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- Newsgroups: chi.general
- Path: sparky!uunet!convex!linac!att!cbnewsi!gadfly
- From: gadfly@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (Gadfly)
- Subject: Re: Short-Term notes (Was Re: YYYEEEEESSSSSSS!!!)
- Organization: AT&T
- Distribution: chi
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 16:34:10 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.163410.19295@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>
- Summary: Well said.
- References: <1992Nov16.233210.25627@cbnewsc.cb.att.com> <BxzMEF.LtD@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Keywords: lame birds, Election, deliverance, short-term notes
- Lines: 56
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- In article <BxzMEF.LtD@chinet.chi.il.us>, ignatz@chinet.chi.il.us
- (Dave Ihnat) writes:
- > And as to whether Bush is mean-spirited, I think we can look at the
- > last few weeks of the campaign to see personality coming out under
- > stress...
-
- We can look to the direction of the entire campaign--both in 88 and
- in 92. First we had Lee Atwater, then Mary Matalin. Both definitely
- took the "low road", and were proud of it, and Bush was proud of them.
-
- > Finally, in the litany you also missed on Carter. Jimmy is a highly
- > intelligent and motivated man--one of the best in the nuclear navy, if
- > my reading serves correctly, and nuke officers *aren't* fools or idiots,
- > no matter what some people may think about the military. As I understand it,
- > however, one of his biggest problems was just the opposite of Reagan;
- > he couldn't delegate authority...
-
- I never said he was stupid, merely incompetent. And for exactly the
- reason you noted--he tried to do everything himself. Carter was, and
- still is, a man of high intelligence and integrity. But he was not
- a politician--or he fooled himself into playing the perennial outsider.
- It won him the election, but no respect from Congress.
-
- > I'm not saying that I, or the original poster, are any better than
- > any of these men. What I do insist on is the fact that my elected
- > representative--the person who is making the decisions that will
- > affect my livlihood immediately, and my country for the next 30-50
- > years (how? By packing the Supreme Court)--must, simply MUST, live
- > up to standards of intelligence and JUDGEMENT that are much higher
- > than those I expect of an average Joe (or Jane) on the street. It's
- > not that they can't make mistakes--but their mistakes should be on
- > the same scale as their successes, heroic in nature and understandable
- > in light of the complexity of the job; not basic blunders that show
- > social ineptitude, callous personal relations, or a blatant disregard
- > of the spirit and expression of the Constitution of the United States.
-
- But you did make the argument much better than the original poster (me).
- Very well said!
-
- > ...give me Teddy Roosevelt! I want someone who BELIEVES in things...
-
- I heartily agree (and I too reject much of T. Roosevelt's political
- philosophy). The man was exuberant, something you don't see much of
- these days. Several times during his presidency he would take off
- with some friends to go buffalo-hunting. On one trip they were
- camped near a stream and a flash flood during the night left them all
- of a sudden in a foot of mud. As his friends rushed to help Roosevelt
- out of his blankets, he pushed them and the blankets aside and shouted,
- "God, this is fun!"
-
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