[Dems2008] Re: Clinton campaign manager worked for Subprime lenders

But before tarring Hillary (or any candidate) with guilt by
association with a particular campaign staff worker who worked at
some time in the past in an industry, or for a company, that may or
may not have engaged in questionable practices, it is incumbent on
the person raising the issue to demonstrate some culpability on the
part of the staffer, contributor, advisor, or the like.

In this case, it may be fashionable to tar someone who worked in the
subprime industry with things done wrong by that industry or a
particular company, but some connection or nexus of the individual
with the invidious, unlawful, or odious conduct or actions should be
a prerequisite before just a blanket generalized attack is made on
THE CANDIDATE with whom that person is now associated.

Fairness -- if not some threshold of relevance and causation --
requires no less. It seems both sides' supporters are really
stretccccccccccching to find indirect relationships with which to tar
a candidate......and the election is more important than such
generalized trivia.

In this case, it's Hillary; in another case it will be Barack. I'm
just suggesting that some WEIGHTING of alleged wrongs (or supposed
wrongs) is due before we tear down a candidate for an indirect
association.

--- In Dems2008@yahoogroups.com, Carol Roberts <carolroberts1@...>
wrote:
>
> No, I don't agree with that. The people who surround the candidate
are
> people who are influential with that candidate and we deserve to
know
> who they are. I would like to know in advance who that candidate
would
> choose for a cabinet and for that myriad of West Wing Staff
positions.
> Those are the people who will eventually be the "fall guys" for
whatever
> goes wrong during the administration. We can assume that the
people
> running the campaign will show up in the West Wing at some point,
but
> there are always others who will be very influential, and usually
we
> don't know who they are until its too late....Carol
>
> citation502 wrote:
> >
> >
> > This entire "trivial pursuit" trend -- i.e., finding a worker or
an
> > advisor or a contributor who did this or that in the past, and
then
> > tagging the candidate with the (questionable) questions one would
raise
> > about that worker, advisor, or contributor -- is really annoying.
It
> > not only continues to distract us from the real issues; it's a
> > tendency to find insubstantial and irrelevant grounds on which to
> > attack one or the other candidate.
>

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