A standard ploy in politics today is to search your
opponents words, excerpt just the ones that make the speaker look stupid, indecisive,
prejudiced or just silly, then repeat those words over and over until they seem
to be exactly what the person intended to say. This strategy is so common that it has been given a name. Writers Thomas Cathcart and Daniel klein, in their book Aristotle and an Aardvark to to Washington, call this political strategy "contestomy." In the 2004 presidential campaign, John Kerry
