lawrnk wrote:Well, I was referring to a couple specific evil people like Kennedy actually.
I disagree with people who say that Apple architecture is superior to the X86 PC. I don't disagree with boxer, and Hillary, I abhor them and feel like I need to take a shower after uttering their names.
I think Nitrogen brings out a valid point, polarizing rhetoric and name caling isn't the way get things done. This has nothing to do with compromise. but pursuasion.
Ronald Reagan understood this better than any modern day president, and although he was uncompromising in his stands and beliefs, he knew it was important to speak to those of the opposing views with respect and to address issues which he could find common ground. As a result he invented a whole knew political identity "the Reagan Democrat". Before Reagan the Republicans were almost irrelevant as a National party. Reagan also used the technique of being amicable, but uncomprimising in his relationships with the Eastern Bloc.
Among those he called his friends were Gorbochoff and Tip O'Niel
I never cared for JFK. but i will use something he said to help convince those who liked him to see from my poit of view. In politics you don't need to persuade those who agrree with you. It more important to see eye to eye with those that don't
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