Do you think Obama thinks dialectically?

[Writer]

:shrug:

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Er

:shrug:

[NYC_SKP]

2. Absolutely. And I think it's a key to his success.

But, following someone as one-dimensional as GWB, it's confusing to most people.

:patriot:

[timeforpeace]

3. Quite a leap of faith there.

[slackmaster]

4. Is his head made of an electrically isulating substance with a high polarization density?

[Aragorn]

6. never mind

What difference does it make? Thoughts count less than actions.

[slackmaster]

8. What are you, some kind of Physic?

:crazy:

[Clio the Leo]

5. lol, does that Palin woman shoot caribou? NT

[Undercurrent]

7. Yes, I do.

And it was this that first interested me in his candidacy. Not his rhetorical skill, nor the "cool factor". Although both of those are, I think, shaped by his underlying intellectual affinity for reasoned discussion.

[smalll]

9. Are you trying to call him a Marxist or something?

:shrug:

[Writer]

11. In the Sartrian sense, yes. n/t

[bertman]

10. If you're demeaning him because he's left-handed, I'm gonna ALERT on your ass!

[EFerrari]

12. His thinking and his decision making process aren't necessarily the same thing.

[rug]

13. Yes. The President is the antithesis of the Candidate.

[CTLawGuy]

14. "antithesis?"

hyperbolic much. can't see how this qualifies as "constructive criticism".

[rug]

15. Look up Hegel.

[CTLawGuy]

18. why?

does "antithesis" not mean "opposite"?

[freddie mertz]

16. No. nt.

[polichick]

17. No, he thinks politically. nt