[at-l] Was Politician bashing - no more trail related

[TrailR at aol.com (TrailR@aol.com)]

In a message dated 10/19/2004 11:14:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time,  
stephensadams@hotmail.com writes:

National  politics affects all of us.  If I am to assume discussing politics 
is  inappropriate on a (mostly) hiking list, isn't it also inappropriate to  
discuss hiking on a (mostly) political list, where most don't  hike?
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Yes



Steve

 
 
Many things are innapropriate on this list, but it doesn't stop people from 
saying them. Politics as a tie in to the environment would have been  a 
better post.
 
You never mentioned hiking, the wilderness, or anything useful that you  
could 
have tied to either of the candidates. What you mentioned I counted as  
unimportant 
rambling by someone who was frustrated at anothers remarks, and was
retaliating.  You seemed to focus on petty who did what and when  things (in 
the 
military, and college). 
I was in the military for 6 years, and nothing you said related to their  
serbving or 
not serving was important to me. Their stand on the environment, alternate  
fuels, 
air, water and land pollution, saving species from extinction. Now THAT  
would get 
my attention. Life is too short to waste time on where Bush was in Alabama  
(maybe 
he was hiking the Pinhoti trail!), etc..
 
 
hotdog
I served, I hike