You can look at these quotes and form your own opinions.
“I’m going to try to see if I can remember as much to make it sound like I’m smart on the subject.” –George W. Bush, answering a question about a possible flu pandemic, Cleveland, July 10, 2007
“Being president is like running a cemetery: you’ve got a lot of people under you and nobody’s listening.” –Bill Clinton
The beauty of facts is that they allow others to correctly or incorrectly make their own value judgment. They are not themselves “value judgments.”
Clinton correctly articulated a clever pun and Bush did not.
We’ve had over eighteen years of public English education that did little more that teach us how to differentiate between a stupid statement and a clever statement. Value judgments and opinions are the marshmallows of the debate world. They won’t win you any formal debates.
Who is more intelligent, Bush or Clinton? At least Clinton gets his punch lines right!
Treason is what I call doing for the few instead of ALL. No law should ever be passed by one party, for example. NO law should be passed to allow outsourcing without clear provisions for justice. There should be feedback. No person should be indiscriminately hurt by any law.
Ditto for war. It should clearly and with 100% proof be for the benefit of ALL. For example, if Mexico invades Texas, we should allow them to have Texas. Just kidding. As much as I don’t like Texas, a foreign invasion does not benefit anybody. Wait, Bush is from Texas isn’t he? They are Republican.
The point is, the law that foreign invasion of our soil will not happen without a fight to repel the invaders is a law that benefits ALL. It is a principle that is for ALL even if getting rid of Texas might be good for some.