Originally posted by: Fern
Originally posted by: cliftonite
Originally posted by: Fern
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Most of this is grasping at straws.
Your own words are the perfect response to your above post:
Originally posted by: cliftonite
Thanks for the duuuhversion.
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Originally posted by: smashp
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What they are trying to Say is that there is some secret Leftist re-education scheme going on thought up by Ayers that Obama would implement.
But they cant ask the question or raise the issue that way because it wont gain any traction.
So they resort to this
We have questions about Obama's association with Bill Ayers, a known domestic terrorist.
Thanks for illustrating my point perfectly. Rephrase what is an arguably reasonable line of questioning into something so absurd it can be easily dismissed out-of-hand.
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The question is not simply one of "association" per se, or necessarily "terrorism". I do not believe Obama supports violence either.
However, we are to believe that Obama has been politically aware/active for a longtime. Even forgoing lucrative careers etc to pursue his (benevolent) activism etc.
So, I find it rather difficult to believe that these voluntary and friendly associations were void of political/policy content, particularly given these people were dedicated political activist in their own right and the context of the relationship was in the political realm.
So it's a fair question to ask what extent does Obama sympathize/share with their (non-mainstream) views?
None?
Some?
A lot?
Identical?
Too bad this type line of inquiry is willingly and whole-heartedly censored by many Dems here and elsewhere.
Edit: Not to put too fine a point on it, but some info on the above may be instructive as to what policies Obama may wish to pursue after the election. Like all politicians, he ran to the left during the primary, the ran to the center for the gen elect (and his FISA vote was unexpected and a disapointment for many of his supporters).
Had he been in Senate 20 years I don't think this line of inquiry would be as interesting; we would already know much about him. I just think we don't.
Fern