Re: Newbie question on table design.

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 09:13:50 -0300
Message-ID: <4640694d$0$4053$9a566e8b@news.aliant.net>

Christopher Browne wrote:

> Quoth Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>:
>

>>>Canucks still obsessed with Nixon, no idea why, whereas still don't
>>>understand people worship Trudeau's memory, he accelerated the
>>>admittedly inevitable running of the country into the ground.  That
>>>was when a buck was a buck, men were men and so were the women.
>>>Sorry, off-topic again!
>>
>>Trudeau did a heck of a lot more harm than good. In fact, I am not
>>sure he did any good at all. I find his son entering politics kinda
>>bewildering.

>
>
> The thing is, Trudeau was an *interesting* character.
>
> In retrospect, he ignored economics when setting many other sorts of
> policy, which was very stupid.
>
> But when he opened his mouth and said things, they tended to be
> interesting things. The same has not been generally true of his
> successors.
>
> Clinton certainly had some problems; dallying with interns was hugely
> unprofessional. But if he were in town doing a talk, I'd be somewhat
> keen on hearing it, because he's an exceedingly accomplished speaker.
> There isn't another living ex-US president that's comparable, and few
> others. (And even those that wanted Dubya in have *got* to admit his
> ability to speak is impoverished in comparison...)
>
> Trudeau clearly had a lot of ideas, and interesting ones. That they
> didn't all turn out as hoped for does not make them uninteresting.

If you want to live in interesting times, by all means do so. I find it unkind to wish it on the rest of us, though. Received on Tue May 08 2007 - 07:13:50 CDT