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To: Lane3 who wrote (54691)	3/20/2008 4:18:34 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542233

Karen - I must say that I don't believe that I have invoked logical fallacies, and I'm a bit miffed at your implication that I'm unable to see this situation clearly because of blind loyalty to Barack Obama. Perhaps I haven't expressed myself well enough. I wasn't offering the comparisons about Robertson, et al, as a way of saying that what Wright said wasn't outrageous. Obviously, one person's outrageous statements don't make another person's statements any less so. Of course, outrageousness is in the mind of the beholder. Obviously, some people find Wright's words outrageous. I don't, particularly. Wrong, certainly, but not outrageous. My only point was that although Robertson, Falwell, and Hagee have said some things that I consider offensive or outrageous, I haven't made assumptions about John McCain because he has refused to disown them. I certainly find fault with what I see, in Wright, to be a mindset mired in the past. I'm not alone in finding fault with that. Barack Obama agrees with me. In any case, I have a problem with the whole guilt by association premise. Are to judge one person based on a few things said by another? How close an association does it take before we decide that one person's so-called outrageous statements warrant making judgements about another? And how many times must a person make such statements before we decide that that person should be or should have been disowned? At this point, I don't think there's anything new to be said about this entire issue, on either side or in the middle. - Allen