re: POS POTUS: Muslims thanked for "building the very fabric of our nation"

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I didn't say anything about hating muslims. You use language like "leftist scum" in your post and say that doesn't insinuate a certain level of hatred? Was that a term of endearment?

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Perhaps I've grown desensitized to our partisan name games here. I wonder if you accuse leftists posters who use such terms of being hateful? And of course, accusations of "HATE" are just one of your Alinsky-ite weapons, is it not?

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You really aren't taking the original quote from the president in context.

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Oh, the old "context" excuse where you can state whatever you want and deflect criticism by pointing to some broader unseen "context". Accurate in some settings, but in a formal prepared statement that likely had the scrutiny of no less than a dozen writers and reviewers, the context argument is disingenuous.

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Everyone has contributed to building the fabric of this democracy. I

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Really? Did Malcom X? The Ku Klux Klan? No, not everyone has. Some do and some don't. Some are indifferent and some are a detriment.

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In a direct way, we have Keith Ellison, a congressman, who is participating at one of the highest levels of our democracy. How is that not contributing?

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It is written past tense, in a historical sense.