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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 1385716, member: 780"]
Here's an idea ... Ask the question you actually want answered. Don't be intellectually lazy.

The other side of that is posters should answer the question that was asked and not the one they are prepared to pontificate on. (Which is pretty much what they do on "Meet the Press".

You might well ask, "What does it matter?"

Well, if people drove people to ask the right kind of questions by answering what they asked, it would certainly improve the quality of some of these threads that splinter off in all sorts of direction such that there are two or three or four unrelated conversations going on. (Admittedly, that's exactly what I am doing with this nonsense I am spouting. I have zero expectations that my complaining will cause a single person on here to not talk about what they feel like talking about no matter how remotely connected it is to the thread title.)

And finally, comparing the answering tactics of posters on here to the pols on the Sunday talk shows and the structure of the State of the Union speech is a huge leap. It's like comparing a fist fight outside a bar on South Salina St with the Civil War. They are both conflicts, but the scale and importance are different.
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