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« The Importance of Blogging | Main | It Just Won't Go Away » February 12, 2004A Debate I'd Like to SeeA reader of mine, a college student, sent the following (slightly-edited) email: So my professor has challenged me to a debate on the Bush AWOL issue. Little does he know, he has no ground to stand on. I have done a lot of research and a lot from your site, but I was wondering if there is any information you can give me at all (as repetitive as it might be) onOkay, HobbsOnline readers, can you help? As much as I have in my Was Bush AWOL? category, I don't have everything. Let's help him out. It might be good, for example, for a member of the military to write out a good, brief, explanation of the much-misconstrued military records, the APRC, Guard drill policies, etc., especially taking into account the way things were in 1972-73. Send it to me at bill-at-billhobbs.com and I'll forward it to the student. As for the debate - set for later this month - I wish I could see it. If it happens to be digitally videotaped and sent to me, I'd be glad to post it. I just know that a college student doing the kind of diligent truth-seeking research that this emailer obviously is doing is going to wipe the floor with a professor who is just sucking in whatever the facts-be-damned Bush haters are spewing out. Posted in Was Bush AWOL?
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Bill; With all respect, do you really expect mere fact to change the prof's mind, here? # of sources is his only hope. That and pointing out that the Instructor's argument is flawed because of its guilty-until-proven-innocent basis. What a stupid, irrelevant thing to "debate". Two people don't debate about facts, unless they are both morons or lawyers. But I repeat myself. You debate about principles and ideas. Like whether preemptive war is ever justified. Or, assuming it is, under what circumstances is that so. Or you debate whether a war is in fact preemptive. In short, you debate about things worth debating about. As to facts, if you care about them, you investigate. Maybe you debate what is worth investigating, I suppose. This site, and its Democratic counterparts, are the blogger's equivalent of the National Enquirer. You, all of you, are in my opinion repulsively pandering to the most simple-minded partisans on both sides. I don't give a horse's patootie what George Bush or John Kerry did 30 years ago. I'm more interested in what they are going to do now. But I suppose that as long as you keep getting hits, you (and they) will keep it up. Shame. Posted by: Malooy at February 13, 2004 09:07 AMI don't give a horse's patootie what George Bush or John Kerry did 30 years ago. I'm more interested in what they are going to do now So, what someone has done, their record over the last 30 years, doesn't matter in terms of knowing what the'll do now? If it does, Kerry's election chances are dead. It baffles me that there are people who think a person's past actions and records don't matter. Isn't that part of how we discern someone's character? We all make mistakes, but how we choose to handle our mistakes can show if we have a good or bad character. Bush made mistakes with the way he was living his life, drinking and drinking and driving especially, but he overcame those problems and changed the path his life was on. That says a lot about someone's character. Kerry...well, I think he's still on the same path he's been on since college. I think his goals include being admired and respected. Plain and simple, if you follow his life story that's what it boils down to. I haven't seen one thing that has ever showed me that Kerry has ever been concerned with his character development Posted by: Kathy at April 16, 2004 07:45 AMPost a comment
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