Reply #28: So far as you've posted them, *I ACCEPT YOUR TERMS*

[Beam Me Up]

I AGREE to watch "Innocents Betrayed." I ALSO AGREE to read Thomas Paine's "Common Sense." I've not seen this film nor read this book. I'll also accept to read another book of your choice, provided there is no particular time limit set. As I noted in a previous post, I fall asleep when reading if the subject doesn't really grab my interest. I do get through a book, it just takes me longer.

Let me say that I am quite interested in the idea of, as you put it, "get(ing) to the meat of the differences in our Idealogies." This is a very IMPORTANT issue to me and I appreciate you bringing it up. I feel very strongly that the people of the United States, whether they are urban or rural, whether they are black or white, whether they are middle class or poor, northern or southern -- you get the drift -- need to come together now more than ever. I say this because I believe our nation is careening toward a crisis -- a real crisis -- that is going to make anything you and I have seen so far pale by comparison. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm not at all confident.

Edit: typo