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(1) Yes, Jerry Brown is a demagogue and a hypocrite, by which I mean to
say he is a politician. However, he is also an opportunist and an idiot,
and I oppose his candidacy for those reasons. 

(2) Jerry's positioning himself as being against the institution, as
being a political outsider, is patent hogwash. He comes from a family,
for heaven's sake, that has been a mainstay of American politics for 30
years. Furthermore, Jerry has squarely aligned himself with causes
(e.g., labor unions) that have been fundamental liberal platforms since
WWII. This is supposed to be breakthrough political thinking?

(3) JB is a hate-monger who feeds on every minority's feelings of
displacement and anger. His solution to the problems of the world is
allegedly to just get rid of the people now in power. What Jerry doesn't
tell people is, "Hey, I was in power in California, and I didn't do a
damn thing for the state."

(4) Ross Perot is enjoying the same honeymoon with the press that JB
enjoyed a the start of HIS campaign, when nobody took him seriously,
either. Once Perot becomes a serious candidate, there will be
(hopefully) a far more critical examination of his ideas.

(5) Jerry's campaign is beginning to sound like a Jehovah's Witness
(sorry, no religious flaming intended) tautology: the more people slam
doors in your face, the more convinced you are that you must be right
(ignoring the fact that people are slamming doors on you because they
find your message silly or you personally obnoxious or both).

(6) A political campaign is a process by which you demonstrate how well
you can organize, fund, and direct a team of people to help you project
your ideas and your viability as a candidate. There is nothing in the
contract that says the playing field is going to be "fair"; when the
chief executive deals with Congress or with international leaders, he
has no recourse to complain about how the press is giving more coverage
to another leader, or about how another world leader is attacking him in
the press. And he can't pander to the people of other countries by
telling them the solution to their problems is to throw out their
leaders. I *do* think it's a credit to Brown that he has managed to
carry his campaign this far, against very stiff odds. But the constant
whining is beginning to wear thin.

- Gary Hypes -