Lord Voldemort, the nature of evil, and politics

[dumbledore11214]

> Magpie:
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> "Palling around with" means "endorsing what they do." Being open to 
> terrorist ideas, iow. If you want to say somebody is open to far left-
> wing ideas (which they also certainly said in calling him a Marxist 
> and a Socialist) you say that, you don't say they're palling around 
> with terrorists. Terrorist isn't a synonym for far left wing folks in 
> Chicago. It's a buzz word for people who are coming to kill you.<SNIP>


Alla:

And the scary part is that I certainly know people who believed it - 
no, not that Obama is open to marxist ideas, that if he was palling 
around with terrorists, then something must be there, he just must 
share their ideas and must be secretly plotting with them. Otherwise, 
why would he be friends with them, you know?

And by the way, what IF Obama shared more than casual connection with 
Ayers (who absolutely disgusts me, big time by the way) What if they 
were friends? Last time I checked it is possible to be friends even 
good friends with the people and do not share their political views. I 
was friends with somebody ( she moved away, we did not got mad at each 
other or anything) who has the political view of very conservative 
republican, the views which if discussed, would press my buttons very 
much, but we just did not discuss politics after one conversation. She 
is the nicest person and we got along pretty well, without talking 
about politics. And I certainly have other friends, acquintances, whose 
political views differ from mine, this woman is just the example that 
jumps at me big time, since there was absolutely nothing in common in 
our political views, not even a small thing.

JMO,

Alla