XPost: alt.society.liberalism, can.politics, talk.politics.guns   
   From: SaPeIsMa@gmail.com   
      
   "David Johnston"  wrote in message   
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   > On 6/3/2013 9:35 AM, SaPeIsMa wrote:   
   >> "David Johnston"  wrote in message   
   >> news:koi70c$2h0$2@dont-email.me...   
   >>> On 6/3/2013 6:11 AM, SaPeIsMa wrote:   
   >>>> "David Johnston"  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:kofmi3$ufv$1@dont-email.me...   
   >>>>> On 6/1/2013 10:42 AM, Kurt Nicklas wrote:   
   >>>>>> Why This Scandal Is Different   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Peggy Noonan   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Sometimes when you’re writing part of a column you keep getting close   
   >>>>>> to the meaning of what you want to say but you don’t quite get there,   
   >>>>>> the full formulation of the idea eludes you. Then two days later,   
   >>>>>> relaxing in conversation with friends, the thought comes to you   
   >>>>>> whole,   
   >>>>>> and you think: That’s what I meant to say. That’s what I was trying   
   >>>>>> to   
   >>>>>> get.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> This week I had one of those moments. I kept trying, the paragraph   
   >>>>>> kept not quite working, the deadline came.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> I got an email last night that had the effect of a clarifying   
   >>>>>> conversation. It was from a smart friend who works in government. He   
   >>>>>> understood the point I was trying to make about how the current IRS   
   >>>>>> scandal is different from previous ones and more threatening to the   
   >>>>>> American arrangement. I had written that this scandal isn’t a   
   >>>>>> discrete   
   >>>>>> event in which a president picks up a phone and tells someone in the   
   >>>>>> White House to look into the finances of some steel industry   
   >>>>>> executives, or to check out the returns of some guy on an enemies   
   >>>>>> list.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> But my friend got to the essence. He wrote, “The left likes to say,   
   >>>>>> ‘Watergate was worse!’ Watergate was bad—don’t get me wrong. But it   
   >>>>>> was elites using the machinery of government to spy on elites. . . .   
   >>>>>> It’s something quite different when elites use the machinery of   
   >>>>>> government against ordinary people. It’s a whole different ball   
   >>>>>>  game.”   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Ordinary people?  What ordinary people are we talking about?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> As opposed to the elites   
   >>>>     Can't you even read a simple text for comprehension ?   
   >>>   
   >>> I wasn't asking for a definition of "ordinary".  I was asking what   
   >>> ordinary people were having the machinery of government used against   
   >>> them in this case.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> The ordinary people who tried to form groups and applied to the IRS for   
   >> legal purposes and where then (way) over investigated and had their   
   >> applications delayed for years   
   >>   
   >   
   > What gives you the idea that those were ordinary people rather than the   
   > "elite"?   
   >   
      
      
      
   What gives you the idea that they are not   
   Do you even know the meaning of "elite"   
   Were you not able to gather from the article, Noonan's use and meaning of it   
   ?   
       Please have your mommy read and explain the article to you..   
      
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