Zardari's comments
Please allow me to voice my frustration over the much publicized promiscuous behaviour the Pakistani president displayed during his meeting with the American vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin. If his personal remarks, unbecoming of a head of state, were not embarrassing enough for the Pakistani community settled in America, most of us are dumbfounded over the spin his party is putting in his defence; e.g. it's considered as a compliment in US.
I have lived in the US for some 20 years. During the last couple of decades, I have learned a thing or two about the American culture, so when I say the following, I speak from personal experience:
a) Well over 50% Americans consider themselves to be morally conservatives. The party of Sarah Palin, the Republicans, pride themselves to be a party of social and moral conservatives.
b) Had I ever passed such comments, at job or business, I would have been fired from my job, or at minimum, would have been sued for sexual-harassment.
c) Have we already forgotten the price President Bill Clinton had to pay for his promiscuous behaviour? He was impeached for it!
I would have never asked the following, had Mr. Zardari's apologists did not put up such a morally bankrupt defence for his embarrassing antics: How would have we, and especially Mr. Zardari's apologists, reacted had a foreign dignitary passed similar chauvinistic remarks against a female leader of Pakistan?
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