Quote Originally Posted by Meneldil View Post
Wow Don, I find you to usually be a quite enjoyable poster, even when I strongly disagree with you, but like, wow... These two topics you just opened are kind of disturbing.

1 - Obama has to respect the tradition, whether it is with the Queen of Britain (England?) or with the King of Saudi Arabia. Remember the outrage in UK when Obama's wife touched the Queen? I'm pretty sure the POTUS doesn't want to cause something like that in the arab world.

2 - The pirate thingy. Well, do you like plan to blow up Somalia? These people are pirating because they don't have anything else to do. I'm not saying you should not defend your sailors, as you obviously should, but behaving like the pirates are flesh-eating barbarians isn't going to lead you anywhere.

3 - Are you assimilating transexuals to sexual predators?

Item 1: In the 208 year history of our Constitutional republic, no president has ever bowed to anyone. This was actually an issue in the 90s when then President Clinton made a gesture remotely resembling a bow to the Emperor of Japan.

Item 2: Did I say blow up Somalia? I said do SOMETHING. ANYTHING. I never said anything about blowing up Somalia, I just said our "Vote Present" president is going to have to start earning the title one of these days.

Item 3: No, nor did I remotely say anything of the sort. But can YOU tell the difference between a legitimately transgendered man who feels they belong in the ladies room and a sexual predator that wants to hang out in there?