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host · 11-07-2007, 12:53 PM

Webster Merriam defines partisan:

"1: a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person; especially : one exhibiting blind, prejudiced, and unreasoning allegiance"

I'm wondering if you attempt to advance reasonable opinions, those that a reasonable person would accept....and you are proven correct, much of the time, in the fullness of time, is it correct for others to consider you "partisan"?

Is "centrist" the most reasonable position, especially considering the "centrist" position was enthusiastically for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Can we agree on what a fact is, are all opinions of equal merit? Big questions, little agreement, especially on this forum, and in US politics.....

If you are considered "very partisan", but you build a track record, as histroy unfolds, of "getting it right", more often than those who labeled you, are you less partisan than they considered you to be?

11-07-2007, 12:53 PM	#1 (permalink)
host Banned	What is being partisan? Is it blind adherence, or holding non-fact based beliefs? Webster Merriam defines partisan: "1: a firm adherent to a party, faction, cause, or person; especially : one exhibiting blind, prejudiced, and unreasoning allegiance" I'm wondering if you attempt to advance reasonable opinions, those that a reasonable person would accept....and you are proven correct, much of the time, in the fullness of time, is it correct for others to consider you "partisan"? Is "centrist" the most reasonable position, especially considering the "centrist" position was enthusiastically for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Can we agree on what a fact is, are all opinions of equal merit? Big questions, little agreement, especially on this forum, and in US politics..... If you are considered "very partisan", but you build a track record, as histroy unfolds, of "getting it right", more often than those who labeled you, are you less partisan than they considered you to be?