All About McCain

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Aren't they all? None of these four people would sit and eat dinner at my house, your house etc. Obama shouldn't call her on the $150K wardrobe either. I'm calling Palin out for calling the kettle black. She shouldn't have started the whole "I'm just like everyone else on Main Street thing" when she isn't and she shouldn't have called Obama an elitist when she's one too. And might I add, she and McCain shouldn't have gone with the whole "celebrity" think either. She's the Julia Roberts of the GOP.

I see your point. I just find it hypocritical of you to make it by selecting a minority demographic of the overall population and demonising them.

Black, White, Rich, Poor, Gay, Straight, these are just labels. People may be assholes and belong to any of these groups but it's bigotry to paint everyone in any of the groups as evil, don't you think?

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

Black, White, Rich, Poor, Gay, Straight, these are just labels. People may be assholes and belong to any of these groups but it's bigotry to paint everyone in any of the groups as evil, don't you think?

Black, White, Gay, Straight I agree with you on, these are not chosen attributes. Rich, Poor... that's different. I don't find it to be bigoted to comment negatively about Neiman Marcus, Sak's Fifth Avenue etc. Screw those places.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket

Black, White, Gay, Straight I agree with you on, these are not chosen attributes

So by that logic, it would be OK in your book for someone to hate on all Goth's, Wiccka, Practicing Jews Christians or Muslims given that these are all "chosen" attributes?

[Strangler Lewis]

Rich people, like politicians, are fair game for generalized sniping.

Stores for rich people, even more so. Especially stores whose clothing lines seem to favor the size and coloring of rich Japanese and Arab women.

Oooh, let's have breakfast at Tiffany's.

[Snowflake]

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On the front page of Huffington Post, Palin's new shoes. All I could think of was "There's no place like Nome, there's no place like Nome"

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Strangler Lewis

Rich people, like politicians, are fair game for generalized sniping.

OK, I got it. It's OK to discriminate against the groups you don't like or find funny, but not against the ones you favor.

Very good.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

So by that logic, it would be OK in your book for someone to hate on all Goth's, Wiccka, Practicing Jews Christians or Muslims given that these are all "chosen" attributes?

For example, the official stance of the LDS church is they oppose gays having sex, gay marriage etc so for something like Prop 8 they raise money from their members to fund the Yes campaign. I find it fine and dandy to be upset with the LDS church. I am upset with all of them. I have the right to be mad at someone who is Mormon for supporting this proposition. This is why I resigned from the Catholic Church. I chose not to be part of an organization that discriminates against me and my sister. Plain and simple. But to say something like 'I hate all African Americans' doesn't make sense to me. If it's in your belief system to hate someone for something they can't control, I disagree.

[katiesue]

Wow I shop a Bloomies, a lot, and Tiffany's. I've been know to drop into Niemans or Saks. I like nice stuff. Obviously I don't purchase high end coture but I get this and that. I don't think I'm an elitist snob.

[BarTopDancer]

My pro-McCain co-worker thinks the RNC should have used the $150k to buy McCain bionic arms.

[JWBear]

...Or hire a campaign manager with a clue.