xhonzi said:

But it's sort of a joke. "ONLY a Sith deals in ABSOLUTES" Is Obi-Wan a Sith then? (We're discussing this in the Politics thread right now!)

Let me break it down for you: If he said, "Usually, or at an overwhelming percentage, a one dealing in absolutes is a Sith, but occaisonally he is a Jedi instead." Then the line would be fine. But since he uses the absolutist language of "Only a Sith..." he was, himself, dealing in absolutes.

That's really taking it too literally. His statement was a direct response to Anakin's "You're with me or you're my enemy."

Also, given the context, the question was was Anakin a Sith or a Jedi, not what was Anakin in the context of a near limitless ammount of things that may or may not deal in absolutes.

THAT was the kind of absolute he was dealing with. It's a statement about competing philosophy, not a word game like "This sentence is a lie."