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> >I don't think that has a whole lot to do with whether a person has
> political values that are progressive. 

That has not been my observation.

Of course, here we run into the Boolean expressions, the so called 'truth 
tables' of logic.   I'm reminded of the remonstrations we are hearing over 
the recent Arizona immigrant law.   While it is true that every Hispanic is 
not an illegal alien, by far and away most illegal aliens are Hispanic.   
While every Nazi did not commit autrocitities during the Holocaust, all those 
who did commit the autrocities were Nazis.  While only a tiny percent of 
Muslims in the world are terrorists, almost all acts of terrorism were 
committed 
by Muslims.  And etc. etc.

There seems to be something part and parcel about the "progressive" mindset 
that allows for dismissing the importance of one's word.  Probably most 
progressives are in possession of a personal ethic that would not allow for 
it 
anyway.  But I cannot help but note in my own experience the preponderance 
those who espouse "progressive" values who will ignore their given word and 
blink like owls when confronted by it as if it is the most curious thing in 
the world that you'd expect them to do what they said.</HTML>