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Re: Supreme Court halts Florida vote count: A black day for American democracy

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From: Larry Kessler
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 19:25
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:13:57 -0500, "MnD @ PLN" <mnd@pln.cc> wrote:

>> >Amy. it is not the `politics of personal destruction' to point out and
>> >bring to light the actions of a scalawag.
>>
>> Conservatives certainly saw it that way when the actions of such
>> scalawags as Richard Nixon, Newt Gingrich, Bob Livingston, Robert Bork
>> and Clarence Thomas were pointed out and brought to light.
>
>Ahhhhh  The old "yea but" defense....
>
>I challenge you to justify the actions of Clinton and Gore w/o resorting to
>pointing out the mis-deeds of someone else..
>
>Think you can do it??

I don't need to.  We were talking about the Politics of Personal
Destruction.  I pointed out that conservatives see it that way when
THEIR oxen are gored (no pun intended) but they see it as simple good
citizenship when Democrats get the same treatment for similar
activities.
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