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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (149456)	10/27/2004 7:05:14 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

OT Bush didn't say "most of it went to group X", he didn't say "the majority of the tax cut went to the poor", he said "the majority of the tax cuts", something that is less clear and might be considered poor grammar unless he meant the majority of the different "specific changes in the tax law that the amount of taxes paid" (more commonly called a "tax cut") went to the poor and the middle class. I didn't list that among the possibilities mostly because I doubt that is what he really meant but that would technically fit with his word usage. If there are a number of different interpretations of a statement and a number of ways to look at the relevant facts then you have a very poor example to call a lie. If you are going to call someone a liar based on a statement it should be pretty clear and unambiguous. For that matter if anyone who has ever told a lie is a liar then we are almost all liars, and politicians even more so Bush's statement isn't as much a lie as it is ambiguous and poorly stated. Tim