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Originally Posted by ottopilot
I don't believe it... I just want to illustrate how easily we can escalate such claims or false perceptions with context biased factoids and distortions. I bet that if inclined, I could find all sorts of eye-brow raising religious "news" on any of these nominees.
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Fair enough. I simply found your reaction to the Obama snippet to be unjustly reactionary given the context (or lack thereof). Palin was at least contextualized to be speaking about the Iraq War. Obama, on the other hand, was at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. A bit different, no?
Or were you just making a point? (Re: biased factoids and distortions.)
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