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Play nice? Surely you jest. The point is that a star has been awarded to someone who has plagiarized. Is it playing nice to avoid pointing out that this is so? If that is playing nice it is a craven sort of playing nice and I don't want any part of it.
This is not about Clinton and Obama. This is about what sort of dialogue you want to take place here at Salon. As a former English teacher, I flunked people like Jaben for plagiarizing. It is absolutely astonishing to me that Obama supporter would want Jaben's false and, moreover, stolen, claims to stand as representative of the Obama point of view here at Salon.
Don't tell me to play nice! Why don't you try playing ethically? Think about it. What does it say about your cause and your support of your candidate if you choose to ignore this when you should be loudly protesting the lie?
To me, it begins to speak to the fact that perhaps people posting here on behalf of Obama should get a lot more scrutiny concerning the information that they are posting.
