Georgia bar's T-shirt links Obama, Curious George

The publisher of the popular children book's series "Curious George" is considering legal action against a Georgia bar owner for selling T-shirts that link Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to the ...

[Independent voter]

If anyone looks like a monkey, it would be our president "Curious" George W!

[Texas5150]

This country has gone through almost ten years,(pre election, presidency), of George W. Bush bashing and no one in the media seemed to ever make a matter of it. I remember when Bill Clinton was president, there was a standing order that Chelsea would get no grief from the media "intellectuals". This is one of the biggest reasons liberals are the slime of America; they the most hypocritical, elitist humans on the face of the earth.

[Hijacked Journalism]

I have a friend who is a Senator. He told me the story of an acrimonious meeting toward the end of 1992, when the 12 members of the Senate Special Committee on POW/MIA Affairs were finishing up their report. It featured a hot debate over how to deal with former U.S. Marine Bobby Garwood, a former POW who'd been an accused defector.

The question was whether Garwood should be included in the report along with all the other POWs and MIAs, or if he had diminished his status and therefore only merited inclusion in the report's attachments. Half the room thought he was a traitor, a deserter who knew about POWs held after the war but didn't do anything about it, and McCain fell into that camp. The other half -- which included Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa -- thought that Garwood had been unfairly blamed.

"Bobby Garwood is a traitor, and I and a whole bunch of other POWs got beat because of him," the hot-headed McCain argued, according to a senator present during the debate.

Then Grassley started screaming. "Chuck has a temper, too," the senator relates. "So McCain started shouting back."

Grassley got in McCain's face, and the two pit bulls started barking at each other while the other senators in the room sat back and watched. The pair got so close to one another that the senator who tells me the story -- aware that because of war injuries, McCain's arms don't fully extend -- was convinced McCain "was going to drive the top of his head into Grassley's nose. I was convinced that bone fragments were going to go into Chuck's brain, and I was sitting there and was about to witness a murder."

McCain suddenly stood up. But instead of a head-butting homicide, he delivered a crushing blow of words.

"You know, senator," McCain said, seething, "I thought your problem was that you don't listen. But that's not it at all. Your problem is that you're a fucking jerk and if my arms could extend, I would kick your fucking ass, you bastard".

"He is a combatant," allows Sen. Smith of Oregon, who has yet to endorse any GOP presidential hopeful. "But I think people appreciate that he's a man of principle; he fights for what he believes in. John is not lukewarm. He makes friends and enemies with his mode of operations. His style is both a strength and a weakness."

[SC Midtown]

Texas5150 wrote:

This country has gone through almost ten years,(pre election, presidency), of George W. Bush bashing and no one in the media seemed to ever make a matter of it. I remember when Bill Clinton was president, there was a standing order that Chelsea would get no grief from the media "intellectuals". This is one of the biggest reasons liberals are the slime of America; they the most hypocritical, elitist humans on the face of the earth.

Of course we didn't make a matter of it, he deserves all he's received AND MORE! Are you kidding me?!? The guy and his neo-con buddies ruined our country and you're still blaming and railing against liberals? Some people just can't take off their rose colored lenses, no matter HOW BAD things get. Amazing.

[El Minero]

Texas5150 wrote:

This country has gone through almost ten years,(pre election, presidency), of George W. Bush bashing and no one in the media seemed to ever make a matter of it. I remember when Bill Clinton was president, there was a standing order that Chelsea would get no grief from the media "intellectuals". This is one of the biggest reasons liberals are the slime of America; they the most hypocritical, elitist humans on the face of the earth.

Could that be because W has practically lead our country to ruin? Face it, the man is not the sharpest tool in the shed. Talk about elitists,didn't Bush call of those rich people "his base"?

[Sue Everybody]

Texas5150 wrote:

This country has gone through almost ten years,(pre election, presidency), of George W. Bush bashing and no one in the media seemed to ever make a matter of it. I remember when Bill Clinton was president, there was a standing order that Chelsea would get no grief from the media "intellectuals". This is one of the biggest reasons liberals are the slime of America; they the most hypocritical, elitist humans on the face of the earth.

Are you aware that calling a black person a monkey is an offensive, racial slur?

[Sue Everybody]

m o n k e y was the censored word in my previous post.

[tom H]

I have yet to hear Congress being blamed for anything..... Why ??

[El Minero]

tom H wrote:

I have yet to hear Congress being blamed for anything..... Why ??

Oh, they have their share of the blame as well, but as President, he has the power to veto and he's used it to screw people over, like hardworking families who cannot afford health insurance for their kids (even HIS party wanted) him to sign the S-CHIP bill

[Independent voter]

Sue Everybody wrote:

m o n k e y was the censored word in my previous post.

Mine too...haha. I didn't know that word would be sensored.

[Independent voter]

*censored

[tom H]

El Minero wrote:

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Oh, they have their share of the blame as well, but as President, he has the power to veto and he's used it to screw people over, like hardworking families who cannot afford health insurance for their kids (even HIS party wanted) him to sign the S-CHIP bill

Thanks for your post, It's good to know that someone else recognize the fact that Congress does play a part in our politics.... One sticky mess we are in, No doubt about it.