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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (15378)	3/15/2000 7:06:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

This is what I said in the post you characterize as you do. What I have made clear is that as I see it, IF I vote, my choice is between a dolt (there's more to be said, but I haven't the energy for that door, in a forum in which accuracy is so irrelevant) and a scoundrel. I proposed killing myself to avoid either, and that as an alternative to suicide, an option was to put a spoke in either of these prizes' wheels by voting for whichever one didn't have a Congressional majority behind him. This is what you continue to characterize as "You said you could live with Gore." I can do no more than threaten suicide-- LOLOLOL! <<No, Bill, you excerpted misleadingly, and so transparently I am actually a bit shocked. THIS is what I said: ...if it looks like there will be a Democratic Congress, I may vote for Bush. I like to stick a spoke in their wheels. Of course, if it looks like there may be a Republican one, I might be forced to vote for Gore. Gore is not sufficiently protective of the Second Amendment in my eyes. To have said, "I can live with [a candidate]," would have implied, would it not, a feeling of reconciliation toward that vote, and candidate? And did I not actually say the following? if it looks like there will be a Democratic Congress, I may vote for Bush. I like to stick a spoke in their wheels. Of course, if it looks like there may be a Republican one, I might be forced to vote for Gore. Bill, would you care to take this opportunity to admit what JLA will not, that I didn't say I "could live with Gore"? Would you further admit that you excerpted misleadingly? (Again, had I said it, it would have implied, would it not, that I couldn't live with Bush, but could with Gore? Right?) Please acknowledge. P.S. There is one way you could say in honesty that I communicated something even along the lines of "I could live with Gore"!-- That would be if you concluded that because I hadn't said I would actually commit suicide, it was implied. However, that argument is mooted by the fact that... I did comment here that I planned to kill myself rather than vote for either of them! EDIT: In my 15 minute window, I note your "please do us a favor and admit you lied about it." I add to my request that you apologize for that mischaracterization unless you can substantiate it. Lies have been told on this matter, but not by me. >>