Ya Know... For Every Person Accusing Some Of Us Of Being "Purists", I Would Love To Know...

[NanceGreggs]

65. No, sabrina ...

I did not try to turn "horrific tragedies into a political attempt at 'gotcha'."

I merely asked a question as to who you voted for in 2004, in view of your previous statements.

"AND you asked a question you did not know the answer to. Iow, you ASSUMED something you had no clue about."

The idea of "not asking a question you don't know the answer to" is a legal concept - i.e. a lawyer never asks a question of his own witnesses when they are on the stand at trial, unless he knows what their answer will be. In other words, said lawyer will avoid inadvertently eliciting a theretofore unknown answer that could prove detrimental to his case, or his client.

The saying has few applications outside of that narrow context, and has absolutely nothing to do with "assuming" anything. It only has to do with not inviting witnesses to put something on the record that the examining lawyer will be surprised by, having not known what the response would be before asking the question.

I'm sure you would agree that a competent journalist would never limit their interview questions to "what they already knew the answer to be" - if they did, there would be no point in doing an interview, would there? What about posing questions to politicians? Are you suggesting that they should ONLY be queried on things the citizenry already "knows" their answers to? Or should they be queried as to what we don't know their answers to be, before being asked point-blank?

"Clearly you voted for political reasons. I did not."

Yes, sabrina, I did vote for "political reasons" - which, if I am not mistaken, is what political elections are all about. And my "political reason" for voting for Kerry was to put a (D) in the WH, as opposed to four more years of a brain-dead Dubya and the president-in-all-but-name, Dick Cheney.

If you voted against Kerry - either by voting (R), by way of write-in vote for someone else, or by sitting out the election entirely - you contributed to the re-election of the Bush Baby & His Cohorts. As I've said here before: If your "principles" lead you to contributing to the election of Republicans, your principles suck - big time.