2016 Postmortem

calimary

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31. In Catholic school, it's called a "sin of omission."

Sun Oct 30, 2016, 03:34 PM

Oct 2016

If you didn't lie outright, but you didn't say anything to promote the truth, if you yourself didn't do the deed, but you stayed silent when you knew who did and you should have said something - that time of thing.

This is binary. Only one OR the other. Either you're with him or against him. This person is evidently a FORMER Congressman, but he still ought to say, one way or the other. Or else he's just a coward. At least he copped to that.

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In Catholic school, it's called a "sin of omission." calimary Oct 2016 #31

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