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On Jun 6, 2008, at 6:34 PM, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:

> > What I do care about is that more young people are involved in his
> > campaign than at any other time in history, because they have not yet
> > been jaded. <snip>
>
> > > . It's not HIM, it's the idea of him.
> > <snip>
> > > He is attractive and
> > accessible and most of his record isn't any more heinous than anybody
> > else. So why not?
>
>
> Celia, I can't imagine that you don't see how dangerous this posture  
> is.  It
> is both how the major despots of the world got into office and the  
> major duds
> as well (such as Carter).
>
> If you are trying to cross a river and there are alligators upstream  
> and
> piranha downstream, you don't stop to count teeth, you get out of  
> the water.

No man, you build a bridge.

If we don't work to build the small impetus this man's campaign gives  
us (remember, nominally, it's change for the better right?) than how  
is the world ever going to get better?



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