Jack’s Winning Words 5/12/08
“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.” (Disreali) This 19th century British Conservative was able to put aside party loyalty and build a bridge to the Liberals for the benefit of his country. We need people like that today…Bridge Builders. ;-) Jack

FROM A.M. IN MICHIGAN: Kinda reminds me of the 1st step of AA.
We admitted we were powerless over alcohol - that our lives had become unmanageable.

FROM PR J.S. IN MICHIGAN: Have you read his biography? He was pretty partisan in a very partisan time.

FROM MOLINER, C.F.: Note that is is the CONSERVATIVES who are willing to build the brifge.
REPLY: Ha!

MORE FROM C.F.: You've devoted your life to building bridges and I commen you for it. I'm proud to name you as a friend. I'm glad you fo it because I don't have the tempement for it. If people don't want to be led, I don't try to lead them (except sometimes).

FROM CJL IN OHIO: Do you remember.."An old man going a lone highway came at evening cold & gray to a chasm vast & deep & wide thru which was flowing a sullen tide"...? It's called "The Bridge Builder". Fits right in with your thought
The Bridge Builder by Allen Dromgoole
An old man, going a lone highway,Came, at the evening, cold and gray,To a chasm, vast, and deep, and wide,Through which was flowing a sullen tide.
The old man crossed in the twilight dim;The sullen stream had no fears for him;But he turned, when safe on the other side,And built a bridge to span the tide.
"Old man," said a fellow pilgrim, near,"You are wasting strength with building here;Your journey will end with the ending day;You never again must pass this way;You have crossed the chasm, deep and wide-Why build you a bridge at the eventide?"
The builder lifted his old gray head:"Good friend, in the path I have come," he said,"There followeth after me today,A youth, whose feet must pass this way.
This chasm, that has been naught to me,To that fair-haired youth may a pitfall be.He, too, must cross in the twilight dim;Good friend, I am building the bridge for him."

FOM L.K. IN OHIO: Agreed, from one side to the other......from Rush Limbaugh to the Liberals, and from Al Franken to the Conservatives; from Jeremiah Wright to the Conservatives and Pat Robertson to the Liberals; from Michael Moore to the Conservatives and (name of producer) to the Liberals; from FOX News to the Liberals and CNN to the Conservatives......and so it goes!!!!

FROM J.C. IN HONG KONG: Tell it to the liberals.

FROM THE NY TIMES: A Liberal Wit Builds Bridges to the G.O.P. By DAVID M. HERSZENHORNBarney Frank, the rumpled, cantankerous Massachusetts Democrat, has emerged as a key deal-maker in the House.