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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Dale Baker who wrote (6416)12/9/2005 8:53:40 AM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (1) of 542502
 
It's more than just pandering, it's a question of principle. She has compromised her support for free speech to pander to a certain constituency. Once you go down that slope, it gets really slippery.

Look, burning a cross on someone's front yard is against the law. People in that house should be afraid.

Similarly, burning a flag in someone's front yard would also send some kind of frightening message.

The line has to be drawn somewhere. Unfettered free speech also does not work.

Where we draw that line is debatable.

Hillary is trying to get elected to national office. She is not campaigning to go to the SC. She is not going into a convent. She is not campaigning to be chair of the philosophy department in Cambridge.

Being Chief Executive whether in a company or country require different skill sets. Unless you are completely ruthless, you can only do your job if you know when to compromise.

By definition, the job she seeks require the ability to compromise.

In a democracy, we have to be able to distinguish between those that must compromise versus those that compromise but who are complete jerks.

In Hillary's case, a large part of the national constituency are veterans. They are large in number and they are influential. You can't completely write them off. You have to compromise.

Giving them the flag does not mean you are going to give in on matters that have far more real consequences.
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