Re: Desktop Icon Utility

[Jon Gabriel]

From: Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Desktop Icon Utility
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 03:41:46 -0800

Jon Gabriel wrote:

Jon
Of course that's just my opinion... I could be wrong.  And considering
that I'm running on 4.5 hours of sleep in 32 hours I definitely could be
wrong! :)

Actually, you made your point well, and I agree with most of what you said. However, I think that Bush has gone gone well beyond what was necessary to counter the threat, and has used the tragedy for his own political gain. I don't think the foxhole analogy holds because the threat to us is not as immediate as it is to a GI under fire, and it is not necessary to abandon political debate on the subject of national security to ameliorate that threat, but other than that, point well taken.

Doug

Hi Doug,

I would agree that he's used it for his own political gain, but I think that could have been expected? Any politician would have taken advantage of the situation. I guarantee that when Bush runs for a second term you'll see him standing at ground zero surrounded by workers chanting "USA!".

I completely agree that we should not ever abandon political debate on the subject of national security. I do disagree with you on the immediacy of the situation, though. I think we're at risk and shouldn't ignore it.

I used to think that Ari Fleischer and Karl Rove shot themselves in the foot and decreased the effectiveness of their messages by being condescending and arrogant towards the media. I don't think anyone ever really likes a smartass. Yet their attitudes provided a clear policy POV during a time of crisis (when we needed it.) Their dismissive attitudes bother me a little less now.

Jon
"Excuse me, are any of you boys smithies? Or, if not smithies per se, were you otherwise trained in the metallurgic arts before straitened circumstances forced you into a life of aimless wanderin?"
~O Brother Where Art Thou



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