
02-01-2008, 08:27 AM
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Location: Boston
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Originally Posted by Blade
Obama and Hillary truly hate each other's guts - it's extremly unlikely, although one must remember that was true of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and they won in 1960.
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Reagan-Bush as well. I think Richardson would be a good choice. I actually like him. One of the very few D's I like. Not hijacked by the left wing like Obama and others.
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JMS gets another English lesson:
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there is no "mostly unique;" thats like saying "sometimes always," its an oxymoron - its either one or the other.
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The result:
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By the mid-19th century unique had developed a wider meaning, “not typical, unusual,” and it is in this wider sense that it is compared. The comparison of so-called absolutes in senses that are not absolute is standard in all varieties of speech and writing.
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