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Old 10-10-2008, 06:32 AM
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Originally Posted by bytor2112 View Post
I was correcting Elphaba's statement.
Then you should have addressed it to me, not to the board in general. We can't read minds, and there was no way CC could have known you were correcting me. I didn't even know it until you just said so.

Speaking of corrections, Bush has also said: "You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror."

The point being, his is a common, and juvenile, theme of "with us or against us," and regardless of how he words it, Bush's use of this theme is simplistic and insulting. I am not a member of Bush's "us," and I am not a terrorist.

It is not Bush's place to define who, or what, I am.

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