From: Jon Shoop (shoop19@brick.net)
Date: Tue Feb 19 2002 - 06:16:11 PST
Man...I love the smell of Politics in the morning....
Jon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Grammont" <islander@midmaine.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, February 18, 2002 1:36 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] The other side of the story
> Gordon,
>
> >I love the guilt by association logic.
>
> Hey, it is easy to do and requires absolutely no proof, logic, or
> anything else resembling "thinking". Which is what I see everytime I
> read stuff like this:
>
> >Yes Clinton didn't do anything positive for this list so you wonder why
we
> >don't think he's great. He did do one thing, he proved beyond a shadow of
a
> >doubt that ANYONE regardless of personal character, integrity, presents
of
> >moral decency, self respect of giving a rats ass for your fellow human
being
> >can become President of this Country.
>
> I don't understand why you can't see that comments like have as much
> value as those I made about Bush. Which is exactly why I made them. It
> appears the irony was lost on you. (BTW, I think Clinton should have
> resigned so don't get the idea that I like him).
>
> My point has always been, and always will be, that thinking that all the
> problems of this country can be boiled down to simplistic statements like
> above is just plain counter productive. And to think that that ALL
> problems are the result of liberals (or in other discussion areas,
> conservatives) is nonsense. The differences between Rebulicans and
> Democracts are quite small since both have LONG track records of doing
> things which are counter productive to the interests of the people of
> this fine nation.
>
> As for the Enron thing... I suggest we all take more interest in it than
> was shown in the Lewinski scandal. I'd rather have a President with an
> over active labido than one which does back room deals with corrupt
> corporations. Let's hope that Bush isn't as "dirty" as some suspect he
> is. But only time will tell.
>
> Personally, I am happy to have both the rabid right and the loopy
> liberals. Without them we wouldn't have nearly as good a government and
> the living conditions which are enjoyed under it. One keeps the other in
> check. Otherwise you have the extremes, like Nazi Germany (right) and
> the Soviet Union (left). Neither of these other options appeal to me
> very much, so I'm more than happy to keep our current flawed system until
> someone can come up with a better one.
>
> Steve
>
>
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