Quote Originally Posted by Grumpy View Post
In another post, Bassen-Bug made reference to European "name calling" and I told her they were much more civil about it than we are. Anyhow, I couldn't help but remember something I had read about Winston Churchill, which happened while he was a Member of Parliment and before he became Prime Minister.

One day when they came back to work after the noon "Tea Break", Churchill was obviously tipsy. A woman in the gallery shouted: "Sir Winston, you are drunk!" To which Churchill replied: "Yes ma'am, and you are UGLY!! The difference is, tomorrow I will be sober."

Grumpy
Winston Churchill was a pesky alcoholic blatherer who was less than civil, obnoxious, and carried on loud conversations (not discourse). That is what led to the lady telling him that he was drunk. There was nothing more civil about his comments just because he made them in another country, or because of the romantic notion that Europeans somehow are more cultured than Americans. Nothing could be further from the truth.

The things I have problems with are the comparison of people from two diverse countries and cultures. Customs dictate our behavior; there is no way of turning opposing views into a class act. Was the shoe throwing incident at George Bush more civil because it happened in another country?

In your response to my request for reconsideration of a rule change, you said that I could make my own website and deal with all the lawsuits. That made me start thinking about all the politicians who troll around on Fishin.com every day to see what names they have been called so they can file lawsuits. How many US Presidents, Congressmen, Senators, and Governors have already sued Fishin.com? I am not the only person who knows that, once a person is elected to office, they are a PUBLIC figure and cannot retaliate just for being called names? That information came from my best friend since high school, Senator W.H. Lindsey III, (died in 2009).

If it was injurious to call a politicians names, there would be lawsuits going on until Hell freezes over. There are tons of them on theobamafiles.com/