[Info-vax] VSI and Process Software announcement

[David Froble]

Dirk Munk wrote:
> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <4zYGz.718697$lr2.237820 at fx16.ams1>, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl>
>> writes:
>>
>>> And it has been caused by the people of the US itself, by electing a
>>> Democratic president, and then electing a Republican majority in both
>>> houses of congress, and that majority had only one agenda, blocking
>>> everything Obama wanted. Then indeed nothing gets done.
>>
>>> Bernie is a great man, but that doesn't mean he would have been a great
>>> president. Look at Jimmy Carter, also a great man, but not a very good
>>> president. However, he certainly is the best ex-president the US ever
>>> had, he used his position as ex-president of the US all over the world
>>> to bring peace.
>>
>> Wasn't Carter's main problem that he didn't have a majority in Congress?
> 
> It's a long time ago, but it seems to me Jimmy Carter was just to much 
> of a decent guy to be an effective president. That may sound strange, 
> but a president sometimes (often?) has to make decisions he really 
> doesn't like to make.

Jimmy is a decent man, that had a hard time imagining that there are some very 
un-decent people in this world.

>>> A highly respectable Republican statesman like Colin Powell can only
>>> describe Trump as "A national disgrace, and an international pariah".
>>
>> Colin Powell would have probably won the Republican nomination, right?
>>
> 
> No, the Republican party has been spreading so much BS the past years, 
> that a moderate and intelligent man like Colin Powell has no chance 
> against the bunch of extremist idiots we have seen as Republican 
> candidates. The Republicans have been stirring up their potential voters 
> to a level that they lost control all together, and so we got The Donald.

Yep!  Donald out extremed the rest, which is exactly what they deserved, for 
starting the same 30+ years ago.

I have a friend in Utah, and we sometimes discuss things.  There have been 
several instances where he's mentioned his "concern" to me.  This year it's 
"they are going to take away our guns".  Now, regardless which side of this 
topic you support, what I've noticed is that the republicans have been using 
"scare tactics" for a long time with some people, and it's getting them the 
votes they crave.  This is no way to run anything.