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[Radical Activist]

guilt by association, misleading vividness, hasty generalization, appeal to fear, and straw-man as they apply to the original post.

But I guess its easy to ignore logical fallacies when someone is telling you what you want to believe. It reminds me of how quickly people ignored Obama's record and statements for fair trade when Naomi Klein wrote a guilt by association article based on Obama's U of Chicago connections. What makes people so eager to validate their belief that Obama must be conservative? A decade of "the lesser of two evils" talk and Nader's arguments about the two parties being the same? Cynicism? I think the left needs to take an inward look and recognize the difference between skepticism and cynicism and ask if cynicism is serving us well.

I also notice that your response to me included an Appeal to Belief. Just because there are more than a few DUers with a certain fear, doesn't make it true.

I'll be pushing Obama to move left too, but I won't start by engaging in mind reading attacks against him. It doesn't help anything.