The Living Shadow said:by refusing to denounce his actions, you in effect support him! and your right, It was from a locked forum so it was linked here. Obviously, the sender didn't want to get kicked from the forum so he chose to be anonymous in divulging the information to non forum participants! Even if you don't trust me on this, there is always school safety czar kevin jennings he has his own connections to nambla!
So, by refusing to believe anonymous, politically motivated bloggers with no evidence whatsoever I support child abuse? Do you even listen to yourself? Did you believe everything anyone ever said about Bush and his cronies? That list you link to has been forwarded for the last 3 years and I've still not seen any evidence at all to say Jeffrey Crowley supports NAMBLA - what 'actions' of his would you like me to condemn, specifically, please? Top tip, before you try, googling "Jeff Crowley supports NAMBLA" the top result will be this very thread. Aside from that list I can't even find an accusation that he supports NAMBLA, nevermind any evidence to support it. So how come you believed it, based on just that one, unsubstantiated line? I've not seen anything to suggest it's any more than a pulled-out-the-ass smear due to the fact he's connected with Obama. I'm pretty sure if I was appointed to something by Obama by the next day I'd find out I was a Satan worshipping Nazi whose hobbies included drowning puppies. Do you think if the person who made that Czar list couldn't really find anything wrong with one of the appointees, they'd have an entry saying "Actually, this one's fine"? No, it'd be "Right, can we find? Hmm, voted for a funding grant to a primarily black school? Didn't say anything against the assault rifle ban? Favourite food - Chinese? ANTI-WHITE RACIST AND BLACK NATIONALIST, ANTI-GUN RADICAL AND SUSPECTED COMMUNIST!"
Which is a bit like the very tenuous claimed connection you posted above:
The smear campaign continues: Fox Nation, Washington Examiner manufacture Jennings-NAMBLA link
It's this constant six-degrees of Kevin Bacon style guilt by association that people use when they can't form a proper argument against someone they hate. Political figure X works with mr Y who once had a beer with a Johnny Z who later joined Group A that some people say supports Mr W who's an alleged child molester/terrorist/kitten torturer. What do you mean you support Political Figure X's policy on the environment, how can you sit there and defend child abuse?! It's a way of distorting the argument to make it about something that's easy to condemn. It's like if you can't make a decent argument against gay marriage, you create the fallacy that it will lead to men marrying dogs, because you find it much easier to argue against that.
again, the evidence is above, why is it so hard to denounce something such as this?QUOTE said:They are both Republicans In Name Only, or RINO! do I need to go on to explain what that means?
Of course not, it's a well known tactic. It means that as soon as someone does something bad, they're not "real" Republicans, the same way Fox puts a "D" in front of the names of disgraced politicians, even if they're Republicans.
QUOTE said:why don't we have a look at some liberals who happen to have the same issues. dubbed "The Lion of the Left" Bernie Ward was arrested for distributing child pornography. what does this have to do with Obama you ask? well, it turns out that Bernie ward worked as her chief legislative assistant from 1982 to 1985! but it gets better, right before the election, she endorsed Obama, A month after the election cycle had passed ANOTHER aid was arrested on for distributing child porn! He doesn't denounce the endorsement afterwords nor does he acknowledge it, but he ignores it, and two years later he throws a fundraiser for her to get re-elected! would you vote for someone like that over in europe? at the very least, he should have suggested for her to resign! but he needs all the power in congress he can get to push through his radical agenda.
Link, link, link, link, link, link, link after irrelevant link. I'm not having this 'debate' if this is all you're going to do, I already know what's on wing-nut blogs thank you very much. Bernie Ward for fucks sake, it's not even anything remotely connected to the topic! It's just "hurr-durr left wingers are child abusers." I could sit here and copy and paste left-wing sites back at you, about what someone who once worked with a Republican might have done in 1984 but what's the point in arguing by proxy? I could go google a load of similar bedroom blogs on the other side of the political spectrum about what folk like Palin, O'Donnell, Murdoch, Rove and Cheney, and anyone even remotely conencted to them have been accused of, everything from things proved in court to plausible rumours to stuff like "Bush did 9/11", you wouldn't read any of them, you can come back with a site saying Obama was born in Kenya and he's secretly planning North American Monetary Union and it would get us where, exactly?
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You've not given any evidence whatsoever, just lies, rumours, hearsay and scurrility.
The simple fact you keep trying to avoid by using google to do your arguing for you and trying to move the argument to paranoid anti-Obama conspiracy theories is that Egypt is NOT going to go back to how it was. Simple as that. You can either keep living in denial and hoping you can keep propping up Mubarak (And it's going to take a Tiananmen Square style event to even keep him in power till the end of the week) so that when he finally falls there is no political opponents to take his place, and only religious ones like the Muslim Brotherhood, or you can stop playing into their hands, stop supporting an evil dictatorship and accept he has to go.
Obama has not being trying to get rid of Mubarak, he has been absolutely complicit in Mubarak's rule since he got into power. He runs a centre right party and he's too bothered about pandering to the far right to do anything as noble as that. It took him about a week after the bloodshed started to say pretty much ANYTHING constructive about it. Obama didn't start this problem, the 'problem' started 30 years ago and it's only now coming to its inevitable conclusion - because of events in Egypt, not in America.
If you think Egypt is 'ready' for democracy or not (which is a laugh in itself, Egypt isn't one of these Johnny come lately countries like the US) is a complete irrelevance. Reform is coming to Egypt, and the idea that somehow they are not deserving of democracy and the choice is simply between autocratic tyranny and theocracy is either ignorant or disingenuous. If the west cared about Islamic theocracies, they wouldn't be propping up the rulers of Saudi Arabia with huge oil and defence deals, when the country is run by Islamist nut-cases, where women can't drive, where you can be put to death for 'sorcery' and whipped for 'blasphemy'. It's fear-mongering because some neo-cons don't like the idea of another country getting Western values and freedoms if it means they lose a vice-like grip on them. We've spent decades talking about the universality of those values and ideals.