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#27 Jan 29 2015 at 2:59 PM Rating: Good
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I guess to me, any response that consists solely of "him too!" isn't much of a response.
A good way to keep people from making fun of your double standard would be to not have a double standard.
Yeah, but that would be backing up, we need to keep moving forward. So, triple standard might work.

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#29 Jan 29 2015 at 3:09 PM Rating: Decent
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But surely you can also understand how one could get the impression that your post might just be about deflection?
It was simply an observation, as CLEARLY stated.


Sure. But the observation primarily served the purpose of deflecting the criticism away from Clinton without actually addressing it.

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Here, let me hold your hand; just replace "AMC Pacer" with candidate" and "bad paint job" with "personality quirk":

gbaji: My friends' dad owned an 1976 AMC Pacer and it had a terrible paint job that peeled within a year

me: My mom's 1975 Pacer peeled like that, too. I wonder if that's why Pacers were not popular?


Except that you didn't do this. This would be equivalent to saying "Yeah, Clinton had the same problem the last time she ran in a primary, so maybe she'll have a problem this time around as well". Comparing one model year to another of the same car would be equivalent to comparing two different years of campaigning by the same person. You didn't do that.

What you did was more equivalent to a conversation about a new Chevy coming out, and known Ford guy mentions a possible problem with it, and your response is to point out that there was a Ford that had the same problem once. Not talk about whether the problem exists, or how much of a problem it might be, or how it might affect sales of the actual car in question, but just out of the blue say that a Ford had that problem. I don't think it's unreasonable at all to assume that the person who did that was a Chevy guy and was deflecting discussion of a possible problem with the Chevy by attacking Ford. The clear purpose is to push the criticism back at the Ford guy, right? Everyone would get that.

Hence my response. You didn't engage in any kind of discussion about Clinton, but shifted it to a conversation about Romney.

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It was an observation about a possible shared trait as compared between two humans.


And the purpose of making the observation was? Did you have a point? A little self examination might be in order here.


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Get it yet?


I get it. I also get that when people verbalize/write observations there's always a reason for doing so. Otherwise it's just random words.
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#30 Jan 29 2015 at 5:56 PM Rating: Good
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#31 Jan 29 2015 at 6:14 PM Rating: Good
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I agree with gbaji. Given Bijou's track record of pretty much only blasting gbaji, it looked like a deflection.
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#32 Jan 29 2015 at 6:24 PM Rating: Good
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Yeah, I think we really need to dig deeper into Bijou's file to understand what's going on here.
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#33 Jan 29 2015 at 6:48 PM Rating: Good
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Uglysasquatch wrote:
I agree with gbaji. Given Bijou's track record of pretty much only blasting gbaji, it looked like a deflection.
I general only "blast" people here if they are liars and/or hypocrites. Or just terrible examples of human beings.

If that's usualy gbaji, well, there ya go. That's on him.
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#34 Jan 30 2015 at 7:08 AM Rating: Good
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Yeah, I think we really need to dig deeper into Bijou's file to understand what's going on here.

He was abandoned as a babe in the Black Hills and raised by bunny-rabbits.
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#35 Jan 30 2015 at 9:07 AM Rating: Good
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Impressive he avoided the lawnmowers.
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#36 Jan 30 2015 at 11:01 AM Rating: Excellent
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Well, Mitt's not running so we can put it all behind us.
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#37 Jan 30 2015 at 11:23 AM Rating: Good
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Truly a shocking revelation.
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#39 Jan 30 2015 at 12:58 PM Rating: Decent
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Well, Mitt's not running so we can put it all behind us.

Right, because it's Jeb's turn. He may be tone deaf, but Mitt's not a moron.
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#40 Jan 30 2015 at 1:27 PM Rating: Excellent
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Also he'd probably like to avoid being the Adlai Stevenson of the 21st Century.
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Also he'd probably like to avoid being the Adlai Stevenson of the 21st Century.

Woah! Easy there. Adlai Stevenson was a kind, intelligent, compassionate man with the charisma of a rotting tree stump. Romney has charisma, he's just a terrible, terrible, person who hates poor people and dogs and wears magic underpants. Not a fair comparison.
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#42 Jan 30 2015 at 1:52 PM Rating: Excellent
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Well, I'm still right. No way would RMoney want to be known as kind, intelligent and compassionate. Those are sucker traits.
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#43 Jan 30 2015 at 2:17 PM Rating: Default
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Well, Mitt's not running so we can put it all behind us.
Didn't he say that before?
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