On 27 May 2004, at 1:39 am, Erik Reuter wrote:
On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 07:13:29PM -0500, Gary Denton wrote:
That has been a conservative reaction to the Spanish vote. It has been more often said it was a closely matched election and then the ruling party lost support by trying to claim that was not an al-Qaeda attack. By lying to the people. I would imagine they could still be in power except for the lies.
Probably true, but irrelevant. I was talking about the perceptions of a large number of American voters, not about facts.
Perceptions are facts. Just annoying non-reality-based ones. Which lead to non-reality-based decisions ...
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-George W. Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
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