Comments on: Brown Bastardgate

By: james huggins

james huggins — Mon, 03 May 2010 12:48:03 +0000

I am amazed at the number of people who were taken aback at Obama’s snobbery. Anyone with a little bit of discernment and logic will pick out the Obamas of the world before they surface. Unfortunately most voters are dupes and therefore easy prey to slick tongued serpents like Obama.

By: George Pal

George Pal — Sun, 02 May 2010 14:57:47 +0000

The ability to contaminate the nation and poison relations with those who’d built it is the signal feature of the post-modern politician. Conservative, and Liberal party leaders might not have said as much but would have thought as little of Ms. Duffy, reflecting their own peculiar prejudices against their own kind.

Were the figurative slap Ms. Duffy endured, to be felt by the rest of Britons like her, UKIP would win the next election and I would forever fondly remember Mr. Brown.

By: Robert Glisson

Robert Glisson — Sun, 02 May 2010 13:52:40 +0000

Barbara Grant is right that Brown’s remarks are ‘Class related’ but it’s not just Briton that feels that way. In the rest of the world you have the ‘ruling class’ and disparate classes with race quite often used as the political card. Chavez of Venezuela, Castro of Cuba, even Obama came from the middle class to upper class strata of their societies and it is their desire to maintain that class separation through status.

By: Van Wijk

Van Wijk — Sun, 02 May 2010 13:47:00 +0000

As bad as things get here, every day I wake up thanking all the gods in Olympus that I’m not in the UK.

By: mike

mike — Sun, 02 May 2010 04:13:11 +0000

“Bigot” is the new “Nigga”. Use it as a term of endearment for anyone you know who isn’t completely brainwashed or intimidated by the PC propaganda. We’re reclaiming the word.

By: Barbara Grant

Barbara Grant — Sun, 02 May 2010 01:36:23 +0000

There is a bit of an undertone in this exchange that many Americans may not realize. In Great Britain, “class” or “caste” plays a role, as well. It’s possible if not highly likely that Gordon Brown and the woman he dissed come from different classes; she, from working-class roots; and he, from a background of more elevated origins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Brown

As an American, this class distinction is something I disdain; but it is very real in the U. K. and I wouldn’t discount contempt of a “working class” woman amongst the reasons for Mr. Brown’s disparaging remarks. “Race” may have absolutely nothing to do with it.

P. S. I hope he is solidly defeated.