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you are getting too carried away with this adoration, jedd.

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ROFL Jedd.. are you getting some strange from her?


She's just as bad as her husband.. A joke. A wanna-be..... A cheap whore for a publicity stunt.

ROFL Jedd.. are you getting some strange from her?


She's just as bad as her husband.. A joke. A wanna-be..... A cheap whore for a publicity stunt.

Wow... As much as I hate Bush, I would never have been so classless as to verbally attack his wife as you do. Stay classy Osg!

I am very classy.....

On another note, I found it hilarious when the Obamas went to visit the Queen, and everyone was like, "OMGz how dare Mrs. Obama touch the sacred queen!!!"

I will never understand how citizens of the U.K. are able to uphold such ludicrous state-funded pomposity. I respect tradition, but this one is pretty pointless from a practical standpoint.

My English uncle, who owns a special glass manufacturing company, got a contract to install/maintain bomb resistant glass in Buckingham palace a few years ago. One day when he was present on the site, he happened to see the queen walking down the hall and apparently made the mistake of greeting her first without being acknowledged, and apparently it was a major affront.

I don't particularly like Mrs. Obama; I think that she is presumptuous and arrogant (see: hugging the Queen) in a way that has nothing to do with being a 'strong' or self-assured woman, or with feminism. It's more that she carries the whiff of the televangelist preacher's wife with her and the heartfelt motivational speeches somehow always ring overworked and somewhat false to me (and keep in mind I've seen a lot of those speeches having spent my entire teaching career in economically disadvantaged, minority-majority areas) - when all is said and done I prefer the more straightforward machinations of a Hillary Clinton. The bit about having learned from the men in her life what a healthy relationship should look like in particular made me want to vomit, because the phrasing specifically reinforces paternalism (as opposed to 'she learned from her parents' or 'we learned together' or 'we taught ourselves') - and I wish that she had talked instead about how she formed her *own* opinions and about her own work (but I also understand the intended subtext even if I disagree with how she approached it). That said, the role of a First Lady is always a difficult one to walk and I think she's potentially a very influential symbol and ambassador both to urban schoolchildren and to women in general - but thus far, save for her ethnicity, she's hardly proving a revolutionary one.

Regards,
Nydia

On the upside, her husband's political gifts have shone through at the NATO summit this week, preventing a standoff between Turkey and the rest of the NATO alliance over their new head, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,617478,00.html

The current world economic bloodbath aside, his ability to act as a peacemaker in intra-EU squabbles bodes well in terms of repairing some of the damage done during the Bush years and for effective international cooperation as far as dealing with said bloodbath (and the more literal one in Afghanistan) goes...

Regards,
Nydia

On another note, I found it hilarious when the Obamas went to visit the Queen, and everyone was like, "OMGz how dare Mrs. Obama touch the sacred queen!!!"

I will never understand how citizens of the U.K. are able to uphold such ludicrous state-funded pomposity. I respect tradition, but this one is pretty pointless from a practical standpoint.

My English uncle, who owns a special glass manufacturing company, got a contract to install/maintain bomb resistant glass in Buckingham palace a few years ago. One day when he was present on the site, he happened to see the queen walking down the hall and apparently made the mistake of greeting her first without being acknowledged, and apparently it was a major affront.

English Bob: [discussing the assassination of President Garfield] If you were to try to assassination a king, sir, the... how shall I say it? The aura of royalty would cause you to miss. But, the president...
[chuckles]
English Bob: I mean, why not shoot the president?

Osg.

Damn. You are just a complete asshole. Fuck being civil. ASSHOLE. No other word fits.

Do you ever think before you speak, or is that just Rush with his arm shoved up your ass moving your jaws? Leave the man's family out of it, especially in such a tasteless manner. You really do give people in Trailerparkansas no service or the NeoCons or the Republican party or ANYONE you are affiliated with in general by acting the stereotype that you are.

'I will never understand how citizens of the U.K. are able to uphold such ludicrous state-funded pomposity. I respect tradition, but this one is pretty pointless from a practical standpoint.'

- Not really. It's part of the package. The Royal Family promote, create, and pioneer millions in charity a year; they help create billions in tourist revenue every year; they've provided a constitutional system split by party-politics with a centre of stability and continuity, for years; they represent the pinnacle of a political achievement that was very much an aristocratic and royal product - parliamentary democracy.

I'm actually not an ardent royalist, but I'm a historian, and a realist. I don't underestimate the value of the monarchy in this country. Tradition dictates that you should not touch the Queen. Is it really that hard to 'get'? Maybe if you had a rule like that for your Presidents, they wouldn't get assassinated every generation :P Anywho. How did the Queen react to Michelle Obama? With a reciprocal hug and a 'you must stay in touch'. Hardly the monstrosity of pomposity and state you make it out to be.

Maybe if you had a rule like that for your Presidents, they wouldn't get assassinated every generation :P

This must be the poor taste thread! You know. Its the one where we burn people alive for faux paux that public officials make. If that's all it takes to start a war, than lets get it on and kill off this idiot race called Humanity.

Halo. I know there is a :P there but......

Fuck you. Not funny. Not in the least.

Besides, all the Presidents that got assassinated were shot. Not stabbed etc or anything that intimate.

/braces for incoming gun control comment! =P

'/braces for incoming gun control comment! =P'

- Of course they were shot!

Hehehehe

Hey, at least we are consistent if a little lacking in creativity!

Still if you know what works, why change it?

Besides, us Yanks have a larger "personal bubble". Maybe the assassins were respecting that? Its very similar to a Death Row inmate having the final moments on Earth and the sterilizing swab of alcohol the condemned receives on their arm to prevent infection.......before the lethal shot is administered.

Or the cops beating the ever loving crap out of someone, but taking care to not bump the arrested person's head on the top of the door jamb of the squad car as they get dumped into the back seat to be processed downtown.

Ok, I think you got a little morbid-side-tracked.

Osg.

Damn. You are just a complete asshole. Fuck being civil. ASSHOLE. No other word fits.

Do you ever think before you speak, or is that just Rush with his arm shoved up your ass moving your jaws? Leave the man's family out of it, especially in such a tasteless manner. You really do give people in Trailerparkansas no service or the NeoCons or the Republican party or ANYONE you are affiliated with in general by acting the stereotype that you are.

Grats osg on trolling your 1,000th reader.

What does he win?

1 year of bad puns?