Analysis: Age an issue in the 2008 camp.

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Analysis: Age an issue in the 2008 camp.
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Sun, 06-15-2008 - 3:59pm

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Is Sen. John McCain too old to be president? Listen to some Democrats, and you'll think the 71-year-old Arizona senator is a man lost in a perpetual fog. He is "confused" and has "lost his bearings" or is "out of touch."


http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/15/mccain.age/index.html

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Registered: 02-27-2008
Wed, 06-18-2008 - 12:29am

Confirmation bias isn't about being one sided, its about believing whatever confirms your belief you are right.

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Registered: 01-02-2008
Wed, 06-18-2008 - 11:27am

"The irony of calling me on making a purported smart ass comment in response to a smart ass comment from Pres Reagan we can leave for another time."

So yours was a "purported" smart ass comment, but his *was* a smart ass comment? Why's that?

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Registered: 05-29-2008
Wed, 06-18-2008 - 11:40am

Exactly.


ALWAYS a slant on what was meant.


And we are always idiots who don't understand.


MySweetPerm

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Registered: 02-27-2008
Wed, 06-18-2008 - 11:55am

I'm not saying either were smart ass comments. I'm saying you don't get to determine one was, and the other was not.

If mine was, so was his, in which case its not rude -- or rather merely rude in the same proportion as the original.

Or his was not, in which case neither was mine.

Rose

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Registered: 02-27-2008
Wed, 06-18-2008 - 11:58am

Nah, you aren't an idiot if you don't understand. But when someone clarifies what they meant when you misunderstand and you insist that your verison of what they meant is more accurate than their own -- well, THEN you just might get there.

Rose

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Registered: 05-29-2008
Wed, 06-18-2008 - 1:40pm
You seriously have too much time on your hands.

MySweetPerm

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Registered: 02-27-2008
Wed, 06-18-2008 - 1:44pm

Apparently about as much time as you have.

Rose

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Registered: 03-19-2003
Wed, 06-18-2008 - 3:31pm
Ladies!
iVillage Member
Registered: 04-10-2008
Wed, 06-18-2008 - 5:48pm
That's what you get for going away ;) Teach you to run errands!
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Registered: 03-19-2003
Wed, 06-18-2008 - 7:01pm
LOL!!

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