Making Cliff notes for politics

Subject: Making Cliff notes for politics
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Oct 02 - 04:51 PM

So many of the writers here are excellent and can do better with this germ of an idea.
The elegance of simplicity / Common demoninators / Cliff notes ; sometimes clarifies some rather complex issues.

Example

All politics are local

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Bob is a big powerful guy with lots of money.

Gary is scary and lives in relative squalor.

Bob learned that his neighbor Gary had a gun collection as well as an ammunition shed in the backyard.

Bob attacks Gary to prevent gun play and bloodshed as well as improving his own property values.

Gary disappears but Gary's family in the next town finds out that Bob attacked Gary.

Bob has great confidence that there will be no repercussions or revenge since he does not recognize local laws.

Bob disregards the fact that he is of a different religion than the Gary clan.

Some people think Bob is being over confident,

but Bob knows "might makes right".


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Wisdom from Bush is as rare as a concession speech after an Iraqi election.

Subject: RE: Making Cliff notes for politics
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 16 Oct 02 - 04:58 PM

"Cliff notes"? Not a term I've come across. What are the ground rules?

Subject: RE: Making Cliff notes for politics
From: katlaughing
Date: 16 Oct 02 - 06:54 PM

Cliff Notes are small booklets which contain a kind of "reader's digest condensed version" or synopsis of usually the Classics, for students to cram when they've not slogged through the real thing.*bg*

To keep it even more succint:

Daddy Bush wielded a big club. Didn't follow through with his swing. Saddam continued.

Clinton followed through on his schwing, but it was a different sort of "club."

Then, along came Baby Bush, strings attached to his handlers, Cheney and Rumsveld (sp) who plan to follow through where Daddy Bush left off, though one doubts that will satisfy their megolomania.

If one follows the "Choose Your Own Adventure" series which offer different endings, choices might include:

Conclusions:

1) the world goes to hell in a handbasket
2) Cheney et all get found out, slapped down, made to toe the line and lay off
3) Saddam opens the doors and destroys all of his WMDs, making Cheney et al jobless, as they wouldn't know what to do if peace bit them in the arse
4) people who believe in peace prevail around the world and work it out!

Subject: RE: Making Cliff notes for politics
From: Gareth
Date: 16 Oct 02 - 07:49 PM

are Cliff notes a coruption of "Crib Notes" Uk English - synopsis to revise for exams ?

Gareth

Subject: RE: Making Cliff notes for politics
From: Mark Clark
Date: 16 Oct 02 - 08:05 PM

No, Cliff's Notes are a series of booklets commonly sold in college book stores that quickly provide what are likely to be examination answers without the student needing to actually read the work or subject being studied.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: Making Cliff notes for politics
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 16 Oct 02 - 08:12 PM

That's what cribs are.

Subject: RE: Making Cliff notes for politics
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Oct 02 - 09:02 PM

The right to life, execution king of Texas, son of a former one term President (who was also the former director of CIA )- miraculously and democraticly wins the presidential vote in the Supream Court. In an effort to end war by waging war, George Herbert Walker Bush has a ready made cabinet left over from his dad's term that selflessly accept respondsibility to blame others for the foul ups to come.
The shining star and gospel singer of the administration, Ashcroft lost his last election to a dead guy. He now has power that J Edgar Hoover only dreamed of and scares the hell out of the Senate.