Outrageous

[fishbones]

Originally Posted by spence

Black is also a color (or technically the absence of color) as well as a racial description. I'd wager that most racial hate groups don't think of Obama as any less black because he's bi-racial. Actually they probably think it's a bigger obamanation

I guess we could ignore the fact that he has black skin, and that it's significant, and that people hate him for it. But I'm sure you're just being silly anyway.


I was fortunate to grow up in a household with no bigotry, or about as close as you can get. As for hate groups, they tend to dress alike which doesn't fit with my flair for individuality.

-spence

You're right, I was just having a little fun with you. I would never put you in the same class as those idiots.
As for this whole flap with the veterans, I'm sure it was just a poor choice of words which she now deeply regrets. If every politician had to resign when they made a stupid and/or insensitive comment about a group of people, we'd have very few left to run the country. Wait, maybe I'm onto something...

[spence]

Originally Posted by fishbones

As for this whole flap with the veterans, I'm sure it was just a poor choice of words which she now deeply regrets.

I read most of the actual document and don't have many issues with the words. Context is very important here...

If the context was a Government pragmatically looking at individual factors that when combined could form a threat then it seems pretty reasonable.

If the context was an Liberal civil rights group trying to paint our troops as out of control killers, which some certainly do, then the report could be seen as anti-military and objectionable.

Considering it looks like the FBI initiatives behind this report span both Administrations, one could really question the objectivity of the Malkin piece that started this thread.

It does appear there was a debate internally as to why the report should be made public. Considering that Napolitano isn't seen as a partisan, I doubt this was a hit job, just perhaps clumsy.

-spence