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Originally Posted by Kadath
I don't assume they were less qualified, I just assume we are pulling from a smaller pool. If you are looking for the best minds and you exclude half the total pool on something other than intellect or ability, chances are you're not going to get all the best.
Please, I beg you, STOP MAKING THIS ABOUT DEMOCRAT VERSUS REPUBLICAN. I don't care if the Democrats would do this, I don't care that this makes Bush bad, I want it to stop. I don't believe there's no other option, and that you DO believe it is holding you back. You are only seeing things in black and white, or, in this case, Democrat or Republican. It's okay to have your own political views that don't necessarily line up with either of the two major parties, or with any party.
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I did put it in a politial context, as did you. From your earlier post:
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Accepting something just because it "has always been that way" is what makes you a conservative; you are either afraid of or uninterested in positive change. So long as you aren't bothered, you don't take an interest. One day this sort of thing will affect you and you will cry bloody murder, but no one will care.
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You categorized me as a conservative, so I dealt with the issue from a partisan standpoint.
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Originally Posted by Yakk
I assume you have instances. You have attacked others in this thread for making statements that seem reasonable (that the first choice of technology companies may be the most qualified). You have made the statement that democrates pull off this kind of power play.
If you don't have such citations before you made the statement, you are "spouting a baseless opinion", to quote alansmithee.
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I didn't attack anyone. I merely didn't jump on the bash Bush bandwagon that seems to be the norm for threads such as this. I didn't make citations because I don't see posting on these boards as an assignment. I often read them in between studying. I don't usually have the time to research every post I make, or to find web sources for everything I read in a newspaper/magazine or see on television. If you would like, I'll go back later and edit all my posts on this topic to have footnotes, but I currently don't have the time.
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Was it inconcequencial? I assume you researched the impact of the confrence on economic and technological growth before you made your statement.
Feel free to live up to the standard you place on others.
If anyone was as asinine as to push the party line into a technical confrence, I don't care which side, I would think they where small-minded fools who should be made fun of and punished for their actions.
If you fail to punish people for doing stupid shit, there is no incentive for them not to do stupid shit.
This is the reason why capitalism works: it punishes people who do stupid shit. This is how democracy works: it punishes people who do stupid shit.
If you want to get foolish stuff like this out of politics, then you have to object to it. You are either with people who think this shit is stupid, or you are against them, to borrow another quote.
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It is inconsequential from a politial standpoint. This is the politics board, so I looked at the issue from a political standpoint. If this was on the tech board, then it would be an issue.
And from a political standpoint, what Bush is doing here isn't stupid. Also, many things in capitalism and democracy reward behavior that could be categorized as stupid.
Is what Bush is doing petty, partisan, and somewhat vindictive? Undoubtedly. But it's also politics as usual. And I personally don't desire to wail at windmills, I'd prefer to focus on things that can be changed.