[quote]I know you didn't ask me But I'd call them a community, ya know like a town with a fire department, library and a school. Oh and if the road needs fixing they float a bond (extracting more money from the unwary capitalist )

I determine what my labor is worth in relation to what I can get-all ways have. Once that was within a union, mostly as prices for services or goods set by me.

Just because some people can add and subtract and report facts, you think that's subversive?

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He was ASKED by a citizen at a townhall...

If he just up and declared it on his own, you'd have a point, but he didn't...The subject of Communists was thrown AT HIM...

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Actually, that makes it worse.
The original question was in all seriousness.
And if you LOOK at his reaction, he ANSWERED IT SERIOUSLY...
And then, the audience RESPONDED EXACTLY how you would respond to a serious question getting a serious answer...

He could have avoided...
But he CHOSE TO ANSWER IT DIRECTLY.

He could have done the honest thing like John McCain has done in the past...
But such antics are not helpful to the right-wing trying to shelter their "crazy" far-right elements from being able to proclaim "Kenyan" or "Muslim" or similar nonsense without being corrected.


I have no idea how you think the fact that he was giving a serious and truthful (by his own words) answer is somehow negated by the fact that he was answering a question...

If Billo had started a thread asking whether people thought the Repubs wanted the poor to die (or were indifferent to that), would any response I gave to that inquiry be automatically excusable? No longer my responsibility?

Seriously.
What are you going to try next to pretend Mr. West isn't culpable for his own self-proclaimed truthful statements?

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Souldead (Gee did I spell that wrong, sorry) O'Brien tried to revive this one with gotcha questions on CNN yesterday.

After Allen noted Souldead still doesn't want to air the full tape the interview continued more or less like this...

The full interview is on vid at the link.

Soledad O’Brien Demands Allen West Name Communists in Testy Exchange | Video | TheBlaze.com

Basically what Allen West is saying is Progressive ideology mirrors Communist ideology, and the two are connected. He's talking about stuff like this...



In 1963 they read an excerpt from the book "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen into the congressional record. In it Ms. Skousen offered a list of 45 Communist takeover goals. It's kind of fascinating to take a look back 49 years later and judge how successful they've been.

The text of the List is here.

The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals

There's a video of it here.

The Communist Take Over of America :45 Declared Goals in 1963 Congressional Report | MRCTV

Here's a small sample.

And yes Souldead O'brien, Raul Grijalva, co-chair of the CPC is a communist.

Trevor Loudon's New Zeal Blog

And although she didn't ask Bernie Saunders, founder of the CPC is what he self describes as a "Democratic Socialist", which would translate into Commie you can vote for until they're in there solid enough they don't need your vote anymore.

CPC member Maxine Waters famously Freudian slipped an admission she was a Socialist. A Socialist is a commie without the guts to admit he's a commie. A Progressive is a Socialist without the balls to blatantly admit that. But basically they're all Commies, so I don't care if Allen West did mean to blatantly, and soberly say Progressives are Commies. If he did, he would in my opinion be correct.

Oh stop trying to cover for every turd on the right just because they have an "R" by their name. I don't mind saying Maxine Waters is a jerk. I don't mind saying Barbara Boxer is a putz. It's not a requirement that you have to defend every moron you have on your side of the aisle.

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Sure Mikeyy, I'll zoom off subject with you. I understand why this one might be making you uncomfortable. You don't want to see the connection between Progs and Commies. I get that. It's OK. Relax we'll go off topic for awhile. Breath.

First of all I agree with you. Maxine Waters is a psychotic, Commie, cow, and Barbara Boxer wouldn't be uncomfortable with a red rubber nose. She's a clown. I differ from you in that I don't find them atypical to the average Prog though.

Would I dis a Repub? Hell yeah. I wouldn't care if a bus were to fall on Meaghan McCain for example. Ron Paul supporters irritated me during the primary, so I'm sick of him. The only thing Romney has going for him is he's not Obama. Lindsay Graham makes me want to puke. Good riddance to Olympia Snowe. Scott Brown is a turncoat.

That was fun. Do I win anything?

Progs are still Commies in hiding, and Allen West is a great American for having the balls to point that out though.

Why is it raving lunatics get labeled "great Americans"?

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Why? Who called Debbie Wasserman Schultz a great American?

Colonel West though, now there's a great American.

Why?

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