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Re: Call Me A Liberal

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From: Dave Thompson
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:50
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"Baxter" <baxter.spamblock@baxcode.com> wrote in message
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> "GeneK" <gene@genek_hates_spammers.com> wrote in message
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> > "Baxter" <baxter.spamblock@baxcode.com> wrote...
> > > At least we wouldn't have people like John Ashcroft.
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> > Don't bet on it.  "Liberal" FDR's AG Francis Biddle didn't
> > hesitate for a moment to intern thousands of Japanese Americans
> > during WWII.  Politicians are politicians, when they perceive
> > an atmosphere of panic or anger in the voters, they'll do whatever
> > the polls tell them it takes to pander to it, regardless of their party
> > affiliations or politics.
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> FDR wasn't running - Gore was.  We can be sure that Gore would not have
> picked Ashcroft nor Pitt. If you think Gore would have picked people as
bad
> as these two, name them - else you're just talking hypotheticals.

I don't think Gore would have done any better - just different. Consider how
horrible his campaign team was and they were handpicked.
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From: "Dave Thompson" <dav13795@wdmdx1.com>
Newsgroups: pdx.general,seattle.general,ba.general,la.general
Subject: Re: Call Me A Liberal
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:50:21 -0700
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