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Originally Posted by
tonton 
You might have a point, if it weren't for the fact that every time Republicans "misspeak" in this way, it's in a way that's designed to make Democrats look worse and excuse the poor record of Republicans. Take Fox News, for instance. How many times during a scandal did they "accidentally" put an "R" under the name of someone involved in a scandal?
I don't know. How many times? Of course, I'm sure we couldn't find...I don't know...ONE MILLION examples of similar "mistakes" in the liberal press.
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Originally Posted by
tonton
By other Republicans? Yes. Absolutely.
You mean how Trent Lott was treated? That way? Oh wait...he was forced to resign by his own party. Riiight. Now I remember. Oh...and Rush Limbaugh. He lost his NFL commentator job because he said "McNabb hasn't been all that good...I think we have some social concern in the NFL...that a black quaterback does well." Righto.
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Originally Posted by
Aizmov
Let me reply to you the Republican way: "You Lie!"
Bill Ayers not a terrorist. Unless you are saying the Dubya ignored such a threat and left the country open to terror attacks.
Oh wait...
Let me reply this way: You're utterly ignorant. From wikipedia:
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Ayers became involved in the New Left and the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).[10] He rose to national prominence as an SDS leader in 1968 and 1969. As head of an SDS regional group, the "Jesse James Gang," Ayers made decisive contributions to the Weatherman orientation toward militancy.[8] The group Ayers headed in Detroit, Michigan became one of the earliest gatherings of what became the Weatherman. Before the June 1969 SDS convention, Ayers became a prominent leader of the group, which arose as a result of a schism in SDS.[8] "During that time his infatuation with street fighting grew and he developed a language of confrontational militancy that became more and more pronounced over the year [1969]", disaffected former Weatherman member Cathy Wilkerson wrote in 2001. Ayers had previously become a roommate of Terry Robbins, a fellow militant, Wilkerson wrote. Robbins would later be killed while making a bomb.[11] In June 1969, the Weatherman took control of the SDS at its national convention, where Ayers was elected Education Secretary.[8] Later in 1969, Ayers participated in planting a bomb at a statue dedicated to police casualties in the 1886 Haymarket affair confrontation between labor supporters and the Chicago police.[12] The blast broke almost 100 windows and blew pieces of the statue onto the nearby Kennedy Expressway.[13] (The statue was rebuilt and unveiled on May 4, 1970, and blown up again by other Weathermen on October 6, 1970.[13][14] Rebuilding it yet again, the city posted a 24-hour police guard to prevent another blast, and in January 1972 it was moved to Chicago police headquarters.[15]) Ayers participated in the Days of Rage riot in Chicago in October 1969, and in December was at the "War Council" meeting in Flint, Michigan. Two major decisions came out of the "War Council." The first was to immediately begin a violent, armed struggle (e.g., bombings and armed robberies) against the state without attempting to organize or mobilize a broad swath of the public. The second was to create underground collectives in major cities throughout the country.[16] Larry Grathwohl, a Federal Bureau of Investigation informant in the Weatherman group from the fall of 1969 to the spring of 1970, stated that "Ayers, along with Bernardine Dohrn, probably had the most authority within the Weatherman".[17]
