“ever hear of sarcasm” you use some of the same verbal attacks as Neiwert, who is very concerned about the eliminationist rhetoric of others but feels free to use it when his opinions are disputed.

if you meant the implication that McCain was not tortured as sarcasm, why not indicate it as such?

am i new around here? didn’t know this was a club to be initiated into. sounds like an insider/outsider attack.

nitpicking? another verbal tactic to declare another person’s opinion trivial and reflect on their character. i consider errors of fact, demagoguery and negative propaganda to be things worthy of comment. i think you see them as tools to advance your agenda.

“over and over, state the contradictions with the facts. that’s all that people need to do. people say ’i’m not a letter writer’, you don’t need to be, just paste a quote and then the other quote and fill in the contradictory blank.”

If that’s all that’s necessary, why write this in the same post?

“i’ll leave the debate about whether he was tortured or not for those tortured souls who wish to go there, not me”

Looks like push-poll, swiftboating, sort of tactics to me.

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ummmmm, whitebeard, are you new around here or something? you seem to be nit-picking stuff out of context….just to poke? i hope not cuz i don’t get it.

letter writing is an ongoing subject around here. many share what they do, and countless posts are written about doing it and how to do it…is a major effort around here…….and i throw stuff like that in all of the time, if it’s something that works for me and it comes up, so i share it. do you write letters? get any results? if you do, and have a technique that gets answers back, be glad to have a tip from you, too.

if it’s not something that interests you, then go to the next comment, but i am proud of my efforts and at least i’m doing something when i see something that’s wrong… so, no it’s not ’all that’s necessary’ i don’t think there is a place where ’all that’s necessary’ is possible, but it is necessary for me do SOMETHING or i might as well crawl back under a rock and quit bugging people who ARE trying to do something.

tactics? and yes, that is/was the point, ever heard of sarcasm? and it was another subject that came up a while back around here, those tortured souls aren’t ones that comment here. was a reference to that. sick f^cks that don’t reside here.

you’re reminding me of the character kevin kline in the movie a fish called wanda–
”what was that part in the middle?”

: )

“McCain is dangerous”

But that doesn’t mean the Democratic candidates are a day at the beach. Geez, I really don’t like this system which produces these choices.

Chris Hedges was right, too, “If honesty, vision and integrity were qualities that mattered in a national election, Nader would be president.”

This from the guy with his arms around W. and his head in his pit saying what a great guy W. is and how he wants his support? Did anyone see his fingers? Were they crossed?

If that’s all that’s necessary, why write this in the same post?

“i’ll leave the debate about whether he was tortured or not for those tortured souls who wish to go there, not me”

Looks like push-poll, swiftboating, sort of tactics to me.

(figuratively speaking of course) ;)

the “reporter” onstage waxes phonetic about her time spent on the “Straight Talk Express.”

Did she use diacritical marks, hyphens to show the breaks between syllables, capital letters so show stress, and everything?

(Heh)

Bob in HI