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- From: sbrack@jupiter (Steve Brack)
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- Subject: Re: "No Wavering on Gay Soldiers"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.121605.1315@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 17:16:04 GMT
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- tdbear@dvorak.amd.com (Thomas D. Barrett) writes:
- : In article <AWOOTTEN.93Jan21160942@slacktide.cv.nrao.edu> awootten@slacktide.cv.nrao.edu (Al Wootten) writes:
- : >As president, he should stand behind his beliefs as forthrightly as he did
- : >as a candidate.
- :
- : Bush and my ex-rep in CA Tom McClintock practiced this and I hated
- : their philosophy. Our elected officals represent US, not their
- : personal views. Yes, we elect them based on their platforms, but that
- : does not mean that they have the right to vote against the will of the
- : people.
-
- At the federal level, the government functions not as a democracy,
- but as a republic, where we elect leaders & trust them to use their
- judgement.
- :
- : Clinton, as well as Bush, is welcome to publically come out in favor
- : of one program or another, but it is ethically wrong for them to force
- : their ideology on the rest of the nation if the rest of the nation
- : wants something else.
-
- The nation wanted Clinton to make presidential decisions.
- Clinton is making presidential decisions.
-
- : That is the main thing that is wrong with
- : politics now. We have a bunch of old queens sitting on seats of power
- : and dispensing their tired old beliefs. It is the PEOPLE that they
- : represent who should have the voice... especially in major policy
- : decisions.
-
- And the people do have the voice. They are the ones who elect these
- "tired old queens." If you don't like the politics of the current
- government, elect a new one. You can try to influence the opinion
- of those you elected, but, in the end, they make the decision, just
- as you chose them to.
-
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- Steven S. Brack | "Love one another." | sbrack@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu
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