<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:26 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I thought of two comments you may freely quote. Say nice things about me if you do.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I as a libertarian oppose both mainstream candidates for opposite reasons. One for what he might do based on what he has said; the other for what she has already done in contradiction to what she has said.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">In 2016, Americans face a dilemma: the risk that one candidate is lying vs the risk the other is telling the truth. The probability of both approaches certainty.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike</p></font></span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">I beg to differ. You have stated a false dichotomy - both are telling the truth and both are lying. I think this is the certainty. </div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">Now as to whose subset of lying is bigger, or whose subset of telling the truth is bigger, then you can make a case.</div> </div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Is it lying when you tell people what you want to accomplish when in fact there is little hope of that actually occurring if you get elected? I say no - it reveals your values, or at least the values you want the public to think you have - which is demagoguery. Now if you believe your own lies, then you are loco (some would call this normal). And you don't think that you are lying. "No, wait, it was only sarcasm." </div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p></font></span></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0);display:inline">bill w</div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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