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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (22871)	9/13/2003 7:03:38 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

Dean may not see himself as a liberal. I don't know if Dean ran away from the term "liberal", but usually, we can not argue with a person's convictions. For instance, I saw John Ashcroft on ABC news last week. Ashcroft said his religious beliefs were important to him. Even if I had never heard of John Ashcroft, I would have to accept his statement as true. Otherwise, I would have to call him a liar and there isn't any way that I could prove he was lying. Likewise, if I told you I was an atheist, I don't believe you could say conclusively that I wasn't. I lived in Canada for approximately 15 years and when I returned to the United States, I noticed that people wanted to stick a label on you immediately. You were conservative. Or you were liberal. Perhaps the press is partly to blame for America's obsession with labels. After all, It is a quick way for the media to identify someone.Still, when I was a Canadian resident, I never felt that I was under any pressure to identify myself as one or the other. I heard about Dean's remark about the Israel/Palestine conflict. It's too bad he backed down.