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

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (257768)	5/22/2002 7:49:24 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769667

Hi Gordon, Re: you have pushed the meaning of cynicism to the level... Isn't this all the fashion? Thinking "outside the box". It was indeed meant as a mind expanding exercise. But in a world in which we can have friends of George Bush working actively on schemes like the Death Star, Ricochet and Get Shorty to defraud billions of dollars from a hapless state, where exactly are the limits to cynicism? I don't think they have been reached yet. And I certainly don't believe that fair play is more important to George Bush than winning. In his social set, winning is everything. Even, an often especially, if it involves cheating. <wink> BTW, I enjoyed your use of the language... intellectual dandyism has a great ring of truth about it. <smile> "CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision." --Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary Be it Sigh or Be it Scythe, that is the question. Cheers, Ray :)