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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (86903)	12/14/2000 10:08:25 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 132070

Skeets, But, like Reagan, Clinton is likeable. Which is very unlike Gore, who nobody can stand for long. Bradley was a bit more likeable, but still dull as dust. I think Dubya rates a bit more sympathy, but it is less liking than a sort of "I hope he doesn't hurt himself" attitude. I find it inconceivable that he actually beat John McCain in the primaries. I guess that's what John gets for talking campaign reform. Nobody in the industrial-political complex wants that.

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (86903)	12/15/2000 2:19:30 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Skeets, That's because many don't know they got screwed yet. When the bubble has finished deflating, or implodes, and they see their 401k and/or brokerage "savings" evaporated, and finally when the wealth transfer recipients have extruded every red cent they can, the masses will at last see documentation appearing in newspapers and magazines that shows how and how much was taken from them. I know you are mostly blaming Clinton, but I also put it on Greenspan and also the journalism that's largely corporate-owned, and as a consequence, compromised by the need for the top executives to cash out their options in a timely manner. However, if it had been me that lost money, I would have only blamed myself. I made a choice to educate myself (not easy to see through the lies) and so this has not been a surprise to me, nor did it have to be for anyone else. ---------- Skeets, as an aside, I appreciate your big and persistent effort to see through the smoke, both ways, of what was going on in the last election (esp. the Florida part). I always appreciated hearing what you had to say.