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To: YHAOS

As usual, I have no idea what you are talking about.


32 posted on 07/30/2008 9:03:25 PM PDT by Soliton (Investigate, study, learn, then express an opinion)
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To: Soliton
As usual, I have no idea what you are talking about.

Please do try to keep up. “As usual” huh. For someone who usually has “no idea” about that of which I am speaking, you certainly do respond a lot. Do you largely confine your mystified responses to me, or do you indulge in your mystified responses more as a general practice?

You had offered a Jefferson quote to illustrate, or so you later claimed, the ignorance and prejudice afflicting our Founding Fathers, poor fellows. I contested the quote as inferior for its purpose, and proposed either one of two other Jefferson quotes as a supplement to the original that would give us a much fuller and more comprehensive understanding of the degree of ignorance and prejudice oppressing our Founders.

Your response was to declare a quote as “accurate or inaccurate, not superior or inferior,” as though the appropriateness of a quotation has no relevance to the point being proposed. This is the argument of a propagandist, who does not consider either the last moment or the next moment when selecting his argument for the present moment. It was, in this instance, so lame as to be embarrassing.

Hope that helps.

35 posted on 07/31/2008 11:06:27 AM PDT by YHAOS
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