• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOPM
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    8 months ago

    My link proves that he had an official position in the administration because it gives his title. What claim CNN makes is completely irrelevant to the question of whether the guy worked in an official capacity in the Obama admin, which he very clearly did. Something any intellectually honest person would be able to understand.

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      8 months ago

      You know what? I apologize for calling you intellectually dishonest. It’s clear now that we were talking at cross-purposes.

      whether the guy worked in an official capacity in the Obama admin

      That’s not the issue. The issue is if his official capacity in the Obama administration reflects upon Obama.

      Because Fox News could easily take this article and say, “Look! Obama’s Marxist-Leninist-Nazi beliefs inspired him to hire an Islamophobe! The hypocrisy of the Far-Left on display again!”

      But since this official held this role for both Democratic and Republican administration, it either impinges on the moral judgement of every administration under which he served or none of them.

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      8 months ago

      And he had that official title before the Obama administration. So there’s no association. Do you think every federal worker is swapped out for a new one every time the president changes?

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        8 months ago

        No, my point is that US government as a whole is a deplorable regime regardless of which specific clowns happen to be the face of it at any given time. People like Seldowitz are what constitutes the permanent bureaucracy in US. And these people are the scum of the earth.