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To: Bridge Player who wrote (69440)	5/30/2008 8:30:52 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Respond to of 542988

Bridge Player, you are serious? You've written a long post based on rebutting my allegedly denying that "[I] asked rhetorical questions in a way that tended to denigrate anyone who supports President Bush, while making a speech and expounding on [my] negative views of him and his administration" But you only quoted the tail end of a statement that read, in full, as follows: "You now claim you won't answer because you don't like the rest of the post that asked the question, writing: "you asked rhetorical questions in a way that tended to denigrate anyone who supports President Bush, while making a speech and expounding on your negative views of him and his administration" That seems transparently false." So what was I questioning, your characterization of my earlier post or your claim that your reason for not answering was that you thought my earlier post asked rhetorical questions and denigrated Bush supporters? The answer should have been clear. Heres "the rest of the story:" "That seems transparently false. First, if you don't want to share views about the basis for your support of Bush with people who see him differently then why share views at all. Secondly, and more importantly, you were also asked to explain your support by Suma; i.e., "..do you just dismiss what Scott Mcclellan had to say about his experience in the White House?" and by Steve; i.e., "So you are one of the 20 something percent that still support Bush? Wow. How do you square your thinking with the constant leak of information coming from insiders in the government." And you answered.....nothing. So it appears that the problem may not be in the way I asked the question but rather in your unwillingness, or inability, to provide a thoughtful answer to it." And now you claim that I'm "baiting you." If asking you to expand on and explain a political position you voluntarily submitted on a political thread is "baiting you" then I'm guilty. But I think that's not it. I think your sudden thin skinned (I won't talk to you about it) sensitivity to alleged rhetorical questions and to alleged denigration and negative views of Bush, his administration and his supporters is more typical of someone who has advanced a strongly held emotional position that they don't care to explore logically. Or maybe not; maybe you're just really sensitive about people who come across as anti Bush and maybe you really do have trouble discerning what could have been considered an ambiguous statement. Ed