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Originally Posted by warrenly
The conspicuous lack of criticism of the left is ample evidence that left-leaning ideals represent the ideals of most people in the message boards you mention. Everyone is guilty of selective application of critical thinking, everyone. But, at some point in your life, you and everyone else settled on something they believe is right and just. Very few people will question seriously what they've decided they believe.
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I agree, Warren. Very few people seriously question the foundations of their beliefs, and very few of them are capable of analyzing them objectively.
Nevertheless, I submit that it is no excuse for the lack of critical response to political rhetoric used by one's own candidate in the course of a campaign. A skeptical Democrat has no intellectual obligation to tear apart everything his candidate says or implies, but a complete lack of critical analysis is disingenuous. Senator Kerry is not an infallible oracle. Neither, of course, is President Bush.
After reading so many of the political posts here, however, one might conclude that the President is a barely literate, bumbling, incompetent baffoon hellbent on destroying truth, justice, and liberty. One might also conclude that his distinguished opponent is a political savior waiting in the wings to deliver us from all manner of harm, foreign and domestic, and who will make all things right with the world once again. Both portraits are exaggerated nonsense and bear little resemblance to reality.
I don't give the President a pass on his official actions or omissions. You shouldn't give Senator Kerry one either, nor should you portray the world as a huge mess made by the President which will by compounded and allowed to run amok if we don't vote him out of office.
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