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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Rambi who wrote (6008)12/2/2005 12:40:09 PM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (2) of 542169
 
One way to recognize a willfully stupid person is to examine the role hyperbole plays in their rhetoric. Take, for example, those who, like Pulitzer-nominated author Stephen Pizzo, say that “George Bush is the worst president of the United States of America, ever. Hands down.” Whenever I encounter such people I walk the other way for fear that such stupidity might be contagious. For anyone to make such a claim would require a basic understanding of Presidential history, an objective standard for comparing other Presidents to George W, and an ability to make nuanced judgments. In other words, it requires the very skill set that would generally prevent a person from making such an inane claim in the first place.

There has only been 43 presidents of the United States. You have to be able to say that one is better than another without having to prove it mathematically.

I mean where would we be if we couldn't say that Ted Williams was the greatest hitter in Baseball history. Beside there being thousands of baseball players in the major leagues, what about all the people that played baseball but decided to do something else full time?

What about the impact of air travel and night baseball that effect baseball players hitting ability? What about steroid use?

I mean based on that thought, people are too stupid to have any kind of opinion that is not based on mathematical certainty,

What trash.
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