Re: Decimating moral values

On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:15:23 +0000, Dave Heil <k8mn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>Steve Hayes wrote:
>> If you want me to point it out, then perhaps you could point out how I
was
>> being "disingenuous" as you claimed. 
>
>I'd be happy to do so.  Your claim about George Bush coveting the oil of 
>another country is disingenuous.  U.S. companies develop other countries 
>oil.  U.S. companies purchase other countries oil.  President Bush is 
>not actively involved in the oil business. He will make certain that the 
>United States has free access to purchase Mid-East oil because it is in 
>the best interest of the United States to do so.

And I'm sure similar "moral values" actuated Hitler when he sent German
troops
to invade Ukraine in 1941. 

>> I was criticising the claim by one Mat Staver that Barack Obama would
>> "decimate" moral values, thereby implying that he would abrogate one of
the
>> ten commandments, without specifying which one. 
>
>You did that, among other things.
>
>> If you think his statement was true and useful, then demonstrate its
truth and
>> usefulness. 
>
>There are numerous reasons why I will not vote for Obama in November. 
>The Ten Commandments are not among them.  You, I understand, get no vote 
>in the U.S. election.  You have the right to any opinion, no matter how 
>wrongheaded, but will play no part in the election of the American 
>president.  I do have a say in the outcome and have the right to 
>ridicule your irrelevant opinions.

None of which demonstrates either the truth or the usefulness of Staver's
statement.


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