From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Feb 3 9:50: 5 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A26237B407 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:50:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from williams.mc.vanderbilt.edu (williams.mc.Vanderbilt.Edu [160.129.208.222]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8003A43F3F for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:50:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drew@poured.net) Received: (qmail 10745 invoked by uid 19192); 3 Feb 2003 17:49:58 -0000 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Political implications (was: oh my god the nasa shuttle blewup) From: Drew Raines X-GPG-Key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=index&search=0x727A9DD2 X-Face: Ek\(yS@=Hu([f%*[p\im]h!vV9)Q,))RdBX2[/7n3d19Bd<"=p-p(%qv7#aZ|0xF!CH Ztz,c&:f"9o-YPuifF0!OXRxOsE6,#Kw;cYA7~F:Oo]JDabP:hZzd\uG=2i*cc#Nq~?4=j}puM IZDUC7@igVY*uO5CHO^y$.UzK:QRx|=r*^}>grFX;#JtE)?B["?'L;P?;=5/ba=UI3"A[Cd8)} ni~vY8NamGr\8JOY>g;LCE{p]TJ (Brad Knowles's message of "Sun, 2 Feb 2003 02:38:16 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code, sparc-sun-solaris2.9) References: <3417F02C-35FF-11D7-9E46-0003937C0B34@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Brad Knowles writes: > At 8:07 AM -0800 2003/02/01, John Martinez wrote: > >>> Seven soles lost in the disaster. Who cares about their shoes? > Moreover, just exactly how is Bush going to handle four > simultaneous crises -- He'll delegate this new one to NASA; what more would he do? This isn't a sensitive political disaster his administration needs to clean up; it's a plain ol' tragedy which people will mourn and recover from. Technology will benefit from what happened and the shuttle will fly again. > IMO, this is the end of his presidency. He tried to do too many > things at the same time, and go after too many old enemies at the > same time. I'm reading more into your comments than you probably wanted anyone to, however... I realize Bush is a politician, but why must every last decision he make be political? Perhaps he actually cares about the security of the United States and its inhabitants. I'm as cynical as the next guy, but maybe his efforts are actually in everyone's best interests and not just his own. Clinton apparently brainwashed the world into thinking every United States president is morally corrupt and self-serving. At worst, Bush has proven himself to be a determined man of action. I'll take that any day over recalcitrance or patronizing lip service. -Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message