My intuition is that openness matters, in constraining what a politician will say. But I agree that we're dealing with quite a marginal issue here.
----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Dougherty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, June 14, 2004 5:51 pm Subject: Re: The President and the Pope > Mark: > I would have thought that it was the other way around on the > "problematic" score, no? If Bush is looking for electoral support, > wouldn't it be more advantageous to make a public statement about > the matter, rather than making what looks like a rather innocuous > comment to a Vatican official in private? (About which, of course, > he was perfectly accurate.) Or is your suggestion that if he does > so openly then at least we know what he's up to? I suppose were > Bush to make public a criticism of the Catholic bishops he might > risk alienating Catholic voters? (But we should all be aware that > an attempt to influence Catholic voters in America by appealing to > a Vatican official in private is essentially futile.) > > This might be a mountain being made into a molehill. > > Richard Dougherty > > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: Mark Tushnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: Law & Religion issues for Law Academics > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:43:05 -0400 > > >I have the feeling that this thread may have played itself out, > but one > >matter hasn't come up -- whether there's a difference between a > public > >statement soliciting support from religious leaders, etc., and a > private > >conversation in which such support is solicited (and whether, in a > world > >of leaks, such a distinction is anything close to coherent). I > simply > >report my intuition that the public statements are lower on the > >"problematic" scale than the private conversation (which is not to > say > >that either one is high on that scale). > > > >______________________________________________ _ > >To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see > http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw > > > _______________________________________________ > To post, send message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see > http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/religionlaw >
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