Clarification please?

[Lemur]

Why is it that the only time I ever read or hear President Bush referred to as "chimp" is when a rightwing person wants to say something about Obama?

DevDave, if you want to find an insult that actually gets used on President Bush, try "Shrub." That's one that you will actually come across.

But why do you feel you need cover to refer to our first black President as a monkey? Surely you can do that without needing any excuse or protection.

[Devastatin Dave]

Why is it that the only time I ever read or hear President Bush referred to as "chimp" is when a rightwing person wants to say something about Obama?

DevDave, if you want to find an insult that actually gets used on President Bush, try "Shrub." That's one that you will actually come across.

But why do you feel you need cover to refer to our first black President as a monkey? Surely you can do that without needing any excuse or protection.

Again the double standard....
Thanks for proving my point.

[Lemur]

Again the double standard....
Thanks for proving my point.

You don't actually read anything I write, I take it, just hit some sort of macro on your keyboard that generates a standardized troll response?

[Koga No Goshi]

Why? Mr Obama looks very much like a Chimp as the current Chimp. Why is it wrong to call one leader a chimp and not another? Have you heard the guy speak without his teleprompter? Why must I refrain from criticising Obama out of your personal sensibilities? Did you provide the same luxery for me and the people I support?

You know why, you're just being sarcastic and obtuse. Drawing comparisons between African Americans and monkeys has a very specific, biologically racist history in America.

And comparing Bush to Obama in speaking.... dear god. Seriously, get a better tack than that if you're going to troll.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

Why is it that the only time I ever read or hear President Bush referred to as "chimp" is when a rightwing person wants to say something about Obama?

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[Devastatin Dave]

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Thank you

[Hooahguy]

i dont see why we cant call him "chimp." its a free country. we can call him whatever we want. but whether it is right to call him that, even though he doesnt really look like one, is the question.

[Koga No Goshi]

Americans who go around calling black men "chimps" mean a certain thing by it. And that's understood.

Several people around here would call me wildly partisan, and yet I don't refer to Bush as 'the chimp.' If you have some issue with his speaking skills or specific policies that's fine.... but I believe this specific faux outrage over "double standard" is a thinly veiled racebait troll.

[Dutch_guy]

Since Bush was called the "Chimp" all these years, among other less flattering things, will we have the same leniancy for the Chosen One? Will we be allowed the same extreme latitude on insulting the former President with the new guy or will no criticism be allowed without being branded "racist"? I guess we will find out?

Why would you even consider calling your new president a chimp ? Just because it happened to the most unpopular president in your history, or just because you can ?

[Devastatin Dave]

Why would you even consider calling your new president a chimp ? Just because it happened to the most unpopular president in your history, or just because you can ?

I thnk it could be a cool tradition. Think about it, the acronym CInC (Comander in Chief) will now mean Chimp in Chief. What fun....

So, shall we be expected to not only be allowed to say "Chimp", but will we not be allowed to treat the new Chim in Chief with the same utmost respect many on the left here have treated the currented. Man, I was depressed earlier, now my nipples are erect with anticipation to act with such disrespect to the office as many of you guys. I never realised how being so disrespectful to authority can be. Down with the system!!!

[Koga No Goshi]

I thnk it could be a cool tradition. Think about it, the acronym CInC (Comander in Chief) will now mean Chimp in Chief. What fun....

So, shall we be expected to not only be allowed to say "Chimp", but will we not be allowed to treat the new Chim in Chief with the same utmost respect many on the left here have treated the currented. Man, I was depressed earlier, now my nipples are erect with anticipation to act with such disrespect to the office as many of you guys. I never realised how being so disrespectful to authority can be. Down with the system!!!

You have a bitter, venomous, revised view of history. Yeah, no Dems were part of the what, 95% support ratings Bush had on 9/11, and similarly hugely high numbers for months afterwards... until he abused the trust and support to start wars and give the middle finger to the rest of the world. That's when we "irrational, unpleasable, emotionally unstable, vitriolically driven ideological lefties" bowed out of supporting Bush.

So.... get off the faux outrage horse. There is no parallel between how we reacted to Bush and your bitterness over Obama before the man has even taken office.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

So.... get off the faux outrage horse. There is no parallel between how we reacted to Bush and your bitterness over Obama before the man has even taken office.

The democrats liked bush the day after the election in 2000?

[LeftEyeNine]

I never want to be that much of a politically sunk kind of adult when I hit my maturity times.

God bless me from semi-insanity when I'll be looking for excuses to insult a politican I don't like. Oh Lord, please save my criticism skills.

Amin.