Bob,
Do you really expect a lucid answer to your questions below. The
'in-the-know' left leaning Democrat is dishonest these days and the rank
and file democrat is not being told the entire story (several of my
friends are democrats, particularly old style southern democrats).
v/r
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Bob Calco
Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 5:55 PM
To: 'ProFox Email List'
Subject: RE: [OT] Countdown: Palin Wants To Help Special Needs Kids
ByDoing Away With Science
I enjoy the
quote-taken-out-of-context-to-make-the-opposition-look-stupid
tactic as much as the next partisan--indeed, who doesn't?--but to put
your
critique in context, consider:
1. The context of Palin's remark was budget discipline, and it was
clearly
intended to be a crowd laugh-maker regarding Obama's proposed spending
increases rather than a serious statement of her beliefs about the value
of
scientific research. I could find hundreds of examples at Obama rallies
of
silly things he says to make the crowd chuckle at republican expense,
things
which, if we take them too seriously, would lead us to conclude he's
dumber
than he really is. On the other hand I could find things he says in all
seriousness that ought to make us very afraid -- things like his comment
that we need a civilian national security apparatus as strong and well
funded as our military. Egads, ever here of the KGB?
2. At a time when the economy is struggling because of federal
negligence
and meddling in the housing market, the fruit fly budget line item was
not
picked because she is stupidly against "science", but because it sure
sounds
like a stupid thing for the federal government to be spending money on
right
now. Even Mccain proposes curtailing military spending--but so far Obama
has
not indicated a single program his "scalpel" will target outside of the
military. We all (those of us who know what he's really planning to do)
know
that he plans to put the hatchet down on our armed services--but wither
the
scalpel? Why not here, in a Parisian fruit-fly paradise of academe? If
not
here, what do we mean by "sacrifice"?
3. If you want to argue in a time of war that the fruit fly research is
more
urgently a top spending priority of the federal government than winning
the
war and shoring up the capital markets, then by all means, come out and
say
so. Obama has wandered far and wide in his public promises from his
earlier
private claims to more radical constituencies to want to gut military
spending, so that he might sound more palatable to a center-right
electorate
primed for "change". But we all know he wants to pay for most of his
robbing-peter-to-pay-pedro-and-tupac social programs at the expense of
our
national security infrastructure and capital markets. Who is the stupid
one?
Well it looks like we'll find out the hard way, if the polls are right.
- Bob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Ed Leafe
> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 1:38 PM
> To: ProFox Email List
> Subject: Re: [OT] Countdown: Palin Wants To Help Special Needs Kids By
> Doing Away With Science
>
> On Oct 26, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Helio Wakasugui wrote:
>
> > What an ignorant person Sarah Palin is. Her level of stupidity is
> > astonishing.
>
>
> I especially like the comments to that article, claiming that
> criticizing Palin for her actual words and deeds is somehow
> "prejudice". Obviously ignorants attract.
>
>
> -- Ed Leafe
>
>
>
>
>
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