Kakki wrote:
> > Me now. Kakki, I'm curious. What about Debra's >comments struck you as
> "spin"?
>
> Well, Mary, she seemed to be reacting to my original comments as if I'd
> stated Reagan and Bush, Sr. were "pure" Republicans, which I never said. I
> never mentioned those two nor was I discussing modern day Republican
> ideology other than to say it had changed from the original. She came back
> to assert the same thing I did (Republicans today are not the same as in
> Lincoln's day) but framed it in a way that tried to make it appear that I
> had said the opposite.
I wasn't talking about you, Kakki. I was talking about Reagan and Bush, Sr.
followers and I don't know, don't care and it's none of my business whether
you are or are not in that group.
You did not know what the original Republican philosophy was. Your guesses
about it were incorrect. I did know about that philosophy and wrote about it.
On this issue, how can you think we said the same thing? And what does it
matter whether we did or not?
> > To me, she was expressing an honest opinion that didn't happen to be the
> same as yours.
>
> Wrong, to me she was expressing the same thing I had originally but trying
> to distance herself from that fact in a way that I thought was spinning my
> original comments.
Maybe you've forgotten exactly what each of us originally expressed.
Debra Shea
P.S. The word "spin" nowadays has very negative connotations. I merely express
my opinions. There's no reason for me to use yours in order to get my point
across, except to sometimes disagree and explain why. Twisting, spinning? No,
not my style; if anything, I am annoyingly straightforward.
