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While America's less fortunate sons were dying and fighting off insects and disease in the jungles of Vietnam, Mitt Romney was holed up in a posh Parisian mansion described by a fellow inhabitant as a "palace." Located in the French capital's ritzy 16th Arrondissement, the mansion featured large stained-glass windows and a permanent chef, as well as a house boy. While other young American men were dying and suffering all manners of privation in Vietnam.Mitt Romney has the audacity to claim that during this time of struggle for him in the wilds of Paris, he often "longed for the chance to be (in Vietnam)." Sure he did.Ann Romney seems to have inherited the family nerve through marriage. Although none of her five sons have served in either of our country's two recent wars, Ann noted that Mitt and his military-averse progeny have "found different ways of serving."Here is where the five Romney sons put in their time:Tagg: Bordeaux, FranceMatt: Paris, FranceJosh: Leeds, EnglandBen: AustraliaCraig: Santiago, ChileThat sounds more like one heck of a vacation itinerary.Now Mitt has the audacity to present himself as our potential Commander-in-Chief. His bellicose "tough talk" threatens to entangle our military in yet another conflict in the Middle East. He's fine with your sons and daughters dying, just not with any of his precious br...
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Kofisays...He was doing God's work! Don't judge him for being a better person than the rest of us.
Jinxsays...I wonder what the world would look like if politicians first born had to serve in the military.
bmacs27says...Don't sit in. Get a deferment.
shuacAnd just what was Barack Obama doing during 1966-1970?
Note that I've tagged this comment with the sarcasm tag, because Obama was 5 years old in 1966, making the above question kind of ridiculous. However, had I not opted to write this extra comment pointing out the sarcasm, I'm quite sure the tag would have gone unnoticed and someone here would have undoubtedly come to Obama's defense in a frothy, picayune fashion. How do I know this? Because it's happened many times before: the sarcasm tag is too subtle.
YogiI don't understand. Are we scolding Romney for not taking part in a Genocide? That's interesting. I guess we should be scolding him for talking tough on Iran...but everyone is doing that. The American government is all about that. Doesn't mean anything is going to happen we're just talk. Iran would be something that would crush the ruling class, they won't allow it.
Jinxsays...>> ^shuac:
And just what was Barack Obama doing during 1966-1970?
Note that I've tagged this comment with the sarcasm tag, because Obama was 5 years old in 1966, making the above question kind of ridiculous. However, had I not opted to write this extra comment pointing out the sarcasm, I'm quite sure the tag would have gone unnoticed and someone here would have undoubtedly come to Obama's defense in a frothy, picayune fashion. How do I know this? Because it's happened many times before: the sarcasm tag is too subtle.
See, to me the whole point of sarcasm is that the subtext isn't obvious, or at least isn't obvious to everybody. If you'd made that post without explanation or "intonation" I still would have got it. Its like an inside joke. You have to risk excluding people to make others feel included in the joke.
Although, it did just dawn on me that you might be using the sarcasm tag and explanation ironically. Thats really some next level meta-sarcasm right there.
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