other than to say I didn't believe the hype from the earliest stages of his campaign and little or nothing has happened since to disabuse me of that notion.
I love you Mook, but getting to say "I told you so" is a pretty fun agenda.
An amusing column on the NYC mosque by Maureen Dowd....
- 20/08/2010 12:33:27 AM
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She has a point. Bush had the guts to weather the storm on DPW.
- 20/08/2010 12:42:21 AM
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DPW? I keep sitting here trying to figure out what that means.
- 20/08/2010 12:50:14 AM
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Re: DPW? I keep sitting here trying to figure out what that means.
- 20/08/2010 12:56:44 AM
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Once again, listen to the Economist and don't use abbreviations that aren't obvious.
- 20/08/2010 06:38:08 PM
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That abbreviation was obvious and all over the place at the time the incident happened.
- 20/08/2010 07:59:08 PM
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I certainly don't remember seeing it anywhere. The abbreviation was unnecessary in any event.
- 20/08/2010 10:43:05 PM
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Sure, I could've done that, if I had realized it would puzzle people. I did not. *NM*
- 20/08/2010 10:59:42 PM
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well since Christie is actually a republican he makes a better example than Bloomberg
- 20/08/2010 01:53:44 PM
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Gingrich thinks he is a deep thinker?
- 20/08/2010 09:42:15 AM
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He makes historical references as often as possible, or at least in pretty much everything I've seen
- 20/08/2010 12:37:02 PM
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As he was a history professor and writes histories and alternate histories, this is not surprising
- 20/08/2010 05:33:48 PM
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I'm aware of that
- 20/08/2010 11:47:32 PM
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Re: I'm aware of that
- 21/08/2010 12:40:29 AM
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Conservatives love Rome. I don't know why.
- 21/08/2010 01:20:27 AM
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Rome was more often than not governed by aristocrats and did, after all, invent the republic.
- 21/08/2010 04:50:53 PM
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Except there doesn't seem to be any conflict between either position.
- 20/08/2010 10:06:20 AM
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He has to learn he needs to be crystal clear on sensitive issues
- 20/08/2010 02:03:43 PM
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In Washington, one must always present the APPEARANCE of integrity...
- 20/08/2010 02:40:24 PM
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Clinton lied about the BJ but what is your airtight proof that Bush lied?
- 20/08/2010 07:44:53 PM
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This is a bit along the lines of what I have been thinking.
- 20/08/2010 07:49:15 PM
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I didn't see the problem either. He was simply stating the obvious.
- 21/08/2010 01:39:44 AM
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Then restating it for those who refused to hear it, so that someone else could refuse to hear it.
- 21/08/2010 04:22:30 PM
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Yes, his backtracking was quite pussy-ish. *NM*
- 21/08/2010 04:00:31 AM
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How did he "backtrack" exactly?
- 21/08/2010 04:35:33 PM
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c'mon Joel. are you being intentionally thick?
- 21/08/2010 05:02:27 PM
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Having read those quotes I don't think he was backtracking on anything. (With link to speech)
- 22/08/2010 06:27:06 AM
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did you take into your consideration
- 22/08/2010 03:50:59 PM
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I can't imagine why they would express concern over it. It wasn't controversial. That is on them
- 22/08/2010 03:58:32 PM
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I agree he is not backtracking
- 22/08/2010 06:49:36 PM
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While we're picking sides, I'm with Mook and Roland.
- 22/08/2010 08:20:11 PM
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- 22/08/2010 08:20:11 PM
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I like how he's got rhetorical talents when it works
- 22/08/2010 08:32:15 PM
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nope just human
*NM*
- 22/08/2010 08:37:17 PM
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*NM*
- 22/08/2010 08:37:17 PM
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that's not what Paul just said.
- 22/08/2010 08:42:24 PM
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- 22/08/2010 08:42:24 PM
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He couldn't stay out, no.
- 22/08/2010 08:56:47 PM
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I don't want to argue with you on a Sunday, my religion says I have to relax.
- 22/08/2010 09:03:54 PM
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- 22/08/2010 09:03:54 PM
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key word: seem
- 22/08/2010 09:06:40 PM
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I was only using that term for you guys. I don't feel like beating you with a rolling pin until you
- 22/08/2010 09:14:39 PM
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Seems I interpret his speech on the iftar differently from you and Tash - see my reply to Tash. *NM*
- 22/08/2010 09:25:13 PM
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I'm not even taking the time to comment on something so obvious as what he did. *NM*
- 22/08/2010 02:53:10 AM
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Joel
- 22/08/2010 05:37:45 AM
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His phrasing in the first speech implied that it was a bad idea. But legally they have the right.
- 22/08/2010 06:32:59 AM
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nonsense
- 22/08/2010 03:39:30 PM
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I still don't see how it can be misinterpreted except by intent by the listener.
- 22/08/2010 04:08:52 PM
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so we have reached the point of no return...
- 22/08/2010 04:18:46 PM
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In your case it would have to be number 2.
- 22/08/2010 07:38:20 PM
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ah, but I have no agenda here...
- 22/08/2010 07:41:59 PM
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lol.<3
- 22/08/2010 08:49:35 PM
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- 22/08/2010 08:49:35 PM
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that it is...
- 22/08/2010 08:57:05 PM
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hee. Well, I still don't agree with you, but at least you're snuggly.^_^ *NM*
- 22/08/2010 09:09:22 PM
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Tash you are very much a fair person in this world
- 22/08/2010 08:34:38 PM
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Or there is another option: 3) He was using tact.
- 22/08/2010 09:01:49 PM
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I really have to disagree with your interpretation of that first speech.
- 22/08/2010 09:22:32 PM
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Lies, prevarication and deceit again, eh?
- 22/08/2010 01:17:45 PM
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- 22/08/2010 01:17:45 PM
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that was a decent explanation....
- 22/08/2010 05:18:18 PM
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In the interests of fairness ( this does not support or detract from my position), here is the full
- 22/08/2010 09:22:50 PM
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