Reply #83: It would not save a nano second to go there with you [View All]

[Tom Rinaldo]

I think you have a personal anti Clark agenda or at the very least you have formed a deeply felt highly negative opinion of him to which you are very attached. That is the most neutral way I know of to put it, and it would be unwise to emphatically say more than that. If I didn't know better I would say that you are going out of your way to create tensions between those who admire Al Gore and those who admire Wesley Clark.

You do not accept some matters as being in dispute because you prefer the version of truth that compliments your current position. You have already condemned Wesley Clark as being an opportunist and pretender, therefor you will not accept any of his explanations about what transpired in interviews, that much is clear. You will not accept as a possibility that a poor or wrong choice of words may have led to confusion. You show no interest in context that establishes that Clark's off the cuff comments reflected a period of several days during which more than one IWR resolution was under consideration for which multiple wordings had been proposed, and that Clark in fact was engaged in discussions with the Democratic Senate leadership over a resolution that they and he could support instead of Bush's. So you dismiss out of hand Clark's assertion that he would have supported "a" IWR resolution, but not "the" IWR resolution that ultimately passed. One of the DU threads I wanted to search for had detailed information in fact on how that was misconstrued by the media.

You think you have your "gotcha" moment on Clark and you won't let anything get between you and it unless I can pull off an episode of the Twilight Zone and have those print articles wiped off the face of the Earth and magically replaced with others bearing the same date but different words. That much is clear to me now. Your depth of disdain for Clark, the conclusions you seek to draw about him from the material you decide to work with, to the exclusion of all else, shows me your fixed mind set. I am not equating you with a Right wing Republican, but I am saying that it would be just about as productive for me to attempt an open minded discussion with you about Wesley Clark as it would be for me to do so with one of them. We are coming from profoundly different realities here.

You will adhere to the evidence that supports your world view regarding Clark, and I am sure that you feel the same about me. I do not want to hijack a thread to have an argument that I see no value in pursuing.