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What would happen to someone who made comments like these about Obama's daughters?


They wouldn't expect to make international news by being mentioned in a blog post from the president, that's for sure.


Just a visit to their employer by the Secret Service. Don't think it hasn't happened, it once happened to a Kuro5hin contributor.

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2001/12/20/211923/84


I'm pretty sure lots of people do this.


So that makes it okay?


I don't see that being implied by the parent comment.


If I said that lots of people commit murder, is that an endorsement of murder?


Lots of people don't commit murder.


I don't know if it's okay, but it is a fact that celebrities and common folk are held to different public standards. This has been true since the days of village gossiping to the present where countless publications exist for the sole purpose of serving as trash rags and yellow tabloids on the private lives of high-profile public figures, going day by day without significant legal troubles.


"I don't know if it's OK"

Here's your answer then. It's not, and it never will be.


People can down vote if they want, but it's still not acceptable. It's been interesting watching my comment's score going up and down like a yoyo though.


Predator Drone.




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