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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (59105)	9/19/2002 6:04:28 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Since I advocate for drug law reform I think I have every right to want my kids out if they ever have a problem. If, however, I championed stiff laws against people who use or sell drugs, then it would be amazingly hypocritical of me to try to get my own kid out from under a sentence due to those stiff penalties I helped bring in to existence by my support. I think that is more of an issue for me.

To: one_less who wrote (59105)	9/19/2002 6:10:39 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Well, I think my version was the only truthful way to put it. Suppose in your case there were three med students in the same situation (maybe he got his friends involved, all great students in the same situation--hypothesize along with me) and one was the son of the governor. And he said "my son should get parole and be readmitted to med school but the other two identically situated students should go back to jail for another 10 years." Is that the kind of governor you want? That's what makes this so sad -- Bush is advocating strongly for severe penalties for everybody else. Everybody but mine. That's not, IMO, good parenting OR good governing.