RexTalionis: BillCo: Sweet Jesus, this makes me the king of Fark.

/yeah, and the horse you rode in on too!

Oh, why don't you shove a pineapple up your urethra and a stiletto up your anus and see if you can make fruit salad when the two meet up in your prostate.

BillCo: Sweet Jesus, this makes me the king of Fark.

/yeah, and the horse you rode in on too!

You're the king of hit-and-run posting as your cowardly ass flees the thread after shiating in it.

I can't be the only one who thinks the Republican debates look an awful lot like professional wrestling.

FTA - "The Republicans try to portray Obama as not just being wrong, but trying to undermine America and being really different and fundamentally bad"

Implying that the Dems didnt do anything of the sort while Bush was President?

Death_Poot: FTA - "The Republicans try to portray Obama as not just being wrong, but trying to undermine America and being really different and fundamentally bad"

Implying that the Dems didnt do anything of the sort while Bush was President?

Nobody needed to imply that when Bush was in office. How many Iraqis did we leave dead?

Why did we kill them?

Hey! FARK Y'ALL!

Fake civility is the worst. I don't care when somebody like Brewer shakes her finger in the President's face, but it bothers me that she would try to backpedal from it or explain it away as not rude at all. Just own it and say "Yes we disagree on certain things and I feel strongly about my views" as opposed to lying to yourself and everyone else by claiming it to be respectful.

New Yorkers are a perfect example of this (I can say this being one myself); our brisk, to the point nature is lost on many visitors who believe these mannerisms to be rude. Overall NYC is a very civil place, but very no-nonsense in it's approach.

I'm rambling
and have opened myself up to much abuse

kapaso: Nobody needed to imply that when Bush was in office. How many Iraqis did we leave dead?

Why did we kill them?


Nice strawman. Was referring to the obvious bias re: inferring that Dems were never uncivil about Bush, but I'll bite.

They were uncivil to Bush before we invaded Iraq or even 9-11 occurring. Try again.

kapaso; Nobody needed to imply that when Bush was in office.

If you did anything more than imply it, it made you a traitor, or possibly a terrorist.

me that she would try to backpedal from itNationalHero: Fake civility is the worst. I don't care when somebody like Brewer shakes her finger in the President's face, but it bothers me that she would try to backpedal from it or explain it away as not rude at all. Just own it and say "Yes we disagree on certain things and I feel strongly about my views" as opposed to lying to yourself and everyone else by claiming it to be respectful.

New Yorkers are a perfect example of this (I can say this being one myself); our brisk, to the point nature is lost on many visitors who believe these mannerisms to be rude. Overall NYC is a very civil place, but very no-nonsense in it's approach.

I'm rambling
and have opened myself up to much abuse



Her backpedaling says more about her than the initial statement.

Death_Poot: kapaso: Nobody needed to imply that when Bush was in office. How many Iraqis did we leave dead?

Why did we kill them?


Nice strawman. Was referring to the obvious bias re: inferring that Dems were never uncivil about Bush, but I'll bite.

They were uncivil to Bush before we invaded Iraq or even 9-11 occurring. Try again.

I notice you didn't answer either question.

Death_Poot: kapaso: Nobody needed to imply that when Bush was in office. How many Iraqis did we leave dead?

Why did we kill them?


Nice strawman. Was referring to the obvious bias re: inferring that Dems were never uncivil about Bush, but I'll bite.

They were uncivil to Bush before we invaded Iraq or even 9-11 occurring. Try again.

He hired Rowe to win the presidency and inferred that Gore would've pulled a Scott Brown on social security.

kapaso: I notice you didn't answer either question.

Not worth answering, wasn't what the article was written about. Try again.......

Devo: Death_Poot: kapaso: Nobody needed to imply that when Bush was in office. How many Iraqis did we leave dead?

Why did we kill them?


Nice strawman. Was referring to the obvious bias re: inferring that Dems were never uncivil about Bush, but I'll bite.

They were uncivil to Bush before we invaded Iraq or even 9-11 occurring. Try again.

He hired Rowe to win the presidency and inferred that Gore would've pulled a Scott Brown on social security.

sorry Karl Rove

Death_Poot: kapaso: I notice you didn't answer either question.

Not worth answering, wasn't what the article was written about. Try again.......

Yes, I can see how someone like yourself would think so.

kapaso: Yes, I can see how someone like yourself would think so.

To some degree I care, but I can't do anything about it.

But, you keep farking that chicken if it makes you hot.........

Death_Poot: FTA - "The Republicans try to portray Obama as not just being wrong, but trying to undermine America and being really different and fundamentally bad"

Implying that the Dems didnt do anything of the sort while Bush was President?

Individually the far left certainly bad mouthed Bush. In public Democratic representatives were respectful of him (I'm sure there are a few exceptions). And the party certainly didn't take a position of destroying Bush and his policies. Congress actually got thing done in the 8 year of Bush (though possibly the wrong things).

"Don't come in here with that posh talk, ya nasty stuck-up twit!"

Death_Poot: kapaso: Yes, I can see how someone like yourself would think so.

To some degree I care, but I can't do anything about it.

But, you keep farking that chicken if it makes you hot.........

You are crying, "but bush" on an article about civility. Bush left tens of thousands of people dead for no clear reason. Of course, that doesn't really register, so the idea that Bush was an uncivil POS isn't something you can grasp.

Funny, when I look at the photo I see him trying to demonstrate his dominace by moving in close and leaning over her (a common trick of taller people and he does it all the time) while she is using the pointing as a defense mechanism. Politicians are masters of the body language dominance game. Clinton was the best ever, he used the grabbing the arm with the left hand while shaking hands trick all the time. The funniest use of this is when both people try to dominate and you get a sort of ritualized dance.

I want to bring back tarring and feathering, but replace the tar with molasses. Then run them out of DC on a rail.. They won't be allowed to come back and serve the Govt in any fashion.

I'd start with every jackass on the hill who voted for the bank bailout..

RexTalionis: tcan: Funny, when I look at the photo I see him trying to demonstrate his dominace by moving in close and leaning over her

Either that, or they're at an airport on a relatively windy day and it's not easy to hear what the other person is saying.


Looks like she is chastising him and he is being sheepish about it.

^{/the good kind of sheepish, not the new kind}

But I guess what you see tells what you think.

/open wide

Meh, pretty cheap politics by Obama.

He wants to discredit the account in her book, so he gives her the tiniest of prods, she loses control of herself in front of the cameras and then tries to downplay and spin the encounter as something it wasn't. Credibility -> 0.

Easy trap, she walked into it. Idiot.

He doesn't look dominating to me, he looks embarrassed.

And she looks high strung, attention-whorish and crazy.

The craziest part of this is her and her damn envelope.
I WROTE THIS LETTER TO YOU - HERE, READ IT

She is a passive aggressive loon.

When exactly have Americans wanted more civility in general?
What Americans actually ask for, is for the dummies who think wrong thoughts to show some damn respect if they want to talk to their betters.

See, we Americans have *contempt* for the other team. Those other guys are *wrong* and they're going to *destroy the country* if they get their way.
So whatever our team does, is excused by the rightness of our cause. And whatever their team does, is colored by the wrongness of theirs.

So when we get worked up, we're just being passionate about doing what's right.
And when they get worked up, it's evidence that they're bullies and jackals.

I'm sure the Republicans will be rewarded for their incivility in the polls.

Look no further than this shiathole for proof of the headline.

NationalHero: Fake civility is the worst. I don't care when somebody like Brewer shakes her finger in the President's face, but it bothers me that she would try to backpedal from it or explain it away as not rude at all. Just own it and say "Yes we disagree on certain things and I feel strongly about my views" as opposed to lying to yourself and everyone else by claiming it to be respectful.

New Yorkers are a perfect example of this (I can say this being one myself); our brisk, to the point nature is lost on many visitors who believe these mannerisms to be rude. Overall NYC is a very civil place, but very no-nonsense in it's approach.

I'm rambling
and have opened myself up to much abuse

I'll start. NYers, at least the archetypes among you, will drive 80mph on a Sunday morning when the roads are empty. They regard common courtesies that take one second or less as intolerable wastes of...time??? No, it's something more. My guess is there are so many people around, you can't stand to think of them as individuals. You have to make them all The Other.

Oh, and you also get much self-congratulation on your tough no-nonsense attitude. Even as many of you indulge in plenty of nonsense you take seriously, which makes it AOK, right?

/lived in greater NYC 18 years