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[Michael <michael AT metalab.unc.edu>]

I don't find it offensive that he flips off the camera, but it would 
certainly scandalize my mother and plenty of other conservative Christians 
who like to think good people such as Furious George don't or shouldn't do 
naughty things like say (or digitally indicate) the F-word.  I don't 
consider it problematic, but I do consider it childish and at odds with 
his Bible-dependent persona.

To say that it's negated by "everyone" doing it is a fallacious argument 
(even if "everyone" does, not everyone is a governor, on camera - it's an 
uneven comparison).  Whether or not everyone does it is at best moot and 
at worst distracting from a better question:  do we want a President 
whose best expression of wit can be matched by any tie-around-his-head, 
drunken fratboy* after a winning homecoming game?

Ultimately my main criticism is that it's un-Presidential.  That term may 
sound awfully familiar to some folks, given it's what we heard over and 
over and over and over and over in the 1990's.  But remember, W. restored 
dignity to the office, right?  Apparently dignity takes the form of a 
bird.

Oh, dang, time for my asbestos undies.  They do itch so!

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* For purposes of full-disclosure, I was President of my fraternity in 
college, twice.  We weren't exactly your standard fratboys, but still, I 
was technically a boy in a fraternity.

-- 
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www.robustmcmanlypants.org/blog/                          --Mr. Saturday