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alansmithee:
i did not see anything so onesided in the article that it merits the kind of response from you--but then again i am not in a position where defending cheney is a matter of preserving my political identity---and since it is not de rigeur for me, i have no problem with considering fundamental critiques of his kind of politics.
the conservative set here could have handled this whole thing differently, you know: any one of you could easily have advanced counterarguments that refuted the op characterization of cheney--but you didnt.
you could have tried to point to other material that presented what you regard as a more balanced image of him and his politics--but you didnt.
you could have gone after the historical component of piece, and that from a number of angles--but you didnt.
you could even have tried to mount a defense of cheney---but you didnt.
instead, it was sophomoric idiocy time, food fight time blah blah blah.
it is strange that this kind of idiocy seems to pass for legitimate argument in conservativeland.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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