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Politics : President Barack Obama
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To: tejek who wrote (25139)6/30/2008 2:47:07 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 149317
 
tejek, there are dilemma's in life which have no clear or logical solutions only decisisions and sometimes we have to do things we do not like.

I gave the example if you were in a nature preserve with your children and a rare rhino charged you and the only thing you could do to protect your children was shoot the rhino to save your children. What would you do?

Gunther Grass explains an existential dilemma with the young man taking care of his 85 year old grand mother when the Nazi's invade France. What does he do? Take care of his grandmother or go fight the Nazis.

Closer to home was Obama's decision to reject public financing so he could use his war chest to fight McCains attacks.

When I was your age we were so upset with Humphrey stealing the nomination from mcCarthy we did not vote for Humphrey and Nixon won. Looking back that does not seem like we made the right decision. Nixon , like buhs, tried to undermine the constitution.

McCain lies with impunity and he will sic the 527's on Obama like nothing you ever saw. I truely believe we are in a fight for at least our civilization if not the world.

I am not a pacifist. Sometimes the things we have to do are ugly, becasue delimma's have no good answer and so sometimes one has to make a nasty existential decision for the greater good. In existentialism that person then has to take responibility for that decision.
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