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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (1111)	11/10/2004 12:54:14 AM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361217

Well, that's a good point, Agustus. But this isn't really the win-over-the-opposition site. Kind of like Extreme rightwingers doesn't score points with the left. :)

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (1111)	11/10/2004 12:59:50 AM
From: CalculatedRisk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361217

Here is a quick test: a) Did you vote for Bush? b) Do we have evidence that Iraq was involved in 9/11? c) Did we find WMD in Iraq? d) Did Iraq have a collaborative relationship with al Qaeda? e) Is Bush competent in fiscal matters? f) Has Bush handled postwar Iraq with competence?

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (1111)	11/10/2004 1:15:48 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361217

Re: True? No one has ever been influenced by insulting them, except to make them more hostile. However, you miss the point of the exercise entirely. By taking aim at a class of people, the morons who vote for George Bush in spite of the fact that he's destroying their economic lives, I've more or less excluded the SI Republicans. The fact that you are attempting to defend moronicity is something you need to take up with a counsellor and not me. I don't have any idea why you'd find defending idiocy to be an attractive debating point. Generally, if I might educate you about this art, it works the other way. The more intelligence applied to an issue, the more likely you are to win the debate. Except in American politics, where we find that a profoundly incapable breed of fools prefers to identify with a dyslexic ex-alcoholic who pretends to sound like a hick than a pompous windbag who pretends to be a man of the people. Now that I've put it that way, I'm sure you can understand why all decent thinking Americans are absolutely livid about the devolution of democracy into depravity.