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cali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-01-09 04:18 PM
Response to Reply #41
43. plenty of things and slaughter isn't the correct term either
in any case, it's become a huge distraction from Grayson's points.
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  -I think Grayson was justified to use "holocaust". Barack_America  Oct-01-09 09:11 AM   #0 
  - I'm going to be the first person to argue with myself.  Barack_America   Oct-01-09 09:14 AM   #1 
  - The holocaust reference is fine. A real strertch is comparing Grayson's remarks to  zonkers   Oct-01-09 10:01 AM   #27 
  - and Iraqi's, South America.....  Whisp   Oct-01-09 10:35 AM   #32 
     - I was trying to stick with American soil.  Barack_America   Oct-01-09 10:39 AM   #34 
  - it was a mistake. Specifically, it's a distraction  cali   Oct-01-09 09:14 AM   #2 
  - Exactly. It doesn't take a political debate anywhere we want it to go. nt  Captain Hilts   Oct-01-09 09:18 AM   #8 
  - Right. Wouldn't want strong language to connote how deadly serious  Raineyb   Oct-01-09 10:38 AM   #33 
     - The word becomes the date. FYI - I don't have health ins. nt  Captain Hilts   Oct-01-09 10:49 AM   #35 
     - How about genocide? How about using harsh words that aren't  joeybee12   Oct-01-09 04:19 PM   #44 
  - Or maybe it could bring attention to the failure of our health care system...  Barack_America   Oct-01-09 09:19 AM   #10 
  - oh c'mon you know better than that.  cali   Oct-01-09 10:09 AM   #28 
     - We're arguing different things.  Barack_America   Oct-01-09 10:23 AM   #30 
  - One good distraction deserves another.  mzmolly   Oct-01-09 04:15 PM   #42 
  - It was hyperbole....  Iggo   Oct-01-09 09:15 AM   #3 
  - He used it to draw attention to anti-choicers' hypocrisy.  redqueen   Oct-01-09 09:17 AM   #4 
  - Good point.  Barack_America   Oct-01-09 09:20 AM   #11 
  - those who would rather argue about a word  G_j   Oct-01-09 09:17 AM   #5 
  - I have no qualms with him using the word  Christa   Oct-01-09 09:17 AM   #6 
  - +1...n/t  Hepburn   Oct-01-09 09:27 AM   #16 
  - That was his only mistake. nt  Captain Hilts   Oct-01-09 09:17 AM   #7 
  - I'm okay with it. Losing almost as many people anually as we lost in the entire war in Viet Nam  laughingliberal   Oct-01-09 09:18 AM   #9 
  - perhaps we could build a memorial wall, ...every year  G_j   Oct-01-09 09:23 AM   #13 
     - And with the govt. jobs and benefist that memorial would provide...  Barack_America   Oct-01-09 09:49 AM   #23 
     - Great idea!  laughingliberal   Oct-01-09 10:29 AM   #31 
        - there is no reason why they shouldn't be honored w/ a memorial. nt  G_j   Oct-01-09 01:06 PM   #37 
  - it was a good tactic, but unlike the gop we have policy to back it up  Stables2010   Oct-01-09 09:21 AM   #12 
  - Why piss people off unnecessarily?  Nye Bevan   Oct-01-09 09:25 AM   #14 
  - pissing people off gets attention and if done right can get things done  mikelgb   Oct-01-09 09:30 AM   #18 
  - Abso-fucking-lutely.  Hepburn   Oct-01-09 09:26 AM   #15 
  - It's not inappropriate just inaccurate, but a good jab at the  izzybeans   Oct-01-09 09:30 AM   #17 
  - The definition is debatable.  Barack_America   Oct-01-09 09:41 AM   #21 
     - Either way Grayson has nothing to apologize for, IMO.  izzybeans   Oct-01-09 09:50 AM   #24 
     - the dictionary definitions are moot in this debate. it's what people  cali   Oct-01-09 10:19 AM   #29 
        - I agree...  joeybee12   Oct-01-09 04:20 PM   #45 
  - Mental health care is virtually non-existent where I live, an hour  LibDemAlways   Oct-01-09 09:32 AM   #19 
  - Grayson was right on the money.  Cass   Oct-01-09 09:32 AM   #20 
  - While many people believe there is and was only one "Holocaust"  no_hypocrisy   Oct-01-09 09:47 AM   #22 
  - I agree with you on this...  ljm2002   Oct-01-09 09:53 AM   #25 
  - More than that die each year.  area51   Oct-01-09 09:58 AM   #26 
  - If 45,000 a year is accurate then it's not comparable to the Holocaust.  Donald Ian Rankin   Oct-01-09 11:21 AM   #36 
  - No one is comparing it to "THE Holocaust". He said it was "a holocaust".  Barack_America   Oct-01-09 01:19 PM   #39 
  - The media throws a damn fit..  butterfly77   Oct-01-09 01:08 PM   #38 
  - Absolutely.  Zoeisright   Oct-01-09 01:20 PM   #40 
  - What else would you call people being slaughtered by major corporations?  asdjrocky   Oct-01-09 01:21 PM   #41 
  - plenty of things and slaughter isn't the correct term either  cali   Oct-01-09 04:18 PM   #43 
  - Sometimes it's necessary  voteearlyvoteoften   Oct-02-09 07:19 AM   #46 
 

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