Posted on 10/23/2001 1:51:57 PM PDT by watsonfellow
First of all, to prevent the flamings, I should say that I am a strong conservative, and my number one issue is the life issue and so I am not at all a supporter of the Clintons etc.
That being said, I thought it the height of rudeness for these firemen and policemen to boo and yell at the Senator this weekend. It lacked dignity and class. I thought we conservatives were supposed to stand for such things, or perhaps this is just what we say, but do not practice.
I wonder what Burke et al would have said about this conservative embrace of very questionable manners.
The policemen and firemen should have just done nothing when she appeared on stage, no clapping, no booing, the silence would have expressed the same thing, but in a much more dignified way.
Yes it is run by liberals, but it is a worthwhile cause.....Should there be no conservative teachers in Compton?
The only "Decline And Fall" I ever read was "Decline And Fall of the Roman Empire" by Gibbons but what do I know since I am one of those terribly impolite yahoo populist conservatives. Oh, did I mention that it was the unabridged edition? I read it while traipsing around Europe. And remember, I said it was the UNABRIDGED edition (in the original Latin).
Pssst, you sound kind of like a "girly-man".
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If this is genuinely important to you, then why do you frequently, in many threads,
refer to her husband as "shrub?" And don't deny it, I have evidence of that ready to post.
in South Brabant "boor" is proper.
Tot Siens!
sinator hillary! DESERVED every boo and curse she received, and should have been hit by a few rotten vegetables as well. She DESERVES no respect because she has SHOWN no respect to the country since the days she studied communism in college.
Go back to academia, you sound like a garden variety liberal professor to me.
The first lady is not an elected official however and so I do not care what her official positions on public policy are. I do care however that she is ext. supportive of this great organization (TFA is very anti union by the way)....She is a gracious lady, and I am proud to call her my first lady.
A LEGEND IN HIS OWN MIND
Tried once, but missed ( way back in the '70's- this note for the USSS) due to being on Miller Time at the time.
Secondly, these men have been through unspeakable things, and to have Hillary mock their sacrifice by turning their tribute into a slimy publicity stunt is beneath contempt. She deserved far worse than she got.
Thirdly, how the hell dare you question these men's right to respond any way they chose? What have you done with your puny life that qualifies you to sit in judgment of these men?
Wasn't Burke a Member of Parliament? If so. I cannot see how he would have objected to booing, since it was an established form of showing displeasure in the House of Commons. Along with shouts of "sit down!"
To NOT boo Hillary falls under this dictum: Qui tacuit consentire videtur. Celebrities are under the impression that they will ALWAYS be applauded. We should disabuse them of this notion. Rotten vegetables would also be a useful didactic tool.
Are you aware that it was Molly Ivins, the fake Texan leftist, who coined the denigrating "Shrub"? And for someone who is preaching civility, showing disrespect to our president by calling him "Shrub" is a bit disingenous, to say the least.
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