Excellent Tactics for Difficult Questions

I am definitely going to do as the author suggests and print this one out for tonight's debate, and every debate to come!! Since the way we know a politician is lying is by the simple fact that his/her lips are moving, perhaps my vote will go to whomsoever manages to best disseminate using these techniques with the most finesse!! Considering that voting based on a politician's positions on the real issues is a waste of time, the way they all change with the political winds, maybe voting for someone who can think on their feet is not such a bad idea...

clipped from www.fatladysings.us Print it off and then sit and watch a politician being interviewed. In almost any interview at least one of these ploys will be used and most often several of them will be used. 1. Attack the Question. - That’s a very silly question, how can you justify the use of the words “Above the Law"? 2. Attack the Questioner. - "How many years have you spent in government?" 3. Compliment the question. - "That’s a very good question. I’d like to thank you for asking me it. Let me reply by asking you one." 4. Unloading the question. - Most questions are loaded. They are full of assumptions such as "A lot of people have said that you consider yourself above the law." There are two possible replies to such loaded questions: a) Name Ten b) Surely in a nation of 60 million people you can find a few people who will say anything no matter how irrelevant, misguided, or ill-informed.