On 12/09/2016 5:16 PM, philo wrote:
On 12/09/2016 04:37 PM, dpb wrote:
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curious as to why you read it to begin with? Did you go searching for
Newt to see what would set you off or was it sent to you by another with
the express purpose of generating the reaction it did?



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When it comes to politics I don't know jack **** and probably made that
statement about Newt because it didn't sit right with me at the time.

The main thing I have against him is that he's Hubert Humphry-II
just a big gas bag.

So you've said but given that it doesn't answer the question of why
would you go searching, knowing likely whatever he was going to say
would set you off? Or, as I surmised, was it aimed your direction by
somebody else for the purpose? I'm interested in these dynamics; I
believe they're a very destructive trend in modern culture.

Of all the comparisons I can think of Newt vis a vis HH is not one I'd
make. But, what would be the point of yet another tweet saying the same
old hackeneyed phrase everybody else has used for the last 75 years? At
least, Newt gave reason to consider what he had to say whether you agree
or not. And, in this case, don't see how anybody can not think we're in
dangerous times with serious threats all around us...