Posted by Deputy 10derHeart on February 3, 2009, at 19:16:40
In reply to Re: Please be civil, posted by SLS on February 3, 2009, at 14:22:13
> I pretty much stay away from the politics board because it is the nature of politics to elicit strong passions that are adversarial.
Yes, I understand that. I wish it could be different, but....
> Could it be that the words "ruined" and "tortured" that are the problems? They are judgmental to some degree.
That's how I read those statements, yes.
>
> What if one were to say that the GDP declined by xx% during the Bush administration? Or. Water-boarding was a method of intelligence-gathering employed during the Bush administration.Those both sound fine to me.
> Just curious.I'm glad. And I wish you weren't sorry - you expressed the concept better than my long-winded blatherings ever do.
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