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To: Lane3 who wrote (6127)	12/4/2005 3:31:38 PM
From: Mary Cluney	of 542499

All you have to do is make the case that Bush is worse than Buchanan. I thought of that, too, and I would have probably accepted that approach had Pizzo taken it. But he didn't. He simply listed some bad things about Bush and then dubbed him the worst. Labeling him worst is either an exaggeration or sloppy thinking. There are "slam dunk" arguments (Pizzo said "hands down") where you state your thesis and then support it with overwhelming evidence (at least what you think is overwhelming evidence)in a nutsehll and you don't feel the need to trudge out minutia. There are times when that is appropriate - when the stakes are not that high. But it is not appropriate to accept "slam dunk arguments" in PDBs where lives are at stake and $billions of dollars have to be committed. Assuming that you are dealing in good faith, assuming "slam dunk arguments" when dealing with extremely important life and death matters, that potentially impact billions of people, and the "slam dunk" argument turns out to be wrong - that alone would make the "slam dunk" case for being named the "worst president ever". It is unimaginable that any prvious president could have made a bigger blunder. QED

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