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Ditto. A great man.

Given that Mr Samuel is a Brit, it is unlikely that he will be voting for anyone in your Presidential election next year. The general principle remains: holding, or aspiring to hold, public office, engenders a greater degree of responsibility for what comes out of one's mouth than that of your...

Even the Daily Heil (British right-wing newspaper; column written by a conservative Jew) has come out against Palin.

Not over here, it wouldn't be, since it means something rather rude and anatomical!

Yes, and also I don't believe in censorship or making something 'politically correct' retrospectively. For example, we had a children's author in this country called Enid Blyton, whose Noddy books contained various golliwog characters. Recent new TV and written versions of the Noddy franchise...

That does have ethnic connotations in its etymology. Isn't this blatant Bowdlerisation?

She's learnt to read from an autocue - maybe she is Presidential material after all!

Count me in on that score too. It's offensive no matter which side of the political divide uses it.

'Niggardly' has a different etymology.

Evidently, we double-posted. I don't think she does know what it means.

I agree; it also misses the point that Twain, by the standards of his time, was anti-racist.

Apparently, there's to be a new version of Huck Finn produced next month with the N-word and 'Injun' removed with Jim described simply as a 'slave'. What do posters think about this? Does it make the novel more or less accessible? Should other works such as To Kill a Mockingbird be similarly...

I'm with Mets65 and Ruiz on this one. In addition, Palin was wrong to use the crosshairs (and they were crosshairs as Palin's campaign admitted cheerfully last year) and the gun rhetoric, as were the DLC to use bullseyes and shame on Obama for using gun and knife metaphors; the language of...

:tear:She was born on 9/11

Thanks for the clarification. We only tend to hear about Mrs Palin.

I suppose there's no chance of the others running for President in 2012, that's the chief difference; otherwise I agree completely and am happy to condemn inflammatory rhetoric whoever uses it.

"Call it what you want".

I don't 'hate'; I just question the wisdom and suitability for public office of those advancing this sort of rhetoric, Democrat or Republican. The whole debate needs to be toned down and be more about issues than people.

You're dodging!

I ask both of you again: are you seriously suggesting that Sarah Palin has acted responsibly in her use of violent language?