that is that too many leaders in our Government have failed the citizens of the United States with Petty matters and allowing pure GREED to be an acceptable, praiseworthy business tactic, and this leads to --;(#2) Our Economy stinks and anyone with a brain knows it so stop the damn lying about this. You have allowed hundreds of thousands of jobs to go overseas, south of the border, to some of the worst human rights violating nations in the world so company CEO's could acquire more wealth at the expense of U.S. citizens that made the company in the first place. You are repeatedly destroying the very tax base this country counts on for its survival; when you allow manufacturing jobs to leave the U.S., when you allow the hundreds of thousands of decent jobs to leave our country, you are repeatedly destroying the very tax base because the country has essentially become another model of the European Kings, Monarchies, and the citizens have increasingly become the poorest peasants. When do you stop the manufacturing and job losses in our country? When do you start looking at what is really best for U. S. citizens? That is what is going to get Mr. Kerry elected and then where will our Constitution go, how much more of it will be destroyed? Mr. Kerry is everyday pouring fuel on the fire in Iraq encouraging the Terrorist to keep up the attacks on the U.S. military because when he gets in he will change things to get us out [We all want us out of Iraq but not as losers.].And finally; (#3)I have also discussed this with numerous citizens and a lot of military men and women: What I have witnessed in both Afghanistan and Iraq is unbelievable as a way to fight and win a war of any sort. I cannot help but look at history and the current U. S. policy of fighting a war. The locals put in charge of Afghanistan and the local Iraqi police that will not use force against their own terrorist, which are killing our troops and Iraqi citizens, is like having put the Nazi's of World War II defeat back on the streets of Germany as the police: That would have been totally absurd and yet that is what was done in both Afghanistan and Iraq. It is just too ludicrous for words what has been done in Iraq and is still being done. Our troops will never be remotely safe in an environment that allows people like a radical cleric to band his terrorist together and attack our troops with impunity and with protection from the "new Iraqi Government. When the Afghanistan war was going full blast, there was a news clip shown on PBS of an Iraqi militant disguised as a woman hidden under a Berka crossing from the Iraq border into one of the neighboring countries [Jordan I believe -- and I do have a copy of that TV news clip. You can see the AK 47 the man is holding under the Berka.]. These militants hide among the people so easily and more often than not are in civilian clothes when they attack our troops. We would not have allowed this to go on in Nazi Germany, nor in Japan: It should not be allowed at this time either. Books will be written in our history on the bumbles and wrongdoings in the Iraq War.

How much of the U.S. will Kerry sale out if he is elected? How much has Bush already sold out? How much has been sold out in the past in the name of "Promoting Free Trade", which in essence is destroying U.S. jobs and U.S. manufacturing? Like I said a book could be written on these issues and I doubt you will get to the end of this or respond at all. My mind weighs on all of these in trying to balance who my vote will be for and I absolutely disagree with the big tax brake George W. Bush gave to his friends and fellow wealthiest
U. S. citizens, his allowing these corporations to list themselves off-shore to escape paying their taxes when they have already moved their manufacturing to China or some other nation that actually hates us.God help us if we ever do have an attack on U.S. soil since we have been destroying our own manufacturers for years: I find it difficult to ever find a product actually produced in the United States anymore. There is not one major tennis/running shoe manufacturer in the United States anymore -- all are produced in China. Most of the textile manufacturing has left the U.S. It will not surprise me at all if Kerry wins on the Economy issue alone with the hundreds of thousands of jobs gone due to Bush policies.

Robert C. Paul

To Mr. Ken Mehlman:

Regrettably, When I cannot find an E-mail address to contact GOP HQ or BUSH Campaign HQ I get the very distinct feeling, you really do not care to hear what people do have to say, not even if some of it is positive and some negative, which is the case here. It is tough to balance what one views as outright lies, deceits, and hocus-pocus manipulations with some core beliefs one feels can only be satisfied by the Republican Party.

Like many others I am extremely concerned with three critical areas within our country but not all will agree with me on how to balance these issues. I do know a lot of military people I have talked with over the last few years absolutely agree with me on what I place as # 1 issue, and almost everyone I speak with on issue # 2 agrees with me also, which tells me I am more right than wrong in my thinking. So, #1. Safety in the United States from Terrorsist: I strongly believe that we must return to the draft for our military for several reasons; (a) Statistically, we cannot do what we are currently doing on a minimum military manpower and using the same troops over and over to the point of exhaustion; this also leaves our stateside United States soil virtually unprotected;(b) We are better off with the draft when we can freely in our military swear our people in with Allegience to the United States Of America "--- One Nation Under God ---- ". The point here is we need to reinstall in our young people the fundamentals of our Constitution [so much is disallowed in our public schools now that the military is the only place where this history can be instilled in our youth], our many freedoms and the price we have paid and repeatedly pay to keep those freedoms, and we must look at the enormous amount of various peoples coming into this country and/or being indoctrinated by those set on destroying the U.S. from within, that want nothing to do with the historical doctrines of our country and our Christian doctrines, which our Forefathers most definitely had woven into our Constitution. Only by having a requirement that all of our young people at age 18 must serve in our military for at least 2 years will we ever begin to regain some of the lost patriotism and core beliefs that our Forefathers wrote into our Constitution. When a person swears allegience to this country in our military and then intentionally cooperates with terrorists to harm our country, that person should either be put to death or at the very least, spend the rest of his or her life behind bars in a Federal Prison. When I say all at age 18, I do mean all -- males and females, and I do not care if they are straight, bi, gay, or if they totally abstain from sex. The fact is one person being gay has not a damn thing to do with whether that person is a good soldier or not. There have been for too many men and women booted out of the military for being homosexual that were awfully good soldiers and our military lost the good of those individuals.Currently we have people in our military whose allegience is elsewhere -- to Islam, to radical militants in the U.S. and to whatever else has been allowed to grow under the lack of the draft and the liberalized courts. I personally cannot stand the thought of one more liberal judge going into our Supreme Court and allowing the possibility that the statement "One Nation Under God" in our Constitution, or "In God We Trust" on our coins being removed. One could write a book on these issues alone. We need to go back to a draft period. Our youth for far too many years have had it to easy, have not been required to fight for their God Given Rights in this country. The flip side of that is that too many leaders in our Government have failed the citizens of the United States with Petty matters and allowing pure GREED to be an acceptable, praiseworthy business tactic, and this leads to --;(#2) Our Economy stinks and anyone with a brain knows it so stop the damn lying about this. You have allowed hundreds of thousands of jobs to go overseas, south of the border, to some of the worst human rights violating nations in the world so company CEO's could acquire more wealth at the expense of U.S. citizens that made the company in the first place. You are repeatedly destroying the very tax base this country counts on for its survival; when you allow manufacturing jobs to leave the U.S., when you allow the hundreds of thousands of decent jobs to leave our country, you are repeatedly destroying the very tax base because the country has essentially become another model of the European Kings, Monarchies, and the citizens have increasingly become the poorest peasants. When do you stop the manufacturing and job losses in our country? When do you start looking at what is really best for U. S. citizens? That is what is going to get Mr. Kerry elected and then where will our Constitution go, how much more of it will be destroyed? Mr. Kerry is everyday pouring fuel on the fire in Iraq encouraging the Terrorist to keep up the attacks on the U.S. military because when he gets in he will change things to get us out [We all want us out of Iraq but not as losers.].And finally; (#3)I have also discussed this with numerous citizens and a lot of military men and women: What I have witnessed in both Afghanistan and Iraq is unbelievable as a way to fight and win a war of any sort. I cannot help but look at history and the current U. S. policy of fighting a war. The locals put in charge of Afghanistan and the local Iraqi police that will not use force against their own terrorist, which are killing our troops and Iraqi citizens, is like having put the Nazi's of World War II defeat back on the streets of Germany as the police: That would have been totally absurd and yet that is what was done in both Afghanistan and Iraq. It is just too ludicrous for words what has been done in Iraq and is still being done. Our troops will never be remotely safe in an environment that allows people like a radical cleric to band his terrorist together and attack our troops with impunity and with protection from the "new Iraqi Government. When the Afghanistan war was going full blast, there was a news clip shown on PBS of an Iraqi militant disguised as a woman hidden under a Berka crossing from the Iraq border into one of the neighboring countries [Jordan I believe -- and I do have a copy of that TV news clip. You can see the AK 47 the man is holding under the Berka.]. These militants hide among the people so easily and more often than not are in civilian clothes when they attack our troops. We would not have allowed this to go on in Nazi Germany, nor in Japan: It should not be allowed at this time either. Books will be written in our history on the bumbles and wrongdoings in the Iraq War.

How much of the U.S. will Kerry sale out if he is elected? How much has Bush already sold out? How much has been sold out in the past in the name of "Promoting Free Trade", which in essence is destroying U.S. jobs and U.S. manufacturing? Like I said a book could be written on these issues and I doubt you will get to the end of this or respond at all. My mind weighs on all of these in trying to balance who my vote will be for and I absolutely disagree with the big tax brake George W. Bush gave to his friends and fellow wealthiest
U. S. citizens, his allowing these corporations to list themselves off-shore to escape paying their taxes when they have already moved their manufacturing to China or some other nation that actually hates us.God help us if we ever do have an attack on U.S. soil since we have been destroying our own manufacturers for years: I find it difficult to ever find a product actually produced in the United States anymore. There is not one major tennis/running shoe manufacturer in the United States anymore -- all are produced in China. Most of the textile manufacturing has left the U.S. It will not surprise me at all if Kerry wins on the Economy issue alone with the hundreds of thousands of jobs gone due to Bush policies.

Robert C. Paul

To Mr. Ken Mehlman:

Regrettably, When I cannot find an E-mail address to contact GOP HQ or BUSH Campaign HQ I get the very distinct feeling, you really do not care to hear what people do have to say, not even if some of it is positive and some negative, which is the case here. It is tough to balance what one views as outright lies, deceits, and hocus-pocus manipulations with some core beliefs one feels can only be satisfied by the Republican Party.

Like many others I am extremely concerned with three critical areas within our country but not all will agree with me on how to balance these issues. I do know a lot of military people I have talked with over the last few years absolutely agree with me on what I place as # 1 issue, and almost everyone I speak with on issue # 2 agrees with me also, which tells me I am more right than wrong in my thinking. So, #1. Safety in the United States from Terrorsist: I strongly believe that we must return to the draft for our military for several reasons; (a) Statistically, we cannot do what we are currently doing on a minimum military manpower and using the same troops over and over to the point of exhaustion; this also leaves our stateside United States soil virtually unprotected;(b) We are better off with the draft when we can freely in our military swear our people in with Allegience to the United States Of America "--- One Nation Under God ---- ". The point here is we need to reinstall in our young people the fundamentals of our Constitution [so much is disallowed in our public schools now that the military is the only place where this history can be instilled in our youth], our many freedoms and the price we have paid and repeatedly pay to keep those freedoms, and we must look at the enormous amount of various peoples coming into this country and/or being indoctrinated by those set on destroying the U.S. from within, that want nothing to do with the historical doctrines of our country and our Christian doctrines, which our Forefathers most definitely had woven into our Constitution. Only by having a requirement that all of our young people at age 18 must serve in our military for at least 2 years will we ever begin to regain some of the lost patriotism and core beliefs that our Forefathers wrote into our Constitution. When a person swears allegience to this country in our military and then intentionally cooperates with terrorists to harm our country, that person should either be put to death or at the very least, spend the rest of his or her life behind bars in a Federal Prison. When I say all at age 18, I do mean all -- males and females, and I do not care if they are straight, bi, gay, or if they totally abstain from sex. The fact is one person being gay has not a damn thing to do with whether that person is a good soldier or not. There have been for too many men and women booted out of the military for being homosexual that were awfully good soldiers and our military lost the good of those individuals.Currently we have people in our military whose allegience is elsewhere -- to Islam, to radical militants in the U.S. and to whatever else has been allowed to grow under the lack of the draft and the liberalized courts. I personally cannot stand the thought of one more liberal judge going into our Supreme Court and allowing the possibility that the statement "One Nation Under God" in our Constitution, or "In God We Trust" on our coins being removed. One could write a book on these issues alone. We need to go back to a draft period. Our youth for far too many years have had it to easy, have not been required to fight for their God Given Rights in this country. The flip side of that is that too many leaders in our Government have failed the citizens of the United States with Petty matters and allowing pure GREED to be an acceptable, praiseworthy business tactic, and this leads to --;(#2) Our Economy stinks and anyone with a brain knows it so stop the damn lying about this. You have allowed hundreds of thousands of jobs to go overseas, south of the border, to some of the worst human rights violating nations in the world so company CEO's could acquire more wealth at the expense of U.S. citizens that made the company in the first place. You are repeatedly destroying the very tax base this country counts on for its survival; when you allow manufacturing jobs to leave the U.S., when you allow the hundreds of thousands of decent jobs to leave our country, you are repeatedly destroying the very tax base because the country has essentially become another model of the European Kings, Monarchies, and the citizens have increasingly become the poorest peasants. When do you stop the manufacturing and job losses in our country? When do you start looking at what is really best for U. S. citizens? That is what is going to get Mr. Kerry elected and then where will our Constitution go, how much more of it will be destroyed? Mr. Kerry is everyday pouring fuel on the fire in Iraq encouraging the Terrorist to keep up the attacks on the U.S. military because when he gets in he will change things to get us out [We all want us out of Iraq but not as losers.].And finally; (#3)I have also discussed this with numerous citizens and a lot of military men and women: What I have witnessed in both Afghanistan and Iraq is unbelievable as a way to fight and win a war of any sort. I cannot help but look at history and the current U. S. policy of fighting a war. The locals put in charge of Afghanistan and the local Iraqi police that will not use force against their own terrorist, which are killing our troops and Iraqi citizens, is like having put the Nazi's of World War II defeat back on the streets of Germany as the police: That would have been totally absurd and yet that is what was done in both Afghanistan and Iraq. It is just too ludicrous for words what has been done in Iraq and is still being done. Our troops will never be remotely safe in an environment that allows people like a radical cleric to band his terrorist together and attack our troops with impunity and with protection from the "new Iraqi Government. When the Afghanistan war was going full blast, there was a news clip shown on PBS of an Iraqi militant disguised as a woman hidden under a Berka crossing from the Iraq border into one of the neighboring countries [Jordan I believe -- and I do have a copy of that TV news clip. You can see the AK 47 the man is holding under the Berka.]. These militants hide among the people so easily and more often than not are in civilian clothes when they attack our troops. We would not have allowed this to go on in Nazi Germany, nor in Japan: It should not be allowed at this time either. Books will be written in our history on the bumbles and wrongdoings in the Iraq War.

How much of the U.S. will Kerry sale out if he is elected? How much has Bush already sold out? How much has been sold out in the past in the name of "Promoting Free Trade", which in essence is destroying U.S. jobs and U.S. manufacturing? Like I said a book could be written on these issues and I doubt you will get to the end of this or respond at all. My mind weighs on all of these in trying to balance who my vote will be for and I absolutely disagree with the big tax brake George W. Bush gave to his friends and fellow wealthiest
U. S. citizens, his allowing these corporations to list themselves off-shore to escape paying their taxes when they have already moved their manufacturing to China or some other nation that actually hates us.God help us if we ever do have an attack on U.S. soil since we have been destroying our own manufacturers for years: I find it difficult to ever find a product actually produced in the United States anymore. There is not one major tennis/running shoe manufacturer in the United States anymore -- all are produced in China. Most of the textile manufacturing has left the U.S. It will not surprise me at all if Kerry wins on the Economy issue alone with the hundreds of thousands of jobs gone due to Bush policies.

Robert C. Paul

To Ken Mehlman:

Please forgive my lengthy comments and I did mean a second attack as in major military attack as opposed to the terrorist bombing of the twin towers and all that followed, which I failed to mention and which was a very definite attack on U.S. soil.

Robert Paul

Hi Ken,
This morning I saw Bush speak (10/6/04/). I thought the way he handled listing "stats" was great. The very same points should be pushed during his upcoming debate; the
specifics of what he HAS accomplished since 9/ll. Those are our parties statistics for a better world. What we've accomplished to make the world safer. This is what we want to hear, this is what gives us confidence in who will do best in the future. Have your candidate speak in specifics only, specifics ARE tangible, not just generalities, they are intangible. In both prior debates, what I liked most was when he said, "we captured so-n-so" and now he's gone, or "I signed in the No Child Left Behind bill" and now it's working to benefit children. If necessary, just keep listing them out, pouring them on, over the air to get the point across. Generalities of what could be done aren't ever as impressive as "DONES".

Also, the pure and excellent strategy of taking the war over to the middle east (Iraq) is very important. REMEMBER, not one hair on the head of Joe Public has been harmed on US SOIL since 9/11. That's an excellent stat. We are doing things right. Offensive, not defensive. We took the war to the middle east where it belonged, and have military fighting militarily instead of terrorists bombing US cities and US civilians who are NOT trained to fight, nor armed, nor warned nor prepared.

Hi Ken,
This morning I saw Bush speak (10/6/04/). I thought the way he handled listing "stats" was great. The very same points should be pushed during his upcoming debate; the
specifics of what he HAS accomplished since 9/ll. Those are our parties statistics for a better world. What we've accomplished to make the world safer. This is what we want to hear, this is what gives us confidence in who will do best in the future. Have your candidate speak in specifics only, specifics ARE tangible, not just generalities, they are intangible. In both prior debates, what I liked most was when he said, "we captured so-n-so" and now he's gone, or "I signed in the No Child Left Behind bill" and now it's working to benefit children. If necessary, just keep listing them out, pouring them on, over the air to get the point across. Generalities of what could be done aren't ever as impressive as "DONES".

Also, the pure and excellent strategy of taking the war over to the middle east (Iraq) is very important. REMEMBER, not one hair on the head of Joe Public has been harmed on US SOIL since 9/11. That's an excellent stat. We are doing things right. Offensive, not defensive. We took the war to the middle east where it belonged, and have military fighting militarily instead of terrorists bombing US cities and US civilians who are NOT trained to fight, nor armed, nor warned nor prepared.

If the Republican Party does not advocate closing our border with Mexico, you are going to see waves of people leaving the Republican Party in the next 5 years....

I have sent numerous emails to Mr. Mehlman. They recently changed the RNC website to not include his contact info. Unfortunately, I did not write his address down. He must get a ton of hate mail, I personally have always started my emails to him with the salutation of "Hey Commie,".

I found the email for Mr. Mehlman. It is as follows: chairman@gop.com. Hope this helps you.