en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/1441139 Comments by goldstarmom77 http://www.lineofdeparture.com/2010/06/28/in-defense-of-off-the-record/#IDComment87073367 Shortly before the Gen. McChrystal incident, I clearly remember how disgusted I was of how Vice President Joseph Biden stood in front of live cameras, in the face of an "entire nation" after a healthcare victory speech & whispered into President Obama's ear, "this is a big fuc _ ing deal!" Not, of course, expecting the media to pick up the comment.... But, they did! Oh! how the media laughed and made light of this... "colorful comment (?)" Every news media I turned to took such a "light-hearted attitude at V.P. Biden's vulgar comment!" It took a 12-year old boy to write the the "Vice President" of how one should watch his language in such a position." This, too, was taken in jest and humor by the media - oh, how cute! SICK! Now, this man is the Second-in-Command of the Armed Forces, directly under the C-n-C! Don't even try to offer some twisted logic of how one man - General McChrystal, who BTW, was "still following orders from his commander in chief, was immediately called back to D.C., called upon to resign, or be fired for alleged, off-the-record comments in jest, but I didn't read anything considered vulgar. I've been on military posts, & have overheard negative comments, jokes that were made toward previous C-in-Cs (i.e. George Bush, for instance) and that's that. Here's what baffle's me... on or "off the record" - another man, who is supposed to be second in command "over this same general" just weeks earlier, can speak such vulgar language in front of a live, national audience (children included) & in front of the entire nation & on official, national-public grounds and that's perfectly sanctioned! Would not that be "disrespectful toward one's own office, let alone the nation?" Did you ever hear of getting "detention for swearing in a school hallway, classroom, etc. that we're trying to teach our children it's vulgar and disrespectful? Where has this country's conscious gone? We're so out of control in some cases, yet so "over-controlling in others! It scares the heck out of me! We need to think about this and I mean "outside the box-think." I am well acquainted with military history & protocol. If you care about our soldiers, "get out of & let them do their jobs as best they can" & the politicians get off their wishy-washy appease-at-all-cost attitudes! The CID oversees military justice, if you'd just let them do THEIR jobs before investigations are over-run by anything-for-a-story media hounds! The only winners here are the Nation's enemies and one can think and begin to wonder about that too! WHAT'S TERRIBLY UPSETTING IS THE HYPOCRISY OF THIS ENTIRE CIRCUS OF SOMF OF OUR NARCISIC IVORY TOWER POLITICIANS WHO SACRIFICE GOOD OF FELLOW COUNTRY & THE MILITARY PERSONNEL FOR THEIR OWN POLITICAL PURPOSES, AS WELL AS THE MEDIA, WHO FEED THEIR EGOS! YOUR'E NOT FOOLING ANYONE AND WE'RE WATCHING YOU! Gold Star Mother Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:03:25 +0000 http://www.lineofdeparture.com/2010/06/28/in-defense-of-off-the-record/#IDComment87073367