You've been doing the idiot thing this week. Let me know when you're through with this phase.

I will be sure to send you a memo straight away

I'm surprised no one has mentioned (or did I miss it?) that PhiGam's basic premise is ridiculous in and of itself, regardless of whether it is demeaning or not. To be effective, a political ploy needs to make people more likely to vote for a certain candidate. Does anyone honestly think there are women out there who will decide to vote for McCain simply because the Army decided to promote a deserving woman to 4 star General? None of the women I know are quite that fickle, nor are they quite that illogical as to surmise that A has anything to do with B. If this is a political move intended to benefit McCain, the PR person in charge of it needs to be fired asap.

You're being too literal in your definition of "political ploy" - remember that any press is good press, and there is both a specific and general connection between McCain and the military in the minds of almost everyone. A simple, small gesture to give positive light to the military during a slow news cycle (and spawn this kind of discussion) can be effective even if no one literally says "NOW I'm voting McCain!"

This is the best summary of what I was trying to say while massively hungover from an epic night.
And DS... chill.

Its a subconscious thing, people's minds naturally seek association. If they start to associate the military with things that they view as positive (female accomplishment for example) and they associate the military with a certain presidential candidate (a war hero) then they ARE more likely to vote for that certain candidate then they were before. Admittedly, it does take pretty abstract logic to grasp the concept.
Basically
If Military= good and McCain=military then McCain=good.
Its a classic logical fallacy that political experts (which the military has plenty of) know how to exploit.

And just to repeat: I am NOT demeaning her achievements. My mother and two aunts have served in the armed forces and I have a huge respect for them. I just think that the timing of this is suspect.

I didn't miss it...that is what I was trying (and obviously failed) to point out....pbear...thank you for catching that also...

PG....get a clue.

Saying the last word in an argument does not mean you won, a vast majority of the posters in this thread said that you were off base and out of line. Get over it.

I understand the concept, but I think the logical fallacy is the assumption that anyone will make such a huge leap. One could surmise that this will make people look more favorably on the military in general, but to extrapolate that out to a political candidate with no concrete connection is taking it too far. (It's not like she has any personal connection to McCain that we know of, or that he had anything to do with her promotion.) This isn't that slow of a news cycle. I also think that fewer people than you might believe automatically connect McCain with all things military, but that's a personal opinion that I do not have stats to back up. Yes, he was a war hero, but it was a long time ago and doesn't mean he has immediate ties to all current military goings-on. If we were discussing someone recently removed from military experience the logic might work better. I agree that there is a chance this is political, but just because it is political doesn't mean it has anything to do with McCain.

Since I didn't say it before, accolades to her for her achievement, I'm sure it is well deserved and I am happy for her.

a vast majority?

1 or 2 other persons who agrees with your point is a vast majority?

....besides making wacko theories you cant count?


just call it quits now while u can.


What you really should have said...instead of trying to add McCain in (square block, round hole)

Does anyone suspect that her promotion is iffy....which you did in your first post...and just left it alone....that actually could have stood on its own...but to include the rest....nah...at that point it was laughable.

We never said we agree with his point. We said we understood his point.

You didn't understand his point which is why you were unable to do what pbear effectively did in one post.

How about you call it quits? When you have to explain yourself this much, it's a FAIL.

(Of course you can post all you want to because that's what the board's for, it's just ironic that you told him to quit while he can. :))

POOR SAVE.

Stop recommending ways to say it better when others got his point. Just admit you didn't understand, and went on a tangent, and be done with it.

No...understood and thought that is was wrong. Thank you

If you say "lemonade is great" and I tell you "your assertion that cats are great is crazy and I disagree," does that mean that I truly received your comment and am disagreeing based on your actual comment?

This detour is interestingly more interesting than the OT.

not really in the mood to go down that road with you today...


Thank you anyways...