mark@tikal.UUCP (Mark McWiggins) (09/01/84)
[Tortured logic....] >>> Lord help us all if we elect Mondale and he treats the soviets as he is >>> currently behaving towards Reagan! This ludicrous round of "You're going >>> to do this!" "I am not!" is childish in the least, and aggravating to >>> all who have to listen. If, however, Mondale got elected and talked like >>> that to Chernenco (sp?) we would be at war tomorrow! All those who think >>> a Soviet leader can afford to let an American President call him a liar >>> in the world press, mail $20,000,000,000.00 to the address below.... No. I refuse. What can the Soviet do about it? Blow up the world? That seems a little extreme.... >> Come now; Reagan's already called them far worse! An "evil empire", if >> I recall. In fact, in one of his first speeches as president, Reagan >> said the Soviets would "tell any lie" or cheat or steal or whatever they >> needed to do to have their way. > Perhaps it is my memory that is bad, Mark, but as I recall, he has always > said those things about the "USSR", the "Soviets" or some other general > political group. I repeat, calling the man a liar will cause a war. If > you disagree, I will expect to see your check in the mail tomorrow. Hey, > how is this for a novel political solution? We meet between the buildings > here at *HIGH NOON* and settle this debate with our fists? [For those not > in the know, Mark and I have never met--we just work for the same company.] We met today. I don't care to fight; I don't see how that would settle our disagreement anyhow. Unless I agreed to recant my position depending on the outcome: "OK, since Tom has beaten me to a bloody pulp, I now agree with him totally." Fat chance. >> >> Reagan is an idiot; I think Mondale is a little smarter, but the way he's >> run his campaign so far I wonder. I'm tempted to write in Bill the Cat. >> I suppose Reagan will be reelected, but I doubt that he'll find his second >> term nearly so satisfying as the first. I just hope we live through it. >> >> ....uw-beaver!teltone!tikal!mark > Meadow party forever!!! Seriously, though, if Reagan is all that dangerous, > why have we lived through his first term? I seem to recall these same > critisisms before the last election. If he truely wanted war we would > have had it by now... I never said that Reagan WANTED war. I just think that his military policies make war more likely. He apparently disagrees. > Now, consider the GOP hierarchy. They would *NEVER* allow a crazy man to be > elected, it would be bad for the party image. The GOP hierarchy has no control over who is elected; the people do. I never said Reagan was "crazy", I called him an idiot. That's an exaggeration for "too dumb to be President". Read "Ronald Reagan's Reign of Error". > Deity, I wish Anderson was running again! So do I. In Mondale's place. Obviously Teltone doesn't require ideological conformity of its employees ... :-) -- ---------------- ....uw-beaver!teltone!tikal!mark