Americans' approval of Congress falls to an abysmal 16 percent -- a 14-year low. By that standard, President Bush is positively God-like. And what is Sir Dubya up to ... or down to ... these days? Why, he's putting his 30 percent approval ratings to work for the high brow candidates: "I cheated on my wife but didn't beat my mistress, no matter what that 911 call and police report say" Pennsylvania Don Sherwood and George "Macaca" Allen of Virginia. And here's the really funny part: Allen actually kind of acted like he was embarassed to be seen with Bush ... and spent their photo op pressing close to one of his "Black friends..."
Bush, whose low approval ratings and identification with the unpopular war in Iraq has caused some Republicans to see him as a liability, tried to keep the focus on his contentions that Democrats would go soft on the war on terror and raise taxes if handed a majority in the November elections.
But the pictures of the day were of Bush descending from Air Force One in Pennsylvania alongside Sherwood, his wife and one of their daughters, who were secreted onto the plane to set up the photo-op, and of the grinning foursome's appearance later at a local farmer's ice cream store.
Allen opted for a slightly less robust presidential embrace, merely greeting Bush at the bottom of his airplane's stairs and keeping a bit of a distance on their pumpkin-buying stop at a roadside stand. Sticking closely by Allen's side throughout was state Sen. Benjamin Lambert, who is black and a Democrat who has endorsed the GOP senator.
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dim done
done = request.form("done")
if done = "" then
done = "No"
%>
Tell a friend
<%
Else
if request.form("done") = "Yes" then
'sets variables
dim email, sendmail
email = request.form("email")
Set sendmail = Server.CreateObject("CDONTS.NewMail")
'put the webmaster address here
sendmail.From = "webmaster@aspbasics.com"
'The mail is sent to the address entered in the previous page.
sendmail.To = email
'Enter the subject of your mail here
sendmail.Subject = "Check out this website"
'send a specific page or send a site url
dim url
'url = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
url = "http://www.aspbasics.net"
'This is the content of the message.
sendmail.Body = "Site recommendation from a friend!" & _
vbCrlf & vbCrlf & "A friend has sent you this email and thought you would should check out this site." & _
vbCrlf & url & vbCrlf
'this sets mail priority.... 0=low 1=normal 2=high
sendmail.Importance = 1
sendmail.Send 'Send the email!
response.redirect Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER")
'Response.write ("Sent to ") & email
End if
End if
%>
"[T]he practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.' Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 84, August, 1788
