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My friends, for better or for worse I have already cast my vote. I am very
much at peace with my decision, win or lose. If you want to make the perfect
decision wait until Nov. 3. If you have not made up your mind by now who to
vote for you may be in need of professional assistance. You want to askk
yourself the following questions- Are you safer now than you were four years
ago? Are you freer now than you were four years ago?
>From: mathew jallow <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Caring & Conservatives
>Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 11:05:19 -0700
>
>Hi Anita,
>I see where you are comming from, and I agree with you. Here, I am only
>comparing the major figures from the democrat and republican sides of
>American politics. It was not meant as a sweeping generalization. Being
>conservative is a good thing, but American politics has made the word so
>dirty mainly because many of those who profess it turn out to just
>heartless monsters. Take Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Rush Limbaux, Paul
>Wolfawitz, Bill O'rielly, Sean Hannity etc. These are the closest thing to
>the thugs that encircled Hitler more than half a century ago. The
>difference between these people and the names in my last posting could not
>be any wider. Because these people are so hateful, it is not difficult to
>see how easy it is to hate them back with such venom. I appreciate your
>observation.
>
>Anita Makuluni <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>
>In a recent message, Matthew Jallow wrote:
>
> > The people who care about other humans are there
>and none of them is a conservative.
>
>
>That's quite a sweeping statement. I have encountered
>both caring people and uncaring people among
>conservative voters, liberal voters, uncommitted voters,
>people who never vote...among Africans, Americans,
>African Americans...Democrats, Republicans,
>Democrats with Republican agendas, Republicans
>with Democrat agendas...men, women...relatives, co-
>workers, and friends....
>
>Knowing a person takes time. And time is NOT money.
>Time is time. We might as well spend it getting to know
>each other. And talking.
>
>Here is a poem my very good friend (may her soul rest)
>used to send out between the close of each year and
>the beginning of the next. Maybe it will also fit in the
>space between one 4-year period in American
>presidential politics and the next.
>
>
>Poem to Old Friends Who Have Never Met
>
>When I'm not wishing I could find a unicorn
>I wish all my old friends knew each other
>The very least they deserve
>is the pleasure of each other's company
>We'd go down by the river and the rocks
>would hum with this rich collection of men & women
>They would look around and see themselves
>no longer isolated
>no longer points in the darkness pointing nowhere
>but as links in a magnificent chain
>of impossible flowers girdling the world
>and their talk (they are all talkers)
>would burst like spray in the sunlight
>and I would smile, saying nothing
>with a bottle of beer in my hand
>and a small white bird banging in my heart.
>
>--Peter Meinke
>
>
>If my good friend were still alive, still sending this poem
>out, and still voting, I don't know who she would vote for.
>But I do wish I could argue with her again.
>
>I hope we keep talking.
>
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