Re: RAT "What we deserve"

[InTheLime@aol.com]

In a message dated 12/12/00 10:57:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
schedlinski@yahoo.com writes:
<< I like the idea of  "counting every ballot"
 but feel that to frame the argument in those terms is
 essentially a lie, and one of the reasons I didn't
 vote for gore is that he's a liar and I don't want to
 see a liar win. sorry. >>

EVERY politician is a "liar" to some extent, as are most (if not all) artists 
(it is exploration of the lie that encourages full realization of "the truth" 
of any story)...in point of fact, I'd love to meet the person on this list 
out there who thinks they have never told a lie.  I'm a pretty honest and 
forth right person (I call the insurance companies and say "I did it!"), but 
I'll admit that I do actually lie with some regularity (i.e. when I don't 
pick up the phone because caller i.d. tells me that it's someone I don't want 
to talk to, that is a lie of avoidance; or when I tell someone "it will be 
all right" when I have no damned idea if it will be or not, that is a lie of 
faith).  Casting stones from the playground like that one just brings us back 
to the "nya, nya" mentality of "we get what we deserve."  Personally, I try 
to choose more politically sound decisions than "he's human" for voting or 
not voting for any candidate.  Personally I wish Clinton could have run 
again.  Now he's a GREAT liar (like most of the great presidents of U.S. 
history).
-- Aileen McCulloch
Vagabond Acting Troupe
Morgantown, PA