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Elisabella -> RE: Conservative Blogger Urges Obama Assassination on Twitter - DailyFinance (3/22/2010 8:54:07 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Moonhead
I find this assumption that even an incompetent lying piece of shit is deserving of respect, purely because he won an election pretty troubling myself. (The fact that it only seems to apply if said politician is from the party you favour yourself is arguably more funny than troubling, but that's just human nature.)
I favor neither party, though I favor respecting the office of President regardless of party.
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I'm at least showing some consistency here, unlike those who are getting arsey when anything nasty's said about Obama or forgot all about this "l'etat c'est moi?" crap they were spouting about Bush the second a black Democrat got elected.
Not sure what blackness has to do with it but I agree with the spirit of the comment - Tea parties are no different than anti-Iraq war protests and the minority party in both cases is really playing up the "you're ignoring the wishes of the people" aspect.
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The sudden role reversal at the end of '08 was breathtaking. Maybe it's a UK thing: you'd probably get sectioned under the mental health act if you were caught showing any respect for a politician of any stripe over here.
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I don't remember hearing even half of the crap that's been thrown at Obama said about Clinton or Carter, put it that way.
I wasn't alive for Carter but my mother's told me that he was absolutely trashed by public opinion when he dared to suggest reducing heating bills by wearing a sweater inside during winter.
Clinton on the other hand was very moderate, I've heard him described as "one of the best moderate Republicans in recent history" tongue-in-cheek, which makes it unfair to compare him to a strong leftist like Obama.
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As for similar positions being imbued with respect, does that include the positions held by (say) Saddam Hussein or Mohammed Mossadeq? It's a bit of a cheek somebody in a country that's happy to dispose other nation's leaders at the drop of a hat complaining about the respect due to political leaders, is it not?
Ah, realist vs liberal politics at its finest - note I'm not using those terms as descriptors but rather referring to the schools of thought in international politics that basically address the question of nationalism vs. globalism.
My answer is, I owe loyalty only to my country and its allies. Which might make things tricky as my citizenship and residency are different, and in a few years I'll hold dual citizenship, but fortunately Australia and the US seem to be getting along well enough that I don't think I'll have to choose one or the other anytime soon.
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