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To: Baynative

I just re-read every post above yours on this thread and pretty much all I could find was people noting, or reiterating, the following main points:

1) Party affiliation of democrats is seldom given when a ‘negative’ story about a democrat is published, but is usually prominently displayed when a similar story about a republican is published (an hypocrisy on the part of our news media)

2) The woman in question, a politician/law-maker who is a staunch supporter of mandatory seat-belt usage laws, was carrying passengers in her vehicle who reportedly were not wearing seatbelts (an apparent personal hypocrisy on the part of the politician)

3) The woman in question, who is claimed to be an ‘environmentalist’, was driving a large (one of the largest, actually) gas-guzzling SUV (another apparent personal hypocrisy on the part of the politician).

4) The public statements by this politician regarding the “accident” seem to be self-centered/self-serving, and do not appear to show any level of compassion for the person fatally injured in said accident (apparent selfishness/callousness on the part of the politician).

You are, of course, free to disagree with any of the points made, but assigning others a particular argument (one which they did NOT make) and then attacking/deriding them based on this assignment is not generally considered to be a valid method of argument.

I would ask that you please point out the particular posts which offended you, because I could not find a single comment in this thread in which a person claimed that this woman caused a traffic accident BECAUSE she is a liberal.


47 posted on 12/28/2010 12:20:55 PM PST by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: WayneS
"D or R?"
"Article doesn’t say so she’s prob a D."
"DEMOCRAT (D). I could tell by the fact that there was no party affiliation in the article."
"She is a ‘crat"
"She is a democrat."
"... a typical D who loves to tell others what to do.
No mention of political affiliation. - We all know what that means."

When a person is involved in an accident, I don't think party affiliation matters. It never comes up when an average citizen is involved in an accident.

Change the story to hit and run, texting, or drunk driving and now we have a moral element which might ad relevancy to someone's political views.

53 posted on 12/28/2010 12:59:50 PM PST by Baynative (Truth is treason in an empire of lies)
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