"...attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend."

*wtf??

Adding video to channels (Wtf) - requested by Lendl.

Methinks someone doesn't know what "mandatory" means.>> ^Lendl:

"...attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend."
wtf??

>> ^KnivesOut:

Methinks someone doesn't know what "mandatory" means.>> ^Lendl:
"...attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend."
wtf??



No kidding...

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

>> ^Lendl:

>> ^KnivesOut:
Methinks someone doesn't know what "mandatory" means.>> ^Lendl:
"...attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend."
wtf??


No kidding...
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."


To be fair (something the "great boss" wasn't), it is not necessarily a contradiction in terms if by "mandatory" you mean "must attend" but by "no one was forced to attend" you mean "not dragged there / brought their at gunpoint". A clarifying example: "it is mandatory to attend primary school, but no one is forced."

Semantics be damned, this is politics, the evolution of which (in the "parlance of our times") has produced an arena where anything may be said regardless of meaning in order to dupe, subvert, manipulate, lie, and destroy.

Romney and Obama are the same tools in the hands of their keepers. It would be exciting to watch both of their heads explode simultaneously on television as the result of their own gasses expanding too rapidly to be released

It's odd that some of the miners behind Romney had coal all over their faces. I thought this was a day where they couldn't go into the mines? They had to wait in line to get into the event, right? What did they do, send these guys down and back up, just to get them dirty enough to stand behind Rmoney?

Mandatory means, not implies, that there will be, presumably, negative consequences if one fails to comply. In this way one is certainly forced if you consider the negative consequences to be sufficiently punitive.

In this case I believe that there was an implied threat, even if unspoken, whereby attendance was 'mandatory' even though no consequences were laid out. One would assume that in this case it meant a big black mark against your name professionally and failure to be a 'team player' among your peers.

>> ^hpqp:

>> ^Lendl:
>> ^KnivesOut:
Methinks someone doesn't know what "mandatory" means.>> ^Lendl:
"...attendance at the Romney event was mandatory, but no one was forced to attend."
wtf??


No kidding...
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

To be fair (something the "great boss" wasn't), it is not necessarily a contradiction in terms if by "mandatory" you mean "must attend" but by "no one was forced to attend" you mean "not dragged there / brought their at gunpoint". A clarifying example: "it is mandatory to attend primary school, but no one is forced."


I suppose his argument would be then, "Look I only threatened their jobs...I didn't shoot them and bring their bloody corpses to the rally, I'm reasonable!"

I just wonder why I haven't heard about this on ANY national news program.