Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!amd!pesnta!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!rick From: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (the absurdist) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Re: BYE FRITZ Message-ID: <496@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 21:20:23 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.496 Posted: Wed Nov 28 21:20:23 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Dec-84 20:34:24 EST References: <2784@ucbcad.UUCP> <1205@dciem.UUCP> Reply-To: rick@uwmacc.UUCP (Rick Keir) Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 30 In article <1205@dciem.UUCP> mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) writes: >It's really no surprise that Mondale lost. The US has a long tradition >of rejecting decent intelligent people in favour of those that don't >make them feel intellectually uncomfortable, or in favour of stage >presence. Look at Stevenson (3 times including his loss to Kennedy), >Humphrey, McGovern. Then they compound the folly by re-electing the >same person AFTER they have had a chance to see what he does or does >not do (Eisenhower, Nixon!!, Reagan!!!). > >This is a country that yearns for international respect, and knows >how to get it only with guns and threats. It is also a country >pretends to support individual liberty, but shows that liberty to be >OK only for itself. As quoted earlier here "The US has no friends, >only interests." >-- > >Martin Taylor >{allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt >{uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsrgv!dciem!mmt Pretty big talk, considering you are so unfortunate as to live in Canada. Tell me about Trudeau -- I promise not to laugh. -- "But Dinsdale...Dinsdale usedsarcasm!" we all know where this quote came from, don't we? Rick Keir -- MicroComputer Information Center, MACC 1210 West Dayton St/U Wisconsin Madison/Mad WI 53706 {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!rick