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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dean Wilson who wrote (3684)	1/30/1998 3:02:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

d., Many thanks. I have printed out your quote and will study and savor it. Maybe we should require three or four years of concentrated study of our Constitution and our founders writings in our schools. Best, Jack

To: Dean Wilson who wrote (3684)	8/22/1998 4:56:00 AM
From: RJC2006	Respond to of 20981

Want a rather sharp contrast between our first president and the current president? "The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived, when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed to decline being considered among the number of those out of whom a choice is to be made." Mirrored by Mr. Clinton saying: "If I could run for a third term, I would." Proof positive that he has no conception of humility. But I digress, when reading Washington's Farewell Address it is so eerily prescient that it chills one's senses upon the reading of it. "One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts..." And to continue in light of what we are experiencing today: "It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with illfounded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another; foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passion. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another. There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in governments of a monarchial cast patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose; and there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume." Thanks for your quote from the Federalist Papers. A view that I had certainly missed.