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Dennis Storm <[log in to unmask]>
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Dennis Storm <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 23 Oct 2002 10:21:30 -0500
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There are Liberals left in America?

I once met a Liberal by the name of George McGovern but in the intervening
years since then I have never stumbled across another. Please introduce me.
I feel so alone.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Cagle [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 11:02 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Finding the money behind a PAC
>
>  Denys Beauchemin wrote:
>
> > Further this discussion is very illustrative of the differences between
> a
> > conservative person (me) and the political opposite.  When I post a link
> to
> > a newspaper article, I never insult the reader's intelligence or
> > individualism by posting the entire article.  I don't consider myself
> more
> > capable than they are by providing the entire article.  I know everyone
> on
> > this list is perfectly capable of reading the article if he or she wants
> to
> > do so.  I certainly do not cram it down their email client's throat
> almost
> > forcing them to read it.  I also do not clog the email of the digest
> readers
> > with huge articles that can be gotten from their respective web sites.
>
> So if I read you correctly, you are saying that liberals have a habit of
> quoting the entire article, whereas conservatives don't. Sorry, but I
> don't buy it. You can say WIRT has a habit of quoting the entire article -
> that seems clear to me. But mapping Wirt's behavior to all liberals is
> a bit much. It's like saying that all conservatives have a habit of
> overgeneralizing 8^).
>
> --
> Greg Cagle
> gregc at gregcagle dot com
>
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