How long can you watch an ANSWER rally before they bring up Mumia?

[Orrex]

I mean, it seems to me that there are other domestic political prisoners worth mentioning, aren't there?

[bicentennial_baby]

1. Free Free Palestine!

:rofl:

Free Mumia! Free Leonard Peltier! End Israeli Agression! Fur is Murder! Oh yeah, the Iraq War is bad too!

:P

[Orrex]

2. That about sums it up for me

I tuned in this afternoon, and just as I joked to my wife "You know, they haven't mentioned--" they mentioned him. That was after no more than 45 seconds of viewing.

Hey, it's their rally so they can talk about whatever they want, but I'm not sure that I'm comfortable with one man on death row trumping hundreds of thousands of deaths and hundreds of billions of dollars wasted.

Perhaps a reassessment of priorities?

[ellisonz]

3. God forbid!

Thank God I'm at Democratic Underground and not Leftist Paradise.

:sarcasm:

[Orrex]

6. Uh?

:shrug:

[ellisonz]

9. I'm just being a self-centered Democrat.

And an ass...

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;-)

[Fenris]

7. Free beer!

[otherlander]

8. Free Palestine? Really?

I'll take it! :woohoo:

*Calls Fatah on cellphone* Hey, Fatah? I have Palestine now. You want it? It's gonna cost ya.

[rockymountaindem]

4. A political discussion in the lounge?

This can't bode well.

[Orrex]

5. Well, I could have posted in GD, but we all know how that goes

And mostly I'm just ranting; I wasn't really interested in engaging all perspectives on a complex and nuanced issue. With that in mind, I figured that the Lounge, with its perpetually healthy dose of snark, would offer a more receptive audience.