So when you say your colleagues are fucking retarded because they do not vote your way then you are actually insulting children with developmental issues. And of course their parents. We can’t forget them. They are the real heroes.
Did Sarah Palin just call the Democrats retarded? That is very clever if that was her intent.
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"She was the mayor of Wasilla when I lived nearby and I even met her briefly while I was heavily medicated." Now, there's a sentence one doesn't read very often. :-)
American politics fascinate me. You couldn't make this stuff up. Shakespeare would have a field day with it. Representative Joe Wilson called Obama a liar, and the incident got a week's worth of air time on CNN. The *cough* leaders of the free world are all a bunch of whiny babies.
The word "retarded" does actually have a meaning beyong being a slur. In mechanics, timing can be set to retard the engine. I can't remember why but I know it happens. Should we now say that the engine is running "challenged"?
Similarly, Emanuel's comment is technically true. The behaviour of certain "blue dog" (oh woof! I'm scared!) Democrats is retarding the agenda that put them there so the only real problem with his statement is one of grammar.
Okay, I'm not naive enough to believe that that was his intention. Of course he was comparing his colleagues to the mentally disabled, but equally, I'm not naive enough to believe Palin's moral outrage. Is she saying that if Rahm had simply called them "fucked," then that would be okay? No, then she would attack the other word, they same as they way they call Obama disrespectful to the oval office for putting his feet up on the desk, but when W did it, it was the calm confidence of a can-do president.... or something.
I don't dislike Palin because she is a woman, or a mother, or a conservative (debatable), or Alaskan or a Republican or because she's pretty. It's because she's a twit.
Now she's a commentator on Fox News. Is anyone surprised? And she does bring some balance to the network. Glenn Beck's job is to make O'Reilly and Hannity look sane. Palin's job is to make Hannity and Beck look smart.
It's getting harder and harder to know what one is allowed to say. Stupid is a bad words. Idiot is derogatory terms for someone who is retarded, and retarded is actually a non-politically correct term for someone who is mentally challenged. I like writing fiction because it gives me poetic license to use any word I want. I could never be a politician as I would probably use an unapproved word and suffer mightily for it.
I think Shakespeare would find American politics overly melodramatic.
My favourite thing about Sarah Palin is that she's spent less time in public office than Obama and says less than he does when she speaks yet people are still interested in what she has to say.
Political correctness does have a limited place. Some things we simply shouldn't say to each other. But if stupid is off limits you can count me out. If I can't say something is stupid that's just fucking retarded.
Sarah Palin's comment is as offensive to African Americans as her very presence is to women. If she wants to be pres someone needs tell her not to court the mentally challenged vote at the expense of the African American vote.
One of those words is MUCH more offensive and it isn't retarded.
If she ever runs for president she'll rely on the mentally challenged vote.
Americans are hypocrites. They say not to use this word or that, and they are free to use it. They say it is bad to interfer with another nation, and they interfere ever day. They say they want to make the world democracy and so, and they support dictators and despots over democracy. They are not the leader of the free world, they are leaders of their own tyranny.
Fair point about democracy. The United States has a long history of war to save the world for democracy yet they favour communist China over democratic Taiwan and have always supported any anti-communist dictators over the will of the people.
I'm sure that with China, they did a few sums and quickly figured out who they could sell more Coke to - or who could make them more TVs.
I think when people talk of America fighting to democracy, they are simply mishearing and that they're actually fighting for demography.
I'd pick 1.3 billion customers over 23 million customers too but that doesn't explain their love/hate relationships with people like Saddam Hussein.
That's easy. America was fighting with Iran, Iraq was fighting with Iran. It seemed like a marriage made in heaven, but then Saddam wanted to see other people and have his own career, and you know how ugly these things can get.
If there's one lesson America can take from its foreign policy of the last fifty years, it's that the enemy of your enemy may also be your enemy.
Americans only remember as much of the past as they want to remember. That's why they're doomed to repeat it.
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