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To: stockman_scott who wrote (19473)	12/6/2002 3:44:32 PM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 104155

s2- Take action and write Senators, Representatives and The President... and... Lets hope Shrub tunes in and reflects on it. my predominant inclination with misguided folks is to take that approach. to find the best in them and encourage it, hoping it will guide their direction toward sensible action. but shrub is already totally surrounded (of his own volition) by too many chickenhawks and paranoid, tightfisted wealthy dudes for any common man's voice to penetrate the protective shield. you can write till you're blue in the fingers but you're not going to change his mind or heart. i wrote him early in his presidency about the kyoto protocol. i got back a personal letter with his signature (obviously written by someone else - one of the shield). it was so full of gobbledy-phricken-bullchit and without comment on a single personal statement i'd included in my letter that i realized no letter (short of bizarre threats) was going to get any serious attention. it's that kind of brush off that makes the peasants start picking up stones to throw, and strap dynamite to their bodies, and take flying lessons. fortunately we have the ballot box to put our scribblings into. that's the only writing GWB is going to read... BUT 50% won't cut it, not even 51%. it's got to be at least 55% to get beyond the reach of manipulation and fraud. you're writing to the right people scott... voters. keep it up dude. you do good work. that's who the people who advertised in the paper were writing to too (even though they framed it to look like a letter to the president). -el polvo