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Originally Posted by cookie_365
I'd respect his 'right to privacy' if he'd shut up about things he has no understanding of (architecture, GM food, nanotechnology, etc etc etc) instead of using his position to shout down anyone who didn't share his view.
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"using his position to shout down anyone who didn't share his view."???
Sorry, *when* exactly has he done that? He's expressed an opinion, just as anyone and everyone else is entitled to, but I've seen no sign of him trying to suppress debate or say "I'm going to be King so you'd jolly well better agree with me!"
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Originally Posted by Chris T
what bothers me is that he apparently had no idea that his aside was being picked up by microphones and transmitted around the world.
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Why on earth *should* he know that? Hell, if I'd been in his place I wouldn't have expected it to be picked up. AFAIK they weren't miked up by the media.
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This man is going to be our head of State, for goodness sake. Gee Dubya is routinely slaughtered for making gaffes less significant than this, but at least the Americans had the chance to decide he was a liability and vote him out (why they chose not to is a real mystery). We don't have that luxury. Why on earth should we be compelled to have a complete buffoon as our head of state for the remainder of his natural life?
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So we should be free to elect our *own* "complete buffoon" and that makes things better somehow??
Personally I'm damn glad we *can't* elect someone like Bush or President Tony the First!