"Charles, would you care to offer us your advice on what to do?  I have been beating my brains out and have come up with no solution (yet).  Infuriating though all the cautions about the bogus rules here may be, they can be and are enforced by the namby-pambys.   

 Zen, yes it may be that I am presenting synthesis, but it's easier for a foreigner to remove himself from the emotional attachment of Tammany Hall, and I really can't function when I try to think like I was someone else.  You have been fortunate, since the 1960s, that your conservative presidents have been men surrounded by good advisers.  Kennedy was a fool, but Nixon and Reagan turned out to be men of vision and foresight who spared us all the awful solitude of death by nuclear winter, eh?  Shame that the Bush guys fucked it all up.  Regards,  |   

 Back to you, Charles 

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