[mdlug-discuss] [mdlug] Iraq stuff again was:First impressions of Vista

[Robert Adkins]

allen wrote:
> Robert Adkins wrote:
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>> allen wrote:
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>>> Bill Maher forming national security policy. Now *that's* funny.
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>>     I really don't think that questioning someone's opinion on a matter, 
>> such as national security has any relation to what they do or have done 
>> for a living. 
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> Of course you do. Evidence your very next sentence.
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> Besides, it isn't Mr. Maher's vocation that makes his policy 
> pronouncement presumptuousness so funny. It's the contrast between the 
> seriousness with which he takes himself and the vapidity he displays in 
> his performance and his punditry.
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>> This is a nation that has had a "B" movie actor as a 
>> President after all. 
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> Here ya go. It's not all that accurate or complete but it isn't a 
> hatchet job either:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan
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>> I don't see anyone claiming that he was singularly 
>> unqualified purely because of his past work.
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> I don't see why anyone would claim that the six-term president of the 
> Screen Actor's Guild, successful syndicated columnist and two-term 
> governor of the state of California would be unqualified to because of 
> his past work either although the comparison between the two seems a bit 
> of a stretch.
>   

    Did you purposefully miss my point or are you simply being pedantic 
to an extreme degree?

    Seriously, my point is that people do, in fact, grow and change as 
they age and shift career focus. People are capable of learning new 
things as well as changing their views an opinions about topics.

    BTW, I wasn't knocking Reagan, as you so "shrewdly" assumed.

    -Rob