famousringo said:
Mr Khan said:
Kantor said:
But they are suggesting that.
Everyone says "He strapped a dog to the roof of a car, and we can't have a sociopath like that as President!"
This just gives some sort of balance. He is at worst, a decent human being who doesn't share your ideas. Fine. Stop lambasting him as the anti-Christ (not directed at you, but at his critics in general).
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We'll stop when *they* stop suggesting that Obama should share the fate of Osama.
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There needs to be a catchy term for arguments which use the most strident/shrill/maniacal members of a group as a weapon against the group itself.
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"Guilty by Association?"
Point is, achieving civility in political discourse is as tricky as achieving peace in an armed conflict. Whoever tries to make a unilateral gesture is going to get cut down in a hail of machine-gun fire/attack ads.