Re: An oasis on the moon?

From: Rand Simberg (simberg.interglobal_at_org.trash)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 17:14:23 GMT

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 14:59:20 +0100, in a place far, far away, "Ool"
<ulrich.schreglmann@t-online.de> made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

>"Rand Simberg" <simberg.interglobal@org.trash> wrote in message news:422e3a42.985732288@newsgroups.bellsouth.net...
>> On 27 Feb 2005 18:54:31 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Double-A"
>> <double-a@hush.ai> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such a way
>> as to indicate that:
>
>>>Did Bush the first lie when he said, "Read my lips, no more taxes."?
>
>> Of course not, unless he had no intention of keeping that pledge.
>> There's no evidence to that effect. It was simply a broken promise.
>> That's a bad thing (and he was punished for it), but it's not a "lie."
>> People seem to have gone so nuts in their Bush hatred that they don't
>> even know what the word "lie" means.
>
>
>Well, calling him a liar would mean giving him the benefit of the
>doubt. Calling him delusional is much more serious a condemnation.

There are other choices. Likely he didn't think that he'd have to
raise taxes. That's not delusional, it just underestimated how much
pressure would be put on him by the Democrats to do so.

And if you're referring to the current president, if he was
delusional, so was Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy, Tony Blair, and almost
every major western politician and the world intelligence community.
Even someone who was genuinely delusional, Saddam himself, thought
that he had WMD (and it remains unclear as to whether he did at the
time, and if they got sent to Syria, or somewhere else, just before
the war began). If he couldn't figure out that he didn't have them,
how was George Bush supposed to do so?

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