A little Adlai Stevenson blogging....
Crossposted on Marathon Pundit.
It's been a while since I did some Adlai E. Stevenson blogging....
Whoah....actually, I've never blogged about the former Illinois governor, two time-Democratic nominee for president, (lost to Eisenhower both times), and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
Little Marathon Pundit had her dress rehearsal for her first play, and it took place at Adlai E. Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, IL. Adlai owned a farm in nearby Libertyville--an excellent town to say you're from if you're a politician.
With my reliable Motorola V3 RAZR, I took a picture of the Stevenson display just inside the main entrance of the school.
Oh, some guy named Sufjan Stevens recently released a song titled Adlai Stevenson, apparently it's a leftover track from his Illinois
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Is it true that when Adlai Stevenson was young he accidently shot someone, I think I heard that on a Paul Harvey commentary ?
Yeah he did. He was about 14 at the time, I think.
Not much good blogging lately (in my opinion) so this is certainly a great post for some blogger to make up some absolutely ridiculous story and watch the mainstream media pick it up and then they look like fools.... Has anyone else heard that Adlai Stevenson III is collecting signatures to get on the ballot this november with the Peace and Prosperity party. Yeah, Jack Ryan is running for Lite Gov, Alan Keyes for SOS, Dan Walker as Comptroller, and Alexi Gianoulias as Treasurer... and Adlai's very good friend, Jim Thompson, will serve as honorary chairman of the campaign....
One thing you could never accuse either Adlai of is the kind of pugnacious corruption that the past two Governors have exhibited.
Illinois State University (Adlai's boyhood home is in Bloomington) has a great collection of Adlai Stevenson memorabilia, and a public-service-related Center is named after him there. We could use a Stevenson now in Illinois....
...but I like Ike!
Lovie:
Huh?
Older Adlai's error in his personal life was probably a problem that lost him votes among ladies and gentlemen who refused to capitalize on their family members with money. How the younger Stevensons went along with the exploitation of a lady affiliated with a prominent family who supposedly had funds she was reluctant to donate completely for political causes is a mystery. Those who know more about how the first Mrs. Stevenson was maligned wrongfully might add some updating as to whether she ever regained her rights to express the other side of a story which, if true, would cast doubts on the entire family--adoptions not excluded.
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