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Thread #115883   Message #2655738
Posted By: Amos
13-Jun-09 - 03:32 PM
Thread Name: BS: Popular Views: the Obama Administration
Subject: RE: BS: Popular Views: the Obama Administration
To the contrary, Bruce, I can think of a number of prime locations to which Obama should appoint Bush ambassador.

The problem with trying to discuss issues after they are presented by Krauthammer is that his writing is so full of rhetorical slants and fulminating clouds of emotive button-pushing that it is very difficult to isolate his actual propositions under all the scum. Nor, I think, worth much time to do so, because, like others who dance in Limbaughland under the full moon, his gold comes from his being angry, not from his being accurate. So he is not liekly (and as his acolyte, I suppose you may also be the same) to discuss issues by the light of reason. He's not vested in reason, but in harsh feelings. They are his stock in trade.

So although I plead guilty to an ad hominem remark, I must plead extenuating circumstances and aggravated provocation.

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