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In article <3ab58764.72565616@news.potlnd1.or.home.com>,
Ben L. <news@langN0SPAMlotz.com> wrote:
>bergamot@cascadia.drizzle.com (Eric da Red) wrote:
>
>>>Which thoughts of his are you having trouble understanding?
>>
>>"Thoughts" like this:
>>
>>"But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that
>>are not very transparent, that hide behind the-that don't let 
>>people in to take a look and see what they're up to.  
>>They're very kind of authoritarian regimes.  The true threat is 
>>whether or not one of these people decide, peak of anger, 
>>try to hold us hostage, ourselves; the Israelis, for example, 
>>to whom we'll defend, offer our defenses; the South Koreans." 
>
>You're really not trying.  

Finding inane statements by the Shrub is so easy, it just looks like
I'm not trying.


>First, it refers to "these" nations, meaning the ones discussed in the
>prior passage you have omitted for dramatic effect.
>
>Second, a transcript of remarks can be hard to read compared to
>listening to the cadence of the live discussion.

Not in this case.

I've listened to many Shrub remarks on TV and radio, and they aren't
more comprehensible.  


>Third, he is simply saying that bad nations are hiding stuff, and we
>must assume a threat when we can't inspect.  The threat is an effort
>to hold us or our allies hostage.

There are several possible interpretations of the Shrub's mumblings.
Your's is one.

There are others.  

That is the problem.


>>In any case, it is precisely in those off-the-cuff moments when a
>>person must speak without a script that we can begin to get a gauge
>>of a person's intellectual powers.
>
>The message is there.  The ideas are there.  You just don't like his
>speaking technique.  I guess you put style over substance.

You assume that there a substance between the lack of style.  The
Shrub's entire background belies this.

The GOP mastered the art of style-over-substance in America during
the Reagan Administration.




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