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• Friday, November 28, 2008 01:02 PM

  @ Kitt

  Back on page 1 of this thread New Deal Democrat posted about all those people who had voted for George W. Bush twice. I did not post specifically to him because I thought that my point might be of general interest to Glenn's subtext, which seems to me to be that the NYT has lied on behalf of the Bush Administration (well, not exactly on behalf, but one wonders whom they are lying for) and that people have been fooled into supporting aggression which they might not otherwise support.

  If Glenn believes that my post about the lack of education in critical thinking is entirely irrelevant to his post, he may certainly tell me so.

  You say you supported Obama over Kucinich because Kucinich had no chance of being elected. In the end, I supported Obama as well, although I still am quite uncertain just exactly what he stands for given some of his lack of specificity, lack of a long trail of voting on federal issues, and the problems which I mentioned with his shifting position on FISA.

  Now, just why are you trying to silence me, given the fact that I am on topic and have accused you of nothing. Was there some part of my post in which I did not make clear my disdain for folks who voted for Obama on faith rather than facts? Did I specifically accuse you of anything? Why would I have a particular interest in how you voted? If you made a considered compromise to which applied your mind and not your emotions, I don't care how you voted.

  In other words, if the shoe I have mentioned doesn't fit you, why are you trying to shove your foot in it?

  (Let me also add that I wrote my post before I cam to the end of this thread and have nothing to do with any current eruption.)

  —AKA Smith Read AKA Smith's other letters
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