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To: mistermj who wrote (174062)	11/3/2005 1:24:30 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 281500

Was my post so long you couldn't read it all the way to the bottom? So sorry. "And no, I'm not trying to sidestep the point. It seems anathema, in a democracy, to try to label political opposition as aiding the "enemy". I happen to think bush is aiding the enemy, and you are too if you support him, and I can make a good case for that (one that's been made by others, also) and I could certainly call you a "useful idiot" (useful to AQ, and other Islamists), but really what's the point in calling each other names? None that I can see, unless you enjoy name calling, simply to convert your personal "opinion" about people into epithets. That's the real question, is it important that anti-communist conservatives called people names, and should we care that you want to call names now? I think we should point out the poverty of that kind of sport, myself." It's not about the meaning of "is" - it's about the usefulness of epithets to dismiss a political opinion you don't approve of. That has nothing to do with interpreting a word, and everything to do with the utility of using it in the first place. Not a difficult distinction to comprehend, or so I would have thought.