RE: My political career

Well said Mr. JPB. My brother had to cut a deal with his English teacher,
who was dead set on failing him, so he could graduate High School. I think
his combined GPA was 1.9 (don't tell him I have told you all this) but he
has won awards for his art, he and his band won a lucrative record contract
with music skills he taught himself by ear, and he self taught himself PC
computer repair, programming, computer networking, web page design (back in
the day when no one knew what it was) and makes more money than most degreed
professionals out there and did it with no post high school formal
education. I am not against formal education but for those of you out there
who think that it is some sort of measurement of intelligence, well, start
up a conversation with the guy fixing your car or getting your computer back
on line or even raises the beef you eat and you will be humbled often.

I am shocked John O., that was a very well 'centered' text. What happened
to your marginal compassion? If that is twit-dom, well why is your view so
marginalized on the US political scene. If you characterize your opponent
as a twit and then lose to him, well, I let you center the conclusion to the
sentence. If your computer crashes and you are sitting there wringing your
hands, my twit brother can get it up and running for you, he too has a poor
academic and legal record.

Daniel

I'm going to sort of jump on the ball that Jim got rolling. Politicians
today are known mostly by the public through their television appearances.
They are slid in between Connie Chung and David Letterman. So what counts
most? And what are they compared to? Politicians today are judged
extensively according to their looks and their public speaking abilities.
An overweight president like Garfield would not stand a chance in today's
political arena, unless he dropped about a hundred pounds. I know some
highly intelligent people who have a tough time speaking to crowds. So
George W. stumbles on his words sometimes. It looks bad in contrast to
everyone else on the idiot box, all those practiced actors and
entertainers. It doesn't mean he's not smart. Not that I'm a huge Bush
fan. Not that I think of him as a genius.
Does any one else agree with me that in our land jester is king. Isn't
that scary? If it was up to me, politics would not be on TV, except for
the rare, serious national address. But I guess it is up to me, cause I
don't have a television and I will never been won over by a smooth, hip,
saxophone playing lady's man.

JPB

                    
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Received on Fri Apr 18 10:56:02 2003