1st October 2004, 11:24 AM
But that's totally irrelevent to whether he's right or not. If it's an issue of how well he is going to speak with the rest of the world, that would matter (but it's a bit late for that, we've heard him speak for 4 years so it's not like this debate would have revealed anything about his pretty aweful speaking method). I wanted logic to reign, but instead looking good was the main point of this thing. I suppose I should have expected as much... Still, isn't it just a little bit sickening that looking right is more important than being right?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)