tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445632.post3669689363114487835..comments2024-01-20T11:56:48.682+01:00Comments on WindRose Hotel: Liberal or Conservative?S.R. Piccolihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15622464895435470724noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445632.post-53442057030002798862009-01-22T22:09:00.000+01:002009-01-22T22:09:00.000+01:00Hi MoR, I thought you might find it interesting th...Hi <I>MoR</I>, I thought you might find it interesting the way a friend of mine (Cassie) commented to this post on FaceBook (hope she doesn't mind if I quote her here ...):<BR/><BR/><I>"[...] It's probably so hard to place on either side because it could have come straight from Ayn Rand's theory of Objectivism. In Objectivism man works towards his own survival and any shortcuts are an infringement on another man's basic rights. In this philosophy it is the "risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things", the producers who come up top as the true heroes of mankind. [...] The passage also underlines in essence in which Europeans differ from Americans, and something they will never understand, since - solely on basis of belonging to some collective - they feel entitled to some shortcut, preferable arbitrated by the state."</I><BR/><BR/>I think she hit the center of the mark.<BR/>CheersS.R. Piccolihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15622464895435470724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445632.post-4050478952194849622009-01-22T17:35:00.000+01:002009-01-22T17:35:00.000+01:00Is that a liberal or conservative point of view? ....<I>Is that a liberal or conservative point of view? ... impossibility of giving a uniquely satisfying answer to that question</I><BR/><BR/>In fact for me the answer is: none of the two, probably because these words by Obama have actually no colour, no party. They appear to me to call for unity of efforts and daring, something that can make sense to all the American people, to both the conservative and the non conservative.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445632.post-24228438047354341972009-01-22T12:27:00.000+01:002009-01-22T12:27:00.000+01:00Let's hope for the better, Tom ...Let's hope for the better, Tom ...S.R. Piccolihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15622464895435470724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33445632.post-58460102037941533662009-01-21T20:51:00.000+01:002009-01-21T20:51:00.000+01:00I voted for McCain, not so much because I thought ...I voted for McCain, not so much because I thought he was such a strong candidate, but because I didn't know where Obama wanted to go. "Change" alone wasn't enough for me.<BR/><BR/>I'm beginning to think that there's a big difference between Obama the candidate, whose job was to get elected, and Obama the president, who's job is to run the country. That can only be good.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com