On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:37 PM, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Chuck wrote: > > what happened to the daily updates? > > *tumbleweeds* > > > > Well it switched to "lipstick", then "sexist", now it's "workers". > > I heard Bill Maher say tonight that the average American is too dumb > to be governed; that he/she has no capacity to form or analyze > reasoned arguments and instead focuses on emotional arguments and > inflection - like "pow", "lipstick", "victory", "smoke their holes", > et al. > > That seems right. > > And of course that analysis will be attacked by emotion rather reason. > For if this is not true, then how do we explain polls that jump for > pretty face, moose, or "drill baby drill". E.g., there's 30+M acres > of offshore oil fields that could be drilled today, but nobody does it > because it would be stupid. Yet, people still respond to "drill baby > drill". > all irrelevant and most covered ad nauseum in other threads. i was simply coming back to your theory that mccain would, on a daily basis, invoke the "i was a POW, so i get a pass". i mean, you were pretty keen to keep a tally way back when you said, "So the new Day 1 tally: 2!". it's not about lipstick or pigs or drilling or VPILFs. it's about pointing out that the tally you were so into when it seemed to support your supposition doesn't seem quite so important to you anymore. that amuses me :) -- I have failed as much as I have succeeded. But I love my life. I love my wife. And I wish you my kind of success. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:269846 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
