[Rhodes22-list] Thoughts

[Wally Buck]

Robert,

Not much I can disagree with there! I really wish we had a strong third 
party. I am not sure if Kerry is the answer but he would be the lesser of 
two evils in my mind. It is going to be quite an election year.

Wally


>From: Robert Skinner <robert at squirrelhaven.com>
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>To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Thoughts
>Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 18:46:54 -0500
>
>The shower of politically oriented messages has
>abated for a moment.  Time to put forward a few
>thoughts:
>
>1.  Throughout history, orators who have exhausted
>rational argument resort to attacks on the person.
>
>2.  Bullying someone into silence is generally
>ineffective in changing their view of things.
>
>3.  Vitriolic tantrums reflect poorly on the cause
>of those who evidence such behavior.
>
>This analysis leads me (and many others) to believe
>that the previcating, popularly un-elected,
>intellectually challenged, bully of the free world
>and his free-spending old-boy network of oligarchic
>henchmen are not necessarily God's gift to the USA
>
>-- unless He figures we have gotten too lazy,
>cowardly giving up the civil rights our fathers,
>brothers, and sons fought for at the first
>engagements (twin towers and Pentagon) of
>the world war of the 21st century.
>
>So what do we do?  We go and beat the crap out of a
>backward country that has little if anything to do
>with the real concerns we have with terrorists,
>alienating a large proportion of our allies and
>abandoning our already dubious reputation as good
>guys who do not start wars.
>
>Saddam was a bad guy?  So was Batista, the Shaw of
>Iran, the Taliban, and other criminals that we have
>propped up in pursuit of our interests.
>
>I'm beginning to believe that I'm so conservative
>that Bush is not only to my left, but also a
>spoiled child who needs a good woodshedding.
>
>He has done great harm to this country, flushing an
>economic surplus down the toilet, supporting drug
>companies at the expense of seniors and the poor,
>and shredding civil rights and our foreign alliances.
>
>It's time to once again defeat the Shrub at the polls.
>
>Someone had to say it,
>--
>Robert W. Skinner
>
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