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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:24 PM
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GOP Senate candidate caught puffing up her resume
ALBANY, N.Y. - A former Pentagon official seeking the Republican nomination to run against Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton this year may have puffed up her resume.

The resume said Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland drafted President Reagan's 1983 Star Wars speech and was the Pentagon's highest-ranking woman at the time.

But The New York Times, quoting Reagan administration and Pentagon officials from the era, reported Thursday that the part of Reagan's speech on the Strategic Defense Initiative was written by other aides. McFarland had worked on other sections of the speech, the Times reported.

The Times also noted that McFarland was a deputy assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, a policy position. Two other women at the Pentagon were deputy undersecretaries, a higher rank, in administrative jobs.....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060323/ap_on_el_se/senate_clinton_mcfarland
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BlueManDude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:25 PM
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1. the second i heard about this woman i knew she was a loop job n/t
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YDogg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:28 PM
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2. Sounds like a winner.
Not.
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:30 PM
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3. figures but i still miss Pirros daily implosions, that was fun to watch.
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 05:38 PM
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4. I'm pretty sure Chris Matthews wants to get naked with K.T. McFarland.
That should tell you something.

Watch the video at this link (she is scary, Katherine Harris scary):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11744445/
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-23-06 06:16 PM
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5. Yeah, but........
can she find page ten?
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