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To: Tony Viola who wrote (76838)	3/19/1999 7:22:00 PM
From: DownSouth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

What are you saying here, that the Dells are bluebloods and the Sanderses are something I can't say for political correctness' sake? Pardon me, sir. I do not understand what you would find politically incorrect about a fine old Southern patriot.

To: Tony Viola who wrote (76838)	3/19/1999 7:48:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

No, just yankees and rebels. My understanding is that Jerry was a tough, cut-up Chicago street kid who studied engineering at Urbana and was probably not socially acceptable to the fraternity boys, while Michael was bright kid from the Jewish upper-middle class who dropped out UT Austin where he lived in a dormitory (not a fraternity house). Both are supersalesmen and have the gift of gab. My guess is that Jerry has had a life with many obstacles, whose showing off, and cars, and fancy duds reveal some very great personal insecurities. This could not have been helped by 30 years of sucking hind tit to Intel. Michael, however, seems so far (and its only hald as far as Jerry) to have lived a nearly charmed life. I think he is extraordinarily intelligent and has unlimited ambition and a great deal of genuine personal charm, while Jerry too often looks like a buffoon and conman. I know you started with a joke, but these are really far more important men than they appear. I wrote some time ago that AMD in 1995 or so should have sold out and invested the proceeds in INTC if it was really interested in enriching its stockholders. I see no reason to change my mind. Jerry's decisions affect the profitability of one of the U.S.'s major industries, and Michael's direct method can revolutionize manufacture and return much of American demand to American made goods (and the same for many other countries). It interests me that so much of the world's economic future is influenced so strongly by career decisions of two men like this.