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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Well, one they still keep quiet is Reagan's sexual addiction!  Or his early 
signs of Alzheimers.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "EarthNSky" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2008 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] On certainty


> Gene GeRue wrote:
>
> > I hold a president to a higher standard for two reasons:
> >
> > 1) A president holds enormous power and influence and his decisions
> > affect millions of lives even unto death;
>
> Well, that's true of Ben Bernanke, Colin Powell, and Michael Chertoff,
> too.
> I think it is rather naive to think that the person who acts as the
> president is any different from the rest of humanity.  That is why
> character is so important in an election.  It is a subjective issue
> because your truth may be different from mine.  I might see stretching
> the truth as a lie, but you might see it as the truth.  I see Obama as
> just another slick politician, but you see him as a something truly
> different.
>
> > 2) A president has access to a huge amount of information that
> > citizens do not, and he has the power to demand yet more.
>
> And yet, with all this power and knowledge, we still look to the
> president and expect him to act at face value-we don't trust that
> perhaps there is a bigger picture in play...sometimes, in a big game,
> you make a sacrifice to win in the end...that's true in baseball, in
> chess, and in a bunch of other games.
>
>
> > This president's actions are a disgrace to the office. He deserves the
> > shame that history will heap upon him.
>
> Maybe, maybe not.  In 100 years we may be looking at Bush as the guy who
> tried, but failed, to wipe out Islam...the evil Islam that has changed
> the constitution and eliminated our freedoms...that's twisted from this
> time frame and perspective, but who knows how history will be written
> and then rewritten.
> If millions of folks can grow up thinking that slavery only existed in
> the South, or that the Civil War was fought over slavery, then anything
> is possible.  The media has the ability to keep key facts and
> information from surfacing until they want it to surface-that's the case
> today, and that has always been the case...think about JFK's affairs,
> FDR's handicap, and Obama's smoking habit...just to be fair, let's add
> Reagan's close call from the assassins bullet, Bush's drug addiction,
> and Clinton's sexual addiction.  The press controlled what the public
> learned, how much of the truth(by spinning the story), and when things
> become public knowledge.
> In 100 years, we may learn that things that put the events of the last
> few years in a different light, and in a different light, we might not
> come to the same conclusions.
>
> Bev
>
> ps.  at work the other day someone made a comment that I had not thought
> about.  They were talking politics, and one guy, my chemist co-worker,
> who grew up in Chicago, said something to the effect of "Obama will turn
> the country around because we have never had a leader who is a man of
> color-he'll bring a new perspective and a new way of playing the game"
> to which the other guy, a mechanical engineer, says "well, I grew up
> here in Georgia...we've had 'men of color' holding positions of
> power-playing the game..we've been there and done that, to no different
> end...perhaps we have learned better than most that color doesn't matter."
>
>
>
>
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