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Re: Vote against/for...
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 10 Nov 2002 11:29:57 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> C'mon John, stop making me defend Scott, it's really annoying. (while he did
> correctly point out that no one is perfect, he forgot to add that some of us
> are closer than others)
I thought that was self-evident. I read a quote the other day which I liked.
It's from Ted Turner:
"If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect."
Scott A
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> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal writes:
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> > I will not relent on this. Explain exactly what skin color has to do with the
> > point of your little assertion. Isn't your real beef with the rich? Aren't
> > you in essence merely inciting class warfare? It's such a tired liberal
> > argument that is IMO coming home to bite liberal Democrats in this country.
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> > To
> > deny that members of all other races are doing quite well in this country and
> > that millions of whites are not is quite simply race baiting and you should
> > retract.
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> Straw dog. That's not what he said...
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> He merely pointed out that still, even after all the progress that we've
> made in this country, it helps to be white. That's wrong. Plain and simple.
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> How to fix it? I dunno. It's clear (to me anyway) that welfare and
> affirmative action, are at this point, making things worse rather than better.
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> He also pointed out that it helps to be rich. I'm OK with that. Well, sort
> of OK anyway. There's good honest rich and not so good dishonest rich. Up
> with the former, from which all good things flow, and down with the latter.
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| C'mon John, stop making me defend Scott, it's really annoying. (while he did correctly point out that no one is perfect, he forgot to add that some of us are closer than others) (...) Straw dog. That's not what he said... He merely pointed out that (...) (22 years ago, 8-Nov-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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