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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens)
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Subject: Re: Racist jokes
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Date: 29 Nov 88 06:03:18 GMT
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In article <375@sulaco.Sigma.COM> allen@sulaco.sigma.com (Allen Gwinn)
writes:
>In article <1102@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu>
>nmg@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Nancy M Gould) writes:
::In article <8854@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US
::(Drtoyoubuddy. Beach Bum) writes:
===You really have to love the continued liberal whining.  Look, the
===liberals LOST the election.  Any one who can count should be able
===to see that the election was lost because the so-called
===``Minorities'' didn't buy the racist claims.
::Now wait a second.  The liberals did not LOSE the election.
::Congress has a solidly Democratic majority.  Or is that something
::you'd rather not think about?
>Just because the Democrats maintain a majority doesn't mean that the
>liberals won the election.  There is such a thing as a "conservative
>Democrat" (for example: L. Bentsen).  This is obviously something
>that *you'd* rather not think about, isn't it?  :-)

(Sorry for all the reposting, but I think it's necessary to make the
point.)

He didn't say that "the liberals won the election," He said that "the
liberals did not LOSE the election."  A national election is not a
black and white thing, where "the liberals" either "lose" or "win."
If it were, we would walk into a polling place and be handed a ballot
with two big boxes from which to pick and check one: "liberal" and
"conservative."  Come on, now.

This election was a prime example of this, which makes it even more
puzzling to me that this argument about "winning" and "losing" the
election persists.

  Jonathan Kamens
  MIT Project Athena