From: Lee Corbin (lcorbin@tsoft.com)
Date: Mon Mar 10 2003 - 23:13:13 MST
John Clark writes
> [Bush said]
> >If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so
> >long as I'm the dictator."
>
> Perhaps Bush is nuts but you couldn't know it from that statement. If you
> are insane then you have lost contact with reality but the above does not
> show that, it is in fact absolutely true.
Not only is it true, but as I'm reading the context, it
shows respect for negotiation and trying to get along.
You might be thinking that in the context of working very
hard to get agreements from a number of people, especially
if someone asked you why you were working so hard.
The logic works too, because if the last phrase "just so long as
I'm dictator" were not added, then the sentence would clearly
fail to be true. Things are easier in a dictatorship, yes,
but only for the dictator.
Although I may be reading it from one biased perspective,
I don't quite get the logic of someone who's reading it
from the opposite perspective.
Lee
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