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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (14716)	10/31/2003 8:11:40 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 793671

"facts are in the eye of the beholder" Aye, there's the rub. I don't see facts as malleable & relative. To me, a fact, is a fact, is a fact. Can't change it. Can't perceive it into something it isn't. If what you call a fact can be made into two or more clearly conflicting things, then it wasn't a cold, hard fact to begin with. From Webster - Fact - a piece of information presented as having objective reality - in fact : in truth : the quality of being actual : ACTUALITY <a question of fact hinges on evidence> : something that has actual existence <space exploration is now a fact> b : an actual occurrence <prove the fact of damage>

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (14716)	10/31/2003 8:26:52 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793671

Again your perception is flawed. I'm not gung ho bullish on the market. I do however, believe that the economy could be far worse than it is when you consider the size of the Clinton bubble & the traumatic costs of 9/11 piled one on top of the other. The fact that we are not currently mired in a severe recession with negative GDP every quarter for years & unemployment well above 12% & growing worse each month, means that something has caused or delayed an expected outcome - and every bubble in history has ended horrifically - 9/11 should have sent the US & the global economy completely into the crapper. Using your simplistic analogies; since Bush was President when the economy didn't implode as every other bubble in history has; then Bush is responsible for saving the global economy from total disaster & his response to 9/11 had to be a brilliant response. I'm totally surprised that you aren't 100% pro-Bush.