Re: bushism
From: Robert J. Carpenter, Jr. MD (zygote@icsi.net)
Fri Nov 12 17:41:09 2004
As a die-hard independent who will never have anyone to vote for my dream team is
General Powell & John McCain. I trust both of them. They tell the truth and they tend
to "piss off" trolls.
On 12 Nov 2004 at 17:29, Henry Gregor wrote:
> Well put, Joe, and an interesting read. Now, for any folks still
> starved for fodder from (or for) the Will Talk For Food news show
> pundits we seem to have so many of lately, here's my fantasy Super
> Bowl election teams matchup:
>
> Hilary Clinton and Janet Reno up against Condoleeza Rich and Jean
> Kirkpatrick (sp?)
>
> Any other nominations out there? :-)
>
> PS: Here's my post election resolution...no more emails from me 'cept
> ones related to medical topics, lol.
>
> DoctorJoe@aol.com wrote:
>
> In a message dated 11/11/04 17:37:19, henrygregor@yahoo.com writes:
>
> Perhaps some think that is a productive process. I don't, and I think
> a lot of voters felt so, and one can read the Nov 6 th NYTimes oped to
> appreciate that the simplistic "it was the evangelicals" doesn't
> explain the election results. If our Democratic party can't examine
> some of it methods and content, then our political process will indeed
> suffer. Our system works best with two strong parties. Yes, it can
> get messy, and that's fine. But if an obdurate unwillingness un the
> part of anyone leads to a steadfast refusal to examine what works and
> what doesn't, the system's potential is diminished.An extremist rigidy
> of intellect on either side of the political divide serves the country
> poorly. And yes, this is a great country. It is the one to which many
> millions folks aspire, and for reasons often unappreciated by many of
> us who are privileged to be citizens.
>
> And that's what I see from the Democrat Party: they just don't get it,
> that the majority of Americans don't want what they're selling. I
> think Hillary will engineer a centrist-appearance movement in an
> attempt to prevail in 2008. That may be where they'll head without
> really examining the facts.
>
> HOWEVER - remember that the Founding Fathers were neither Democrat nor
> Republican. They were Federalist and ... uh ... anti-Federalist. So
> over the history of our country, we've not always had the
> Elephant/Donkey yin-yang operating. And in times past, the term
> "Republican" didn't even mean the same thing. So it's not too much to
> imagine that the Democrat Party may march itself into oblivion (or at
> least marginalization, like Ralph Nader) and the Republican-Democrat
> system may metamorphosize into something different - perhaps the
> "evangelical-Christian-ultra-right prolife" Republicans versus the
> "moderate social liberal/economic conservative prochoice" Republicans.
> There seems to be a natural dichotomy there, judging from what the
> various Republicans are saying, etc.
>
> Who knows? But the point is, we weren't ALWAYS Republican/Democrat -
> we won't be so forever. That's THE American way. Progress.
>
> Joe P.
>
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