--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
> amadeus amadeus wrote:
>
> >What bugs me, to further the example, is when folks
> >begin to make speculative, subjective, often
> >pseudo-psychoanalytic claims about Bush to make
> >arguments against his policies, e.g., he's a dummy
> who
> >uses words funny, he puts his faith in the Lord,
> he's
> >greedy and doesn't care about people, he's an
> >alcoholic and therefore fiscally irresponsible, he
> >wants to "avenge" his father in Iraq, etc.
>
> Why are those things "subjective" and the projected
> balance of the
> Social Security system 45 years from now
> "objective"? We know almost
> all these things to be true: there are transcripts
> of Bush's
> incoherent speaking style, plenty of evidence of his
> crude Christian
> faith, his indifference to people (e.g., his mockery
> of the doomed
> Karla Fay Tucker), he was an alcoholic and it's
> clinically
> established that alcoholics frequently exhibit
> certain personality
> traits, etc. Why is that a lesser form of knowledge?
Because Bush's balance of Social Security is going to have millions of seniors surviving on cat food.
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