[MD] Distinguishing Levels (Individual level)

[Platt Holden]

> Case asked Platt July 3rd:
> 
> >Name one specific lie that Gore has been accused of. Show any fact he
> >has distorted to promote fear. How has anything Al Gore said in his
> >entire career been used to erode our civil liberties? Do you have the
> >slightest clue what the man is talking about? He acknowledges that he
> >and his family were wrong to grow tobacco after it was shown to be been
> >harmful. I see nothing but personal regret and personal pain that it
> >took his sister's death to show the family the light. When you ask for
> >leaders of personal character and a strong sense of public duty and
> >then belittle Principled men like Al Gore and Jimmy Carter, you do
> >yourself and your "cause" no service.
> 
> Platt replied:
> 
> I don't want to get into an argument about the virtues and vices of
> George Bush, Al Gore and Jimmy Carter. That's for another web site.
> Suffice to say we both have our reasons for thinking as we do about
> politics and those involved in it.
> 
> Ant McWatt comments:
> 
> Sounds like Platt is evading the question.  "Virtues and vices" and
> their application in the "real world" are the concern of MOQ Discuss as
> much as anything else.  Moreover, some reasons and motivations for
> "thinking as we do about politics" are better than others!

I'm with Case who agrees that the virtues and vices of political 
figures belong in another web site. 

> So back to the question, Platt: Name one specific lie that the great and
> honorable ex-vice-president Al Gore has been accused of.

If I did, you would simply object as you have before that my source is 
unreliable. So what's the point?

> It appears to me that you have learnt _absolutely_ nothing from how your
> opinions were manipulated by the neo-con Arkansas Project.  Hitler's
> propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, relied on Establishment loving
> people such as yourself to support the occupation and explotation of
> other sovereign countries by his government.

Very strange things appear to you from time to time, for sure. :-)

Best regards,
Platt