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To: Dale Baker who wrote (5930)	11/30/2005 4:50:21 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542471

Who are the objective judges on flip-flopping? Who are the objective judges of any faults or supposed faults? I don't see any. Does that mean we don't complain about politicians and political candidates or compare and contrast their ideas, habits and characters? Or to look at it another way each of us are the judges of the charge, even if we probably are not perfectly objective. Once it becomes a partisan charge, it is meaningless. Why? Certainly a charge made by one politician against another will be partisan, but partisan doesn't equal false or meaningless. If one of Bush's opponents says that he spends too much, there isn't any universally accepted objective standard about who spends too much, but IMO the charge would still be true (even if it would also be true about every other modern president and congress IMO). I wouldn't trust anyone in the Washington game to use the word without a loaded meaning. I wouldn't trust people in Washington to avoid loaded meanings for just about any charge or accusation. Are you saying that no one in Washington (or talking about Washington or politics) should ever accuse any one of anything negative? Tim