Re: OT - HOORAY FOR COURAGE
- From: "Ben Hogland" <benhogland@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 12:21:39 -0800
<altar> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 10:48:12 -0800, "Ben Hogland"
> <benhogland@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Amazing, ain't it? How the meaning of the TR quote "changes" when
>>> you
>>> read it in "context". But, of course our liberal friends would
>>> NEVER
>>> pick and choose the words just because they suit their cowardly
>>> purpose..... or would they?
>>
>>I don't think it changes the meaning at all. Who gets to determine
>>what
>>is the "truth"?
>>
>>Ben
>>
> I have to agree with Ben on this one. I don't see how the entire text
> changes the small part that was originally quoted.
> A *deliberate, intentional* lie is one thing. But we are talking about
> events and politicians here. Sometimes it is difficult, or impossible
> to determine what the truth was. So... Just because a politician
> utters it, that doesn't make it the truth. Further, it needs to be
> noted that just because a President says something that later turns
> out to be not correct, that doesn't mean that he lied. Same is true
> for all of us. We say, and act, on what we know today, not on what we
> may discover tomorrow.
>
> Tom
Very well said again, Tom. You certainly are not a lock-step repub but a
self-thinker. An admirable and likeable trait.
Ben
.
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