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Originally Posted by PaulS
I wasn't refering to the 95 year, I was refering to Saltheart stating he thought Obama doesn't love his country and that is why I quoted yhat post. In a broader sense I was refering to the tactics of what use to be the fringe right (not much different from the tactics of the fringe left) but is now so common amongst a great % of right (such as how A. West stated a lot of Dems where communists). Obama has been called all those things I said.
I don't think that the claims of the birthers where really any different than what McCarthy did.
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Sorry for my mistake of who you were referring to. But to accuse Saltheart or anybody else of McCarthyism is not so different from accusing the "great % of right" of "tactics." "McCarthyism" and "racism" are labels used to discredit opposing views and to dismiss discussion on those views. If someone says Obama is a communist, that is different than calling up for interrogation before the House Unamerican committee, or whatever it was called. It is an opinion which can be rationally discussed. And if there is some peripheral similarity between McCarthyism and saying someone is a communist, then there is a similarity between Obama's political views and communism. It may be extreme to say that he is totally and absolutely a communist, so it is also extreme to say that saying so is McCarthyism.