HEllo Bob,   
      
   First, been wonderin' where ya been stranger!  Hadn't seen   
   you appear anywhere in Fido for a couple weeks.  Was just   
   beginning to wonder about you.   
      
   On Sat 2012-Feb-25 06:05, BOB KLAHN (1:123/140) wrote to RICHARD WEBB:   
      
   DD>> Same deal on term limits for elected officials. Many of them seem to   
   DD>> think that holding elected office is a lifetime sinecure. Which   
   DD>> certainly is *NOT* what the framers of the Constitution envisioned.   
      
    RW> OF course, but then the framers of the constitution never   
    RW> anticipated professional politicians.  Their thought was   
    RW> that average folks would seek office as well as vote.   
    RW> Their efforts were geared toward eliminating a professional   
    RW> perpetual ruling class.   
      
   BK>  Don't be so sure. Many of them were professional politicians, or    
   BK> became such. And many wanted George Washington to be King, not    
   BK> President.   
      
   True, which Washington refused.  Others were resistant to   
   the king idea.  YOu did have two groups among them, and one   
   faction did wish to eliminate the professional politician.   
   In fact, that whole inside group sort of resembles todays   
   libertarians, ideologically all over the map on a lot of   
   questions.  SEe LEe and I and our discussion of the   
   elimination of slavery and the attending debate during the   
   time of drafting of the constitution earlier this thread   
   .  i guess the right term could be ideologically   
   inconsistent .   
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
   ... Criminals love Gun Control.  It makes their job safer.   
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