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- From: allen@serval.net.wsu.edu (Jonny Allen)
- Subject: Re: "No Wavering on Gay Soldiers"
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.205034.10244@serval.net.wsu.edu>
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- Reply-To: allen@serval.net.wsu.edu (Jonny Allen)
- Organization: Washington State University
- References: <1993Jan22.151129.5392@dvorak.amd.com> <1993Jan27.121605.1315@uoft02.utoledo.edu>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 20:50:34 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.121605.1315@uoft02.utoledo.edu>, sbrack@jupiter (Steve Brack) writes:
- |> 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.
-
- I agree with Steve, and IMO it can be a Good Thing, depending which side of
- an issue you are supporting. For instance, my congressional rep, who happens
- to be Speaker Foley, noted (in the press) that most of the calls and letters
- he it getting support the ban, but that he sides with the president because
- "he believes lifting the ban is the right thing to do."
-
- In this case I like Foley's judgment better than the judgment of most of his
- constituents.
-
- -jonny
-