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This is the atmosphere our politics have devolved to, painting a picture with a tangential association to scurrilous characters.As I hurriedly rush out, zoom-boing, I did reply to you with this earlier:
paperview said:Nope.
No more than Obama sitting on a board with Bill Ayers makes Obama a Marxist or terrorist sympathizer.
Something to think on. Really. That's at the heart of my reply and the general gist of this whole episode, which some seem to have missed.
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Um, okay. So your point is that just because someone 'pals around' with someone of question they shouldn't be judged on that? Then why bother bringing up that the ghost writer of Palin's book is - or isn't - a white supremacist?
It was the main thrust of the election rhetoric last year, and still now, as made by quite a few republicans. Sarah, the VP candidate, drove it home with the phrase "he pals around with terrorists."
That's a sticky line that has held with some of us Democrats and liberals. It reverberates still..
A charge which was clearly false, (and voters saw through that) but implied that he too, was a terrorist.
These are the rules we appear to be operating under now. Sarah, IMO, is not a White Supremacist. She has aligned herself with a woman who placed her name on a book alongside one. That's all.
Some may say if a person co-authored a book with a person like David Duke, for example, on a subject not related to race, it would imply, though certainly not conclusively, that there were shared feelings of the author and David Duke on other matters. It is a link. Something Beck, Palin, et al have mastered the art of drawing out. We've all seen it.
I am not comparing this McCain to David Duke, but the man has shown through his words, memberships and associations, to be like minded, to some degree.
To what degree? That is for the reader to determine.
It is sad that it has reached this point in our polemics; there are people here that will point out repeatedly there is nothing wrong with telling us who the associates are of the people we look to as our leaders. The links. I would agree with that.
It is up to the individual to decide if the tie is strong enough to bond them together to cause us to reconsider, and if their past actions bring gravitas to the ascription.
It is wrong to draw a line directly from one to the other, and I hope, might explain more fully my more concise statement on it:
Does Palin leans towards white supremacy?
No. No more than Obama sitting on a board with Bill Ayers makes Obama a Marxist or terrorist sympathizer.
You say blankly: why bring it up? I say: why not? This is what Sarah has taught us.No. No more than Obama sitting on a board with Bill Ayers makes Obama a Marxist or terrorist sympathizer.
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