Veep Biden's "F-Bombing' of the national airways without recrimination kinda makes me wonder just how far and fast we have slipped down the hill of the coarsening of America in the last few years.
First we had the Reverend Jesse Jackon suggesting on an open mike that he would like to perform surgery on certain body parts of Obamanation. Then we had 'W's use of the word azzhole when referring to a certain reporter. But he din't know there was an open mike nearby either.
It's been said the Veep Cheney suggested that Senator Leaky Leahy perform an anatomically impossible task on himself, but that was off mike, not recorded and therefore doesn't count.
Not to mention that we have a White House Chief of Staff who uses the 'F' word regularly as a verb, an adjective, an adverb, a noun and even as one syllable in a four syllable word in the Oval Office and the White House. And nobody cares! The press even jokes about it!!
And now, we have the Vice President of the United States of America, introducing the POTUS himself, immediately in front of TWO open mikes, and advising him that this is a 'Big F**king Deal'!! Nobody seems to care.......
As a matter of fact, the next day at a public forum, Joltin' Joe opined that the POTUS was so entertained by his enthusiastic words that he was gonna order Joe a Tee Shirt with the words printed on it to commemorate the occasion.
Oh, and by the way, when addressed that next day by a former Senate colleague as Mr Vice President, again in front of an open mike, his reply was "Give me a F**king Break!"
Now then Pilgrims, I ain't no prude, and after twenty years in the military and bid'ness world, I can and do cuss with the best of 'em. But as a basic show of respect, I do not utter those seriously profane words when public speaking, in mixed company or even among strangers....
Shouldn't we expect the same from our national leaders? Am I just old fashioned?
Or are we sliding into an abyss of graceless and classless manners, from which there is no return?
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