[EL] Quote of the day

[Paul Lehto]

On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Smith, Brad <BSmith at law.capital.edu> wrote:

> My choice for quote of the day:
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> "Charitable is another form of the word charity. I used that word because
> Americans understand it and they associate it with something good, not
> groups that are in business to do politics." - Xavier Bercerra
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> So Bercera, a career politician, suggests that his career is something
> opposite of "something good." Hmmmm.... I have long argued that one of the
> damages done by "reform" is to convince Americans that political
> participation is indeed a bad thing
>  <http://law.capital.edu/faculty/bios/bsmith.aspx>


Brad inserts the phrase "opposite of" in front of the quoted phrase
"something good" in order to manufacture the rhetorical point that the
politician here is making a damaging admission about his own career. Nice
try, but something with mixed attributes is often neither something good
nor something bad. And besides, if it were a damaging admission of some
sort, then the politician perhaps ought to be saluted for his integrity.

Paul <file://\\Paul> Lehto, J.D.

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