Reply #60: Then you have my deepest sympathies.

[LynnTheDem]

I suspect life must be extra difficult for those with the rigid black-white for-against mentality, the ones completely unable to see or comprehend nuances.

He did not say he could identify with Stalin.

He did not say he would identify with Stalin BUT FOR anything.

That is YOU saying that, not Galloway. You are, of course, free to INFER anything you like.

Now I'll tell you how I took his remarks:

"Ohhh no ya don't! You won't get me to say I identify with the "left" of Stalin, because I know you want me to just so you can use that against me...now if by "Stalin left" you mean do I support the Soviet Union and mourn its collapse then yes, I do mourn its collapse BECAUSE "If there was a Soviet Union today, we would not be having this conversation about plunging into a new war in the Middle East, and the US would not be rampaging around the globe."

As you said previously, actions speak louder than words; so how about all them rallies and protests and marches and being arrested protesting against nukes and the petitions and etc that George Galloway has taken part in over the decades fighting against pretty much every single thing the Dem Party supposedly stands against.

I look at his actions, and I look at his words, and I see a man who has dedicated his life to the betterment of the "unwashed masses", and taken massive attacks for doing so.

It's so sad, but typical, that the rightwingnuttery smears him without allowing him the very slightest benefit of the doubt. To see the left do so is beyond sad; it's part & parcel of why we're in the situ today that we are in.