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From: sykora@csd2.UUCP (Michael Sykora)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Reagan a pathological liar:re to Cramer
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Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 13:28:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 14 13:28:00 1986
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>/* orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) /  1:32 pm  Mar 10, 1986 */

>Somehow it seems quite a feeble excuse to say that Reagan's claiming
>to propose only a 3% increase in money for the Pentagon when he is
>actually proposing 8% is "typical for American politics".
>It's like arguing that it was perfectly OK for Marcos to win
>a district 13,445 to 0 because Mayor Daley did similar tricks
>(never *so* blatant) in Chicago or that Tricky Dicky's dirty tricks,
>bugging his opponents political headquarters, putting enemies on
>a hit list for the IRS were just "politics as usual".

Which is it  --  "typical" or "perfectly OK" ?
It seems to me that the first of these two phrases means normative,
the second, ethical.  Are these two meanings that easy to confuse.
 
>I could care less if Reagan swears and I would grant him the courtesy
>of lying about such a little thing if he would grant me and
>the American public the courtesy of stopping his lies about
>just about every major issue facing the nation.

"Just about?"  --  That's got to be at least 50%.  How about a list?
 
>     tim sevener    whuxn!orb

Mike Sykora