[quote=“NotfooledbyW, post:525, topic:679071”]
There you go. You are the one having a problem with English. In Nixon/Ford’s case it does not matter because their election was never invalidated, ended, terminated. Ford did serve out Nixon’s term according to the Constitution or am I missing something?
While I have your attention, I’ll ask you again. Here’s what you wrote:
{A} “So, reading the news today it looks like there are Senators in both parties who are taking both sides on this. Very complicated. But, it also notes that Obama is the decider as to whether this is a coup or not, so it’s really up to him unless Congress writes a new law. As violence escalates, there really are no good options for us here.” -John Mace
Since you claim to have mastered English, how have you determined that the above statement {A} from you is an argument that it was a coup.
My response to {A} was. *“I’ll go with what an Egyptian thinks about it:” *
and then I cited this, *“This is a historical revolution and **not a coup d’etat **or protest movement or outraged uprising. It is a revolution that will continue until all of its goals are realized.” *-Nawal El Saadawi from this link: http://www.juancole.com/2013/07/peop...n-saadawi.html
You wrote {A} that it was up to Obama to decide. I responded {B} that I’d go with what an Egyptian thinks about it. Plain English means that I was non-committal at this point on whether or not it was a coup just like you were. My argument is that I will let an Egyptian decide what to call it.
But then you have the audacity to tell me that:
{C}
“It matters not” … you tell me “It matters not” … as if you are the final authority who gets to decide ‘it matters not’. I did not argue that it was a coup d’état. I didn’t argue anything on it.
It **matters fully **because your comment {A} was not presented as an argument or point or comment where I could have answered with an argument that it was not a coup. Yet you keep repeating that citing an Egyptian to decide what to call it is somehow my argument. That is absurd.
And then I explain shortly afterward, this:
{D}
As you can see I do see the difference.