BonoVoxSupastar said:
Right. Honesty in the form of a four letter word has no place in Rolling Stone.
It's just a word. Four letters arranged in a certain fashion, a word meant to express anger in this case. You defended Bush when he made up words, when he botched words, and when he used the word 'crusade'. Well now it's time to attack the other side over a word.
Thank you.
anitram and Sicy's posts made excellent points, too.
I fail to see what disrespect was shown here. All Kerry said, in his own words, was that he felt the actions taken by the administration were incredibly screwed up. And he was saying it in a magazine interview. It's not like he walked right into the Oval Office and said it directly to Bush and the rest of the administration's faces. It's not like he even directed it toward any Bush supporters.
You want to talk about disrespect-I personally found it pretty disrespectful of Bush to sit there and say, not long after 9/11, when we were heading into Afghanistan, that if we didn't support America in this that meant that we were automatically siding with the terrorists. At least Kerry didn't stereotype Bush supporters, didn't say that they were all stupid or whatever to continue to support Bush after the failure of Iraq. But I guess it was okay for Bush to say that, since he didn't use any swear words while saying it.
And the timing...what's wrong with the timing? It's getting close to election time again, you
know the mudslinging's gonna start, you
know this kind of thing will go on...so what's the problem there?
Also, thank you, verte...once again, diamond, I would like to stress this: Just because I have no problem with someone uttering a swear word, that does NOT mean that my morality is "slipping". My morals are still very intact. And in regards to not listening to parents...my parents actually also don't see the big deal about this. They've never understood why people get in such an uproar over these kinds of things. So...what's your view on that?
Not to mention, there's people who swear constantly and have much better morals (i.e., Bono, for example) than those who probably haven't swore nearly as often (i.e., some of the supposedly "holier-than-thou" religious people).
Angela