# Today, We Have Killer In Whitehouse **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [October 30, 2004, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-we-have-killer-in-whitehouse/271996 "2004-10-30T07:53:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![ric499](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/77aa72/32.png) [@ric499](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ric499)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-we-have-killer-in-whitehouse/271996/21 "2004-11-02T16:44:06Z")
I think the take on Grant is right, too senior to have been in much direct combat. But Harry Truman was a combat field officer (captain I believe) and was involved in quite a bit of heavy action during WWI. Of course he was in the Artillery so that may come under the indirect clause stated for Bush Sr. and Kennedy. ---
**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-we-have-killer-in-whitehouse/271996/22 "2004-11-02T16:51:45Z")
> [@C K Dexter Haven](#): > > If yo’re getting bored by my repetitions, **t-keela,** , imagine how I feel. There’s a sticky warning people to do it. Anyone reading a few threads would see that it’s done, or would see me correcting someone. And yet, and yet, … > . Yes, but there are probably many people who just find the homepage, read the column and click on the answer button, without having ever read any thread. I know that the only time I wanted to do so, I was surprised to find out that clicking on this button resulted in opening a thread. I assumed until then it sent an e-mail or somesuch, while opening a thread in CoCC could only be done by joining the message board. And I had been reading this board for a long time. If I were a first time visitor wishing to answer a column, or even a regular reader of the column who isn’t interested in using the message board, how would I know there’s a sticky warning in a forum I never read? The fact that most newcomers don’t add a link to the column is ample evidence IMO that they aren’t aware of if this policy. And honestly…how could they if it’s not mentionned when they click on the button? ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2004, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-we-have-killer-in-whitehouse/271996/23 "2004-11-02T17:26:44Z")
Yeah **Dex** … that’s what I _meant_ Well said **Claire** thanks 😉 So have we concluded yet that no matter how it turns out today, we’re gonna get a killer in the Whitehouse? Good ol’ skull and bones, must be some kinda hazing or initiation, huh? We’ll see to it that you get to be POTUS but you gotta kill somebody first. Keeps 'em indebted to the klan I’d guess. (sorry I meant clan with a “C”) ---
**Author:** ![cuban\_ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@cuban\_ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuban_ninja)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-we-have-killer-in-whitehouse/271996/24 "2005-01-14T20:48:03Z")
> [@Steve MB](#): > > To be fair, Limbaugh usually has enough sense to steer clear of the real raving nutter conspiracy theories about Vince Foster and how she\* was murdered. > > \*(The conspiracy theorists seem pretty sure that Hillary 1)was having an affair with Foster and 2)is a lesbian, ergo…) Well what about the murder of women and children, by Clinton , and that evil specter Janet Reno at Waco??? ---
**Author:** ![John\_W.Kennedy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_w.kennedy/32/1031_2.png) [@John\_W.Kennedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_W.Kennedy)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-we-have-killer-in-whitehouse/271996/25 "2005-01-14T23:07:45Z")
Hey! Moderators! ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-we-have-killer-in-whitehouse/271996/26 "2005-01-14T23:30:04Z")
> [@cuban ninja](#): > > Well what about the murder of women and children, by Clinton , and that evil specter Janet Reno at Waco??? **cuban ninja**. I’ve sent you an email, telling you how the board works. Learn where to place your posts. ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2005, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-we-have-killer-in-whitehouse/271996/27 "2005-01-14T23:34:41Z")
> [@Dr. Rieux](#): > > Just shows us that Nader was right about the Corvair. 😉 And Nader was later responsible for said laura welch being first lady. Coincidence? ---
**Author:** ![cuban\_ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@cuban\_ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuban_ninja)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-we-have-killer-in-whitehouse/271996/28 "2005-01-15T03:18:13Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > **cuban ninja**. > > I’ve sent you an email, telling you how the board works. > > Learn where to place your posts. What’s the problem?? What now I’m to be put down for being politically incorrect, for daring to take on draft-dodger , 60’s radical slickwilly clinton, and his crew. Well I stand by my posting. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-we-have-killer-in-whitehouse/271996/29 "2005-01-15T03:52:10Z")
> [@cuban ninja](#): > > What’s the problem?? What now I’m to be put down for being politically incorrect, for daring to take on draft-dodger , 60’s radical slickwilly clinton, and his crew. Well I stand by my posting. **cuban ninja**. Final warning. Learn how this board works. If you can’t understand which column to put your post in, email an admin or mod. If you have a question that should have a factual answer, post to GQ. If you have a subject that you wish to debate, GD. If you wish to merely vent, and offer your opinion on something…IMHO. If you wish to add something factual to one of Cecil’s columns, then CoCC. If adding something factual to a Staff report, CoSR. If you wish to flame another poster, or a mod/administrator, or just bitch and moan about something you hate, take it to the Pit. **samclem** GQ moderator ---
**Author:** ![fyoss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@fyoss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fyoss)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-we-have-killer-in-whitehouse/271996/30 "2005-01-15T16:02:11Z")
seeing how its come up in this thread, Should’nt Jabotinsy’s been in IMHO. The original post question is asking about the presidents. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-we-have-killer-in-whitehouse/271996/31 "2005-01-17T04:27:03Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > If you wish to add something factual to one of Cecil’s columns, then CoCC. I would have thought the OP came more under the heading of hate speech than it did adding something factual to one of Cecil’s columns. 😕 If this comment by me is itself mis-placed, I apologize. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/today-we-have-killer-in-whitehouse/271996.md?page=1)