« on: March 21, 2014, 07:44:03 AM »
I guess this shouldn't surprise me one bit.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024700249Thu Mar 20, 2014, 09:58 PM
Star Member cali (92,449 posts)
the pearl clutching going on over someone directing "**** you" at President Obama Fire starter?
is, well, ridiculous. He's a politician, not some deity. It's not terribly rare that DUers direct that phrase to other elected democrats, and yet that hardly results in the outrage currently on display. And the circumstance in which that utterance was issued make it at least somewhat understandable.
Yes, he's the President, but the anger and outrage clearly have nothing to do with the old saw about respecting the office. This reaction has much more to do with those who are so devoted to the President that their sensibilities are offended by the anger toward him.
He's a politician. People get angry at politicians. They say things in the heat of the moment. In Pitts case. that's D. R. U. N. K
Response to cali (Original post)
Thu Mar 20, 2014, 10:02 PM
Star Member ProSense (113,684 posts)
2. Criticism for: "**** you, Mr. President, you piece of shit used-car salesman. "
is not ****ing "pearl clutching."
"He's...not some deity."
Neither is the poster who made that comment. The attack was misguided, and judging from the followup, intentional.
The criticism is justified. Pittstain---> 
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And awayyyyy they went.
Big, big campfire.
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