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To: Huck
Give credit where credit is due. Thomas J. DiLorenzo wrote the article. He is trying to make a career out of attacking Lincoln. Beats attacking someone who can fight back, I suppose. I think this Lorenzo guy is hilarious. His single-minded Lincoln obsession is absolutely hysterically funny. There is no need to refute it. Anyone who can be duped by DiLOrenzo is just a dupe anyway. Who cares?

Curious. Instead of adding to the string of anti-Rockwell ad hominems you at least took the time to notice that it was written by Tom DiLorenzo...before launching into a string of anti-Dilorenzo ad hominems. It puts you ahead of your colleagues by a few feet though you are still behind any substantive discussion by several miles.

29 posted on 08/30/2003 3:28:59 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist
Sadly it is all too common around this site for ad hominems to replace reasoned critique. Do these people think name calling is edifying to lurkers? It is done either out of immaturity, limited cognitive ability or malice of character (and some people qualify in all three categories).
36 posted on 08/30/2003 4:10:08 PM PDT by u-89
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To: GOPcapitalist
before launching into a string of anti-Dilorenzo ad hominems. It puts you ahead of your colleagues by a few feet though you are still behind any substantive discussion by several miles.

String of ad hominems? Come now. The closest thing to an ad hominem is my claim that Mr. DiLorenzo is trying to make a career out of Lincoln bashing. I said Lincoln is DiLorenzo's single-minded obsession. I don't actually think either of those statements qualifies as ad hominem. And even if they do, they are hardly a string. So back off on that one. You're completely wrong. Totally off base. Whining up the wrong tree. And by the way, can DiLorenzo go two paragraphs without mentioning Lincoln? I don't think he could write a recipe for cornbread without mentioning old Ape Lincom.

As for substantive discussion, I said very plainly in my post that I don't see any point in it, and I gave my reason why. It's pointless. Get it?

As for Rockwell, anyone with any sense knows he's scum. Now THAT'S ad hominem. It's also right on the money. Good day.

50 posted on 08/30/2003 8:14:08 PM PDT by Huck
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