[CLUE-Talk] Another Bush Lie v2.0

[Randy Arabie]

Quoting bill ehlert <ehlert_b at yahoo.com>:

> 
> --- Randy Arabie <randy at arabie.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:53:14AM -0800, bill
> > ehlert wrote:
> > > 
> > > --- Randy Arabie <randy at arabie.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > >     . . .
> > > 
> > > > Why belong to a political party if you
> > don't
> > > > have a vested
> > > > interest?
> > > 
> > >     . . .
> > > 
> > > **  because you're concerned with the
> > >     well-being of your country ?
> > > 
> > >     just a wild guess.
> > 
> > I'm sorry Bill, but I do not understand your
> > logic.
> > 
> > I'll give you my interpretation to your
> > response:  
> > 
> > I should belong to a political party (a party
> > to which I
> > have no vested interest) because I am concerned
> > with the
> > well-being of my country.
> > 
> > To me, being "concerned with the well-being of
> > my country" means I
> > DO HAVE A VESTED INTEREST.  Thus, I would join
> > the party
> > whose agenda would best address my concerns.
> 
> 
> **  we may be coming at the same thing
>     from two different angles, or with two
>     different sets of words, or something
>     like that.

I agree.

>     to me, being concerned with the
>     well-being of our country is quite
>     a different thing than having a
>     vested or special interest in seeing
>     one set of politicos (call 'em, say,
>     the donkies and the pachyderms) get
>     into office, have things their own
>     narrow way, put their own party
>     loyalists on the public payroll,
>     run for national office, and so forth.

I suspect any political party who comes out of an election as the majority will 
attempt to have things their own way and will put their own party loyalists on 
the public payroll.
-- 
Allons Rouler!

Randy
http://www.arabie.org/