Before you start all the high fives, answer me this: by your logic, Van Jones is A-OK then right? I mean he's not a member of a communist group now, right?

Mookie - I am suprised you can't see the difference.

The term - regardless of one of its "literary" meanings, when spoken by a man regarding a woman, society defines it as a specific, sexual slur.

This is no different than if a white man were to call a black man "******" - society defines that as a specific racial slur. Never mind the fact that the same black man may be called by the same term among friends of his own race, and lets not forget that it has more than one meaning - on of wich is the literary meaning simply of "negro", which denoting his color, and in a literary sense is purely a NEUTRAL statement.

Does that make it right? No - it doesn't. You know it as well as I do. Were I to give a speech and say "Mr. Van Jones, a ******,....", people would be screaming left and right I was racist, and yet your position would require you to defend me for it, IF I claimed I meant it merely in the "literary" sense - unless of course you want to go ahead and admit that to not do so would be a double standard.

As an elected official, society expects a certain level of couth and decorum. Mr. Drayson violated that, and thus the citizenry has a right to take issue with it.

If you're asking me if there is a difference between a job and a membership in a political organization then i'd say yes there is. The only way your comparison would be valid is if you could show that Van Jones was only a commie for the money...

That is it in a nutshell Mookie.