Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/08/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]True, they usually don't do anything they said they would do while campaigning, and usually do things they didn't say they would after they are elected. Jeffery Smith New Orleans, LA -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+jls=runbox.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Ridings Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 1:06 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: RE: [Leica] Feel Lucky, Punk?: Expired Fuji Film FS On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Jeffery Smith wrote: > My beef is that the Republicans and Democrats feel that they must hold > mutually exclusive views, which puts them at opposite poles, i.e., way > to the left or way to the right. I don't know much about Republicans or Democrats. Been gone too long and I don't want to get involved in political controversy. I just have a tidbit of curiosa. The Democrats and Republicans are described as having polar views (does that make them "bipolar" :) ) ... but from a European perspective, it doesn't really appear that way. They seem to be pretty much cut from the same pattern. The issues seem to boil down to personality contests and not anything substantial. But back to the "polar extremes". There is a Swedish party that visited the Democratic convention. Parties do this as a courtesy thing by invitation. The Swedish party that visited the convention is what we regard as part of the right wing block. They would never accept a label of being "left". At best, they are categorized as "middle", but there are only right wing parties in the middle, no left wing parties. Daniel _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information