Harry Veeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Obama and I are strong believers in taking personal responsibility, > > workingfor what you get, studying, turning off the TV, giving young > > people a stake > > in their education, etc. > > what a load of misplaced hooey. Well, okay. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with Obama but do you have any information that makes you doubt that assertion as it applies to me? Do I strike you as like someone who despises hard work and knowledge? Or -- perhaps I misunderstand -- are you saying that personal responsibility and hard work are hooey? Cold fusion is a narrow field, but I am confident that if you can read my book, and the papers I wrote, and all the papers I edited and uploaded, you will see that I am a big believer in studying, rigor, hard work, etc., even when (as in my case at present) it does not pay a salary. It is hard to imagine someone does not believe in hard work when he does that work voluntarily! If you think that rewriting Russian papers and translating Japanese papers is easy I invite you to assist. I don't mean to brag, but I believe both Obama and I have established our bona fides when it comes to hard work. He had a stellar academic record at Harvard Law, which is not an easy school. More recently, starting with no resources or party support he made mincemeat out of the Clinton political machine and then soundly defeated the GOP. Say what you like about him, he certainly is hard working! Also, I assure you that Martin Fleischmann is, as he claims, a painfully conventional person. In some ways. Most of the time. But then again Ed Storms might disagree when it comes to theory. And I will grant that Fleischmann is probably the only world-class electrochemist whose secret ambition has been to give a lecture in iambic pentameter. But all that aside, he is about as normal as they come . . . in electrochemistry. Bockris, on the other hand, is flamboyant. - Jed
