Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Ann Archy

We should on play liberalism’s “smart” people...

Let’s begin with the President who is hiding his college transcripts and who created Obamacare and the current economy. His mouth pieces in the media rave about how smart he is, but he hides his transcripts.

How “smart” is it to choke off energy production in the United States making us even more dependent on energy in the Middle East which has been destabalized by the smart people?

How smart is it to back a bunch of “clean energy” operations with US tax money that are already out of business?

How smart is it to permit Holder to claim “his people” are of one color and that whites don’t have equal voting rights in this country?

I have worked with some of the world’s smartest people in science and medicine. They never go around talking about how smart they are. They are too smart to do that. :)


19 posted on 08/30/2011 5:28:54 AM PDT by SaraJohnson
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies ]


To: SaraJohnson
I have worked with some of the world’s smartest people in science and medicine. They never go around talking about how smart they are. They are too smart to do that. :)
sophist
1542, earlier sophister (c.1380), from L. sophista, sophistes, from Gk. sophistes, from sophizesthai "to become wise or learned," from sophos "wise, clever," of unknown origin. Gk. sophistes came to mean "one who gives intellectual instruction for pay," and, contrasted with "philosopher," it became a term of contempt. Ancient sophists were famous for their clever, specious arguments.
philosopher
O.E. philosophe, from L. philosophus, from Gk. philosophos "philosopher," lit. "lover of wisdom," from philos "loving" + sophos "wise, a sage."

"Pythagoras was the first who called himself philosophos, instead of sophos, 'wise man,' since this latter term was suggestive of immodesty." [Klein]

"Liberals" persistently insist that those who disagree with them are stupid - meaning that they are smart by comparison. "Liberals" (and "objective" journalists, same thing) are sophists. They resort to ad hominem argumentation, and do not restrict their attention to facts and logic.

24 posted on 08/30/2011 10:53:05 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (DRAFT PALIN)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson