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Host,
While I understand that you find it important to share news sources with the readers of the politics board, I also understand why the moderators respond to you the way they do. I will be the first to admit that I cringe when I see you have responded to a thread I am following because I absolutely know that you will have posted absurdly long quotations from half a dozen articles related to the topic being discussed, which coincidentally is always something about President Bush being corrupt.
I think you would find more support and respect if you sometimes made a post without quoting from other news sources: sometimes saying things in your own terms and providing a link is far more effective than creating a long-winded post that everyone just scrolls by.
I will close by saying that my "four-post" opener was of an article written by me. That is the difference: the article wasn't something I pulled off nytimes or CNN: I wrote it myself. Mark my words: if I ever post a similarly long article from the MSM, I will expect it to be deleted in the same manner that yours was.
I... look forward to reading more of your prophesizing about the fall of the Bush administration in the future.
Politicophile
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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