Your thoughtful comments, and the responses to them, are important to me.
I have a tendency to get impatient with the redundancy and occasional
"flaming" found on the list. I live in a state governed by a famous
ex-pro wrestler and have heard many discussions about chief executive's
fitness to govern.
The salient principle in this discussion was mentioned years ago in
one of my favorite science fiction books. "Time enough for Love" by Robert
Heinlein. The comment, loosely paraphrased by me, is that - given a choice
of voting for an idealist or a machine politician - always choose the hack.
The idealist could drag us all through Hell and High Water for the sake of
his ideals. The machine politician merely wants a majority of our votes at
re-election.
If you're not sure of a politician's motivation, get out enough voices
to sound like a majority. Keep up the good work.
Geo. D. 57, dx54
Don Adams
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To all list members:
As a new addition to the Parkinson's list I have been very pleased
to have
access to so many experiences related by other patients and care givers. I
think that this information is very helpful to all of us.
I am very disappointed however to see all the negative political
diatribes
directed toward our President, and his "cronies" as one correspondent
referred to his advisors and cabinet. I believe that President Bush showed
political courage in making the decision that he did, and that the people
on this list who are criticizing him would do so on almost any decision
that he makes, whatever it might be. I hope that this "discussion" will
come to an early end and that the list respondents will get back to the
real purpose of the list which I thought was to share information and
experiences re Parkinson's and its syndromes. There are other lists to vent
leftist political venom, folks. Don't do it here.
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