Comments on: You hate them, you really hate them

By: 3Steps

3Steps — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:48:10 +0000

On November 15th, 2007 at 11:52 am, DesertLover said:
Everyone here already knows I support term limits and some of the other suggestions above, so I won’t repeat that here.

However …

I defy anyone from any party to show me where in the Constitution it says that there are any of the following stated as requirements to serve in public office at any level:

(1) A college degree in political science

(2) A professional politician

(3) A lawyer (or at least have a law degree)

(4) Be independently wealthy

(5) Have the support of big business. or unions, or any other self-serving entity

If those were legal requirements this country would have never gotten off the ground because the majority of those that served in the early years were simple everyday folks (farmers, traders, hunters, etc.).

We need to get the money out of the election process so that people who want to serve for the right reasons can have an opportunity to do so again.

THIS!

I so agree. I do not think for even a milisecond that our founding fathers planned on Congress being a lifetime appointment with huge paychecks and even bigger retirement.

Term limits would be a great start.

But there is much more wrong with the sytem.

By: dakine

dakine — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:04:38 +0000

Hardhead, I understand the usage, but frankly, that’s not the way soap used the word. He was using it as an explicit personal attack on a female politician he disagrees with. BTW, hard for me to come up with a member of the Senate who is not a “political whore” by your definition. Kind of the nature of the game, yes?

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Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:06:43 +0000

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By: Hardhead

Hardhead — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:40:10 +0000

A political whore is a political whore no matter what gender he or she happens to be. It has nothing to do with sex or (lack of) respect for women; it’s about selling out.

By: dakine

dakine — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:12:32 +0000

trinitytim, Pelosi is a terrible SOH. However, she’s also a wife, mother and grandmother. There’s no honor in referring to any woman as a “whore” (and that includes actual prostitutes). Incompetent, shrill, misguided, annoying…for sure, but silly and childish name calling just makes folks look like tools.

By: trinitytim

trinitytim — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:40:35 +0000

Well DA what would YOU call a person, male or female, who takes a bunch of money to perform a service for the client that no one else will do.

I think Soap has it right. You are missing the very reason that Nan P has taken Congress to a new low.

By: dakine

dakine — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:08:57 +0000

Try this soap. Make cogent arguments and state your opinions in a rational, coherent manner. Reason, facts, evidence…these are all your tools. Avoid personal attacks and using silly demeaning nicknames for politicians and other public figures with whom you disagree. Otherwise, you’re no better than those silly twits you love to hate who like to “get out their Bush-Hitler dolls and pins and have some fun” while posting about the same on Kos and HuffPo.

BTW, while I’m well aware that Ms. Malkin enjoys using annoying nicknames in her blog posts, I’m pretty sure she doesn’t condone referring to any woman as a “whore”. Manners and civility soap.

By: On-my-soap-box

On-my-soap-box — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:01:30 +0000

Sorry for the double post. Don’t know what happened.

By: On-my-soap-box

On-my-soap-box — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:01:05 +0000

Make up your mind dakine. Your last post accused me of calling women GaWhores.

Tell you what, go look at the other threads and tell me how you feel about the Americans who use their children as human shields. I am not alone when I call them “goonbats”.

Look at another thread that posts a picture of the white flag being raised and tell me who you see in the cartoon and look at all of the pet names these “surrendercrats” are called. After your research, come back and give me a hard time (as usual).

Last I saw, this thread is about how “we hate them, we really, really hate them”. Well, guess what, I do.

Go home now and get out your “Bush-Hitler” doll and pins and have some fun. This thread is not about your disdain for soap.

By: On-my-soap-box

On-my-soap-box — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:58:06 +0000

Make up your mind dakine. Your last post accused me of calling women whores.

Tell you what, go look at the other threads and tell me how you feel about the Americans who use their children as human shields. I am not alone when I call them goonbats.

Last I saw, this thread is about how “we hate them, we really, really hate them”. Well, guess what, I do.

Go home now and get out your “Bushitler” doll and pins and have some fun. This thread is not about your disdain for soap.

By: dakine

dakine — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:48:07 +0000

Oh, that makes it clear for me soap. You don’t like Pelosi’s stance on the issues and think she’s been a poor Speaker of the House, so it’s okay to call her a whore. Gotcha. You’re kidding, right?

By: Alphonse

Alphonse — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:45:32 +0000

The people are a bother. Keep them at bay by tossing them a bone occasionally.

By: On-my-soap-box

On-my-soap-box — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:13:52 +0000

dakine,

Ummm, pet name. You do not have to like it any more than I have to like the “Lady” she has become with the power she has been given.

Would Pelosi GaLiar make your tummy more warm? Wat were the promises she made after she bacame speaker? Did she live up to a single one?

Hey, I am paying for this and getting screwed – you figure it out.

By: trinitytim

trinitytim — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:38:49 +0000

Politicians of today have taken the "Serve" out of "Service" which leaves us with "Ice".

By: dakine

dakine — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:55:36 +0000

Roger your last post DL.

“Pillosi GaWhore”? What does that even mean soap? Nice…you were raised to call women whores?