[Rhodes22-list] Political reference by Ed - Hi, Brad!

[Robert Skinner]

Brad Haslett wrote:
> Robert,
> Please expound on that response.
> "When the incumbent makes it clear that he has little respect
> for the people at the bottom of the heap-"
> Exactly where has 43 forgotten the people at the bottom of the heap?  School
> choice?  Illegal Mexicans?  Elders and Medicare?  Inquiring minds want to
> know.

The proof is left to the reader as an exercise.  
I suggest that you consult the economic vs. 
political persuasion correlation.

> Republicans?  I am one and they (the GOP) have learned not to call me and
> ask for a donation the last few months.  We need a house cleaning and I'm
> convinced the GOP will get one.  The 2006 election results were predictable
> given an off year election during a lame duck Presidency. But, if they
> didn't get the message, the lack of my checkbook response (and many others)
> should give them a message.

Yet to be determined.
 
> Election robbery?  Give me a friggin' break.  The newspaper consortium that
> recounted every single vote using every single method, including Al Gore's
> first choice, gave the election to W.  Give it up!

In politics, perception is reality.
 
> "It is time for the pendulum to swing the other way".  It did, and they are
> at the 11% approval rating level.

When you take the field, you step in manure that 
you didn't put there.  It will take a lot of work 
to clean up the mess, and a lot of good people 
will get dirty doing it.
 
> Now as to your comments about women - I'm confused.  Please explain it in
> detail and not in code.  I'm not that clever or smart.

Tying limitations on family planning support to 
foreign aid is tantamount to sentencing many women 
of those countries to unwanted pregnancies.  
That's at least slavery in my book.  Others might
call it murder.

As you are one of the more intellegent and well 
read people I converse with, I'm surprised that 
you have reacted so strongly in support of a 
political organization with so many problems. 

Note that I freely acknowledge that the Democrats 
have their own problems as well.

/Robert