To: techguerrilla who wrote (7791 ) 10/5/2002 4:40:21 AM From: jjkirk Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 89467 Bizarre Behavior Watching a trio of Democrats criticize the president from Iraq made them look like a bunch of ‘Hanoi Janes’ msnbc.com john, long time no see since the "buy" thread many moons ago. Are you thinking for yourself? When the paradigms have shifted can you look to the same old comfortable sources of information to keep you safe? Are you relying on public reaction to guide your thinking? The antithesis of that thought was the whole idea behind the GG and the FM. My Moore manual is gathering dust, not because it was not right for the time, but because the macro factors underlying it's usefulness are latent in this bear market. If these lessons, while brilliant in a bull market, give me no help in a bear, should I just do nothing? Likewise, the lessons you draw from Somalia, et.al., while they may have been valid in those particular events, are not a reason to do nothing ever in the future. The lessons cause us to analyze the underlying causes that allowed those circumstances to occur. These "lessons learned" are an integral part of every operation, every ball game, every political campaign...you know that instinctively, john. They are not a reason to give up, but to work around the barriers to success that occur naturally in every endeavor of life. Why do you state that our President is "stupid" and then state that he has at least helped the UN develop more credibility and strength? What insights do you have into his motivations?...do think he is one-dimensional in his attack? He is unmoved by the opinion of the mainstream press. Is this bad? Is he perfect? No, and he does not claim to be. Could I do a better job? No. Could Al Gore? No. There are probably a few democrats who could, but none of them are president. IMHO, this liberal drive to yield to the UN and the EU and the international court and the Kyoto accords, etc., is based in a desire to geld this nation of the right of self-governance. We have been trained for dozens of years by Marxist professors so that the vox populus sounds more like the voice of Lenin than the voice of a free-thinking citizen. In closing, "Public opinion is no more than this; What people think about what other people think." Alfred Austin (1835-1913) and, "Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion of his own." Mark Bonham-Carter (1922-1994) Ciao, john, jj