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Useful Questions for Voters

By wt

NRO lists some helpful questions for voters considering who pull the lever for this November:

(1) Do you, personally, know anyone who has ever tried to blow up the Pentagon? Do you know of anyone who actually brags that they did, successfully, plant and detonate a bomb at the Pentagon?

(2) Do you, personally, know anyone has ever planned to blow up an officer's dance at a military base, say, Fort Dix?

(3) Do you, personally, know anyone who has gotten someone killed in an explosion because of their actions?

(4) Even if these bombings and attempted bombings occurred forty years ago, is that the sort of thing you could forgive, and/or dismiss? Do you believe that assembling a bomb, and intending to kill police, members of the military, and ordinary innocent civilians is the sort of thing that should be considered "water under the bridge" once enough time has passed?

(5) Could you shake hands with this person? Go to a party at their house? Accept a donation from them? If you knew this about a person, could you look at them and forget that they gathered the explosives, assembled the wires and the parts, scoped out their target, planted it, and watched it detonate with excitement?

(6) Do you relate to having people like that in your social circle?

No, I don't, either.

Full post as published by Expressio Unius on April 19, 2008 (boomark / email).