09-07-2020, 01:02 PM
(09-07-2020, 12:54 PM)Dill Wrote: Whatabout backfires. The best you can get from this is that someone from the Hillary campaign floated this idea and was fired. Neither she nor anyone on her campaign staff stooped to using that lie as a means stirring hatred and getting votes. Cruz and Trump were happy to repeat a lie for political gain.
So there aren't "many" who stated Obama was born outside the US anymore than "many" called him a divider. Again, you use general terms not only to dilute the responsibility of those who created and used this right wing slander and propaganda, but extend responsibility for that slander to those you deem "left."
You claim you are a proponent of personal responsibility as you keep disconnecting Trump from the same. That's what your "because Trump" claims means.
Trump is responsible for suggesting Obama was born outside of the US. I merely took exception with he's the one that started it and it's one of the reasons for the violent protests. I blame the folks violently protesting for violent protests. That's where we differ.