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To: Lucretia Borgia
Great post!

If it isn't bothersome enough to hear comments like this, what really chaps my ass is when someone suggests that I, as a voter, must be stupid to vote for Bush.

Unless I'm mistaken, John Edwards himself said that "only ignorant people" would vote for Bush. And, we know that Teresa Heinz-Kerry said that we'd have to be "idiots" to oppose her husband.

Where did we lose the concepts of respect and civility? When did it become wrong to have a difference of opinion?

Years ago, I got a chuckle out of a Dear Abby article, in which Abby opined about engineers and how they were one-dimensional and set-it-their-ways. If anything, in engineering school, we learned that there were many ways to approach a problem...some worked, some didn't. My payback for that Abby article is now seeing the inability of the so-called intelligentsia--the liberal arts majors--to even consider the validity of critical opinions.

-A Proud Critical Thinker (99th percentile GMATs...so don't call me stupid...and voting for Bush!)

82 posted on 10/25/2004 8:00:45 AM PDT by Fredgoblu
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To: Fredgoblu
 

in which Abby opined about engineers and how they were one-dimensional and set-it-their-ways

 

Being a PE for 30 years now and also being able to solve problems in more dimensions than most people even realize exist, I have to agree with you whole heartedly.

 

 

88 posted on 10/25/2004 8:18:55 AM PDT by HawaiianGecko (Member of the PajamaNati for 1/6th of a year)
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