----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 10:00 PM Subject: Re: Defeat in Victory
> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 5:12 PM > Subject: Re: Defeat in Victory > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Andrew Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> > > Sent: Sunday, December 04, 2005 7:57 AM > > Subject: Defeat in Victory > > > > > >>I hate how terrorism and the war in Iraq have come to dominate > >>debate > >>so. I notice that Gautam and JDG rarely post these days, and there > >>is > >>no-one to staunchly dispute the centrist viewpoints we all seem to > >>espouse (Dan excepted). > > > > FWIW, by US political standards, I am clearly to the left of center. > > Taking surveys from the British sites that were referenced by the > > Culture > > mailing list, I find myself very very slightly to the right of the > > British > > center (IIRC, on a scale that went from -10 to 10, I was 0.3 toward > > the > > conservative....as opposed to many Culturenicks who were in the -5 > > to -9 > > range (towards leftist). > > > > Where were you on the other axis with regard to others? Left/right > isn't everything. I was on the libertarian side....I think about -4 or so. > > > > Indeed, from my perspective, most of the political posts here that > > are not > > my own, over the last few months, fit reasonably well into the > > Michael > > Moore wing of the Democratic party. > > > > I'm not sure whether you are trying to paint others here as farther > left than they are I guess I'm saying that "blood for oil" is/has been a view of Michael Moore. I see it repeated many times here. I see myself as just about the only one left who has argued with Brin's view that GWB (and his dad) have betrayed the US and are/were pawns of Saudi Arabia. Now, I know there are issues on which I'm clearly more liberal than you. I recognize gun control as one. > Perhaps you have been ignoring the polls over the last year or more?:) Which polls indicate that I'm to the right of most Americans on significant issues? Maybe abortion, but depending on the question, I can be in the middle or slightly right of center on that issue. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
