> Let me summarize Bill's response to Stephen's call for a refutation. > > "I can't refute the facts on the ground in Iraq now, since > they don't point to the immanent doom and gloom and massive > arab uprising prediction that I'm peddling. So, instead, I'll > pretend we're not a Republic and assert that our elected > officials are actually supposed to throw aside the platforms > and positions they got (solidly) elected on
Right. Except the non-choice was between "war straight up" or "war sideways", so war was solidly elected. My, what an incredible surprise! What that election really proved is that the process is corrupt. > with every up or > down pulse in the media-conducted opinion poll _de jour_. On > that basis (the fallacy that we are a direct tele-democracy, > supported by the fact that many politicians in fact do govern that > way) I'll argue instead that our leaders are beholden to > special interests by not supporting the position of the > people at the moment according to Wolfe Blitzer and Bill > Schneider, and pump the doom-and-gloom prediction from that > angle. If a man is walking into a fire, and you tell him he's going to get burned, is that gloom and doom? > Also, I am totally closed to any notion that what > we're doing is good, so I'll impune the motives of everyone > else who supports the policy, as obviously they are either > bad people in bed with evil neo-con cabalists and Big Oil > mercenaries, or totally delusional morons." I don't give a hoot for their motives, I just want them out of power. Bill > > Did you read it differently, Stephen? > > ;-) > > - Bob _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
