More Wisdom from Berkowitz | National Catholic Reporter by MSW. MGB: Freedom of thought is about publishing and preaching, not how you treat abuse victims in college (where charges are often swept under the rug rather than being reported to police) or whether you have a say in earned employee benefits (they are not a gift - and if they are one must give in such a way that the left hand does not know what the right is doing). Freedom of thought also does not include the freedom to lie with impunity, when there are cameras rolling, and expect no one to catch it.
By and large, the main aspect of freedom of thought was all those GOP candidates that might have done better who sat this one out - although Huckabee was probably wise to do so. Although he would have been a good leader for the base, having a white southerner challenge America's first black president would have given too many a feeling of personal license to say some ugly things that would have been the death of the GOP. Sometimes the most important freedom of though is the right to stay silent, which Mike exercised wisely.
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