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Originally Posted by shakran
well, to say that Bush is dumb is an opinion. So you need facts to support your opinion. You don't need to find some reliable source that comes straight out and says "Bush is dumb." But if I were to say Bush is dumb, I would cite things such as his (mis)handling of Iraq, Katrina, the war on terror, his inability to extemporaneously string 5 words together without losing his train of thought, the fact that he said he doesn't read newspapers or in fact expose himself to any news media, the fact that he refused to fire Rumsfeld until it was too late for his party, and countless other facts which would back up my opinion.
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You may, shakran, but not everyone bothers with information to back up their statements as to GW's mental capacity because they are not meant as serious propositions needing back-up but as
low blows. The tone of this thread seemed to suggest to me that the only low blows and inflammatory rhetorical allegations being dealt in this politics forum are coming from the right. From my observation this is not true. That is my point.
I'll stand by my assertion that one can find information to support their political opinions but that does not necessarily give their political opinions more basis in FACT because the fludity of truth and fact will very rarely conform to the rigors of America's republican and democratic ideological molds.
