On Jun 12, 2011, at 4:10 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> loser = someone who has given up on politics. He certainly is being rhetorically sly by drawing on the rhetorical power of the word, but I'm gonna guess that it's his point. Rhee's politics, policies, actions could have been called ugly using the same rhetorical tactic.
I wouldn't have used the word, as obscene as I often am, because it could be a distraction. But it was a bit of invective among virtual friends, not a piece of considered argument. But it came from a place of considered argument.
People do love being righteous.
Doug