Comments on: I can haz respect?

By: bingo fan

bingo fan — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:27:11 +0000

bingo fan

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By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 03:21:17 +0000

most people have pointed out what I also believe to be the primary reason – she’s pushing a first-name campaign herself, but there may be a reason for doing that in the first place.

Some Republicans would never vote for a Democrat anyway, but those very very few who might – out of disgust for the present regime – might be more ever so slighltly more willing to do so if they can vote for “Hillary” and not “Clinton”. Just a thought.

By: Senator Clinton « [something clever]

Senator Clinton « [something clever] — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:01:53 +0000

[...] can’t say that I was the first one to vocalize the matter via a blog post, but I certainly subconsciously addressed it in my own way and admittedly shrugged it off [...]

By: skepbitch

skepbitch — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:37:49 +0000

This is an interesting observation, but without hearing every single example, I wouldn’t immediately interpret this as insulting or impertinent. I ‘read’ a certain informality and positive sense of familiarity in the preference. Not to mention she’s been in the spotlight for years already anyway.

It’s not as though we have a strong honorific system in English, like the Japanese do, or the formal titles and pronouns found in German and French.

The practice of using last name only might be construed as distant and negative. Reminds me of British public school boys in adventure books where brothers are referred to ‘properly’ as ‘Smith Minor’ and ‘Smith Major’.

I think this can only work in Hillary’s favor.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:39:47 +0000

God I love this entry.

By: Radwaste

Radwaste — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 20:52:29 +0000

Another thing that bothers me: if Democrats are all about “diversity” – even when they really mean “of skin color, nothing else matters” – why don’t they have as many women and blacks in their Cabinets?

Oh, I get it. A black Republican can’t really be “black”. Pbbb!

By: Pop

Pop — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 21:07:29 +0000

Mmmmnn… uhhh… gee… (spittle running down my chin onto my shirt) duhh… I guess… I mean…

I know everthing I know about sy-collo-gee I learned from Patric Starfish. So I guess ole MTran’s got me pegged, huh.

Because I have an opinion not matching MTran’s I’m to be publicly chastised by his/her’s/it’s scathing retort?

I thought the idea of this blog was to say my piece, even if it was idiotic, skewed, bigoted, inane, and maybe made in satirical fun. If you can’t take a joke MTran, move on, or buggar-off. XOXO

BTW, MTran, don’t bother to reply, I ain’t coming back to this particular blog line. Catch me somewhere else.