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- From: libwca@emory.edu (Bill Anderson)
- Newsgroups: alt.flame
- Subject: Re: Why Bush? (was: Why Clinton)
- Message-ID: <1428@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 16:00:48 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.032458.14341@muddcs.claremont.edu>
- Organization: Emory University, Atlanta, GA
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- weverett@jarthur.claremont.edu (William M. Everett) writes:
- : In article <1417@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> libwca@emory.edu (Bill Anderson) writes:
- : >weverett@jarthur.claremont.edu (William M. Everett) writes:
- : >: In article <1409@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu> libwca@emory.edu (Bill Anderson) writes:
- : >: >vsg001@acad.drake.edu writes:
- :
- : >
- : >The original post was wrong, Willy, only if one clings to a
- : >curiously mule-headed literal-mindedness. The convo, if memory
- : >serves, went something like this:
- : >
- : >Interviewer: Surely you recognize that atheists are citizens
- : > of this country?
- : >
- : > Our Only President: No, I'm not sure they should be
- : > considered citzens...
- : >
- : > Now, if there's a way to interpret that which doesn't
- : > involve the President of the United States questioning
- : > the right to citizenship based on religious belief, I
- :
- : You really need to learn how to pay attention. No, I mean this. You
- : really should see someone about this problem.
- : Now that you've shown you can remember the supposed 'proof'. Let's see
- : if you can remember that that wasn't the point. If you can extend you memory
- : all the way back to the original post, you'll see that this 'proof' does not
- : support the orinal statement, which is what I was arguing with.
- :
- : William Everett
-
- But, Wilbur, nobody I've ever met is terribly interested in whether
- the third letter from the left in the original post was an 'i' or a
- 'j'. Your argument only has relevance to anything at all if you're
- claiming that Bush didn't mean what the original poster said he
- meant. If you are claiming that, then please tell us what he did
- mean. If you are not claiming that, please stop posting ridiculous
- semantic nit-picking.
- Shit or get off the pot, Willy-Boy.
- Bill
-