[Vision2020] Commentary by Michael Costello of the LewistonTribune

[Ralph Nielsen]

This is not a fair question. It is not a straightforward question. It  
is a loaded question. It isn't about whether Bush's scheme will work  
or not. It's a sleazy right-wing attempt to paint people as unpatriotic.

The real question is not about whether some scheme of Bush's should  
or should not succeed. It's about whether one thinks that Bush's plan  
is likely to succeed or not.

I am old enough to remember when Adolf Hitler was unhappy about the  
German losses on the Russian front in WW II. So he declared that from  
then on the forces would be guided, not by what the generals thought,  
but by the intuition of The Leader (Der Fuehrer). The rest is  
history, as they say.

You can imagine how the Germans would have answered this question: Do  
you personally want the Russian plan The Leader announced last week  
to succeed?"

Ralph

PS: Costello is not a professor. He's just a research assistant. I  
have no idea what he researches, but it isn't history. Or logic.



g. crabtree jampot at adelphia.net
Sun Feb 11 07:52:07 PST 2007

"19. Do you personally want the Iraq plan President Bush announced  
last week to succeed?"

What exactly makes this a loaded question? It seems quite  
straightforward to me. It's not as though the question was framed in  
such a way as to beg any given response. "Do you want the plan to  
succeed or do you want to see children and puppies die?" now that's a  
loaded question. What I find odd is that any American of any  
political persuasion would answer the original poll question in the  
negative.

g