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Post #14,315 by bepatient 10/20/01 2:39:27 PM Reply	You I'll respond to... but Ashton seems to want to miss my point a little too often... The point being that no matter who we get and from what backround the come... it is getting harder and harder to identify qualified folks that will actually persue the highest office in the land. Colin P has stated as much...he will work for the government in any poition they feel he is needed...but he has (and will probably continue to do so) refused to run for elected office. He has chosen not to endure the scrutiny placed upon those folks by the rabid dog we still call the "free press". How many supremely qualified candidates will we never see because of this. That was it...my observation...for what its worth. GW...press has successfully made the guy an idiot. Al Gore...policy wonk with no personality. Insane McCain etc... You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #14,342 by Ashton 10/20/01 7:07:44 PM Reply	Well hell, if That's all you meant, how could you possibly imagine anyone'd disagree? But check your phrasing again, word by word, OK? Your response above is a horse of a different saddle. I'd just like to find out if - you think the business model has any serious, possibly fatal limitations - and if you just might have thought up something a bit saner than the present case where: "Bizness Enterprise" is the automatic Solution, whatever the Problem, and however it's parsed. Because that is what I hear you returning to, like a homing pigeon. {Sheesh} Ashton
Post #14,343 by Brandioch 10/20/01 7:28:19 PM Reply	Check the government. Does the President actually DO anything? Or, rather, does the President actually do anything that would AFFECT the lives of anyone in a position to run for President? The President can and does affect the lives of the lower 50% of the income population. But anyone politically able to run or financially able to buy the Presidency would be better off buying a Congresscritter or a critter's position. In other words, what incentive is there for the best and brightest to become President?

Evil Evildoers Of Evil - (kmself) - (35) - Oct. 19, 2001, 08:53:50 PM EDT

Observation. - (bepatient) - (13) - Oct. 19, 2001, 09:01:49 PM EDT

Seems a remarkably consistent observation - (Ashton) - Oct. 20, 2001, 12:46:58 AM EDT

But the country isn't a business. - (Brandioch) - (3) - Oct. 20, 2001, 02:30:58 PM EDT

You I'll respond to... - (bepatient) - (2) - Oct. 20, 2001, 02:39:27 PM EDT

Well hell, if *That's* all you meant, - (Ashton) - Oct. 20, 2001, 07:07:44 PM EDT

Check the government. - (Brandioch) - Oct. 20, 2001, 07:28:19 PM EDT

Old line: - (admin) - (4) - Oct. 20, 2001, 04:44:14 PM EDT

You mean... - (static) - (1) - Oct. 21, 2001, 10:08:59 PM EDT

Most capable, most interested in, etc. :-) -NT - (admin) - Oct. 21, 2001, 10:13:11 PM EDT

Someone commented... - (addison) - (1) - Oct. 21, 2001, 11:06:38 PM EDT

So scary. -NT - (static) - Oct. 22, 2001, 12:41:07 AM EDT

What was that hierarchy...? - (jb4) - (2) - Oct. 22, 2001, 10:06:48 AM EDT

Maslow possibly? - (Steve Lowe) - (1) - Oct. 22, 2001, 10:25:52 AM EDT

No, that wasn't it... - (jb4) - Oct. 22, 2001, 01:38:46 PM EDT

Whew.. there for a few days I thought, - (Ashton) - (1) - Oct. 20, 2001, 12:41:59 AM EDT

On the subject of flags - (boxley) - Oct. 20, 2001, 08:46:16 PM EDT

Ha - (deSitter) - Oct. 21, 2001, 04:32:50 AM EDT

How do you pronounce that, again? - (jb4) - (17) - Oct. 22, 2001, 10:07:59 AM EDT

Re: How do you pronounce that, again? - (hnick) - (16) - Oct. 22, 2001, 12:56:06 PM EDT

I see...so the 'ch' is silent as in "fred"... - (jb4) - (14) - Oct. 22, 2001, 01:42:34 PM EDT

yacht -NT - (Silverlock) - (4) - Oct. 22, 2001, 02:07:37 PM EDT

Fair enough... - (jb4) - (3) - Oct. 22, 2001, 02:25:49 PM EDT

Yer rite :-) - (Silverlock) - (2) - Oct. 22, 2001, 02:58:50 PM EDT

Cthulhu._________________________OK OK but it's close! :-\ufffd -NT - (Ashton) - (1) - Oct. 22, 2001, 07:08:39 PM EDT

:-\ufffd yerself! -NT - (jb4) - Oct. 22, 2001, 10:03:14 PM EDT

Uhmm... I think you're overlooking something: - (CRConrad) - (3) - Oct. 22, 2001, 06:59:39 PM EDT

Yabut, so can we...equally poorly! - (jb4) - (2) - Oct. 22, 2001, 10:06:39 PM EDT

"emote muah" ... -NT - (CRConrad) - (1) - Oct. 23, 2001, 05:28:41 AM EDT

Not so! Below: "We are the superior beings!" -NT - (Ashton) - Oct. 23, 2001, 07:05:27 PM EDT

Reredundunduncey -- - (Ric Locke) - (4) - Oct. 24, 2001, 10:15:20 PM EDT

Besides, English in some ways includes French. -NT - (a6l6e6x) - Oct. 24, 2001, 10:19:24 PM EDT

Same ideas in David Brin's work. - (admin) - Oct. 25, 2001, 10:49:43 AM EDT

Re: Reredundunduncey -- - (jb4) - (1) - Oct. 25, 2001, 12:46:42 PM EDT

Brin is part of where I got the idea - (Ric Locke) - Oct. 25, 2001, 11:32:35 PM EDT

Thanks for the nod. :) -NT - (tseliot) - Oct. 24, 2001, 11:52:30 AM EDT

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