Bob Calco wrote:

> I'm not saying "let's not talk about these issues"--I'm just saying

> they are used as distractions when a good point is made on this

> issue.

And that is the viewpoint I hate. Issues are used as distractions? You

have it bass akward there Bob. The distraction is the event and it

erodes all forward movement into "issues."

When the nation sees though the game that your apart of I feel we can as

a nation help lead the world. Instead we lie, prod, fake, destroy, just

to look better then an opponent. Makes me sick when you see the plot

and everyone is caught up as an actor. I see most of the OT posters as

actors following the party script instead of looking objectively at the

presentations from both sides.

We haven't seen much presented. Unless I missed something the past

month? Who knows maybe it will all come raining down next week via the

convention like data in the Matrix? Probably not!

Stephen Russell

S.R. & Associates

Memphis, TN 38115

901.246-0159