Insults to President

Conusmer Reports has in its March, 2005 edition, page 63, the following snippet, which they have entitled, "Is Politics Your Bag?" They write

"When we received a copy of the bilingual label below, we thought it might a fake doctored by a disgruntled Democrat. (For those whose French/English dictionary is inaccessible, the tag translates the washing instructions into French, then adds a non-laundry comment: ‘We are sorry that our president is an idiot. We did not vote for him.’) In fact, however, the tag is real and is found on computer tote bags sold in the U.S. and Canada by Tom Bihn, a company based in Washington state. Tom Bihn, the company’s president won’t say who wrote the copy and has tried to suggest that it could as easily refer to him or to the French president, Jacques Chirac, as to George W. Bush. But a customer-service representative confesses that the election boosted sales.

“It has come to our attention that conservative have a way to get their licks in, too. The maker of Star Spangled Ice Cream, touted as an alternative to Ben & Jerry’s, is an online purveyor of treats whose flavors include I Hate the French Vanilla and Smaller Govern-mint.”

The second paragraph leaves the impression that there is an equivalent between the insult "Bush is an idiot" and the principle that small government is good government." This is the wrong comparison to make.

Bihn's insult only demonstrates again how the libs intelligentally, or don't, make their points.

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