It wasn’t when he met with Cindy Sheehan.
I think i’ll take the other position and say the guy giving the medal is a moron. He honestly equates being physically wounded in conflict, for which he was decorated three times, with political badmouthing? What a tool.
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Scylla, let me hip you on this: you know more about quantum physics than you know about lefties. A lot more.
There was already a Sheryl Crow thread that was actually funny.
It’s beyond your comprehension, as I said.
We agree.
I really don’t get this. If someone offered me a compliment of this kind, or anything else that portrayed me in such an incredibly flattering light - of course i’d refuse it. To accept it would be the height of narcissism. Especially when in this case the compliment being paid (“I think the President’s handling of his political opponents is equivalent to being injured in combat”) is so obviously wrong.
Did he make up a citation for your mother and sign it, the way this veteran did? That this medal was accompanied by a citation negates your inference that it was a simple gift. The giver intended it to be given as an honor for enduring emotional wounds and scars. To accept it under those circumstances is an affront to all those who were actually wounded in battle.
The mind reels.
It isn’t accepting the gift that’s the goddamn problem, Scylla, it’s accepting in the context of the fake citation as if he was actually being awarded the monkey fucking thing. It’s not only offensive because it compares political criticism to war wounds but because it characterizes practicioners of free speech as enemies of the US.
I have no problem insulting this mentally defective veteran by the way. He’s an anti-American piece of shit. Fuck him.
Maybe we just have a philosophical impasse. I can’t explain it any better.
But it’s not wrong. The only person that has the right to say whether or not Bush deserves that particular Purple Heart is the guy that earned it.
I swear to you, I would say the same thing if he wanted to give it to Michael Moore.
Ms. Crow is not a political figure, nor a political spokesperson of any note. That a person of the leftist persuasion may hold some rather goofy ideas proves conclusively that she is human. Ms Coulter, on the other hand, does most publicly and definitely pretend to political expertise and insight, and purveys ideas far too malignant to be termed “goofy”.
Besides, as a gentleman, one simply cannot discuss any such sexual preference betwixt a silky and curvaceous chanteuse and a shrieking vampiric harridan. Quite impossible, I’m sure you understand.
He didn’t really meet with Cindy Sheehan. He slapped a group of survivors on the back on his way to play golf or shoot cats or whatever the fuck he does on his ranch. He has absolutely no time to actually listen to survivors who won’t suck his ass.
Sheryl Crow is a rich hippie. She eats bran and uses bidets. She’s clean as a whistle up there.
I don’t get this…
I thought conservatives are the ones who are supposed to be tough-skinned. Since when do they pass out medals for hurt feelings? I think the Duke lacrosse players and the Rutgers basketball teams should get Purple Hearts too, then. That way, they can serve as an inspiration to those lazy boys and girls playing in that glorified sand box over yonder.
Purple Hearts for EVERYONE!
I don’t know why everyone (except Dio) is refraining from judging the vet. He’s a nutcase if he thinks Bush deserves military honors. I hope his friends and family are talking shit about him behind his back.
Fair enough. Personally, I know I learned something. If you want to pick the liberal chick out of the crowd, look for the girl with the Dirty Sanchez.
The man can offer whatever the hell he wants. The decision to *accept * it, and thereby endorse the sentiment, is Bush’s. That endorsement does have implications that, if they are not beyond your comprehension, you’re pointedly ignoring.
Capisce now? :rolleyes: Or would you rather play your troll game a little longer?
Because, other than being a decorated vet, he really doesn’t matter any more than the rest of us here do. He doesn’t work for us. He’s just a private citizen, not the Commander in Chief.
I don’t see how that makes any difference. If Thomas wants to write up a citation and give it to Count Chocula for making breakfast fun, that’s his business.
I don’t know what the “citation” says, and without knowing I have no idea if it’s something I’d take issue with, or not.
The citation is symbolic, and I’m sure we recognize it doesn’t carry weight beyond the symbolism that Thomas gives it.
I think you’d actually be on firmer ground with the “mission from God” belief. The Lord may work in mysterious ways, but class and dignity are pretty obviously falsifiable traits.
Decades from now, no doubt many will look back on the W presidency as some sort of divine judgement, but I’d lay odds that no one will be citing any of his antics as examples in class or dignity in the face of his detractors. (Has he ever faced his detractors?)
On the other hand, if there’s people today who sincerely think Bush deserves a Purple Heart for being criticized, I suppose there’ll inevitably be those who will recall the man as a paragon of class and dignity. “Ol’ W, now he was dignity embodied. And Cheney? Dead sex-ey!”
So it’s true - you really don’t comprehend that Bush’s acceptance gives it symbolism too, and much more so.