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

To: jmhollen who wrote (406552)	5/15/2003 1:57:32 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The problem is, specifically Bennett's. He has established himself not as a "moralist". Stalin and Hitler would look like "moralists" next to the typical contemporary Democrat-ESPECIALLY the incredibly phony and racist Congressional Black Caucus members. Bennett's image was typical of contemporary conservatives-one of the most OPTOMISTIC citizens among us. Pessimism and reaction have come to be exclusive characteristics of the American left in their rapid decline from power. So the question Bennett can no longer answer is, "If you are REALLY optomistic, why can't you find something better to do with a moderate fortune than piss it into a slot machine?" And that's why Bill Kristol says that Bennett is "finished"...

To: jmhollen who wrote (406552)	5/15/2003 2:14:19 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Re: '(in a) non-family-injuring sense is not immoral. If it increases or extends to the point where it becomes a compulsion or results in money being taking away from the family or charities that the family would otherwise support - then it crosses the line into "..sinful activity..."; more under the heading of Glutony. It would seem to cross over into the realm of being immoral, only when one was making conscience choices to gamble fully knowing that harm to you and your family would directly result. I.e.: gamble or buy groceries....' >>> Agreed. That's the position I stated originally. Perhaps you missed my original comments (though they were repeated several times.)