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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (6119)12/4/2005 2:44:57 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (2) of 542588
 
There are only 43 US Presidents

Mary, there may be only 43 presidents and millions, even billions of kids, but there is only one worst and one best in each class. That's what "worst" and "best" mean. They designate the extreme ends of the curve. It would surely be more difficult to provide proof of the smartest kid than the worst president given the vast difference in the size of the classes, but the parallel still holds. Claiming either is exaggeration without supporting evidence or rationale.

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.
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