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

To: Zoltan! who wrote (13754)	4/17/1998 12:17:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

She apologized for her remarks about Georgia. The difference between now and her Vietnam days is that now she has a strong man to help her control her giddy impulses. search.washingtonpost.com

To: Zoltan! who wrote (13754)	4/17/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Duncan, I have never said that Jane Fonda was my heroine or anything. I do think she was acting out of her convictions. You need to remember that she was not particularly emotionally healthy or well balanced. Having a cold and unemotional father like Henry, and a mother who killed herself because she was so unhappy, do not add up to a healthy environment for growing a sane and calmly accepting child. It was very easy in the late sixties and early seventies for radical youth in America to get into really polarized positions. When I watched the movie "Nixon" I was struck again by how evil he seemed, and how horrific the war in Viet Nam was. It really polarized everyone. I was sort of obnoxious myself at anti-war demonstrations. I don't think you would have liked me very much. Were you a Young Republican then? I think I have become a lot more moderate, which is normal, and that is why I am asking. Have you ever had a political position which evolved over time? I saw this in yesterday's paper, and really liked the idea behind it: Grace Slick, who once said that "getting up and singing songs that you sang 30 years ago during what you thought was a revolution is kind of pathetic" turned down an invitation to accompany VH1's showing of Jefferson Airplane pictures this morning . . .

To: Zoltan! who wrote (13754)	4/17/1998 2:32:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

Okay, I've read the Georgia comments that Mrs. Turner made, and my own opinion is that what she said is probably true. There is enormous poverty in the South, and she specified northern Georgia. Has anyone been there, and can you say this is not true? As you well know from that horrible argument at Feelings that I still feel sad about, there are 15,000,000 chronically hungry children in America. My guess is that quite a few of them are in Georgia, which is indeed a poor state. I realize state officials are always quick to take exception to derogatory comments, which hurt feelings, business investment, and tourism, but again, as I understand it Jane was speaking at the U.N., trying to do good in a way. I think that she does not stop to think sometimes, but her intent was not nefarious. I am always putting my foot in my mouth when I am trying to do good, so I guess I just feel sorry for her.