On Sun, 1 May 2005 22:16:13 -0500, Dan Minette wrote > From: "JDG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > O.k. Dan, call me crazy, but doesn't the word "approve" imply, well, > > "approval?" And isn't that far more akin to "getting permission" than > to "serious consideration"? > > But, he was referring to Kerry's position which was "serious consideration. > It is Cheney who indicated no difference between the two. ... > Serious consideration was translated, by Cheney, into approval.
Precisely. It is the Bush administration that has consistently and purposefully conflated giving serious consideration with getting permission. I understand the difference. They understand the difference. But they know that there are people out there -- "swing thinkers," since we're not having an election -- who haven't formed a definite understanding of difference, so they speak *as though* they were the same thing. It eventually becomes "common knowledge" that those damn liberals are demanding that the US ask other nations to be allowed to take action. With something like 80% of the talking heads on TV being booked by organizations who support the administration, it's no wonder it starts to smell like common sense. Then, by the clever conversion of "permission" to "permission slip" to activate the school-child frame, they made it even more repulsive. To reiterate, because all the flies buzzing around this particular draft animal's corpse make me think that it might get up and run again: - I understand the difference. - It is not who has conflated the two, it is our president's handlers. - They did so to move casual listeners to believe that the likes of Sen. Kerry would enslave our nation to others. Dave _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
