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celebratoryTopic: Politics
Just "counterintuitive."
At least that's what the editor-in chief at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel thinks.
"Fact: A whole lot of people voted to re-elect President Bush.That's a relief!! Not!!
Evaluation: Those people were wrong.
Inference: These people are stupid.
Now, I don't have any problem with the evaluation of wrongness here. If you can look at that first presidential term and come up with re-election as the right thing to do, then perhaps you also thought the Vietnam years really were the wonder years.
But I'm hearing that inference of stupidity a lot these days in various permutations. We shouldn't go there, if for no other reason than what goes around comes around. No, not stupid. But counterintuitive? You bet."
Posted by Dean
at 12:01 AM CST
