I am not “protesting wayy too much”, I am stating my opinions on the matter.
I didn’t ping you because I had limited time to go back and find the post and copy and paste your name. additionally, my comments were for “All”, which would include you.
As for implying the Obama kids are fair game? You said they would be off limits if their parents hadn’t put them in the limelight. That certainly implies they are not off limits by virtue of their parents’ actions.
In going back and reading your other post, I am amazed you state that the comments on that thread are no different from what you hear in the real world about inappropriate and/or political kids clothing? Sheesh, what kind of company do you keep that kids are referred to as street ghetto trash and dressing like whores and the other rude comments on that thread?
Posts like mine certainly do not make it easy for them to look here and assign blame, that’s some sort of backwards logic. Firstly because I stated, and do think, that at least some of those posts were made by plants and trolls. Secondly, decrying those types of posts hardly condones them, and thirdly it’s posts like yours that make excuses for nasty comments that make us look even worse than the original comments.
“As for implying the Obama kids are fair game? You said they would be off limits if their parents hadn’t put them in the limelight. That certainly implies they are not off limits by virtue of their parents’ actions.”
You are making an accusation here that is far afield from what I actually said, and for people who read what YOU say, but don’t see what you were referring to in the first place, since you did NOT ping me nor reply to my first posting directly is a bit disingenuous.
For those who DIDN”T see it, let me repeat:
>Here is the truth.
The obama children would remain VERY off limits IF their parents were not using them as marketing tools for fashion houses and making money off them. If anyone is exploiting these children, it is their gutter parents who are using them for everything from photo-ops to excuses for other things they do.
For instance, obama visited a 17th century castle in Ghana, (press term later changed to fortress), because he wanted to show his daughters man’s inhumanity to man. The implication was that the white British Colonialists were purely at fault for the slave trade out of Africa.
There was not a single mention of the African Tribal raids on neighboring tribes to steal people to be sold into slavery, (black people kidnapping black people,) nor a single mention of the arab muslim traders, (brown people who hate black people to this day,) who ultimately made their fortunes selling human beings as if they were cattle and transporting them to their final destinations which was often death.
If this is the kind of selective history obama intends to teach his children, then we are looking at two future adults who will be equally as racist and anti-American as their parents. That doesn’t bode well for the future for them OR for us.
To me, that is child abuse.<
Please explain how that implies I said anything remotely like “they were fair game.” I think what they have done is terrible for these kids. They are making money off them. It is obscene.
“In going back and reading your other post, I am amazed you state that the comments on that thread are no different from what you hear in the real world about inappropriate and/or political kids clothing? Sheesh, what kind of company do you keep that kids are referred to as street ghetto trash and dressing like whores and the other rude comments on that thread?”
Did you actually comprehend what I said, or are you deliberately taking what I said out of context? And if you are, WHY?
I repeat what you have referred to:
>Some of the comments on the Malia thread were no worse than things I have heard about other children in the real world whose parents allow them to dress older than their years or wear political statements they don’t agree with. The only difference is they weren’t being marketed to the world at large and the price of their clothing from hair accessories to footwear weren’t being advertised down to the cents internationally.
I did not personally comment on the Malia thread. Didn’t really think it was worth my time. The images and what they implied stood for themselves. It definitely wasn’t because I might have had someone from some lefty blog call me a racist afterward because I really don’t care what they think about ANYTHING.<
Again, you have made an assumption that I “hang out” with these people. I actually do not “hang out” with anybody. These are comments I hear from people in places I happen to be. I have heard it at grocery stores and shopping malls, even standing in line at a movie theater, and you probably have too, if you were honest about it. If you have NEVER heard it, then you must lead a very sheltered life.
But you have strayed far from the point of my post, which is simply that falling all over ourselves to apologize for something someone else did and trash each other for the whole shebang, when most of us said or did nothing to deserve it is just what the left does. You aren’t condemning individual posts. You are condemning Free Republic. That is a mighty broad brush you are wielding.
It isn’t fair and you know it. If you do not want your children reading FR, that is your prerogative. But trashing the whole forum is uncalled for.