WOW, look at this engine

"Corky Scott" wrote ...
On Tue, 31 May 2005 20:36:41 -0700, "Richard Isakson"
wrote:

What did Gore do to 'create' the internet? Nothing.

Rich

This turns out to be a false impression Rich. In case you missed it
I'm reposting this relevant information:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7746308/

Corky,

Don't the verbs that are used in these articles bother you? He promoted, he
argued, he urged, he talked ... These aren't doing verbs and it's not like
there was opposition to what he was saying. There's no great political
courage here. He grabbed a safe topic and made it a center of his political
career. Later, running for president, he promoted himself for taking this
safe position. As you can see from the discussion going on in this group,
that's not the kind of thing that impresses people.

Rich

Earlier, Richard Isakson wrote:

...These aren't doing verbs...

I don't believe that. Talking, urging, supporting, those are what
politicians do; even the ones who are acually doing what we want them
to do. They are the tools of trade in politics; they are part and
parcel of representing a constituency in what is left of a
representative government.

To my way of thinking, looking for more concrete actions like "build,"
"invent," "develop," "make," or "modify" in the world of politics is
akin to looking for verbs like "represent," "promote," and "envision"
in the world of rough carpentry. Sure, there are going to be many that
do it, but I doubt that it features prominently in the job description.

Here's another tack that might be fertile ground for discussion: Would
we have sent a man to the moon if it were not for Jack Kennedy? I think
that it would be safe to say that without strong Presidental support
for the lunar program it is more than a little likely that NASA's
detractors in the House and Senate would have quashed the whole thing.
And of course, it opens the floor to discussions about whether Kennedy
ought to be credited with having "invented the Saturn 5..."

Thanks, and best regards to all,

Bob K.
http://www.hpaircraft.com