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To: capitan_refugio
His book was meant for the "haters."

I could just as easily say, and with substantially greater accuracy, that Harry Jaffa's books are meant for the Lincoln idolaters. But that is not enough of a basis to reject his arguments outright. His arguments may be and have been rejected on the basis of failures within their construction and failures to mesh with historical evidence, not the simple fact that he's a Lincoln worshipping hack which only explains the incidence of his books. If you wish to say an equal and opposite hatred of Lincoln is true for Masters, I can't stop you but the burden is still upon you to discredit or rebut his arguments if you wish to dismiss them.

2,732 posted on 10/08/2004 9:31:29 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist; Non-Sequitur
"If you wish to say an equal and opposite hatred of Lincoln is true for Masters, I can't stop you but the burden is still upon you to discredit or rebut his arguments if you wish to dismiss them."

GOPC - you seem to have a penchant for quoting from fellow travelers. Are you a closet communist? "Edgar Lee Masters attacked U.S. policies towards Cuba and the Philippeans in a series of anti-imperialist writings, supported the candidacy of William Jennings Bryan, practiced law with Clarence Darrow, and was a leader of the All-America Anti-Imperialist League, an organization founded by the Communist Workers Party in 1925. What would Twodees and GOPcapitalist think of that?" - non-sequitur, July 2002

2,766 posted on 10/09/2004 1:15:35 AM PDT by capitan_refugio
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