Actually, now that you mention it, I was thinking just about an hour
ago about something she has always said, and how it relates to the
candidates.
Her view is that anyone -- particularly a parent -- should conduct
himself or herself in a way that, if the conduct were reported on teh
front page of tomorrow's paper, you would not mind having your
children read it.
The relevance here is that I constantly wonder how persons like Geo.
Bush and Hillary Clinton can behave as they do, knowing that their
children will see how they behave, how they act, how they talk, the
example they set.
We know that Bill Clinton -- as a father == was never constrained by
any sort of standard. That's a no brainer. And we know that Geo.
Bush apparently has no interest in the fact that his children and
grandchildren will see the historical record of his low standard of
conduct. Now, of course, we have Hillary. Just how does a person
lie and distort when s/he knows that her own child will see the
behavior. Parents (even those who are candidates) have to know that
the example they provide is seen by their children.
Amazes me, simply amazes me, for my basic character and behavior
standard is that just about everything wrong in any of our lives
stems from the degree and kind of our dishonesty. I'm no student of
the Ten Commandments, and probably could not recite from memory more
than maybe four or five of them, but I put the highest premium on
Honesty and integrity; and it galls me when a candidate (or any one)
flouts those traits. Without them, we are nothing.
--- In Dems2008@yahoogroups.com, lisa pallez <lisapallez@...> wrote:
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> I've read a lot about that coming . . . don't know to what extent
it has been created through hysteria or foresight. We know some
stores, especially in certain cities, are rationing flour and rice.
Time will tell. I'm just talking about the USA. But this is hitting
faster and getting more infotainment mention earlier than I imagined.
It's been coming for months.
>
> I'm so not trying to be cheeky, but your daughter can barely
survive in what manner, Ci? I fear the response will be bare bones
survival. Along with most others in the country.
>
> Btw, Ci, I think you and your family rock. Your wife's words to
others when she learned about an illness she had touched me deeply.
Doubtless it touched others, too. But no one here said a word. I
still have a draft I wrote about it when I was just coming out of
lurkiness here. She's quite the evolved person. Like you. And your
children.
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> citation502 <citation502@...> wrote:
Heard tonight that Sam's Club is actually limiting the amount of rice
> one can buy. Wow!! Several countries have ceased exports of
rice.
>
> The food issue is enormous, and I know it most thru my daughter in
> Central America. As a Peace corps volunteer, she is paid about
#200 a
> month. For her first two years, she was able to live comfortably
on
> that in the local economy. She says now however that she can no
longer
> survive on that $200 a month.
>
> And that figure is slightly above the per capita income in her
country.
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