On Fri, 27 May 2005 02:04:54 GMT, james wrote:

On Thu, 26 May 2005 14:45:02 -0400, Dave Hall
wrote:

etc, etc; and these rights and freedoms are guaranteed -REGARDLESS- of
the opinions of any special-interest group, EVEN IF they represent the
majority, and EVEN IF you are a member of that "majority".

But if your guy loses on election day, tough cookies.
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Hello it is not tough cookies. The president does not have carte
blanche to just crush those that did not vote for him into the dirt.

No, but if the congress, and the judiciary are in sync with him.......


G W Bush is not the president of republicans. He is the president of
all political parties.

Even if they hate his guts. Bitter sweet if I may say so......


Any president has to realize that he must weigh
the needs of all the people of this country and not beholden to his
party.

Any political party owes their constituents first, and others
secondarily. If the majority of voters suddenly decide that they want
liberals redefining the constitution, declaring that gay marriage is
ok, but religious expression in public is not, dispensing of aspirin
in public schools requires parental consent (Mostly to absolve
liability), but dispensing a condom or providing abortion services is
fine without parental consent, and all sort of other nonsensical
ideological trends is what they want, then they can vote for those who
support it. Right now the majority of people, who care enough about
such issues, has decreed that that is not the way they want the
country to head.


That is where the partizen politics have degraded in this
country over the past 40 yrs.

Well both sides are to blame for that. Neither side wants to risk
political defeat in order to achieve compromise. There is also a great
amount of ideological passion on both sides. Both sides believe
strongly in "their" ideals, and believe equally that the other side is
horribly wrong for the future of the country.

Dave
"Sandbagger"
http://home.ptd.net/~n3cvj