Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ubc-vision.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!ubc-vision!mokhtar From: mokhtar@ubc-vision.UUCP (Farzin Mokhtarian) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Who is left and who is right? Message-ID: <27@ubc-vision.UUCP> Date: Sat, 21-Dec-85 17:36:42 EST Article-I.D.: ubc-visi.27 Posted: Sat Dec 21 17:36:42 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Dec-85 21:21:17 EST Organization: UBC Computational Vision Lab, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 21 >> To be fair, why not "Left Wing, Liberal Senator Kennedy" ?? >> Bob Brown {...ihnp4!akgua!rjb} > why not? > And why not say: "right-wing reactionary President Reagan"? > That would be saying it like it is. > I am not embarrassed to call myself a liberal or leftist. > tim sevener whuxn!orb I would not be embarrased to call myself a liberal or leftist either if I believed that those terms described me accurately. However, I think these terms are over-simplified labels given to people for the sake of convenience. I believe Senator Kennedy expressed the same idea in his interview with Ted Koppel on ABC's Nightline on Dec. 20. Farzin Mokhtarian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When you and I behind the Veil are past, Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last"