--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Good morning Unc and others. I'll keep my postings brief and > few today. I don't want to spend my whole holiday at the computer > and I don't need to have the last word. But Unc, I think you are > looking at my post from yesterday in a light of conspiracy, to > change the subject to the past. Let me assure you that was never > my intention.
It wasn't my intention to suggest it was. I know plenty of liberals who, when the Now gets too chal- lenging, dive for the safety of the past and of their (and others') attachments to the past. It's just one of those things we *all* do from time to time. <snip> > I simply took a poke at Kerry, using him as an example of a war > casualty and the nature of his wounds. Yes, but you *also* brought up, in the same series of thread, FDR and Clinton, and took equal "pokes" at them. No "conspiracy," but do you see a trend? <snip> > I did read your post regarding "Politics in the rearview mirror" > and found a lot of wisdom in it, although I think you were still > caught up in some of the BS you tried to warn Democrats against. Almost certainly. :-) > Letting go of the past and looking to the future would be a > helpful trick for the democrats to learn. I think it'd be a huge step if they just focused on the present. :-) > So many of the ideas that democrats come up with sound good > idealistic and wonderful, but everybody knows those ideas > are going to hit them in the pocket book one way or another > and they go over like a led balloon. Self-interest in the present, in lieu of possible programs that could benefit the whole population in the future. It's the biggest problem that *either* party has to deal with. > Running a candidate that would appeal to a broader base > would also be helpful and I don't see too many of those > lining up to run. Somebody like Evan Bhye(sorry for the > spelling) would appeal to a lot more people closer to > the center than somebody like Hillary, who I admit would > definitely energize the base. I'm not really familiar with any of the real "contenders" in the Democratic Party these days, being in France, but I certainly haven't stumbled across *anyone* with even an ounce of charisma or who radiates a strong sense of internal ethics. Sad. > But the base of the democratic party as it is now will > never have power again. I tend to agree with you. I find them basically irrelevant. > So if you find me changing the subject on a thread, please > don't look at it as some "trick". I think we all digress now > and then. I didn't before and I won't in the future. What I felt was more of a "tendency" to grab for the past when the present gets gnarly. We *all* do this, and we *all* digress from time to time. So what about that comet we bombed in space, eh? :-) Unc To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
