[CLUE-Talk] Another Bush Lie v2.0

[Randy Arabie]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:51:02PM -0700, Jeff Cann wrote:
> On Friday 31 October 2003 9:31 am, Randy Arabie wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I agree with your points and I said in response to Jed that I don't think this 
> is a partisian issue - both parties are biased; otherwise there'd be no 
> differences between them.
> 
> > There's no such thing as a source of the "unvarnished
> > truth".   Anything that requires interpretation by a human
> > is varnished.  There is no such thing as an unbiased human.
> 
> And given this, you just proved my point - which is why I find it assine that 
> our President thinks that:  "And the most objective sources I have are people 
> on my staff who tell me what's happening in the world."
>
> I'm disagreeing with the 'most objective sources' part.  Simply not true, you 
> said so yourself with the 'no such thing as an unbiased human'.

I didn't prove your point...unless you are suggesting he
should get his information from some non-human sources.

What 'more objective sources' would you suggest?  

 God?  
 Allah?  
 Jesus?  
 Tarot Cards?
 The Stars (I think Nancy Regan go criticized for that!)

> 
> This is fundamentally too simplistic a view point.  If you're the leader of 
> the free world, as the US President is often called, doesn't it make sense to 
> get as much info as possible, perhaps from other sources than your own 
> cabinet. 

I disagree.  The whole purpose of the cabinet is to get the
information and report to the President.  Where do you think
the people on his Cabinet get the info?

I would expect from a variety of sources.
-- 

Allons Rouler!

Randy
http://www.arabie.org/