Letters to the Editor
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Re:Funny Story about that word
I was walking between my parents (Dad & Stepmother) one time when I was little, about eight or nine, I think. We were in Lincoln, Nebraska because he was working on his Masters Degree in Music, so it was definitely summertime. I know we had just parked the car near an alley, and we were walking to a pizza parlor. My Dad was listening to something my Stepmom was saying, and he said to her, "Oh, cram it." me being young and ignorant of what that meant, I said, "Yeah, cram it." My Dad promptly popped me in the mouth, and I remember being pissed off the rest of the night for getting hit for something I didn't even know what it was.
It wasn't until years later that I learned that cram it meant stick it up your ass, but I always remembered that from my childhood. It wasn't funny at the time, but it's pretty funny now.
Go back to about page 1 through 9, and just read the level of putdowns from some of the posters to those people who were defending Clinton. The sheer amount of condescending name-calling just completely pissed me off, so I jumped in with both feet, and barrels, and let a few sanctimonious donkeys know what I thought. Some responded with name calling, I was calling names, but there's a difference between saying eff-yoo, and ad hominem, which was what the majority of what I did, later on, it degenerated to the point where I just walked away from the keyboard.
Some of these people would vote for a turnip if it was running against Hillary. It's not so much that they want Obama to win, it's just that they want her to lose. And that puts them in with the rest of the American Specator crowd in my mind. I had to live through those years, and what the Clintons had to put up with back then was just complete, and total, horseshit. From the media, from Congress, from anyone who had an axe to grind with them. When David Brock didn't quite do the hit job the Republican Right wanted, they completely ousted him. Some in the Obama crowd act just like that, and there's a word for it, bully. They may not be physically intimidating others, but they're acting just like it in the verbal sense. Only one way to handle bullies, of any stripe, you invite them outside to discuss it further.