Comments on: Calling the Kettle Black http://stumplane.us/2006/10/29/calling-the-kettle-black/ in the dirt since history began Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:36:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Montag http://stumplane.us/2006/10/29/calling-the-kettle-black/#comment-489 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:19:45 +0000 http://www.stumplane.us/wordpress/?p=746#comment-489 I should have known it was a trick question.

My comment works as a Dem response to such criticism, though. Equally meaningless, ergo equally potentially “true.” Calling the Pot Black, if you will.

]]> By: Fehlleistungen http://stumplane.us/2006/10/29/calling-the-kettle-black/#comment-488 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:30:00 +0000 http://www.stumplane.us/wordpress/?p=746#comment-488 There are so many words in the original sentence with extremely flexible meaning: Democrats, trust, control, because, win, war. I’d say that the statement borders on the totally meaningless. Is there a clearly delineated war? What, for that matter, is “Iraq”? (Who drew the borders? Is it a “nation-state”?) How is “control” of Congress linked, specifically [and causally, in the above statement], with the war in Iraq? (I.e. doesn’t Congress do more than wage war?) Who, exactly, is doing the trusting here? (The paraphrase (nearly a direct quote) was as I’m sure is clear culled from a couple of Bush’s recent speeches, in Indiana and California.)

]]> By: Montag http://stumplane.us/2006/10/29/calling-the-kettle-black/#comment-487 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 00:13:51 +0000 http://www.stumplane.us/wordpress/?p=746#comment-487 Theoretically Dems do not know how to win the war in Iraq, but;

it has already been proven that Repubs do not know how to win the war in Iraq.

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