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Re: Inadvertent revelation.
From: Richard M Pisko
Date: 2004 Apr 27, 20:07 -0600
From: Richard M Pisko
Date: 2004 Apr 27, 20:07 -0600
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:29:19 +0100, George Huxtable wrote: >Unintended disclosures are always revealing, and this one opened my eyes to >the level of the arguments on which choice of the next leader will rest. > Yes, Ken did show his feelings. >Not on capacity to govern, but on the level of valour, or otherwise, >displayed in a somewhat-inglorious war waged thirty years ago, the lessons >of which seem to have been entirely forgotten. > I believe the decision turns not so much on the capacity to govern, as the character of the man seeking that power. As I understand the US election process (I'm from Canada, but I did spend twenty years in the US) most people try to choose the lesser of two evils. A ballot cast for any of the fringe party candidates ... Libertarian comes to mind ... would be a wasted vote, so their strategy is understandable. That leaves it between a Republican or a Democrat: Bush or Kerry. Valor, or lack of it, is part of the character traits available to be evaluated. So is personal morality, or lack of that, when it becomes public. -- Richard ...