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Originally posted by JR@Apr 25 2003, 05:03 PM
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Members of each party can go back and forth trying to discredit the other based upon their best guesses of what the person's intent is.
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i would not say "best guesses of what the persons intent is". i would say that politicians try to discredit by sucessfully characterizing or mischaracterizing their intentions.
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I'm talking about "we the people" though. Not the politicians themselves.
I don't think Alex would be attempting to mischaracterize Bush, for example.
I think Alex believes Bush is bad and will ruin the country and hence the world if he stays in power.
I agree that political strategists are excellent at mischaracterizing politicians and probably do that more than the politicians themselves. There's certainly a healthy dose of those that just don't like the other person ot party and therefor guess that person's intentions as disingenuous.
Last edited by Colin at Apr 26 2003, 04:34 AM