Atomic City Talk

Tell Mother Teresa that.

The complaints can be filed directly with the Election Commission in Nashville, or the local office. They advise of the procedure to go through.

You can't pick and choose when you obey the law. The law is the law. There are lots of laws out there I personally think are stupid but I obey them because they are the law.

On a political local tv show this Mosley (running against Hackworth) guy was the guest. The moderator asked him what he thought of Sarah Palin and he referred to her as a cool BROAD. Come on, noone calls women broads anymore. This is someone we want speaking for us in the legislature. Classless, clueless and ignorant let alone condesending to women.

Didn't we already have a discussion on how overboard we've gone with political correctness? The word broad in an of itself doesn't offend me any more than lady or chick. As a women, I'm more offended by the inappropriate behavior of political officials (i.e. infidelity, cavorting with prostitutes, etc) than by the nicknames they use for women (including comparisons to a lipstick-wearing pig).

Please, trina, this has nothing to do with political correctness.

Then what does it have to do with?

per wiki:
Political correctness (adjectivally, politically correct; both forms commonly abbreviated to PC) is a term applied to language, ideas, policies, or behavior seen as seeking to minimize offense to gender, racial, cultural, disabled, aged or other identity groups. Conversely, the term "politically incorrect" is used to refer to language or ideas that may cause offense or that are unconstrained by orthodoxy.

It has to do with a local politician who should have more sense than that since he needs the female vote. Yes, red neck barbie is a term used by voters who have no respect for the candidate. But for someone who is running for office, in the same party, to use such a condesending term shows how condesending he is toward women. Trina, it does offend me as I fought too hard to gain respect and equality. You received it automatically because of our generation. This is a term that shows no respect. But this man was saying it as if it were his normal vocabulary which shows he has no respect for women in general or he is just ignorant.

You're right E. The same goes with the term "six-pack Joe". Not every "common" man drinks a beer or buckles his belt around a six pack. Take a deep breath and walk away from the television. Palin is nothing more than a babbling idiot with a prostitute shade of lipstick.

Well, if improper choice of words truly offends you, then Clinton must have sent you through the roof. Let’s be real, politicians have no higher standards, morals, values than anyone else. To believe otherwise is naïve.

Regardless of historical context, respect is earned - no one receives it automatically. I can appreciate your desire to be respected for your efforts, but I can’t possibly give you any more respect for what you have done than you can give me for what I have done.

Language is fluid and subjective – it changes from one generation to the next; adapts within whatever sub-culture it is used; and it's connotations continually change with historical occurrences at the local, national and global level.

I wonder how many times the phrase “thrown under the bus” gets used in this community. Don’t you think there are just a few who might take offense to it? Does using it make one any more or less wise?