# Godwin for the gander - Senator Durbin shoots his fucking mouth off... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 16, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwin-for-the-gander-senator-durbin-shoots-his-fucking-mouth-off/308593 "2005-06-16T18:55:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 19
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwin-for-the-gander-senator-durbin-shoots-his-fucking-mouth-off/308593/361 "2005-06-20T04:23:25Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > Is this verbal spittle intended to convince anyone of anything, or did you come up dry for a good closing line and have to punt? > If the former, then recall that **Bosda** is no flying monkey, but he’s SURE no Cheese on a Ritz! -Your logic is defeated. OK, forgive me after 14 hours of work. This better? Gitmo sucks, but it’s not Auschwitz. Better? ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwin-for-the-gander-senator-durbin-shoots-his-fucking-mouth-off/308593/362 "2005-06-20T04:24:20Z")
Thanks for the info. Now I’m curious, but it’s a total tangent… anyways, I’m just wondering what you’d consider to be “your country?” Since you’re an american citizen, would you use that phrase to refer to here, or to El Salvador? Jus’ curious. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwin-for-the-gander-senator-durbin-shoots-his-fucking-mouth-off/308593/363 "2005-06-20T04:46:27Z")
> [@FinnAgain](#): > > Thanks for the info. Now I’m curious, but it’s a total tangent… anyways, I’m just wondering what you’d consider to be “your country?” Since you’re an american citizen, would you use that phrase to refer to here, or to El Salvador? Jus’ curious. I found out recently that the Government of the old country will still consider you a Salvadorian no matter what, so I am pulling an Arnold Schwarzenegger here: I have dual citizenship! However, Ever since the oath, I consider my country to be the USA. Of course, when I came fleeing from El Salvador I should have wondered: why I should be coming to the country that was doing so much harm to the country I was borne? But even in El Salvador, I found Mad magazine. 🙂 (Hey! I had to practice English!) Well, that and other examples of dissent in the USA (and golly: guys who publish those devastating parodies or editorials against Reagan are not shot?) showed me that the USA does protect dissent, of course that was then, today I am beginning to wonder. ☹ But I still see hope in the USA, a country that almost defeated an incumbent (pretender of being) a “war president” does deserve to fight for it. We can do better. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwin-for-the-gander-senator-durbin-shoots-his-fucking-mouth-off/308593/364 "2005-06-20T04:49:39Z")
> [@buttonjockey308](#): > > Better? Yeah. It still sucks, but it does not also blow. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwin-for-the-gander-senator-durbin-shoots-his-fucking-mouth-off/308593/365 "2005-06-20T04:51:07Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > But I still see hope in the USA, a country that almost defeated an incumbent (pretender of being) a “war president” does deserve to fight for it. We can do better. Hey! Only a fool would want to switch horses in the middle of the apocalypse. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2005, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwin-for-the-gander-senator-durbin-shoots-his-fucking-mouth-off/308593/366 "2005-06-20T13:20:41Z")
> [@buttonjockey308](#): > > Gitmo sucks, but it’s not Auschwitz. High praise indeed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/godwin-for-the-gander-senator-durbin-shoots-his-fucking-mouth-off/308593.md?page=18)