liar, liar, pants on fire

hamilton · 2012-10-08T22:46:51+00:00

ROMNEY: "I will roll back President Obama's deep and arbitrary cuts to our national defense that would devastate our military." THE FACTS: "Arbitrary" defense cuts do not belong to Obama alone but also to congressional Republicans, including his vice presidential running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan. ROMNEY: "The president has not signed one new free trade agreement in the past four years. " THE FACTS: Obama hasn't opened new trade negotiations, but he's completed some big ones, overcoming opposition from fellow Democrats to do so. ROMNEY: "I will recommit America to the goal of a democratic, prosperous Palestinian state living side by side in peace and security with the Jewish state of Israel. On this vital issue, the president has failed, and what should be a negotiation process has devolved into a series of heated disputes at the United Nations. In this old conflict, as in every challenge we face in the Middle East, only a new president will bring the chance to begin anew." THE FACTS: With this statement, Romney has moved toward the balance enshrined in U.S. policy from one administration to another on the question of Israelis and Palestinians and away from his provocative remarks to a May fundraiser that recently came to light. ROMNEY: "As the dust settles, as the murdered (in the Libya consulate attack) are buried, Americans are asking how this happened, how the threats we face have grown so much worse, and what this calls on America to do." THE FACTS: It's unclear whether terrorism has gotten worse. There has been no incident even remotely comparable in scope or symbolic meaning to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Thank you Dubya

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Everybody makes typos, more when jet-lagged - and we flew from Nijmegen to Sydney at the weekend.

My economic orthodoxy has been on parade here for years. Right-wing nut cases continue to want to beleive that the earth is flat, and Keynes was wrong, but their passionate desires don't count as evidence.

Sure, but language is designed to cope with a fairly noisy channel - speech is a lot noisier than text - and you've had no problem in perceiving the message that I intended to send.

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A few years ago I proposed to Phil Alison that we get together over coffee - he was appalled by the idea. The offer is still open. I doubt that we'd come to blows - face to face interaction opens up more communication channels than swapping strings of text, and it is a bit easier to see when you start to become irritating.

Meanwhile, why don't you learn to think? Complainng about typo's is the clearest possible indication that you can't find fault with the intellectual content of a post, though talking about intellectual content to a right-wing nitwit is something of a waste of bandwidth.

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