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Originally posted by Spanky
When you want to tell me what the American public is thinking, or how their thinking is changing, or what the effect of a certain policy position is, cite me a poll or tell me the results of a focus group. Don't tell me what one person thinks because that information is useless. And this has nothing to do with the First Amendment.
Again - a concept that is so basic almost any moron should be able to get it but some how people find it necessary to dispute the obvious.
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"Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one."
-Henry David Thoreau,
Civil Disobedience
Do not mistake my statement for a blunder that this is a First Amendment issue. It is not. I am saying something slightly more subtle: the Founding Fathers* found the potential necessity of having an individual bring his greivances forward
so important they included it in the Constitution to make sure that right was not abridged. You may disagree with her (as many do). You may disagree with the news media chosing to provided so much coverage of her (but that's a different part of the First Amendment). But her right, both Constitutionally and morally, to bring her greivance to the President in this manner, is absolute, as is yours and mine and the guys' who [used to] camp out in Lafayette Park prtesting nuclear arms.
*Admittedly, Democrats.
