Subject: Re: [LPNY DISCUSS] Re: Goldwater Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 17:57:00 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Wed, 21 May 2003 07:15:25 EDT, crestonave@aol.com wrote: >=A0The socialist media had a field day with the "extremism in the= defense of >=A0liberty" comment back in 1964. By his own admission BMG was an= extremist! >=A0Damn right he was - he had an extreme love for liberty and= justice! Sure did . And he had the fatal handicap of being honest . One= famous incident was when his handlers told him he needed to wear his= glasses to look "presidential" but the lenses reflected the camera lights= so he had to wear a pair with the lenses removed . He joked about it= and had stuck his forefinger out thru the frames to show they were empty= . I been hearing a lot about recent confirmation of Friedrich= Hayek's observations in "The Road to Serfdom" , 1944 , on "Why the Worst= get on Top" that the most successful politicians are the most facile= liars . From the http://www.PoliticsOnline.com weekly newsletter : SCIENCE CONFIRMS: POLITICIANS LIE "Politicians need to be more honest about lying." - After intensive research, scientists have concluded that= politicians lie. In a study described in Britain's Observer newspaper, Glen Newey,= a political scientist at Britain's University of Strathclyde, concluded that lying is an important= part of politics in the modern democracy. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=3DoddlyEnoughNews&sto= ryID=3D2770228&src=3DeDialog/GetContent > Hard to call BMG a true libertarian though because of his >=A0interventionist anti-communist approach to foreign policy,= Still he was a >=A0great man and will always be a hero to me. Our history with Vietnam could certainly not have been worse= that Johnson's debacle . It may well have been more like Reagan's= challenge of the USSR . >=A0Tom --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 NEW : Newsletter : http://cosy.com/K/CoSy/NL200305.htm Ultimate Computing Environment : =A0http://cosy.com/K/CoSy.htm=A0 A WTC vision : http://cosy.com/CoSy/ConicAllConnect/ =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A02003/05/26 5:34:35 PM