[Rhodes22-list] Can a girlyman be a sailor

[stan]

thanks Ron,

I have read that biography - via recorded books.

I am trying to talk my son out of voting for Nader as the lesser of three
evils and get him to settle for the lesser of two evils but he is from
another generation and hopefully, they will get it right.

stan/gbi
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ronald Lipton" <rlipton at earthlink.net>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>; "stan"
<stan at rhodes22.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 1:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Can a girlyman be a sailor


> Stan,
>
>    Thank you very much for taking the time to write your note. I have
> grown
> increasingly cynical about politics, the power all seems to be held by
> the groups and businesses with the money to buy PR, and not just
> ads but the media themselves.  Given the backbiting, the politics of
> personal destruction, the need to kowtow to contributers, I don't see
> how we even get the small fraction of quality politicians that we have.
> But it seems that the fraction is getting smaller.   There is always hope
> ...
> I guess.
>
>    By the way, you can get an interesting perspective on the politics of
> Texas and the nation in the second volume of the Lyndon Johnson
> biography by Robert Caro.  The Oil companies and Brown and Root
> (now a division of Haliburton) figure prominently in his first stolen
> senatorial primary as well as his subsequent career.  The more things
> change the more they remain the same.
>
> Ron Lipton
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