Sep. 18, 2007 - The Truly Uninformed
Arby took exception to my latest blog entry and I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt-
Sep. 18, 2007 - Untitled Comment
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| Posted by Arby (24.145.244.230) |
| You've done a very nice job of depicting all conservatives, in general, and all Thompson supporters, in particular, of being uninformed. Of course, neither are true. |
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Sep. 18, 2007 - Uninformed?
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| Posted by shanajk (67.143.163.144) |
| You're right. Of course that's not true. I'm sure it's just the ones I happen to meet. I'm so glad that there are informed people like you out there. |
Hmm, but now, after reading op-ed columnist, George Will's latest article at the Washington Times, I find that I was wrong about who it is that's truly uninformed.
Here are some snippets-
Sean Hannity, who is no Torquemada conducting inquisitions of conservatives, asked Thompson: "When you look at the other current crop of candidates -- Republicans -- where is the distinction between your positions and what you view as theirs?" Thompson replied: "Well, to tell you the truth, I haven't spent a whole lot of time going into the details of their positions."
He also is unfamiliar with the details of his own positions. Consider his confusion the next day when talk radio host Laura Ingram asked him about something he ardently supported -- the McCain-Feingold expansion of government regulation of political speech. His rambling, incoherent explanation was just clear enough to be alarming about what he believes, misremembers and does not know.
Thompson said he had advocated McCain-Feingold to prevent, among other things, corporations and labor unions from "giving large sums of money to individual politicians." But corporate and union contributions to individual candidates were outlawed in 1907 and 1947, respectively.
Ingraham asked about McCain-Feingold's ban on issue ads that mention a candidate close to an election. He blamed an unidentified "they" who "added on" that provision, which he implied was a hitherto undiscussed surprise. But surely he knows that bills containing the ban had been introduced in previous sessions of Congress before passage in 2002.
Read the entire article here-
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/12/AR2007091202025.html?referrer=emailarticle
I sincerely hope that Thompson's supporters are more informed than the candidate they support.
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