In a message dated 97-08-02 20:51:29 EDT, [log in to unmask] (Peter Brandt) writes: > My opinion of Clinton is not much higher than yours. Bob: I take that as good omen. :-) > I find your mentor, Frederick Mann, who regretfully has left us - hopefully >just for his Summer vacation - to carry his radical opinions with a little more >grace than yourself. Bob: No offense taken, Frederick carries & expresses his opinions with MUCH more grace than I've learned ... & I'm still workin' on it! :-) > L'Express & "Liberation" are about as far from the "Enquirer" as I am likely to be joining the patriot movement any time soon. :-) - and a good example of what I have been trying to point out: You make these publications "bad" because they have taken on your "genius" G.C.Burger who is "good." Bob: You're completely right on that one. I judged those publications with ZERO evidence other than what I've read here. OOPS. :-( >If you cannot see the irony in somebody so privileged as yourself grabbing every opportunity to go on about how terrible and unfree the living conditions are in this country as if you were living in some Russian Gulag, I do not know what more to say. If you were a farmer whose farm had just been repossessed by the credit company or an unskilled, unemployed laborer living in a trailer park outside a little dirt town in Texas, I might be able to relate to your on-going frustrations a little better. ;-) Bob: The USA is probably the most free place remaining to live, 'tho many folks I respect disagree ... and have left. MY point is that all that's necessary for us to lose that freedom is to do nothing & allow the policies of folks like the Clintons to erode & destroy those freedoms. I love this country & its greatest enemy right now is our government. >Peter, I acknowledge you for your keen mind & deeply appreciate the time >you've taken responding to my off-subject political drivel. AND, those >emoticons really help!! Some of that stuff was pretty heavy-duty * each time one of >your ;-) 's showed up, my up-tight mind relaxed a bit & I remembered, >yeah, this is my friend, Peter, contributing to my life. I appreciate you a lot & I thank you again for your tireless work on this list. it's a magnificent >contribution, >Thanks, for the kind words. :-) I admire your ability to step out of character. Part of my frustration with you is that when you express yourself on issues like politics, ethics and sometimes even nutrition, I very easily loose touch with the person I am now connecting with (the person behind the opinions). If you could merge these two personas a little better, I think we would have a lot fewer disagreements. Bob: Thank you, Peter. I'm learning to do that ... slowly. in the meantime I can't think of a more pleasant person to agree to disagree with. You're a masterpiece! :-) On this I agree though not on what constitutes the "enemy". If you took some prozac and I took some "speed", maybe we would see eye to eye on this issue. ;-) >> Bob: If that's what it takes, I'd much rather agree to disagree! Keep on bein' you! 'ealth, 'appiness & freedom in moderation to ya, Bob