[lbo-talk] Mind-boggling contempt for Bush

[John Thornton]

Carrol Cox wrote:
> Thomas Seay wrote:
>   
>> --- On Fri, 9/26/08, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I don't know how good the grounds were, but many after
>>> the 1960 election
>>> attributed Kennedy's victory to Nixon's
>>> 5-o'clock shadow. Certainly it
>>> would seem improbable that the _arguments_ offered by
>>> either would have
>>> any appreciable effect.
>>>       
>> Wasn't it claimed, though, that radio listeners thought Nixon won?  Perhaps that's how they came to speculate that it was Nixon's "5-c'clock shadow".
>> If that is what they based it upon, they could have just as well speculated that the reason radio-listeners preferred Nixon was due to Kennedy's grating accent.
>>     
>
> Interesting. Perhaps speculating on the motives or internal psychic
> states of strngers, particularly millions of quite varied strangers, is
> usually a mug's game.
>
> Carrol

But you like speculating on peoples motives as is evident by the below 
comment you posted.

"Shane has convinced me, for one, that he is not offended by
Palin's politics but really fears a woman in high office, ANY woman."

John Thornton