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To: LLCF who wrote (29221)	2/26/2003 7:02:42 AM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

>>Certainly advancing a set of opinions can take lot's of courage. Certain people "advancing opinion" around Adolf >>Hitler's time would certainly take courage no? DAK, you lose a lot of credibility when you trot out this battered rhetorical warhorse. I think that Byrd was acting as much out of self-interest as the country's interest. A speech on the floor of the Senate does not constitute courage in this media saturated age, IMO. What is he prepared to do? Fight what he sees as wrong with every weapon at his disposal? Or will he just vote against it, and then go back to the business as usual of dividing up the loot taken from the producer class? Actions, not empty words, constitute courage. And rhetorical tricks and high mindedness may win debates in the minds of an audience, but in the end, reason matters.