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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (165777)	7/29/2001 9:29:44 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

<<Wish we could find another Reagan.>> Amen.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (165777)	7/29/2001 10:05:27 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

you a bigot too.?.........bigot n. [common] A person who is religiously attached to a particular computer, language, operating system, editor, or other tool (see religious issues). Usually found with a specifier; thus, `cray bigot', `ITS bigot', `APL bigot', `VMS bigot', `Berkeley bigot'. Real bigots can be distinguished from mere partisans or zealots by the fact that they refuse to learn alternatives even when the march of time and/or technology is threatening to obsolete the favored tool. It is truly said "You can tell a bigot, but you can't tell him much."

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (165777)	7/29/2001 10:09:16 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

You want a label......try this: , "McCarthyism" was coined by Herbert Block, the cartoonist who signs himself "Herblock" in the Washington Post. The word was an oath at first--a synonym for the hatefulness of baseless defamation, or mudslinging. Later it became, for some, an affirmation. The term survives both as oath and as affirmation not very usefully as either, one is bound to sayand has far broader applications than at first. Now it is evocative of an almost undifferetiated evil to a large number of Americans and of a positive good to a somewhat smaller number. To the one, whatever is illiberal, repressive, reactionary, obscurantist, anti-intellectual, totalitarian, or merely swinish will for some time to come be McCarthyism, while to the other it means nothing more or less than a militant patriotism.