said by oh my :Tim Thomas, whether you like it or not, expressed his opinion and declined an invitation. That's all there is to it. Isn't freedom great ?
Yes, just like my freedom to think his actions make him a douchebag and to express my opinion as such. Why must you be a bigot and a bully to try and repress my freedom of expression?
Now, to clarify, if he had simply declined the invitation, said that he didn't believe that hockey should mix with politics and be gracious about it that would be one thing. That, right there, is something that you can respect and would have been a class act.
What makes him a douchebag - and this is key - is that on declining the invitation he goes on some long-winded teabagger tirade about government growing too big, freedoms being destroyed, blah blah blah insert Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin talking points here blah blah and then has the audacity to say that this isn't political, when he has taken a non-political invitation of congratulations from the President and turned it into precisely what he claims it isn't. Not only does he insult his team, the league and the President by ranting like this, but he takes us all for a bunch of retards by claiming declining the invitation wasn't politically motivated.
While I have no doubt he will become a folk hero with the teabaggers and will end up on someone's stage - other than Mitt Romney's of course - during the Republican primary it is precisely this that makes him a douchebag, and why I am not the only one calling him out for being a doucebag, spoiled brat and other choice words. Go read a newspaper and read some of what has been written, but I doubt you yourself will have the balls to send those columnists an email calling them a big or a print bully, because being anonymous is just so much more
cool.