He/she claims he/she is bending over backwards to humor birthers, but I think it has more to do with pretzel logic.
By the way, I use he/she since I don't know which it is and don't want to give he/she another straw man to bandy about. ("I'm a he, not a she" or vice versa) Then we'd be dicussing it for another 20 posts.
“He/she knows this silly resigned vs. thrown out is a red-herring”
A red herring? Which I am supposed to be using to distract everyone from you from the fact that Nixon’s crime was lesser than Obama’s? Well, I happen to think the situation wasn’t as serious as it was at the time and has since been made out to be, but impeachable nonetheless. However, an illegitimate president would certainly be more serious.
In other words, I agree with the original point. So why would I be using a re herring? Because it wasn’t a red herring. Just like it’s not a red herring when people correct other factual or grammatical errors which have no bearing on the larger point. Imagine, if it makes you feel better, that instead of committing a factual error in hyperbolizing a point, the original post accidentally put down the wrong historical date or failed to capitalize the first letter of a sentence.
“Then we’d be dicussing it for another 20 posts”
Why on earth would you carry on discussing whether I was male or female for another 20 posts? That’d be ridiculous.
(RE: #180) But, but, he resigned and was not thrown out of office, and certainly wasn’t hounded out, was he! Bernie Madoff was “thrown out of office”, but then none of us was there, so how could we know if he was actually “thrown out”? He too might have resigned.