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To: Paul Kern who wrote (120572)	9/8/2009 6:35:12 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) of 541908

Let me say it again, since I apparently wasn't clear. When you start with absolutes, you shut down the process. It has nothing to do with what you have decided you can live with or without. You may have decided that you won't accept something ever, but when you verbalise it from the start, making it a sine qua non, you alienate the opposition and you stop the process. What you say may be true, but it's not the way to work with people toward compromise. There have been some noises about triggers for a public option, also apparently dismissed by the Pelosi crowd, but starting to be considered by some progressives. I can clearly remember having these same thoughts when Bush declared that if the UN didn't think the way he did, we would go it alone. I thought it was premature and belligerent. even though he had made the decision to attack Iraq way before that.

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