From: nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu (Nathan Engle)
Subject: Re: ENGLE (WELFARE..LIBERALS)
Summary: At least you watch the show
Organization: Psych Department, Indiana University
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 16:09:05 GMT

ged1@crux2.cit.cornell.edu (Gregory E. Daigle) writes:
>Engle, okay, so at least you are not like that kid who said "Rush Limbaugh
>sucks.

    I'll take that as a compliment.

>Your main food for thought, howver, is similar to that of most of today's 
>liberals' in that your discourse revolves around refuting points made by 
>the conservative pact.

    Yes, a regretable shortcoming. I feel compelled to refute what people 
say rather than making up things I wish they'd said and refuting those.

>To me this suggests an inability to express original thought.

    Perhaps so. My mind is filled with the thoughts of others; things I've
read and things I've heard. I regret that I retain so little of what I've
learned, and I freely admit that at this point it's difficult even for me 
to sort out which thoughts belong to which source.

>Your wait and seee attitude suggests that you are a follower and not a 
>leader in that you are willing to trust someone based on what you admit 
>to be unknown policies.

    I agree that I'm certainly a follower, but I don't believe that I 
place any trust in our President-elect based on unknown policies. By the 
same token, however, I am much more reluctant than you to make those 
admittedly unknown policies the basis of any criticism. I am fully 
confident that in time Mr Clinton will provide us with far more 
substantial bases for criticism, and perhaps I am only more patient 
than you in that I am content to wait.

>Maybe you'll eventually be able to think for yourself...

    That is certainly one of my goals.

>you had better hope that Bill can because you have a lot of blind trust 
>in him.

    Following the advice of Machiavelli, I trust Bill Clinton to act in 
his own self-interest. Further than that I am not prepared to go.

>I should imagine that your next response will once again be an attack 
>on my written word.  

    Attack? I never attack. Like Rush Limbaugh, I react. I defend. I do not 
attack.

>Really, Engle, why don't you come up with a little more than the "you're 
>wrong" attitude that has been so prevalant for the last twelve years? 

    That's a very good point, and I thank you for pointing out what is 
certainly one of my worst character flaws. I really do strive to make my 
comments constructive, and I'm confident that your advice will be of 
incalculable value in correcting my many flaws.

>You want us all to be entranced by the wonderment that Bill will bring 
>but if your attitude is at all indicative of Bill's then we are all 
>going to be in some serious hurt.  I guess that it is good that Clinton 
>is not a true liberal because as evidenced by your discourse this could 
>become a nation in which we all go about telling each other that he/she 
>is wrong.

    I agree that it's good that Clinton is not a "true liberal". I also 
thank you for the reiteration of your excellent advice; I promise that 
if in the future I notice you saying something wrong I'll attempt to 
refrain from bringing it to your attention.

>By the way, keep watching the show...It may  be on for an extended period
> many can compete with Letteman.  You'll still be to hear him though.  See
> what a little thought can bring as opposed to simply reaction.

    Unfortunately I have no VCR and Rush'd TV show runs at 1:35AM in this 
area. I am a regular listener to Rush's radio program and I intend to 
continue in that respect.

> I await with Shakespeare's proverbial bated-breath to see what you might
> come up with this time...I imagine that once again, there will be a lot
> of ">" delineating my text.

    I congratulate you on your foresight.

--
Nathan Engle                        Software Juggler
Psychology Department               Indiana University
nate@psygate.psych.indiana.edu      nengle@copper.ucs.indiana.edu
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