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Posted by Tony Cooper on 10/20/05 15:56
On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 13:32:11 +0900, tm <tm@tmoero.invalid> wrote:
>In article <uu5el1tgao5m33td9dolkvo8tiqueoa477@4ax.com>,
> Tony Cooper <tony_cooper213@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 23:49:54 -0400, wd <n@1.invalid> wrote:
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>> >I prefer to avoid politics on newsgroups because the conversations get
>> >out of hand too often. I suggest reading something like
>> >commondreams.org. Subscribe to their newsletter and you can get headlines
>> >from many different news sources in your inbox. Not everything there is
>> >good, but
>> > you can see some alternative viewpoints by reading it. Also read the
>> > writings of the founding fathers and compare them to what the Republican
>> > party is doing.
>>
>> The last line of the above paragraph could have been written during
>> the administration of the first Republican president: Abraham
>> Lincoln. It was as valid then as it is now.
>
>Technically, Jefferson was the first Republican Party president.
>Lincoln was the first president of the modern-day Republican Party.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Democratic-Republican_Party
>http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/tj3.html
I understand that, but even political historians have trouble deciding
who was the "first" Republican or the "first" Democrat. It depends
entirely on accepting the party the person belonged to as being the
same party that is now described by that name. It isn't just the
label of the party that is considered.
Stating that the aims of the current party - whichever one - are not
consistent with the aims of original party members, or the aims of the
so-called "founding fathers", is irrelevant. We really wouldn't want
a political party to keep the same aims for over 200 years. The
conditions have changed, so the aims should change.
--
Tony Cooper
Orlando, FL
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