--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 7/4/05 1:23:14 A.M. Central Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: <snip> > > It's the same samskara in both cases. MDixon harps > > on a past "success," the defeat of John Kerry via > > character assassination. Others "refute" his > > boasting and post even more lines of text than > > he does trying to "prove" that they weren't really > > defeated. > > > > Bottom line is that the discussion of Things Present, > > Here And Now, has been successfully diverted into > > a discussion of the things both "sides" are still > > attached to in the past. Works every time. <snip> > But Unc, I think you are looking at my post from yesterday in a > light of conspiracy, to change the subject to the past. Let me > assure you that was never my intention. We were posting about the > definition of casualty of war and I wanted to emphasize that > casualty doesn't necessarily mean a death but could be something > very minor requiring nothing more than tweezers and a band aid. > I simply took a poke at Kerry, using him as an example of a war > casualty and the nature of his wounds. So naturally Liberals came > to the rescue of Kerry's honor and the subject totally changed. Not > my intent. But that is what happened.
That's exactly what happened. (And Kerry's defeat was mentioned only in passing; the discussion that developed from MDixon's "poke" was about the validity of the Swift Boat Vets' accusations. MDixon didn't "harp" on Kerry's defeat, nor did the "liberals" insist that he wasn't really defeated--to the contrary, in fact.) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
