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Banged to rights by Dan the Fink.
His point is entirely valid, and I feel a bit of an idiot for calling David Cameron 'Dave'. I know how much I hate it when I am called Steve or Steven, and that's rarely done to belittle me, just in ignorance. So I'll stop calling him Dave as a means of belittling him. It isn't big, and it isn't clever. It's puerile.
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Mr. Finkelshhhtein has just passed my picayune thought for the day test. Or as a certain tennis player would have once put it: "You CANNOT be serious!"
If David Cameroon's delicate sensibilities are thrown out of whack by such tiny slights then he surely doesn't possess anything like the necessary mettle to be prime minister.
I also think that Finkie should deal with somewhat more important matters on such a prestigious blog. For a minute there I thought I was reading the Guardian.
Joschie
Strange how when I comment, Joshie's here too. i think we're one and the same person actually. As for Dave, I don't think he'd be too put out. Yours, Jimmie.
Anybody ever care when Maargaret Thatcher was referred to by both sides as Maggie Thatcher, John F. Kennedy as Jack, Theodore Roosevelt as Teddy and Abraham Lincoln as Abe?
What is wrong with belittling Cameron?
"Anybody ever care when Maargaret Thatcher was referred to by both sides as Maggie Thatcher, John F. Kennedy as Jack, Theodore Roosevelt as Teddy and Abraham Lincoln as Abe?"
And Winston S. Churchill was widely known as 'Winnie.' I'm certain he didn't turn a hair. Then again, he was a giant of a man and not a political pygmy. The thing is that a truly great person will take a term of abuse and turn it through force of personality and the performance of great deeds into a term of affection. When people turned on the wireless in 1940 to listen to Winnie, they did so in the certain knowledge that he was the only man in the kingdom who could possibly get them through the terrible nightmare which then faced them.
Pace Messrs. Finkelstein and Kamm, but politicians are frequently ridiculous and deserve to be treated as such. Calling Cameron 'Stuntman Dave' as I have taken to doing (after the estimable and erudite Prof. John Brignell) is indicative of how seriously I take the man.