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To: carranza2 who wrote (55995)	11/7/2002 2:49:47 AM
From: SirRealist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Carranza: >>Razor-thin majorities obviously make you nervous. Why does the fact that this election had no historical precedent bother you? I suspect that the reason is that you don't care for the outcome. Don't despair--you'll have another chance in two years.<< Nervous? No. There I was referring to the spin factor. The reality is the country's split politically, near 50%/50%, possibly closer than it'll be again for years. The news media on election night was spinning it like a landslide had occurred.... even the party leaders were far more subdued. >>Tying in rate cuts with politics is a bit much, in my view. << We'll simply have to agree to disagree on that point. >>Do you really think that the war on terror shouldn't be fought<< I didn't suggest that. I supported the Afghan incursion completely. I support the concept that Hussein is a dangerous guy I'd like to see gone. I believe our first priority, however, is getting the terrorists who actually attacked us and continue to threaten us, from Al Qaida to the anthrax mailer. Hussein is a pain because we failed to finish the job before. Let's finish the job on the terrorists instead of cavalierly dismissing it, or we risk repeating our mistake. >>Unfortunately, I sense that perhaps you'd rather have the surpluses than do the hard things we now have to do to ensure our children's security. << In governmentalese, 'reorganization' and 'new bureaucracy', translated to English, are pronounced 'lard'. Not sometimes. Always. >>Other than a longer wait at a airport while undergoing a security check, how have your civil liberties been affected? Whose civil liberties have been abridged? << Read the Patriot Act. What they 'are' doing may not seem egregious, but as the law's written, it can be.... and will be, unless it's amended. Such laws are rarely instituted all at once. They are used incrementally, and are corrosive. >>Perhaps your post is a reflection of your yearning for the peace and good times of the '90s.<< Nope. The Nineties just happened to be a decade I'd give back in a second. My life has a knack for finding the countervailing trend ;^) >>the kind of pessimism reflected in your post which is simply not justified by objective reality<< I'm a born optimist, perhaps to a fault. I don't fear the exercise of power. I want to fix the abuse of power. And I think that's a reasonably objective conclusion to reach, that power is being abused.