NP; looks like the Dem Primary is kinda like Iceland Sparring.....

[Thomas Eckhardt]

Ray Easton schrieb:

> Thomas,
>
> No candidate who adopts the view that the leadership of this ongoing 
> fiasco should be subjected to criminal prosecution --  a view I happen 
> to share with you -- could possibly be elected President.  The general 
> tone of your rhetoric would seem to suggest that you would not 
> seriously dispute this.
>
No, not seriously. But I don't have to like this state of affairs.

> So what is your alternative?  It appears that we are to allow another 
> Republican administration because we cannot have what we want -- and 
> what I agree is right.
>
I do not have an alternative. I am disappointed in what I perceive as 
the failure of Democratic voters to demand that their candidates push 
for criminal prosecutions. I don't think I need to explain why I believe 
it is absolutely essential to hold the members of the Bush 
administration accountable for their numerous and well documented crimes 
against national and international law.

> But the election of another Republican President will cause very real 
> and serious suffering to many, many, many Americans.  This is just 
> fine with you, it appears.  Your moral concern for the welfare of 
> human beings seems to only apply to *some* of them.  In particular,  
> it stops at the American shoreline.  I find this kind of selective 
> morality appalling, and personally very offensive, since I, as an 
> American, belong to that group of human beings that you do not deign 
> to be worthy of concern.

I did not mean to offend you or anybody else and I apologize for the 
overly polemical tone of my postings. I have absolutely no idea, 
however, how you can come to the conclusion that I am arguing in favour 
of another Republican Presidency and that the welfare of US-Americans is 
of no concern to me. I don't wish another Republican President on anyone.

Thomas