Pity; the way people are buying The Da Vinci Code I’m sure Shodan’s Poop Journal would sell well. And probably contain less crap.
Back on topic: I’m no fan of Bush but apart from the “major league asshole” incident and his annoying habit of calling Blair “Tony” at formal occasions I don’t recall him making up nicknames for people either. And if he has, I’d like a cite please.
Because she’s challenged and totally forgot that she had posted to this thread. :smack:
But since I’m here now (this is kind of like when you make a crack at your buddy and three hours later, he tries to crack back at you, huh), my response was directed solely at your unending tendancy to lord your moral and logical superiority over the rest of us WHENEVER YOU POSSIBLY CAN.
Okay, we namecall and you don’t. Good on ya, sir! Way to be a smart and dignified human being! If you keep pointing fingers and singing the “neener neener I told you so” song long enough, perhaps the rest of us will see the error of our ways and all convert to Brickerism.
Maybe people call names because they’re ticked off at their target. Maybe it’s like when you get cut off by some lady in traffic and refer to her as “Great Aunt Gertrude and her goddamn boat of an Impala!” Maybe we call names because it’s human nature to demonize or at least insult those who we strongly disagree with.
Namecalling is far from exclusive to the world of politics, dear.
Now if I could only figure out how to keep up on threads that I post to. 
Sorry about that, Bricker.
“Liberals are all hateful nuts. What’s my proof? Well, here’s a picture of a guy holding a sign. And sometimes Democrats call the President nasty nicknames. And George Orwell wrote some books. Based on this thorough proof I can conclude that not only are all liberals insane, anti-American leftists who nobody likes and who 48% of the people would never vote for, but they’re big meanies who took my lunch money and sent me to bed without any dessert!”
This thread is a joke, right?
I was thinking the same thing - that the thread is some sort of joke and I’m not “in” enough to get it. But then whenever I see a big A with a circle, I think of Aerosmith. Duh me.
So some kids decided to get all disgruntled and wave a few signs, and that means anyone not firmly entrenched in the far rightwing conservative camp is in cahoots with them? I don’t think so. No more or less than any other loonies from the other extreme would. I think some of the quotes from the right which other people posted already would strike most people as being more extreme and hateful - kill liberals. kill Democrats. hunt them with dogs. etc. It may just be rhetoric, but it is still high assholery, no matter which side of the spectrum it comes from. Don’t throw stones if you live in a glass house.
I think the OP was taken in. As I said in the early part of the thread, I tried to verify the claims made by the OP and was unable to do so. No one to my knowledge came back and offered any evidence to back up the OP’s claims.
OTOH, there were a lot of crazy threads started during the week of the election…
Er…are you really demanding a cite for the proposition that Bush likes to dole out nicknames? I thought that was common knowledge.
Anyway, Here’s a cite. Bush’s nickname for the Russian president is “Pootie-poot.”
Wikipedia has a article devoted to nicknames bestowed by George W. Bush.
I’m unaware of Bush ever using a nickname to belittle, though – it’s always friendly, as best I can tell.
Looks like you’re right. However it seems that a number of other posters have run with the same idea on with scant backing.
No, only that the nicknames are belittling in the way that referring to the President as “Shrub” is belittling. As I think you agree, Bush doesn’t do that, but some members of the fringe Left do.
It’s childish. So was referring to Clinton as “Slick Willie”.
Regards,
Shodan
Now, there are two ways to lose voters.
One, people hate your stupid ideas.
Two, people dislike your nutty candidates, or the nutty people associated with them.
Elections are determined by the interplay of these. With me so far?
According to this thread, some people are turned off by the wacky left so much that they vote for the other guy. Right?
However, elections in America are extremely close. Therefore, the wacky antics of the screeching liberals is certainly a major factor, if they’re a bunch of commie radical whiners, right? Right?
Well, taking that into account, those in support of this theory must agree that people agree with liberal ideas wholeheartedly.
After all, that’s the only thing that could make the elections so close, if they are turned off by the wacky antics of the far left!