Long time Obama fans agree, "The rules for the general election are different than those for the primaries. From here on out, phony displays of outrage shall be prohibited ... and if the corporate media is not going to be in the tank for Sen. Obama then the corporate media have no business being in the tank for any candidate."
Spade is not the archaic aspect of the cliche. You'll find a discussion of the derivation on wikipedia.com. it dates back a long time eg the archaic designation. The original terms had little to do with spades, but it is an interesting path to the modern day connection, trough, shovel, spade. Along that line.
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Long time Obama fans agree, "The rules for the general election are different than those for the primaries. From here on out, phony displays of outrage shall be prohibited ... and if the corporate media is not going to be in the tank for Sen. Obama then the corporate media have no business being in the tank for any candidate."
Are we still allowed to say "called a spade a spade"?
If we can't talked about lipsticked pigs...
"Are we still allowed to say "called a spade a spade"?"
eric,
The term derives from the archaic usage, to call a shovel a shovel. It goes back a very long way and and does not imply a racial connotation.
Yup. Yup. What Jack said.
Yeah, you can if you are a Liberal. Then it is just nuanced. But if you are a Conservative, well, then it is just racist, of course.
I was kidding... is "spade" really archaic?
Spade is not the archaic aspect of the cliche. You'll find a discussion of the derivation on wikipedia.com. it dates back a long time eg the archaic designation. The original terms had little to do with spades, but it is an interesting path to the modern day connection, trough, shovel, spade. Along that line.
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