[Gothmog]

Paraphrasing FOX -- Mr. Robinson lets me post and you get to decide. Is the GOP being too tough? Or is she an 'America Last' Dem?

I think it is kind of obvious the slant here. If she or the paper were confident that she was making innocous statements, then they would actually report her comments and let the public know.

If "Bush himself echoed many of her sentiments," then she would have no problem having the paper post them. Or maybe posting her comments on her campaign web site:

http://www.sumers2002.com/

I searched it, and did not see any mention of Afghanistan. In her official bio, she mentions nothing about living in Afghanistan or wanting to live or 'serve America' overseas.

[BlessedBeGod]

Sumers says her opponents have recklessly taken her statements out of context - in addition to lifting them from a message board that she said was intended for her former classmates. The comments came five months before she declared her candidacy.

Yet the Democrats used GWB's 25-year-old DUI against him and that was okay?

[jdege]

It's quite easy to take internet posts out of context, and it's easy to see how people with an axe to grind might accidentally or intentionally misconstrue what she had written.

There's an easy solution to that, though - provide the context.

Post the thread.

Let people read the message in context and make up their own minds.

[ikka]

she went on to praise an essay published on the Internet shortly after 9/11 by Afghan-born American Tamin Ansary, who argued that a U.S. bombing campaign in Afghanistan would only harm civilians suffering under an oppressive Taliban regime

So now it is a year later. Would all those Afghanis that now want to return to Taliban rule please raise their right hand.

Didn't think so.

She has the right to believe whatever she wants. The issue is not her opinions but rather her judgment - clearly, she does not have the foresight to make accurate decisions.

[Coleus]

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