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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Very well said, Susan.  And for a bit of Levity, if someone would like to 
lump me into the "smart and handsome" group, I would be delighted ...bobford


--- On Mon, 10/20/08, SJC <indexer AT localnet.com> wrote:

> From: SJC <indexer AT localnet.com>

> It occurs to me that a lot of people seem think this coming
> election is  going to have more impact than I think it will have.   Or
> maybe it's  something else at work, but at any rate this whole topic
> seems to have  people pitting themselves against each other over it.  For
> the record,  it's hard to hurt my feelings, and I hope others
> don't get theirs hurt,  either.  We're all, thank heavens, individuals 
> entitled to our own  ideas, free to come and go as we wish from this list, 
> so hopefully this  current tendency to 'categorize' one another into
> them/us piles will  wane.  Lumping folks into groups usually gets us 
> nowhere, in my  experience---simply delineates division lines, which
> isn't usually very  useful for learning to get along with each other.  Like 
> minds are easy,  comforting, but unlike ideas spark new thinking,
> alternative  ways.....there is much value in both, IMHO.

> Susan Jane, in Maine


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