"It was beyond a brilliant question, " commented Matthew Baysinger of Charlottesville, Virginia.

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He is a clearly brilliant man who considered all alternatives and saw all sides of a question.

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With a disarming innocence, he would question apparently obvious assumptions, drawing distinctions so subtle that they escaped more conventionally brilliant minds.

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And before you say AOL is a tough situation, let me pose the question: even if AOL is a quagmire, if Tim Armstrong is so brilliant, why did he take a job in a quagmire?

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