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Forum: Politics 10-19-2005, 01:53 PM
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Views: 323
Posted By MMMMMM
Re: On target

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1) There are some disciplines in which these types of people are more concentrated. Political science is simply not one of them. This is just an empirical fact. It is really in ethnic...
Forum: Politics 10-19-2005, 12:59 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
Posted By MMMMMM
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tolbiny,
I don't think it's BS, but I wil amend my statement to include some conservative educated elites as well.

I generally have more trust and confidence in the opinion of the common man...
Forum: Politics 10-19-2005, 12:55 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
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" educated liberal elite"



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and how they're characterized as being the only educated polysci types. For every educated liberal elite with out of touch with reality views there is a...
Forum: Politics 10-19-2005, 12:41 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
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"The typical Wisconsin dairy farmer, or New Hampshire pig farmer, typically would recognize the nonsense in such views"

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This is crap imo- the typical american...
Forum: Politics 10-19-2005, 12:33 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
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What would be an example of a simple and plain political view?


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Forum: Politics 10-19-2005, 12:25 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
Posted By MMMMMM
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So what your "simple" poitical position is based upon is a very persoanl and likely nuanced position as to what is "your damned buisness".

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Not at all. The injunction to...
Forum: Politics 10-19-2005, 12:06 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
Posted By MMMMMM
Re: On target

Jeez, DVaut1, please read the entire line of responses, not just the last two;-) And realize that discussions morph slightly when points are trying to be made or illustrated.

Anyway I hope I've...
Forum: Politics 10-19-2005, 11:48 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
Posted By MMMMMM
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Neither Ward Churchill nor Nicholas de Genova were political science professors; Ward Churchill was an ethnic studies professor, and I believe de Genova was an anthropologist.

Call it...
Forum: Politics 10-19-2005, 09:45 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
Posted By MMMMMM
Re: On target

My objection is not to the beliefs of all political science professors, but rather to beliefs such as: "the US is the greatest oppressor in the world"; "all cultures and traditions are of equal...
Forum: Politics 10-18-2005, 08:01 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
Posted By MMMMMM
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In my opinion a midwestern dairy farmer is more likely to hold a realistic political view than is a professor of political science on one of the coasts.

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Forum: Politics 10-18-2005, 07:39 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
Posted By MMMMMM
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That everyone should mind their own damn business.


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Bravo.
Forum: Politics 10-18-2005, 07:34 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
Posted By MMMMMM
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Thanks Andy. Believe it or not I went to sleep last night on a cheerful note after reading your last posts, because it seemed as if I had won two pots in a row. That's better than I've done all...
Forum: Politics 10-18-2005, 01:27 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
Posted By MMMMMM
Re: Progress In Iraq Continues...

So, that will be investigated. Still you can't claim that no progres is being made in Iraq because the progress being made is broader than that part which may be in question. Therefore it shouldn't...
Forum: Politics 10-18-2005, 01:23 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
Posted By MMMMMM
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We are fighting for democracy in Vietnam. . .The terorists hate us for our freedom. . . The insurgency is in its last throes. . . There's a missile gap . . . All swallowed lock, stock and...
Forum: Politics 10-18-2005, 01:07 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
Posted By MMMMMM
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What would be an example of a simple and plain political view?


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That everyone should mind their own damn business.
Forum: Politics 10-18-2005, 01:06 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
Posted By MMMMMM
Re: Progress In Iraq Continues...

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I know you don't agree with everything in the article you cited, but certainly it doesn't meet the criterion you have set for analysis. So why cite it under the title "Progress in Iraq...
Forum: Politics 10-18-2005, 12:44 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
Posted By MMMMMM
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"The simpler and plainer the [political] view, the more likely it is to be correct, generally speaking."

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I disagree. My sense is that the simple and plain...
Forum: Politics 10-18-2005, 12:38 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
Posted By MMMMMM
Re: Progress In Iraq Continues...

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MMMMMM said that for critics of the administration to acknowledge any good happening in Iraq would be to question their world view and preconceived notions.

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Not quite. I...
Forum: Politics 10-17-2005, 11:06 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
Posted By MMMMMM
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The only other thing I would say to the original post is that it is interesting that the propaganda machine "analysts" spend more energy in attacking (what they call) the Left rather...
Forum: Politics 10-17-2005, 06:56 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
Posted By MMMMMM
Re: Progress In Iraq Continues...

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Come on man, you can do better than that. I agree with you that there have been positive events in Iraq recently. I was highly skeptical of the situation before the Sunni compromise, but...
Forum: Politics 10-17-2005, 05:05 PM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
Posted By MMMMMM
Re: Progress In Iraq Continues...

Hi Sam,

My take is that in the last quarter or two, substantial progress has been made both in Iraq and in the war against terrorism. I don't see any leftists acknowledging this, though; rather,...
Forum: Politics 10-17-2005, 09:09 AM
Replies: 53
Views: 323
Posted By MMMMMM
Progress In Iraq Continues...

...despite the terrorists, and the ankle-biters and hecklers.

The foreign terrorists in Iraq appear to be losing traction and capability; the remnant Saddamite insurgents have toned things down...
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