--- Davd Brin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frankly, I don't understand that kind of thinking. > It > would creep me out to see myself always and > predictably adhering to a party line.
Really? Which of us is more partisan, Dr. Brin? To take the last two administrations. One of us has described the Clinton Administration's economic policy - particularly its economic foreign policy - as "masterful". The same person has also described the Bush Administration's economic policy as "disastrous" - also "incompetent". By contrast, the other person in this discussion describes a Republican administration as filled with treasonous morons, and says that a Democratic Administration made (as far as I can tell) no mistakes of any significance at all. One of the two of us started attacking Trent Lott as a disgrace and a danger to the Republican Party in 1998, on this list and in other fora. The same person has written about the prevalence of racism in American society and expressed his belief that taxes in this country should be higher overall and considerably higher on the wealthy. The other person called the person who made those attacks a partisan Republican, apparently because he made the sin of disagreeing with him. As anyone who has read this list over the last few years knows, the person who made all the criticisms of Republican party actions and attitudes listed above is, of course, me. And that just for starters. You would be the other party in this little dispute. So, Dr. Brin, the reason I'm not taking you seriously is because you haven't engaged me on the issues. You _have_ variously insulted my intelligence, integrity, professional competence, and objectivity. I haven't ever replied to those in anything like similar terms. But partisan isn't disagrees with David Brin. I'm not a sycophant, and if I wasn't intimidated by Sam Huntington or Stanley Hoffmann, I'm not going to roll over to invective from you either. ===== Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
