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Skriven 2005-02-04 22:54:52 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 8609 av Darryl Perry (1:106/324)
Ärende: Dean Hates the GOP
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Darryl Perry -> Ed Connell wrote:
 DP> On 02-04-05, Ed Connell said...

 EC>> Hey, Darryl.

 JH>>>> 02 Feb 05 22:37, Darryl Perry wrote to Stan Hardegree:

 DP>>>>> On 02-02-05, Stan Hardegree said...

 EH>>>>>>>> His latest proclamation was, "I hate the Republicans
 DP> and
 EH>>>>>>>> everything they s for."

 DP>>>>>>> Not true.  Show me where he said that.

 SH>>>>>> Sunday, Jan. 30, 2005 10:44 a.m. EST
 SH>>>>>> Dean: 'I Hate Republicans'

 SH>>>>>> The front-runner in the race to head up the so-called party of
 SH>>>>>> compassion understanding said unabashedly on Saturday that he
 SH>>>>>> "hates" the opposition.

 SH>>>>>> "I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for," former
 SH>>>>>> Vermont Gov Howard Dean told Democrats gathered at a Manhattan
 SH>>>>>> hotel, in quotes picked by the New York Daily News.

 DP>>>>> Okay then.

 JH>>>> You know, I don't understand why you guys always go through this dan
 JH>>>> you of automatically denying something whenever one of us says
 JH>>>> something.  Are just wasting our time, or is it simply a knee-jerk
 JH>>>> reaction to anything a conservative says?  The Dean quote was all ov
 JH>>>> the news - you couldn't ha missed it if you tried - yet you popped a
 JH>>>> told Stan he didn't say any su thing.  Don't you get tired of always
 JH>>>> being shown you're wrong?

 DP>>> Duh!  It' an easy way to get you to do the research work.  :) Rather
 DP>>> than go look it up myself, all I have to do is say, "That's not true"
 DP>>> and then sit back and see whether or not any supporting evidence gets
 DP>>> offered.

 EC>> I'll give you credit for your gentile reply.  I'll just take the
paragraph
 EC>> above as a joke.

 DP> Thank you.  It was an attempt at levity.  The reality is that I did not
see
 DP> or hear about that remark.  I don't watch a lot of TV, and when I do, I
 DP> don't make a habit of watching the news.  I find the news online, from
 DP> several sources, but mostly AP and Reuters, and I don't read EVERY story.
 DP> So that one did slip by me.

Then why did you say it was not true? From your own admission you don't keep
yourself very well informed. Why deny something happened if you do not know if
it did or not?

 DP>>> Speaking of Rather, did you notice that he apparently isn't on the ou
 DP>>> like everybody wants to think.  I saw him hosting the CBS State of th
 DP>>> Union address.

 EC>> Bush always has the network anchors over for lunch on the day of the
 EC>> State-of-the-Union, and of course Dan Rather was invited.  The report
that
 EC>> heard was that Bush treated Rather cordially.  This same reporter related
 EC>> that he had been the reporter who had reported the last-minute
pre-electio
 EC>> news that Bush had once been arrested for DWI.  The reporter said that
the
 EC>> next time he saw Bush, Bush clapped him on the back and told him that he
h
 EC>> done a fair story.  Both of these are examples why I like Bush.

 DP> I will agree that Bush is a folksy, personable kind of guy IF he were my
next
 DP> door neighbor.  Sadly, he isn't and  quite frankly, folksy and personable
 DP> aren't my voting criteria.

So, you prefer arrogant and aloof over personable and folksy?

Ed

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