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In reply to the discussion: Supporting Gillibrand, Harris, etc., while opposing Franken's resignation [View all]Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)12. In rereading your reply, I feel even more strongly that you've misrepresented my meaning.
You quoted only part of this statment and responded to me as if that was all there was to my sentence. In full I said:
So I think it would be wrong to condemn and abandon the Democratic women in Congress for standing up for women in general.
Pretty clearly I was writing of those particular women, Gillibrand, Harris, etc., who called for Franken to resign, not all "Democratic women in Congress," which your abridgement suggests.
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Supporting Gillibrand, Harris, etc., while opposing Franken's resignation [View all]
Dark n Stormy Knight
Dec 2017
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They had decided behind the scenes and among themselves that if another accuser comes
Kirk Lover
Dec 2017
#17
In rereading your reply, I feel even more strongly that you've misrepresented my meaning.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Dec 2017
#12
Actually, the bolded part is extremely important to the meaning of my sentence.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Dec 2017
#21
There has been A TON...a shocking amount really and if I didn't trash all those threads I'd be glad
Kirk Lover
Dec 2017
#20
Al Franken was lynch mobbed and it is just SHIT and there are ZERO excuses for it! Period!
LBM20
Dec 2017
#10
That's quite the exaggeration and insult to those who've actually been lynched.
Dark n Stormy Knight
Dec 2017
#16
I will support ALL of them over any Republican. Their positions on the issues are an open page
DFW
Dec 2017
#11
I would not support those who went after Al Franken in a primary, but of course in a general
Demsrule86
Dec 2017
#32