alt.politics.economics

"Bill Bonde ( 'the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack' )" wrote:
> Mitchell Holman wrote:
> > "Bill Bonde ( 'the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack' )"
> > wrote in news:@:
> > > Mitchell Holman wrote:
> > >> "Bill Bonde ( 'the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack' )"
> > >> wrote in
> > >> news:@:
> > >> > Harry Hope wrote:
> > >> >>
> > >> >> Re: Larry "Toilet" Craig Is Looking For Summer Interns
> > >> >>
> > >> >>
> > >> > Sen Craig didn't do anything that Bill Clinton didn't do worse. Craig
> > >> > wasn't even involved with interns.
> > >>
> > >> Craig is a convicted criminal, Clinton isn't.
> > >>
> > > Do you really want to go there, I mean the part about claiming that
> > > someone is a "criminal" if they have been convicted of a crime?
> >
> > Craig pleaded guilty. He was convicted. Case closed.
> >
> If the case is closed, why are you bringing it up when all he's doing is
> looking for a few interns?

Would you want to work with someone convicted of a sex crime?

> > > "Criminal" does have connotations that "convicted of a criminal offence"
> > > doesn't begin to engage.
> >
> > Spin, spin, spin away.
> >
> Am I correct? If you did something wrong and were convicted of it, would
> you necessarily be a "criminal"?

That's the way it works in America. Do you Brits have something different?

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