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To: Dale Baker who wrote (115820)	7/19/2009 12:21:39 AM
From: d[-_-]b	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541957

No need to nuance it to death - Obama had a large pool to draw from and he opted for the nutty professor.

To: Dale Baker who wrote (115820)	7/19/2009 2:05:52 AM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541957

Many years ago, the Lyndon LaRouche organization had a booth in the quad of my college . The representatives accosted me, presenting this hodgepodge of radical political viewpoints. World population crises, they believed, were a lie and any population control was crypto-racism. I said I was actually against overpopulation. As soon as I had said that, I had no opportunity to elaborate. Their people totally went off on this rant about if I thought there were too many people why didn't I shove all the extra people in ovens. Okee dokey! It is unarguable that when populations rise beyond the carrying capacity of the environment, feedback mechanisms kick in to reduce populations. These are cruel and indifferent processes. Cougars and deer. Coyotes and squirrels. Lots of animals are locked in this rather vicious cycle. I feel it is a moral imperative that if humans can dampen this cycle for themselves, they should. I'd never have though that such a desire would be the moral equivalent of a holocaust.