I believe what I observe.

Oh yeah, well then observe this. A person who does not want to be President cannot become President, so in light of Vidals (or Platos if you prefer) statement then who is left as a viable choice? Nobody. It's completely unrealistic to think a persons desire to take a leadership position should be a dis-qualifier.

That's why I think so little of the concept and I don't care if you agree or not.

As for Steve his habit of breaking down his targets posts into tiny little bits is deliberately irritating. So going forward if I give him a little guff for it when he does it to me then you'll know why.

Obviously, you do care.

As for Steve breaking down a post, I guess it would be irritating having the holes in an argument exposed.

I care enough to explain it to you. You should be flattered.


That's not the purpose or the effect.

Old tricks? I pick things apart when someone addresses several different thoughts in one paragraph, or sometimes even one sentence.

You brought up Gore Vidal. I had no idea he had said anything of the kind. I just heard the phrase a long time ago and thought it had some little grain of truth in it.

My original comment was not aimed at you, which makes me curious as to why you took it so seriously,

Not really. As I said, I had no idea that Gore Vidal said that, so you accuse me of misquoting him when I wasn't really quoting him at all.

No, I don't know. I don't even know who you're talking about. As for Google, I simply queried a part of the sentence. I felt the need to know what I was supposedly misquoting. Douglas Adams and Plato came up automatically, since they had said something similar.

As I said, I only pick things apart when someone touches on several different subjects in the same post. Would you rather I wrote one huge post addressing all those subjects?

If I took it personally and it wasn't meant to be, then that's my mistake and I apologize for it. As for being intentionally irritating or snarky, that is never my intent.

I did? Actually I'm totally confused. What in the world is an "Okie dem"?

OK, sorry Steve. It just irks me when you get attacked for being petty when I know it's not the case.

I appreciate it, and I only brought it up in response to your post rather than his because yours was last. I must be overly obtuse, but I really don't know what you guys are talking about.

This is the precise point where it goes off the rails. August, you assume that Steve is talking about what Gore Vidal(the Okie dem) said because that is who you think of.

You are making an assumption based on your bias instead of what was written.

Well thank you so much for your unsolicited opinion Buddahaid.

Too bad. Go have a good cry.

Thank you. I neither knew that Vidal was from Oklahoma or was a Democrat.

Ok I was gonna let it go but I have to ask, do you actually think that you hurt my feelings? :har:



Dude really, get over yourself! I am far too old to give a crap about anything you or anyone else might say. You are nothing to me other than one of a hundred anonymous internet personas that I will read on a dozen discussion forums tonight. So far your uninvited butting in has provided me with enough distraction to continue to reply to you but when I finally tire of it don't read anything into that other than you've begun to bore me.

Friends. A voter have his or her reason for the choice they make at the voting station.

Reason's like:

The politician is handsome/attractive
or
We in our family have always voted on...
(I have met/seen many with those attitude)

And of course then it's those who have a more strict relationship to the politicians or party they put their vote on.

Markus

And now it's my turn to comment on your posting habits. This is fairly typical. Long ago when a member from a different country tried to argue with you, you told him that it was an American matter and what he had to say didn't count. Now you object to someone's "unsolicited" opinion. Rather than discuss a point you either preach or just tell people you don't have to talk to them. I've seen you comment on a few topics, but in years of exchange here I've never seen you actually discuss anything. If someone doesn't like Trump then they "must have voted for Hillary". It's always "those Dems", or "Trump haters"; never "well lets discuss what is wrong with Trump". I've mentioned before that with you it's always Us vs Them, never "Do they have anything to offer?".

As I said, all preaching, all argument, never, even once, a simple discussion.