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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: LindyBill who wrote (107374)7/23/2003 11:26:41 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Ah, the old debate strategy of taking a comment with a mild negative, debating it as if it's a much more serious negative, and then saying something like how in the world could you say that. The Bush short attention span is often remarked upon by friends and foes. As some friend recently remarked, he is puzzling uncurious, just wants an answer to a simply defined problem, then let's move on.

That's not terribly dangerous in and of itself. The genuine danger is that it's coupled with ideologically grounded advice. Deadly.

And then, of course, there is that other debate device, don't deal with an argument as argument, just label it as something and then attack the something, not the argument.

There is some possibility of a Kerry-Clark ticket next year.
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