[lit-ideas] Re: Why us?
- From: John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 12:44:15 +0900
On 2005/07/10, at 12:25, Robert Paul wrote:
Pointing
to Bush's failings serves no useful purpose.
What would count as a "useful purpose"?
As a political activist, I find it useful in several ways, keeping
supporters whipped up, damaging the reputation of the "at best
deluded and incompetent and at worst malign" leader of our
opposition, etc. In an Aristotlean vein, I might argue that attacking
the character of the opposition is to usefully deploy the third of
the classic rhetorical tools.
Just curious.
John McCreery
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