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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: BYE FRITZ
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Date: Sat, 17-Nov-84 19:45:31 EST
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It's really no surprise that Mondale lost.  The US has a long tradition
of rejecting decent intelligent people in favour of those that don't
make them feel intellectually uncomfortable, or in favour of stage
presence.  Look at Stevenson (3 times including his loss to Kennedy),
Humphrey, McGovern.  Then they compound the folly by re-electing the
same person AFTER they have had a chance to see what he does or does
not do (Eisenhower, Nixon!!, Reagan!!!).

This is a country that yearns for international respect, and knows
how to get it only with guns and threats.  It is also a country
pretends to support individual liberty, but shows that liberty to be
OK only for itself.  As quoted earlier here "The US has no friends,
only interests."
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Martin Taylor
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