05-11-2008, 18:48
Palmer Wrote:Now, is it wrong for comedian Frankie Boyle to refer to Barak as Muslim O'Gunbomb? YES! I think it's terribly wrong. It feeds into the fear that McCain's campaign and others were trying to inject into this election (which from the start sickened me). He is NOT a Muslim .. and .. let's say even if he was ..who cares!! I am truly growing tired of all the racial profiling that has been going on in our day and age.
WHEW!
Ok, sorry about that.
I will put my soap box away now.
:::coffee:
Perhaps I should have explained this a little better...
The origins of this lay in the irony that the US could have been electing someone whose first name sounds not dissimilar to Iraq, and that his surname is only one letter away from being Osama (further, I found out today that his middle name is Hussein. You couldn't make it up !!). Hence his view that the US would virtually be governed by someone called Muslim O'Gunbomb.
Think I did him a bit of a disservice.
It amuses me, but I respect your right to climb atop your soapbox, Shannon :lol:.