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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (28981)	1/24/1999 12:58:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

Responding to your posting as follows: >I am not sure that compassion at the individual/microcommunal level IS a trait of Republicans.< I was not talking ideology - but individuals. I'm not arguing for some kind of unifying trait. But surely you'll allow me that Republicans (people, not a class) as well as Democrats are capable of working soup kitchens or putting in time as volunteer tutors. Your point is well taken. It is altogether too facile to assume that people who vote in a certain fashion live out in their lives the party platform at its most extreme. Some of the worthiest people I know--in terms of giving their own time and energies, not merely their checkbooks--are Republicans and (gasp, shudder) Libertarians. A philosophical difference about what the role of government should be does not preclude enormous personal sensitivity and generosity.