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Article #2089Re: VOTE: Sleaziest Presidents of U.S. History.
From: Paul Dineen
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 00:00
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sigvid wrote: > Name me one politician at Clinton's level who hasn't > engaged in questionable behavior. You don't get to that level by being a > choirboy. Increasingly true. Due in large measure because the media tear into every candidate who pops up on the radar. And the general population is the catalyst for that because of it's thurst for scandal rather than substance. Ok, not an original observation, but it's useful to remember the causes and not focus only on the symptoms. General comment: I've reached my limit of listening to the vitriol spewed out by *both* sides these days. Not the candidates and politicos themselves, I'm talking about general citizens in news and on the news who go apoplectic whenever they discuss (generally, particular) politicians of the other party. The predictable drumbeat of caustic rhetoric eventually becomes just part of the background noise. Worse than that though, is that each side is doing its best to gum up the works so that the gov't won't be able to accomplish anything praise-worthy during the other guy's watch. After the power flip-flop at the next election, the same thing happens but the other way around. Can we, and I expecially mean ordinary citizens, take a stress pill and try to use what we have in common, focus on the positive and try to get some problems solved? There's still room to debate the issues that divide us; but we don't need to let that drag us all down to getting nowhere. .............................................................................. pld@fc.hp.com Customer Support Lab (t/970) 229-6474 Paul Dineen WCSO Group R&D http://sstwww.fc.hp.com/~pld Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO ..............................................................................
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10ce2c,14f0b81757e31926 X-Google-Attributes: gid10ce2c,public X-Google-Thread: f6e0e,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gidf6e0e,public X-Google-Thread: 105e42,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gid105e42,public X-Google-Thread: 100eae,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gid100eae,public X-Google-Thread: f7d58,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gidf7d58,public X-Google-Thread: 115d61,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gid115d61,public X-Google-Thread: fbf1a,14f0b81757e31926 X-Google-Attributes: gidfbf1a,public X-Google-Thread: fab07,e4506ffe12f9682a X-Google-Attributes: gidfab07,public From: Paul Dineen <pld@fc.hp.com> Subject: Re: VOTE: Sleaziest Presidents of U.S. History. Date: 1996/11/06 Message-ID: <3280E8E8.6D6A@fc.hp.com> X-Deja-AN: 194927955 references: <54eqfm$332@news.internetmci.com> <3277f894.20669672@news.earthlink.net> <559i7g$r03@voyager.caro.NET> <327A4549.5407@aud.alcatel.com> <55dhmr$n5t@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> <327A6292.166@amd.com> <327CDBA0.342C@servtech.com> <327E1338.4886@atlas.den.mmc.com> <55lmj5$cfc@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> <327F4E19.6D3E@atlas.den.mmc.com> <55p0lv$3n9@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Hewlett-Packard Co. mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: ak.general,alabama.general,alt.flame,alt.fan.karl-malden.nose,aol.neighborhood.az.phoenix.general,aol.neighborhood.il.chicago.general,aol.neighborhood.in.indianapolis.general,aol.neighborhood.ny.general,aol.neighborhood.ny.new-york.general,atl.general,austin.general,az.general,ba.general,ca.general,co.cos.general,co.fort-collins.general,co.general,compuserve.general,dc.general,delaware.general,dfw.general,fl.general,houston.general,il.general,kc.general,ky.general,la.general,lex.general,md.general,memphis.general,miami.general,mn.general,nashville.general,nc.general,ne.general,neworleans.general,nh.general,niagara.general,nj.general,nm.general,nv.general,ny.general,nyc.general,oh.general,ok.general,ok.tulsa.general,or.general,pa.general x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.03 9000/710)