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SpinnerofTales -> RE: Ted Kennedy (8/22/2009 6:05:37 PM)
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I don't suppose you want to give any sort of reference to bloomberg and what you speak of, do you Spinner.
No, if someone tries to push a bad Idea there is nothing wrong with crying "shame". Coming from a lefty it's kind of funny to hear. Their health has nothing to do with it.
In my opinion using a dying person to try to get a change is kind of scummy, and an appeal to emotion, instead of reason. Which is a VERY BAD thing for republics. You can disagree.
[ORIGINAL: rightwinghippie
Here's a link to the report in the Bloomberg.com website. I don't think you can claim that his own news service is being biased: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aNH.n0L14b4g
As for appeals to emotion, you must be joking. There has always been appeals to emotion rather than reason to achieve political ends. Everything from Bush trying to raise the terrorist alert level just before the 2004 elections, to citing "government death panels" in the health care debate, to Governer Paterson trying to paint his low approval rating as racism, emotion has replaced reason to an alarming degree in our political discussion. And why has this happened? Because it works. Because we let it happen. Because instead of demanding reason and rationality, we fall into the trap of emotional nonsense like rubes at a country fair. If we, as a nation, want to have our elected officials stop playing the emotional card, we have to use some good, old fashioned free market tactics and stop buying it.
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