Quick question here.. and perhaps slightly off topic. But why does it matter if it's allied territory if the point is civilian deaths?

At that point, who would be considered the last president of the US that was not a serial killer then? So the billboards analogy should be more that the US either only elects serial killers or that most every US president has turned into a serial killer. Which means the billboard is essentially worthless.

Unless most people are saying it's completely ok to kill civilians if they are unfortunate enough to be living in 'non-allied' territories.

Krellin, based upon your response, I'd think you were the one to put up the billboard. The analogy is not perfect, and anyone w/ the smallest iota of intelligence can see that. It's like most political talk that takes place in the US.. it's meant to be outlandish, sensational, divisive and utter BS.

It's interesting stepping back and watching the extremes take over both parties. My hunch is the most of the country is fiscally conservative w/ socially liberal tendencies, but no one wants to hear moderates speak. It's far more entertaining to listen to the vitriolic soundbites that permeate the media.

"It's like most political talk that takes place in the US.. it's meant to be outlandish, sensational, divisive and utter BS. "

Wasn't that what I said when I said "Their message was fine for what they wanted to do (shock via a flawed anaology)[sic]"?

Yes, I don't disagree w/ your assessment at all. But that recognizes it for what it is, as opposed to trying to justify the actual message.

Yep, ill-timed and porrly conceived political rhetorric. Much like Obama's campaiogn saying Romney was in charge of Bain because he was listed as in charge of his own 401K account through Bain. I guess that makes me PResident and CEO of Cincom because I'm listed as the primary on my Cincom 401K account. Cool!

But it is only an issue because of the ad being porrly conceived timing wise. Anyone running for office is fair game and if that same someone runs his own slander campaign by being loose with the facts, well he better have a tough skin because what's good for the Dummycrat is good for the Repugnican (yes, I insulted both).

Oh, and Obi. Finding a worse example than you does not negate your lack of tact or class just as finding someone who talks more than you or is worse at math than you does not negate the fact that you like to preach and ramble when you do it while saying 1 and 1 and 1 makes 4. :-)

Bain hurt Batman, thus making Bain bad;)

But I agree w/ you Draug. There is no 'less guilty' party when it comes to the slander. And as President of Cincom, I fully expect the first round of drinks to be on you if we ever get the Webdip tourney in Cinci.

If we ever get it, my table will get the first round on me. And maybe the second if they get drunk enough and act stupid enough so I get the solo!

Just food for thought, I didn't read the link nor did I read past obi's #6 on the 3rd post, but using tragedies for political gain is not classless at all. In fact, politics are directly involved with how frequently shootings occur. It brings up the gun control debate again, is it classless to have a debate on gun control because of a horrific shooting? Why can't that be expanded to bashing the other side of the aisle because of their policies? (from either side, Republicans dishing it out or Democrats) It's the next natural progression. It's like saying that 9/11 was a tragedy, so political discussion about the Middle East cannot involve 9/11, because that is taking advantage of a tragedy for political points. It's flawed logic, because the two work together to prevent or promote similar tragedies from happening in the future, and if it's ignored because the issue is too touchy then the status quo just remains.

Again, I didn't read the article, so I don't know what was going on there, nor do I know if anybody already posted these thoughts in the thread already, but making generalizations that people shouldn't use tragedies for political gain is just incorrect, and it improves absolutely nothing.

Alex - Political debate in light of tragedies is fine. But before you chime in, perhaps you should go see the billboard inside the article. This specific use is beyond the pall.

For me it keeps saying Page Not Found (404). Am I typing in the link incorrectly? I tried both the top by itself and the whole link together. Neither worked.

You need to highlight the whole line and copy paste. It's too long to display correctly.

I did and it still doesn't work for me, it's working for you right now? Have you retried it recently?

Not recently. But hang on.

OK, worked fine for me.

I couldn't get the Slate page to load either, but I found a picture of the billboard in this article: http://current.com/blog/93857637_idaho-billboard-compares-president-obama-to-aurora-shooting-suspect.htm

Don't tell me that Romney wouldn't order the drone strikes, please.

obi-dork now has FOUR threads on this page.

Ignore him please. His life, such as it is, is worthless.

You'd be doing him a favour.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w1QrYO8t2E