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

To: Jack Clarke who wrote (15488)	5/31/1998 10:03:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20981

Jack, I like Jerry Brown because I think he has just about as much personal integrity as it is possible to have and still be a politician. I like his Jesuit background, the complexity of his thoughts, his general very high level of intelligence, my sense that he is still growing intellectually, and that he is an idealist who is not in politics for personal gain. If you didn't already come across this in your look through his articles and position papers, you might find it a fairly objective summary of his beliefs. I like the part about Clinton and Dole. democraticparty.miningco.com I think it is easy to forget that he won six states in the Democratic presidential primaries. I do not know where we would be now if he had prevailed, but in my opinion his presidency would have been stimulating and exciting, and so far ahead of Clinton's, ethically speaking, that their names do not belong in the same sentence. California moved far, far to the right in the time since he became governor. Justice Rose Bird was fully qualified--a Boalt Hall graduate--but much too liberal in her decisions to please most of the voters here, especially on death penalty issues. I found a couple of brief mentions of her, and one short article on Governor Brown. sfbayguardian.com (See the discussion of Proposition 199) sfbayguardian.com (See Full Court Press) The one on Brown is from a web page that gives a very short history of all the governors of this state. I think it is important to try to stay somewhat factually based when talking about a governor's term in office. This little history notes that he was more fiscally conservative than his father, for example. infospect.com Speaking of facts, is anything about Pat Buchanan as portrayed on this admittedly biased web page accurate in any way? I have no problem at all with ideological conservatives, but the religious right in American politics is so far from my own beliefs that I have nothing in common with it, at all. I thought Barry Goldwater was fascinating, and very honest, and while his views were radical, he was not into pushing religious moral standards on everyone. In fact, his grandson Ross is homosexual, and Barry was an advocate for homosexual rights. The Christian far right is interested in more government, not less, because of all the rules they want to inflict on everyone in America, in my opinion. dimensional.com