[lbo-talk] Obama Appears to Prefer Trigger - WAS Re: RIP,"robust" public option; Barack tails Olympia

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 23 12:55:23 PDT 2009


Carrol Cox wrote:


> SA wrote:
>
>> Americans like bipartisanship and are allergic to "extremism."
>>
>
> All Americans? All the time? This is genetically programmed into
> residents of the norhtern western hemisphere? The government never has
> and never will go against what Americans like? It will always avoid what
> they dislike? Amazing.
>
> This never changes? Or it only changes from changes in the sun spots and
> it is presumptuous to think human activity could change it?
>
> Please explain this odd proposition.
>

Which proposition, mine or yours?

Yours, the one about sunspots and genetic programming, I'm unable to explain. I was hoping you could. My proposition, though, was a generalization about Americans' political preferences, the sort of proposition that can be tested with things like poll data and so on. (I know, your favorite.)

SA



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