From: McDuck on 7 May 2010 20:55 On Fri, 7 May 2010 12:35:30 -0400, "JTibbs" <jtibbs08(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > >"McDuck" <wallyDELETEMEMcDuck(a)comcast.net> wrote in message >news:7p47u5h4sl07ko3qngnbghu7dodr1hi2rj(a)4ax.com... >> On Thu, 6 May 2010 09:19:08 -0400, "JTibbs" <jtibbs08(a)yahoo.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> >>>"Dan C" <youmustbejoking(a)lan.invalid> wrote in message >>>news:pan.2010.05.06.02.36.55(a)moria.lan... >>>> >>>> Exactly. They represent hypocrisy at it's highest level. >>>> >>>> Not for too much longer, at least... ;) >>>> >>>Agreed, I can't explain how frustrating it is to me that he said that and >>>isn't being completely skewered over it. >> >> I don't know. That is the name FOX gave the movement when it started >> it, but then changed the name when its people learned what how the >> term was used by gays. The name did not come from the Left, but the >> Left has made some fun at the name. > >Regardless, it's inappropriate for Obama to use the term. I didn't know that he did, or why he did. I'd advise him not to use it if he were to ask me, but it does not concern me much. Mostly I thought he was rather respectful of the tea bag persons, giving them more legitimacy than I would.
From: JTibbs on 8 May 2010 20:00 "McDuck" <wallyDELETEMEMcDuck(a)comcast.net> wrote in message news:kgd9u5du3bnllfoh246k1n06nu9dvgfdln(a)4ax.com... > On Fri, 7 May 2010 12:35:30 -0400, "JTibbs" <jtibbs08(a)yahoo.com> > wrote: > >> >> >>"McDuck" <wallyDELETEMEMcDuck(a)comcast.net> wrote in message >>news:7p47u5h4sl07ko3qngnbghu7dodr1hi2rj(a)4ax.com... >>> On Thu, 6 May 2010 09:19:08 -0400, "JTibbs" <jtibbs08(a)yahoo.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>>"Dan C" <youmustbejoking(a)lan.invalid> wrote in message >>>>news:pan.2010.05.06.02.36.55(a)moria.lan... >>>>> >>>>> Exactly. They represent hypocrisy at it's highest level. >>>>> >>>>> Not for too much longer, at least... ;) >>>>> >>>>Agreed, I can't explain how frustrating it is to me that he said that >>>>and >>>>isn't being completely skewered over it. >>> >>> I don't know. That is the name FOX gave the movement when it started >>> it, but then changed the name when its people learned what how the >>> term was used by gays. The name did not come from the Left, but the >>> Left has made some fun at the name. >> >>Regardless, it's inappropriate for Obama to use the term. > > I didn't know that he did, or why he did. I'd advise him not to use it > if he were to ask me, but it does not concern me much. Mostly I > thought he was rather respectful of the tea bag persons, giving them > more legitimacy than I would. He tend to do that a lot, like with unions, illegal immigrants and Henry Gates.
From: mr. gone on 9 May 2010 22:39 In article <84mc19Fs3kU1(a)mid.individual.net>, jtibbs08(a)yahoo.com says... > > I'm complaining because I think 'teabaggers' is a disgusting term and the > president should be above using it. did you complain when gwb called the constitution "a <expletive> piece of paper"? or cheney telling leahy to do something physically impossible to himself?
From: JTibbs on 10 May 2010 09:30 "mr. gone" <mr_gone78NOSPAM(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:MPG.26513be931599bf398969c(a)newsfeed.aioe.org... > In article <84mc19Fs3kU1(a)mid.individual.net>, jtibbs08(a)yahoo.com says... >> >> I'm complaining because I think 'teabaggers' is a disgusting term and > the >> president should be above using it. > > did you complain when gwb called the constitution "a <expletive> piece > of paper"? or cheney telling leahy to do something physically impossible > to himself? The story about Bush is nothing but hearsay unless more news on it has broken since the last I heard that story and Cheney was VP (please re-read the title of the thread) in a personal conversation and his actual quote hasn't been reveled to the best of my knowledge, again, hearsay.
From: mr. gone on 10 May 2010 10:42
In article <84qg3cFpb6U1(a)mid.individual.net>, jtibbs08(a)yahoo.com says... > > "mr. gone" <mr_gone78NOSPAM(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:MPG.26513be931599bf398969c(a)newsfeed.aioe.org... > > In article <84mc19Fs3kU1(a)mid.individual.net>, jtibbs08(a)yahoo.com says... > >> > >> I'm complaining because I think 'teabaggers' is a disgusting term and > > the > >> president should be above using it. > > > > did you complain when gwb called the constitution "a <expletive> piece > > of paper"? or cheney telling leahy to do something physically impossible > > to himself? > > The story about Bush is nothing but hearsay unless more news on it has > broken since the last I heard that story and Cheney was VP (please re-read > the title of the thread) in a personal conversation and his actual quote > hasn't been reveled to the best of my knowledge, again, hearsay. iow, "i only complain when it's a democrat saying it." gotcha. |