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  Volunteer Voters » Could David Briley Survive An Endorsement Of Bob Clement? said,

  [...] Clearly Bob Clement seems more amenable to promising to Briley what it is he seeks. In this Liberadio interview, where Briley first outlines the conditions under which he would endorse, many listeners had to have been struck by Briley’s attitude towards the possibility of endorsing Bob Clement. Karl Dean, at least in the blogsphere, is considered the clear second choice of Briley’s voters. Bob Clement is an anathema. [...]

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  Volunteer Voters » Blaming Movements For Lone Gunman said,

  [...] Mary Mancini thinks that putting the act of a singular individual on an entire movement is beyond the pale: I was really put off when Bear Creek Ledger blamed the “ignorant,” cruel,” “infantile,” and “blood-thirsty” “anti-war left” for an intolerant and hateful incident involving a young woman and the memorial she displays for her fiancée who died in Iraq. Assuming the person who did this horrible thing leans ideologically to the left, Ledger calls all of us “miserable dregs of society,” instead of denigrating the actual perpetrator. First, how does she know what the man’s ideological preference is? Just by looking? If so, then just by looking I’d say he leans just to the left of crazy. Second, does she really believe that all of us who are against the war would behave in such a way? If so, then I guess turnabout is fair play. [...]

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