Palin: Abortion Clinic Bomb NOT Terror
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Palin: Abortion Clinic Bomb NOT Terror
| Fri, 10-24-2008 - 2:06pm |
Sorry if that title seems somewhat misleading - it's the limitations of the number of characters we're allowed to use, it seems. If I'd had as many characters as I'd wanted, it would have read thusly:
Palin: Ayers? "Terrorist." Abortion Clinic Bombing? "I don't know." In last night's episode of the multi-part interview of Governor Palin and Senator McCain with NBC's Brian Williams (which they've been parceling out a little bit each night, probably to draw out ratings, LOL, Sarah Palin didn't actually say that someone who committed an abortion clinic bombing WASN'T engaging in terrorism....but she didn’t definitively say that such an act WAS terrorism, either. Judge for yourself as Palin answers the question (complete with contemptuous snort at the beginning.
My own personal take - obviously - is that anyone who's going to spend as much time, money, words and effort trying to portray a man like Bill Ayers as a "domestic terrorist" (which is the exact language the McCain campaign - and Palin, in particular - have used to describe Ayers' activities forty years ago with the Weathermen), then I'd think it would be pretty fair for any observer to conclude from such remarks and efforts that the person making them was opposed to the use of mass-market violence (for lack of a better word; I mean violence which is area-effect like a bomb, not like stabbing your spouse in a fit of anger) to achieve political or social ends, and thought of people who approved of such tactics and used them as "domestic terrorists."
Wouldn't you agree? I've heard people talk a lot about the significance of Ayers being the fact that he's "unrepentant," despite his crimes themselves having stopped nearly forty years ago. Yet if that's what separates the terrorist from the criminal - unrepentance - then I'd still ask what the difference is between a man like Ayers, who had a leftist/anarchist political goal, and an abortion clinic bomber, who has a personal "moral" goal? I'm not necessarily thinking of anyone in particular here, but I've not heard of many former clinic-bombers (or doctor-shooters) who've turned over new leaves or decided their former actions were wrong. Clearly, Williams felt the comparison at least valid enough to find out Governor Palin's thoughts on the matter. I can't really see a difference, after having thought about it. What about you?
Palin: Ayers? "Terrorist." Abortion Clinic Bombing? "I don't know." In last night's episode of the multi-part interview of Governor Palin and Senator McCain with NBC's Brian Williams (which they've been parceling out a little bit each night, probably to draw out ratings, LOL, Sarah Palin didn't actually say that someone who committed an abortion clinic bombing WASN'T engaging in terrorism....but she didn’t definitively say that such an act WAS terrorism, either. Judge for yourself as Palin answers the question (complete with contemptuous snort at the beginning.
My own personal take - obviously - is that anyone who's going to spend as much time, money, words and effort trying to portray a man like Bill Ayers as a "domestic terrorist" (which is the exact language the McCain campaign - and Palin, in particular - have used to describe Ayers' activities forty years ago with the Weathermen), then I'd think it would be pretty fair for any observer to conclude from such remarks and efforts that the person making them was opposed to the use of mass-market violence (for lack of a better word; I mean violence which is area-effect like a bomb, not like stabbing your spouse in a fit of anger) to achieve political or social ends, and thought of people who approved of such tactics and used them as "domestic terrorists."
Wouldn't you agree? I've heard people talk a lot about the significance of Ayers being the fact that he's "unrepentant," despite his crimes themselves having stopped nearly forty years ago. Yet if that's what separates the terrorist from the criminal - unrepentance - then I'd still ask what the difference is between a man like Ayers, who had a leftist/anarchist political goal, and an abortion clinic bomber, who has a personal "moral" goal? I'm not necessarily thinking of anyone in particular here, but I've not heard of many former clinic-bombers (or doctor-shooters) who've turned over new leaves or decided their former actions were wrong. Clearly, Williams felt the comparison at least valid enough to find out Governor Palin's thoughts on the matter. I can't really see a difference, after having thought about it. What about you?

Palin always seems to "dance around" what she is being asked. She didn't answer Brian Williams question directly, she hedged around it. Like, it's bad to bomb an abortion clinic, but not as bad as what Ayres did. Gotta get that "Ayres is horiffic" in. Why, to make an issue over the fact that Obama knows Ayres and had been on a few committees with him. Big freaken deal!
Look, in my area there were 4 young men who torched a Historical Covered Bridge, burned it to the ground. One of the perpetrators was the son of a well known Dr. from the area. Now, should his patients leave his practice because of this? My older son worked with a man who was charged with embezzlement from the company he and his wife were supposedly helping this guy run, he also owed my son money and did finally pay my son back, it's quite possible it was money he stole from his employer, this didn't come out until a few months later, should my son give that money back to his former employer before his ex friend and wife went to jail?
My son also knows a guy who was involved with a string of robberies, he hadn't seen this kid for over 10 years, should my son be questioned because he "knew this guy"
I think the McCain/Palin campaign really is going bonkers trying to make an issue over Ayres knowing Obama, especially when Ayres committed these acts when Obama was 8 years old!
Nick Juliano
Published: Wednesday October 8, 2008
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