Word: argumentative
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Breaking with the formal speech pattern rigidly followed at first—an argument followed by one rebuttal, then a new question—the two sides went back and forth several times over the merits of the continued U.S. presence in Iraq, reaching as little consensus as their candidates...
...majority of Congress voted to go to Iraq at the time,” Ayers said in response to Minkoff’s oft-repeated argument that the premises upon which the war was based proved false. “I know it’s cliched to say, but John Kerry had the same intelligence as George Bush, and he voted to go to Iraq...
...Flatterer. This sycophant is quick to applaud the TF for pointing out the obvious, for discovering a “dialectic,” or “complicating” an argument. “I totally agree with what you just said,” even though she can’t remember what that is exactly...
...during the Vietnam War and is, therefore, a commie coward. Meanwhile, an Al Franken on the other side responds by whining that Bush missed three weeks of training while in the National Guard. And, of course, there’s the Bill O’Reilly to close the argument by offering some inane, vaguely patriotic, point about terrorists hating the freedom that America represents...
...idea that God genes are the work of God should have little trouble making the next leap: that not only are the genes there but they are central to our survival, one of the hinges upon which the very evolution of the human species turned. It's an argument that's not terribly hard to make...