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

To: JDN who wrote (334933)	12/30/2002 4:29:38 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

I donot call myself a conservative. I donot consider myself a conservative. I consider myself mostly American in political matters. American common sense says only fools blame others for their own mistakes. In my life I have seen so much gray and even white stupidity condemned as crime and knowing immorality. I see it on this thread everyday. In every post by some. Increasing share holder value doing all that is legal was his job. But you say there may be a gray and some bad business judgement. With this possibility you suggest the President single out the man who may be guilty of gray or more. A man who is likely to be involved in a trial. Is the President part of the system that will enforce the law?? I suggest that making clear the negative interpretation suggested by words of the leader in a party is far more important than crimes one individual of many, who may have committed crimes in one company of many. One is a matter of perceptions and political morality and the other a criminal matter. Crime is crime, but racism is a systemic debilitating crime. And even when not a crime but gray, a racist mindset is evil. I simply cannot see logic to any relative comparisons. That's based upon my personal values judgement. In America, success can also be a product of luck and not ability. Maybe Lay is not really that good, but was lucky for a time and then had. But his sale of stock 100% indicated to me he did not see what was going to happen. I reviewed his insider sales in detail.