"You never really know where you are," he says, countering the question by discussing perceptions of success, and how those we think are succeeding are often failing, and vice versa.
James Carville, the Democratic consultant, countered that the question is not whether the administration acted to save Enron.
Opponents of gay marriage countered that the question of gay marriage was so important to so many that the truly democratic method would be to put it to a popular vote in the state, through a referendum on a constitutional amendment.
The result of all this enforced intimacy is that I've become a compulsive liar, countering the probing questions about my identity and innermost thoughts with aliases, constructed personas and fantasies.
And while the Trump administration has indicated that it will pay closer attention to Iraq as a means to counter Iran, the question is whether it is too late.
The Israelis "suffered wholesale destruction", according to an American Army manual written soon afterwards to help counter the weapon in question.
But it will be one strong strand in any argument to counter the really fundamental question of the pre-election period – whether a coalition produces the worst of all possible worlds.
But Wilfredo Matos, the owner of a corner lunch counter, said the question was not about independence, but purely American rights.
Even if the general public were better equipped to identify the truth among the miasma of poor evidence and claim and counter-claim, the question remains whether they would care enough to do so.
Mortenson, 53, whose Central Asia Institute CAII) has claimed to have provided schooling for 60,000 girls in the region, is this weekend countering the charges, which include questions over the probity of his financial relationship with the charity.
