Comments on: Naked Bush

By: marcus

marcus — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:51:55 +0000

If James is a Christian, then surely he’s familiar with 1 Peter 2:13-17:
“Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;
Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.
For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.”

When Peter wrote this, the “king” was Nero, one of the cruelest leaders Rome ever had.

By: Dangerous Dan » Pelosi

Dangerous Dan » Pelosi — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 20:52:53 +0000

[...] Ok, first note that in that last quote, Pelosi is using the stupid deflection technique I’ve previously complained about. Keep an eye out for this technique – it’s everywhere and I tend to notice liberals using it much more than conservatives. I think that’s because they like to take the righteous indignation tactic in arguments and this helps keep them from actually arguing the merits of their position or defending a point that’s under attack. Pelosi hasn’t demonstrated that her point is fair, she has just deflected attention away from the issue by talking about something else. [...]

By: Dangerous Dan

Dangerous Dan — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 18:42:08 +0000

James, first, revere does not equal respect. I argued for the latter, not the former. I assume you respect more people or entities than just God?

Second, you’re conflating an office with personages when you compare the Office of the President with Kim and Castro. A proper comparison would either have been between the presidencies of the U.S. and Cuba or between Bush and Castro.

Third, as I said, the office of the President deserves a minimal level of respect. Disrespecting it as Ellner did tears down the office as much as it does Bush and makes it that much worse for the next guy… who may be someone you like. If you want to make the aforementioned claim that the Office of the President does not deserve respect because then we’d also have to respect the office of dictator of NK, then you have made a poor comparison in saying the presidency of the U.S. is no better than a dictatorship.

And finally:

“The guy diverts firefigthers to serve as backdrops for his photo-ops. That is what is disrespectful to the office of the president, not some local pols ad.”

I’m pleased to see that you learned the stupid deflection technique I noted. If you want to leave intelligent comments that argue I’m wrong, you should try to avoid unintentionally backing up my point through delicious irony.

By: James

James — Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:08:02 +0000

Ugh, your post just gets dumber, and much less humorous as it goes on. You are right about respecting the Office of the Dear Leader. Of course, you hold to this standard with all world leaders and properly revere Kim Jong IL and Castro, right.

I’m a Christian, there is only one person I must revere based on their status. This guy speaks the truth about what everybody with family in Iraq, or New Orleans knows, “The Emperor has no clothes.” The guy diverts firefigthers to serve as backdrops for his photo-ops. That is what is disrespectful to the office of the president, not some local pols ad.