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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:37 PM
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White House upset over copy of Bush speech posted to U.N. website
Source: USA Today

Apparently, a marked-up draft of the president's speech popped up on the U.N.'s website as President Bush delivered his remarks this morning before the General Assembly, USA TODAY's David Jackson reports. The draft included phonetic spellings of some names and countries, and the cellphone numbers for Bush speechwriters.

Press secretary Dana Perino downplayed the incident, and said phonetic spellings are used to help interpreters. Asked if the president has trouble pronouncing some country's names, Perino deemed it "an offensive question."

"There was an error made," Perino said, noting it was not a final draft.

...

Update at 12:46 p.m. ET: Blake Hounshell at Foreign Policy says he has a copy of the speech that got the White House so worked up this morning. Here are some of the phonetic guides it included, according to the magazine's blog:

• Kyrgyzstan (KEYR-geez-stan)
• Mauritania (moor-EH-tain-ee-a)
• Harare (hah-RAR-ray)
• Mugabe (moo-GAH-bee)
• Sarkozy (sar-KO-zee)
• Caracas (kah-RAH-kus)

Read more: http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/09/white-house-ups.html
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Dhalgren Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:39 PM
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1. Jesus! (Gee-zus)
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BrklynLib at work Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:41 PM
Response to Reply #1
3. ROTFLMAO!!!!
:rofl:
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Auggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:46 PM
Response to Reply #3
18. Same here!
:rofl:

It's like having Ted Baxter as President




"It all started at a 5000-watt radio station in Fresno, California..."
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:51 PM
Response to Reply #18
70. ...or Les Nessman
"In golf, Sunday's tournament was won by....Chy Chy Rodrigweez" :)
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:56 PM
Response to Reply #70
73. He might have learned from Al Sleet, the hippie-dippie weatherman.




... and in baseball ... we have this partial score .... Washington, three!
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bagimin Donating Member (945 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:39 PM
Response to Reply #73
111. Que what cha call your pasa?
those were the days.
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niceypoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:38 PM
Response to Reply #70
110. Now we know why all words over 10 characters long disappeared from Bush speeches
...to hard to write phonetically...

I am amazed that the speech wasn't written in crayon.
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niceypoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:41 PM
Response to Reply #70
112. "...phonetic spellings are used to help interpreters":
It's pretty bad when a US president needs an interpreter for his first language.


ROFL
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colorado_ufo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:48 PM
Response to Reply #112
119. Funny!
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HelloDubya Donating Member (35 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:09 PM
Response to Reply #112
153. First language?????
The shrub's first language is Texahegian!
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:37 PM
Response to Reply #153
189. ex-pres Fox of Mexico said * spoke Spanish at a grade school level. nt
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pink-o Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 06:41 PM
Response to Reply #189
204. I gotta say, I'm not much better when it comes to Spanish
...but AT LEAST I'm at academic level with my own native language!!! More than you can say for Idiot Son.
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mac56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 06:40 AM
Response to Reply #204
281. You're also not "the leader of the Free World".
Asked to address the UN.

At least I don't think so...
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pink-o Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 02:29 PM
Response to Reply #281
298. Damn! Now you ruined my whole reality!!!


:evilgrin:
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 09:17 PM
Response to Reply #189
236. i'm sure he was just being kind
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 10:33 PM
Response to Reply #189
256. As Jim Hightower said about another Texan, "He's now bi-ignorant." nt
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panzerfaust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-27-07 05:01 PM
Response to Reply #189
307. Horses. Fox also says * is AFRAID of horses
which would explain the lack of these beasts on The Photo Ranch, the lack of photoops of cowboy-W on horse.

But which is a bit hard to explain to folks here in the Lone Star.

Great if true.
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Lone_Wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 12:42 AM
Response to Reply #112
268. He's the first Hooked on Phonics President!
n/t
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backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:32 PM
Response to Reply #70
163. Didn't he call a chihuahua
a "chee-hooah-hooah"?
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 10:16 PM
Response to Reply #70
253. Love KRP.
But nowadays there really are 'phone police'.
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piesRsquare Donating Member (960 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 02:42 AM
Response to Reply #253
274. That one was the best!
Poor Johnny--thought the phone police were coming to get him!
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Yavin4 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:21 PM
Response to Reply #18
95. Can You Say, "Hideki Kawasaki"?
Classic episode.
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tsuki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:45 PM
Response to Reply #18
142. I had forgotten about Ted...you're absolutely correct!
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 07:36 PM
Response to Reply #142
213. Don't forget Ch-i Ch-i Rod-ro-gueez ! WKRPers
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:54 PM
Response to Reply #18
193. (Ho-lee-shee-it)
:rofl:
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antonialee839 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 06:10 PM
Response to Reply #18
197. Oh Jeez Lou
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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sanguinivorous Donating Member (91 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 09:59 PM
Response to Reply #18
250. Please don't make the Ted Baxter comparison...
Remember? At the end of Mary Tyler Moore, he was the one guy in the newsroom who still had a job.

"Dictator For Life" foreshadowing, if you know what I mean. You'll jinx us all, man!
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Auggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 09:35 AM
Response to Reply #250
292. I forgot about that
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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:43 PM
Response to Reply #1
12. LOL!!!!that's why I love this place...
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Supersedeas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:28 PM
Response to Reply #12
53. that's just one of the reasons....but a good one
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Highway61 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:09 PM
Response to Reply #1
41. damn near fell off my chair
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:18 PM
Response to Reply #1
44. ROFLMAO!! A definite DUzy award contender!
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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ejbr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:22 PM
Response to Reply #1
46. Okay, I'll join in
and give you love for that one! :rofl:
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insanad Donating Member (286 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:27 PM
Response to Reply #1
51. Affirmative Action at it's finest
We've had nearly eight years of the mentally, emotionally, morally, and intellectually handicapped running the government. I think in keeping with giving equal opportunity to ALL God's creatures, it's time for a woman or man of color to give it a go. Who says the intellectually disabled are discriminated against in this country? Hell, they don't have to work at Dairy Queen or in Janitorial settings anymore, they can become President Of The United States if their daddy has enough money and the Corporate whores who own them want them in control. That he is still there causes Cog-nu-tuv Dis-su-nance in the minds of the intell-u-jent people in the world.
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ProudDad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:36 PM
Response to Reply #1
57. Actually that's prounounced "Jay-zus" (n/t)
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:13 PM
Response to Reply #57
87. I thought it's pronounced "Hey Zeus"
:shrug:

-Hoot
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ProudDad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:18 PM
Response to Reply #87
91. Si, aqui en Arizona y en Viejo Mexico :) (n/t)
Edited on Tue Sep-25-07 02:18 PM by ProudDad
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BrklynLib at work Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:10 PM
Response to Reply #87
128. Die Hard With A Vengeance...
Zeus: Why do you keep calling me Jésus? Do I look Puerto Rican to you?
John McClane: Guy back there called you Jésus.
Zeus: He didn't say Jésus. He said, "Hey, Zeus!" My name is Zeus.
John McClane: Zeus?
Zeus: Yeah, Zeus! As in, father of Apollo? Mt. Olympus? Don't fuck with me or I'll shove a lightning bolt up your ass? Zeus! You got a problem with that?
John McClane: No, I don't have a problem with that.
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:17 PM
Response to Reply #128
158. I thought it was a good godly pun.
Didn't know I'm a plagarist.

:rofl:

I'll have to rent it sometime I'm in the mood for brainless blowing shit up tripe.

-Hoot
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BrklynLib at work Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 08:41 AM
Response to Reply #158
287. I thought you made an intentional subtle reference...
Edited on Wed Sep-26-07 08:43 AM by BrklynLib at work
:hi:
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u2spirit Donating Member (727 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 07:19 AM
Response to Reply #128
284. Hey Blinkin
My name's not Abe Lincoln from Men in tights
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 09:46 PM
Response to Reply #87
244. Isn't that a Beatles song?
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hootinholler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 10:14 AM
Response to Reply #244
293. Nope, Doobie Bros. n/t
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originalpckelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:41 PM
Response to Reply #1
63. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
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Danieljay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:50 PM
Response to Reply #1
69. Thank you for the laugh! That was Awesome (Ah-sum) n/t
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lame54 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:56 PM
Response to Reply #1
74. That was acually the second draft...
...the first draft was written on an etch-a-sketch

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tw49mm-CmNo
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colorado_ufo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:46 PM
Response to Reply #1
117. Oh, that was GREAT!
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dave29 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:54 PM
Response to Reply #1
120. bwahahaha
ok -- truly awesome.
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Window Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:37 PM
Response to Reply #1
135. I had to clean my monitor!
ROTFLMAO!!


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:44 PM
Response to Reply #1
141. Dubya (d-u-m)
Bush (bee-ess)
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Usrename Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:09 PM
Response to Reply #1
152. Me too...
:rofl:
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MuseRider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:41 PM
Response to Reply #1
168. Oh man
that one hurts! Still laughing. Sides hurt! Thanks.
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MaineDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:16 PM
Response to Reply #1
179. LOL
Now THAT'S funny!

Thanks for the laugh.
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Scooter24 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:22 PM
Response to Reply #1
182. BWAHAHAHA!!!
:rofl:

Man that was great...

:rofl:
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 12:01 AM
Response to Reply #1
264. Truly, you deserve an award for that.
Thanks for the laugh. :hi:
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 02:19 AM
Response to Reply #1
273. LQTM!!!
(Laughing Quietly To Myself) per: The Daily Show's "Trendspotter" Demetri Martin ("It's just more honest"):rofl:
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:40 PM
Response to Original message
2. Yeah, don't ask any questions about
the chimp not getting enough bananas in time to learn how to pronounce some big words..very offensive.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:41 PM
Response to Original message
4. Well Dana is off to a great start
Flat-out lying like her bosses and her predecessors.
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iconoclastic cat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:41 PM
Response to Original message
5. Somebody needs to find a link to that file! nt
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:42 PM
Response to Original message
6. Dana Perino can spin all she likes but that certainly gives
us another glimpse into Bush's mind. I don't think he knows anything about those world leaders that he's supposed to be dealing with or he would know how to pronounce their names without phonetic spelling. He seems to do no homework whatsover to learn all he can about them. He just accepts the "good" and "bad" memes handed to him by his handlers.
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Lugnut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:29 PM
Response to Reply #6
54. She's a joke too
Her sad excuse is almost worse than the phoenetic spellings. Then again she couldn't actually admit that the prez is a moron.
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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:10 PM
Response to Reply #6
154. Although Sarkozy was his guest just a few weeks ago.
You mean he can't remember how to pronounce Sarkozy's name. It's easy.
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panzerfaust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-27-07 04:57 PM
Response to Reply #154
306. sar-KO-zee weren't NO GUESS-ed
He is just an underling in the BFEE who was here to get his orders. He was here to prove to W that "Frog Childrens do learn", at least they BETTER learn which side of the bread the butter is on.

Ah, Sir-JOE-lean, Sir-JOE-lean - wherefore art thou Sir-JOE-lean ...

She was my choice.

Truly, I think she was the choice of the FRIN-shays also.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:42 PM
Response to Original message
7. what a HOOT
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BrklynLib at work Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:42 PM
Response to Original message
8. Life is difficult when you are dumber than a box of rocks....
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speedoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:48 PM
Response to Reply #8
23. Life SHOULD be difficult for him....
but he has been propped up and enabled throughout his miserable existence by his miserable, criminal family and their miserable, criminal friends.

He has failed at everything he has ever done, but his enablers have consistently fixed things up for him.

But his failures as pResident can't be fixed up and humankind will be paying the price for decades, at least.
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BrklynLib at work Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:01 PM
Response to Reply #23
38. That is the sad, sad truth.
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:02 PM
Response to Reply #23
39. The irony here is that without the Bush family Nazi/oil dough he'd require many social services.
Probably from within a prison.
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BrklynLib at work Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:47 PM
Response to Reply #39
118. He probably woud have been a Ted Bundy or someone of that ilk...
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 09:44 PM
Response to Reply #118
243. I kept thinking about the early animal abuse when I typed that. (nt)
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sanguinivorous Donating Member (91 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 09:53 PM
Response to Reply #118
249. Speaking of which, did you ever see this?
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BrklynLib at work Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 08:44 AM
Response to Reply #249
288. Holy Crap. THAT IS SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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treestar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-27-07 01:30 PM
Response to Reply #249
303. Holy cow, that is friggin' ass scary
I wonder who was really executed in Florida! (just kidding)
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Lone_Wolf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 12:41 AM
Response to Reply #118
267. The difference being Ted Bundy had a high IQ...
n/t
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panzerfaust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-27-07 05:04 PM
Response to Reply #118
308. alternate, assistant, weekend, night manager at a pizza joint
if he rose to his own level in the world.
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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:53 PM
Response to Reply #8
31. or a bag of hammers
and have the personality of a sack of Goat shit.
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w8liftinglady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:42 PM
Response to Original message
9. that would account for the hyper-enunciation that made my stomach turn
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HootieMcBoob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:39 PM
Response to Reply #9
61. Yup, that's gotta be it
Now we know the reason he over enunciates particular words. The really f'd up thing though is how he always looks like he's achieved some great accomplishment afterward. He probably looks that way after he has his morning bowel movement too. At least we can assume that he accomplishes that without the help of his rich friends, although I wouldn't be surprised to find out otherwise.
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:42 PM
Response to Original message
10. Hell, he has trouble speaking in English much less pronouncing foreign place names.
Edited on Tue Sep-25-07 12:43 PM by CottonBear
God, the Chimp's such a moran. :(

You know that President Clinton didn't have to have phonetic guides.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:44 PM
Response to Reply #10
14. Clinton didn't need notes at all.
If Bush* were my president, I'd be so embarrassed.
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daninthemoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:50 PM
Response to Reply #14
29. Remember when big dog's teleprompter failed during a state of the
union address to congress? He continued and finished the speech from memory! Anytime I contrast him with *, I want to weep. Stupidest president ever.
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:56 PM
Response to Reply #29
75. Oh! I'd forgotten that. I miss the Big Dog now more than ever.
Heck, Chimpy makes Nixon look good. :(
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RaleighNCDUer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:54 PM
Response to Reply #75
147. Nixon was a scary, dangerous paranoid
but at least he was a SMART scary, dangerous paranoid.
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CottonBear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:11 PM
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177. Exactly. n/t
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 01:20 AM
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270. Saint Ronnie couldn't speak unless he was handed a script.
"...like reinventing the wheel."
--Larry Speakes (Reagan's former press secretary) describing what it was like preparing the President for a press conference, Speaking Out: The Reagan Presidency from Inside the White House


"The task of watering the arid desert between Reagan's ears is a challenging one for his aides."
--Columnist David Broder
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renate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:13 PM
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86. would it not be FABULOUS if that happened during one of Bush's SOTUs?
To be fair, any normal person would have an impossible time coping with giving a live speech on all networks without a teleprompter. But it would just be funny if it happened to Bush.

And what a dramatic contrast it would be with Clinton's performance.
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daninthemoon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:42 PM
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113. Should have happened years ago. Might have opened some eyes.
Certainly would have been hilarious. Something like that simpson girl on SNL. Thing I'm wondering now, maybe that phony drawl of his is phonetically spelled out too.
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cui bono Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:30 PM
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133. It's not too late.

:evilgrin:


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formercia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:36 PM
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165. He has his magic ear prompter.
"Let me finish!!" :rofl:
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Thor_MN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:32 PM
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187. They probably have a contingency plan for that.
Terrorist attack, major power outage, who knows what lengths they will go to try to perpetuate the impression that * isn't dumber than a bag of used cat litter.
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:43 PM
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11. Dying of laughter here.


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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:44 PM
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13. How would a phonetic spelling help a UN interpreter?
Edited on Tue Sep-25-07 01:27 PM by C_U_L8R
that just doesn't even make sense.

Did the press fall for it??
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:46 PM
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19. I'm guessing the press all said "Whatever Dana"
and :eyes: Except for Faux of course. Faux's talking heads probably need the phonetic spellings too.
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LuckyLib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:49 PM
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24. Total BS. Any UN interpreter is very well aware of how to pronounce virtually any name
that would appear in an official speech. How dumb do they think we are?
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Binka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:38 PM
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60. Pretty Fucking Dumb I Guess
Another point is that no Boosh speech ever goes into the hands of ANY interpreter. EVER. This is a lie for the AGES! I hate, abhor, loathe, MOTHER FUCKING DESPISE THESE FASCISTS!
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CTyankee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:44 PM
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115. and it's not real phonetics, it's sounding out. You have to study real
phonetic symbols. I tried to learn it in school but was confused and didn't.
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InkAddict Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 07:03 PM
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207. Just imagine the symbols he'd need for the
DIP THONGS. (Aww...nevermind).

or perhaps....

Start with the tone.
Up a full tone.
Down a major third.
Now drop an octave.
Up a perfect fifth.
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Va Lefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:45 PM
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15. Lord Haw-Haw can't speak in coherent sentences
In other news, Sun rises in East.
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sweettater Donating Member (674 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:27 PM
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100. Is this for real?
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Va Lefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:57 PM
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123. It's been photoshopped
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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:45 PM
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16. B-ooo-sh. n/t
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:45 PM
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17. simple pleasures are BEST-all the little wienies in the West!
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:47 PM
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20. Dear Dana---Bush et al. (you included) are OFFENSIVE each Day!
Press secretary Dana Perino downplayed the incident, and said phonetic spellings are used to help interpreters. Asked if the president has trouble pronouncing some country's names, Perino deemed it "an offensive question."
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Forrest Greene Donating Member (946 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:33 PM
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103. Nonetheless, Answer It, Princess
It's way more offensive that it needs to be asked.

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rateyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:47 PM
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21. ack-MAH-dee-ne-JAD....
Edited on Tue Sep-25-07 12:49 PM by rateyes
not Ack-ma-DIN-e-jad.

Nu-clear, not Nu-ku-lar.
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piesRsquare Donating Member (960 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 02:52 AM
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275. It's "ach-ma-DEEN-eh-jad"
As told to me by multiple Iranians.
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Arkansas Granny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:48 PM
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22. Did DU get the scoop on this without realizing it?


Shown earlier on this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1900691
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:50 PM
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25. The NOOK-you-lar NUK-el-hed needs all the help he can get




This clown is such an embarrassment to us all.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:50 PM
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26. NOW HEAR YE ALL: "It was taken down and there's nothing more to say about it."
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Az_lefty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:50 PM
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27. Good Lord! That's why his speeches sound so weird...
:rofl:
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:50 PM
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28. Ya know, I figured his speeches were written like that, but now there's
proof! What a JA he is!!!

I still want to see what happens when his teleprompter fails during a speech as it did with BC. Even the reporters didn't know it happened with Bill, but I'm positive EVERYOE would know instantly with the Shrub!
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:38 PM
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59. Hell, during the debates with Kerry he would get that panicked
deer-in-the-headlights look on his face and start drooling all over himself. Right there and then you knew there were some audio troubles in the auditorium, and not with the television equipment.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:43 PM
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65. Yeah, what ever happened to that bulge in the back of his coat?
I haven't seen or heard any talk about that in a long time!
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Diane R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:43 PM
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140. The New York Times has a story ready to go...and 'for some reason', killed it before the election.
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:52 PM
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30. Jack DAN-ee-uhls
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:29 PM
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101. He e is Stu Pet!


:bounce:
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MNDemNY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:55 PM
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32. hoo-LEE-shee-ite!
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:57 PM
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33. You guys are mean. At least he can read.
Sort of.
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 07:39 PM
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215. A Harverd trained MBA preszeedent.
tell me the story again about how this guy got selected President ? Jaw to the floor.
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 09:48 PM
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245. The Supreme Court felt it was high time we had a special needs president.
I think that's how it goes.
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benld74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:58 PM
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34. DUM ASS
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Bluerthanblue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:58 PM
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35. huh, i always thought he used rebus'~
:crazy:
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:58 PM
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36. An offensive question? Does she live under a rock?
Chrissake, woman... check out Salon's bushism's page... that's not an offensive question, that's about as valid as they get!
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xxqqqzme Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 12:59 PM
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37. are there phonetic pronunciations for
Edited on Tue Sep-25-07 01:00 PM by xxqqqzme
English words as well? We all know even w/ the phonetic spellings of foreign persons & places, he'll still f*ck them up.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:07 PM
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40. Soooooo... Dana didn't answer the question?
Now, that's very very interesting.
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AmyDeLune Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:15 PM
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42. Hooked On Fonics Wurkd fur mee! n/t
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bobthedrummer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:17 PM
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43. "not-zee" k&r
IMPEACH CHENEY FIRST
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partylessinOhio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:19 PM
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45. * supporters will see nothing wrong with that.
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beltanefauve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 10:31 PM
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301. You're right
I guess we're all acting like a bunch of "elitists" again.
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dbonds Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:23 PM
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47. I can't be too hard on the phonetic spelling of those places.
Maybe he should have learned them, but I would not have known how to pronounce them at first glance. I know bush is a moron, and his english is horrible. But I don't think that was unreasonable. I'm in no way an apologist for bush, he is vile, criminal, and the worst thing to happen to the country.
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moggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:23 PM
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96. But there's one big difference between you and Bush
You're not president. Being able to speak about other world leaders and countries without making a fool of yourself is the minimum requirement. Look at that list. Sarkozy: president of a major European power, elected just a few months ago, when he was all over the international news. Mugabe, who's only led Zimbabwe for twenty-seven fucking years and should surely have impinged on Bush's consciousness at some point.

Is it really too much to ask that the POTUS be better informed about foreign countries than an airport announcer?
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mikeytherat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:25 PM
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160. Not only that, he hosted Sarkozy at the Bush compound JUST LAST MONTH
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6941917.stm

And he STILL can't remember the man's name.

mikey_the_rat
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annabanana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:25 PM
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98. He is supposed to be our president... He is supposed to be dealing
with these people and places EVERY GOD DAMN DAY!! These words should not be coming out of left field and require this kind of prompting...
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zabet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:23 PM
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48. You would know if chimpy
actually wrote a speech himself. It would be on
a paper towel written in crayon. He is too stupid
to have sharp objects like pencils and pens.
:rofl::rofl::rofl:
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ejbr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:26 PM
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49. Should anyone be surprised? n/t
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Lugnut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:27 PM
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50. What a scream
The doofus has to be led by the hand every inch of the way. Ugh. What an embarrassment.
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:28 PM
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52. I'm sitting here torn between laughing my ass off and crying my eyes out.
Laughing wins. I didn't vote for the dumbass! :rofl:
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corkhead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:29 PM
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55. I think it was a rhetorical question, not an offensive one.
I can actually see him saying it just like it is shown "moo-GAH-bee". he over emphasizes the accent and says the word slower, and grins with glee like he just won a spelling bee.

what a fucking MOE-ran.
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 07:27 PM
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211. It does explain why he seems so pleased with himself every time he says a difficult word.
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Zech Marquis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:33 PM
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56. hooked on presidential phonics
Edited on Tue Sep-25-07 01:34 PM by Zech Marquis
:rofl: Was it written in crayon with smear finger marks too? :rofl:
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:40 PM
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62. ROFL - he could never have figured out the pronunciations on his own.
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ramapo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:37 PM
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58. Moron in Chief
Talk about the dumbing down of America.
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Gregorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:41 PM
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64. President Training Wheels.
Can you say sock puppet?

Can you say President Cheney?

I can see one of those popup versions of "How to be a president" book.
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 12:23 PM
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297. Pop-up books scare incurious george. .
:evilgrin:
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ironflange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:45 PM
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66. To be perfectly honest, I feel a little sorry for Dana Perino
I can't imagine what her job must be like sometimes, it must be worse than putting pigs in dresses. She sure must get a lot of headaches.
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NMDemDist2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:43 PM
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114. "worse than putting pigs in dresses"
:rofl:

not *that's* funny

wish I had a video of that one.......

:evilgrin:
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colorado_ufo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:56 PM
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122. Don't be too sorry -
She couldn't wait to get the job and is no doubt paid very well.
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Tansy_Gold Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:37 PM
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166. "worse than putting pigs in dresses"? Nah, it IS
putting pigs in dresses!


words fail me.
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 08:02 AM
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286. I don't feel sorry for her at all

She is an enabler and she "covers" to protect an ID D OT.

He needs to check into the BET T FORD CEN TER.

Hey, maybe this is a new way to write!
It would be cool if he wasn't the Resident of A Mer E KA.
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:46 PM
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67. BWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
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Enrique Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:46 PM
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68. this means he never talks about these things with anyone
once you've had a couple of conversations with advisers about Mugabe, etc., you know how to say the man's name.

But our president doesn't have these types of conversations, ever. The thoughts in his speech, they're not his. They can't be. If someone tried to explain his speech to him, he'd have a hard time understanding it.
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:56 PM
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76. Of course
george is borderline average intelligence. He is and always has been just a talking head. They used his name and his "good 'ol boy" attitude, dressed him up and put him into position. Anyone who actually thinks this guy knows anything over 40% of what is going on around him is a fool.
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eridani Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 11:46 PM
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262. He used to be above average in intelligence
Check out old videos of his debates with Ann Richards. The contrast with the present is seriously creepy.
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moggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:35 PM
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107. Bingo
Take Mugabe, for instance. The situation in Zimbabwe is a major stain on Africa, and has been for a long time. And he's in the news right now because of controversy over his attendance at the forthcoming EU-Africa summit. I'd certainly hope that the executive gets regularly briefings on the Zimbabwe situation (it's a powder keg). But presumably Fredo is kept out of the loop. Unsurprisingly.
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truth2power Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:45 PM
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116. Best response in this whole thread, Enrique...
Once you start discussing all these guys, the ones in the news every day, with family and friends, their names become like household words.

Proof positive that Bush doesn't talk about the issues with his advisors.
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Ignis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 08:47 PM
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231. Nope, they're just magic, far-away places.
Nothing to trouble his pretty head over, right?

:dunce:
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The Blue Flower Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:54 PM
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71. Notice she didn't answer the question
A simple 'no' would have sufficed.
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eShirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:54 PM
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72. Perino deemed it "an offensive question."
Sounds like it struck a nerve.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:17 PM
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130. What's offensive is that Lying Sack of Cute Perino thinks we'd buy her bullshit. n/t
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jebediah Donating Member (111 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 01:59 PM
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77. Did it work? Hey Congress: EM-peeech ! nt.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:01 PM
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78. see


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1902239
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deucemagnet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:01 PM
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79. Interpreters know the pronunciation of those words. It's their job.
Yet another in a series of embarrassments.
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lpbk2713 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:15 PM
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89. They go through rigorous testing to be UN interpreters.




Unfortunately, Shit-for-Brains consistently proves the point that any
simple-minded asshole can be President of the USA.
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pink-o Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 06:49 PM
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205. Hee hee...6 years ago I re-wrote the lyrics, not realising how prescient they'd be
..."I could wile away the hours,
Conferin' with world powers,
Pronouncin' all their names.

I could talk oh-so-pretty,
I'd be erudite and witty,
If I only had a brain."
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0rganism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:05 PM
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80. for me, the real surprise is that he would even care about pronunciation
It's a radical quantum leap for him, really. Next thing you know, he'll be all about grammar.

By the time he leaves office, he might just be ready to retake that English lit class from high school that made him hate learning so very much.
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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:26 PM
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99. It was quite an accomplishment to train a chimp to speak. Still working on pronunciations, you know.
That is become a more difficult part. Eating habits have improved. Hasn't choked on a pretzel recently. All in all, Barbara, your son is not yet a lost cause. Not exactly Harvard or Yale material, and he'll certainly never be President of the United States.

Signed, Miss Cook, Third Grade teacher
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Richard D Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:05 PM
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81. This is . . .
. . . one of the funniest things I've ever read!
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Highway61 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:08 PM
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82. Anyone see the "comments" following the story from the link?
#1....."So what is the news, we already know the president's speech is written by their staff. We also have problems with pronouncing some names, specially if you don't speak another language and nothing wrong with that."

(They MEANT to say "So, why is this news" and "specially" instead of especially and nothing instead of nothing's.)

#2...Another bonehead..." Another CIA leak? Partisanship within the CIA is UNACCEPTABLE! It seems there is a consistent attempt to discredit the President from sources who should know better."
(Did I miss something that he saw?)


Then #1 replied..."I meant, so what is this even news"

(Wow man...They are all drinking from the same jug of kool aid...perfect example of those who love this guy didn't pay attention in school)
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:10 PM
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83. LOL- anyone have the marked-up draft?
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DrDan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:11 PM
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84. Caracas????
The dimwith cannot pronounce Caracas????????????
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Auggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:34 PM
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105. I know. I learned that in Junior High.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:47 PM
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171. she-Hit 4 Baa-Rains
Caracas Venezuela :rofl:

and Dana Perino has the balls say that U.N. interpreters needed help
in pronouncing this city?
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:11 PM
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85. Who leaked the draft? HEH HEH HEH....
Someone who wanted to expose what an idiot he is, fro sure. I wonder who?
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:14 PM
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88.  From July 12 at ThinkProgress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/12/bush-decides-free-press-is-not-a-cornerstone-of-democracy/

Dumbo strikes again.



Reuters photographer yesterday took a picture of President Bush’s speech welcoming journalists to the new White House briefing room. As On Deadline notes, “As you can see, the speech has been marked up and includes a large ‘X’ through this section: ‘And there’s no truth to the rumor some of those new seats can be ejected by pressing a button at Tony’s podium.’”
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shain from kane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:16 PM
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90. Beijing. Nicaragua. Don't you notice how news reporters pronounce these names, as if they suddenly
acquired foreign accents?
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Hand Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:18 PM
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92. Bush (CHIM-pee) nt
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DesEtoiles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:19 PM
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93. Do you think Al Gore or Bill Clinton need this kind of mark up?
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VaYallaDawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:21 PM
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94. Jest who sez bein' ignert is a obstickle?
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:25 PM
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97. Somebody smart in 2008!
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:32 PM
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102. ANOTHER B*sh speech pic here (Screen Cap):
Edited on Tue Sep-25-07 02:33 PM by npincus
I saved this one... couldn't find it online anymore: :rofl:


"Good Morning. Welocme to the White House..."... the asshole needs someone to put that in writing! :rofl:
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backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:25 PM
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183. Such nice, big letters!
Reading one of Bush's speeches has literally been dumbed down to the level of reading "My Pet Goat"
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 07:29 PM
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212. Lordy. Why does the word "for" need to be underlined?
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:34 PM
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104. And at least two of the pronunciations are still wrong!!
Edited on Tue Sep-25-07 02:34 PM by mycritters2
What an ass--with more asses writing his speeches.
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DesEtoiles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:35 PM
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106. oh, the soft bigotry of low expectations...
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Critters2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:36 PM
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108. Hehehe. nt
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buzzard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:37 PM
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109. I think this will make the rounds on the Daily Show or Colbert Report.n/t
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:55 PM
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121. geez, get a life
this is common; I'd want pronunciations.

there are much better things to ridicule him over
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:02 PM
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126. Stupid is as stupid does
Its what comes of being about as sharp as a marble.
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moggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 06:04 PM
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195. Ah, the ever-convincing "get a life" response
Why do people have such low expectations of the most powerful guy in the fucking world? I knew the correct pronunciation of all those names, and I'm an IT peon. This guy is, supposedly, the cream of the crop from 300 million, and it's his job to know the international scene. He's not just some schmuck you want to have a beer with, you know?
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UnclassifiedProducer Donating Member (17 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:57 PM
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124. Not a nice host.
Their immediate mini-cover-up is especially ridiculous: an interpreter is the least likely person to need phonetic spellings. Morons.
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:25 PM
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131. yes, that is the idiotic part
they are getting paranoid - next thing you know they'll be denying he uses a teleprompter
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diva77 Donating Member (999 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 02:58 PM
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125. How come he keeps saying NUKE-YOO-LER if he has this pronunciation service????
:crazy:
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halobeam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:03 PM
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127. Maybe it's like "nipple confusion"??
They phonetically spelled it the first time, and he still got it wrong, so then, they kept trying all different ways and he is totally confused at this point?
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:14 PM
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129. Pro-liff-err-ay-shun. n/t
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Paula Sims Donating Member (327 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:27 PM
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132. And he STILL can't pronounce 'nuclear' !! (n/t)
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shaniqua6392 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:35 PM
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134. Our President is an...........
im·be·cile (ĭm'bə-sĭl, -səl) pronunciation n.

1. A stupid or silly person; a dolt.
2. A person whose mental acumen is well below par.
3. A person of moderate to severe mental retardation having a mental age of from three to seven years and generally being capable of some degree of communication and performance of simple tasks under supervision. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.

:rofl:
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:37 PM
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136. Does ANYONE have the now-infamous draft?
Please tell me that someone's posted it...
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shaniqua6392 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:39 PM
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137. It was taken down earlier
but someone must have draft out there. I wanna see it!!! LOL.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:51 PM
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145. Me too me too me too
I can hardly wait...
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shanti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:12 PM
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156. gen discussion
i believe someone posted a picture there.
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cui bono Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:39 PM
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138. Who knows how to find the google cache of this?
Anyone?
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PianoBlack Donating Member (104 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:43 PM
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139. If I had to sum up my responce in one word....
it would be....



Wow
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EnviroBat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:49 PM
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143. sofa KING we TAW did
Our great leader :eyes:
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canadianbeaver Donating Member (929 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:11 PM
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155. Maybe his mouth was full of Dick 'n' Cider.....
I love the SOFA KING skit on the radio....as well as the Dick n Cider one...
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EnviroBat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 08:35 PM
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228. Did you ever see the Sofa King skit on Saturday Night Live? Dayum funnay!
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EnviroBat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-27-07 10:15 AM
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302. Hahahah
:rofl:
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chelsea0011 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:50 PM
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144. Hey, I'm willing to give him some slack on a few but Caracas?
We always knew he was doing this. Every speech he has ever done, when he comes to a word or person he must try to pronounce, he will over emphasize the syllables and then smirk.
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MasonJar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:53 PM
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146. NPR mentioned that he used the former name Burma; there of course is
no way Bush could correctly pronounce the new name (which I am not sure how to spell.) Don't you just love that they have to use phonetic spellings for W! Ha! Ha! Ha! If only he weren't so embarrassing and deadly!!!!
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backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:29 PM
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185. It's spelled Myanmar,
though I fear Bushing the pronunciation myself...
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 07:11 PM
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208. And he keeps confusing Myanmar with those chocolate cookies with the marshmallow filling
"mmm...cookies"
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Mendocino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 09:29 PM
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238. Burma became Myanmar in 1989
You would think that after almost 20 years that he would have picked that up.
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kath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:57 PM
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148. What I want to know is, WHO is the reporter who had the incredible guts to ask the "offensive
question"??

I'd love to see the tape of that! Was it in a press conference, or what? Lots of guffawing in the background?
Inquiring minds want to know...
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wicket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 03:58 PM
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149. ROFL
:rofl:
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Broadslidin Donating Member (949 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:02 PM
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150. When it came to the Harken Energy insider Stock Trade, the * Thug hit on All Cylinders
Edited on Tue Sep-25-07 04:04 PM by Broadslidin
And once the cash was in the bag,
this Harken Energy Board Member,
sociopath * blatantly ignored reporting
his insider stock trade
to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

A year later,
Having a close financial relationship with the
Texas S.E.C. investigative attorney,
Pappy Bush had the Harkin stock swindle quietly squashed.
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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:05 PM
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151. Hilarious! How many times has he heard these names
And he can't remember how to pronounce them. This is priceless.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:15 PM
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157. Unreal (UN- reel), simply UN-reel
It that %&^&$%#+ a dunce, or what?
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 06:18 PM
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201. That's a rhetorical question,right?
:)
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PittPoliSci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:17 PM
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159. all questions are offensive to this administration.
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NastyDiaper Donating Member (806 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:28 PM
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161. Thump Thump Thump...
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:29 PM
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162. When he gets one close to right he puffs out his chest and grins like a small child.
"You may recall, we went to a park in BOTSWANA!!!" :pause: :smirk: :grin: :
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hisownpetard Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:55 PM
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194. One of my favorites! Bot-SWANN-ah!! And then he smiles, like a toddler who managed to get his shit
in the bowl for the first time.
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Middle finga Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:36 PM
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164. Damn he can't even pronounce the name of his new french poodle
Sarkozy..LMAO
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tinrobot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:40 PM
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167. What an ignoramus! [eeeg-nore-AY-mus]
But then again, he's a "C" student... who likes to cheat... which makes him a D minus student at best.
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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:44 PM
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169. LOL - Here is a Yahoo link to vote up... When words get in the way, Bush goes phonetic
When words get in the way, Bush goes phonetic
By Matt Spetalnick
5 minutes ago


NEW YORK (Reuters) - How do you keep a leader as verbally gaffe-prone as U.S. President George W. Bush from making even more slips of the tongue?

When Bush addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday, the White House inadvertently showed exactly how -- with a phonetic pronunciation guide on the teleprompter to get him past troublesome names of countries and world leaders.

The White House was left scrambling to explain after a marked-up draft of Bush's speech popped up briefly on the U.N. Web site as he delivered his remarks, giving a rare glimpse of the special guidance he gets for major addresses.

It included phonetic spellings for French President Nicolas Sarkozy (sar-KO-zee), a friend, and Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe (moo-GAH-bee), a target of U.S. human rights criticism.

more...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070925/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_bush_phonetics_1
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 04:45 PM
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170. DUE-FUSS
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:01 PM
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172. Slow Learner Prezz eeee dent
Edited on Tue Sep-25-07 05:28 PM by Botany
what a shame
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PianoBlack Donating Member (104 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:04 PM
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173. This is just another case...
of censorship, something our government is becoming very use to. It is ridiculous! Why the hell did they change it? They had every right to release that speech! EVERY RIGHT! The bushies cry and piss and moan until they get their way.
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:04 PM
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174. ABCnews.com has TEXT of Fo-Net-Tick speech:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3648416&page=1

:rofl:

In the long run, the best way to defeat the extremists is to defeat their dark ideology with a more hopeful vision – the vision of liberty that founded this body. The United States salutes the nations that have recently taken strides toward liberty – including Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan (KEYRgeez-stan) , Mauritania (moor-EH-tain-ee-a), Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Morocco. In the Palestinian Territories, moderate leaders are working to build free institutions that fight terror, enforce the law, and respond to the needs of the people. The international community must support them, so that we can advance toward the vision of two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, living side-by-side in peace and security. Brave citizens In Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Iraq have also made the choice for democracy – and the extremists have responded by targeting them for murder. This is not a show of strength It Is evidence of fear. The extremists are doing everything in their power to bring down these young democracies. The people of Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Iraq have asked for our help. And every civilized nation has a responsibility to stand with them.

<snip>

The government has cracked down on peaceful calls for reform, and forced millions to flee their homeland. The behavior of the Mugabe (moo-GAHbee) regime is an assault on its people – and an affront to the principles of the Universal Declaration. The United Nations must insist on change In Harare (hah-RAR-ray) – and freedom for the people of Zimbabwe.

In Sudan, innocent civilians are also suffering repression – and In the Darfur region, many are losing their lives to genocide. America has responded with tough sanctions against those responsible for the violence.

We have provided more than two billion dollars in humanitarian and peacekeeping aid. I look forward to attending a Security Council meeting that will focus on Darfur, chaired by French President Sarkozy (sar-KOzee).



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dsweet Donating Member (71 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:20 PM
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181. How interesting
Notice how not all tough words are given a phonetic spelling. Words he undoubtedly has little exposure to, such as "humanitarian,"democracy," and "moderate" are not given this treatment. Obviously part of his speechifying involves him trying to read it and someone else noting the challenging words. How would you like to be a fly on the wall during that exercise.

*: ...you crane, george-uh, car...car...car jackistan, ma urine tan ee a, etc.
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olddad56 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:05 PM
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175. I think the days of alchol and cocaine left him a bit on the demented side.
Google alcohol dementia. He has all of the classic symptoms.
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ladywnch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:45 PM
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192. A BIT?!?!??!?!!!!!!!! ROFLMAO eom
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npincus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:09 PM
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176. LOL- check out Arianna's graphic from Huffpo!
:rofl:
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 08:01 PM
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220. This thread is so special, one of the best I've ever seen on DU. I have
to bookmark it because there's so much damn material that can be used in the future.
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llmart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 08:34 PM
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227. You know, sometimes you just need DU to make your day.....
this thread is a keeper!
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MidwestTransplant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:15 PM
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178. Nuclear (NU-CLE-er)
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PuraVidaDreamin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:20 PM
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180. Mannn DEL aaaaaaa
They Killed him! doncha know
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 06:40 PM
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203. He would have a lot of trouble with his middle name:Rolihlahla
BTW:At first I didn't understood your joke.After Goggling I found the video where the imbecile says:

"I heard somebody say, 'Where's Mandela?'," he said.

"Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas."

Wow!Just wow! :crazy:

(I don't have a TV.That's why I just heard about it.)
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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 09:40 PM
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241. And our Bush Media let that one slide

They should have jumped all over the * for that one.
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Nitrogenica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:27 PM
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184. LOLOLOLOLOLOLS!!
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 06:21 PM
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202. ROFL!
That pic is hilarious! If you don't mind I'll take it for some Photoshoping experiments.:rofl:
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Nitrogenica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 07:23 PM
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209. Enjoy (en-JOI)
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moggie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:31 PM
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186. Remember when you thought the president would be the smartest guy in the room?
Now, when you hear Homer Simpson say S-M-R-T, do you die a little inside for America?

Offensive question, Dana? If some guy works for me, and I ask how big his dick is, that's offensive. But if I ask whether he's up to the job, that's my job. What's offensive is that this question isn't being asked more often.
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Ilsa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:35 PM
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188. Did it also tell him when to smile and when he could go to the bathroom? nt
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 09:50 PM
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247. Nah. He's a big boy now!
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kirby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 11:53 PM
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263. Larry, is that you in the next stall? n/t
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 12:15 AM
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266. I almost put a little piece of TP on the floor.
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shadowknows69 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:37 PM
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190. Just when you think he can't embarrass us more
It's the GW Show!!!
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ladywnch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 05:39 PM
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191. did anyone bother to ask.....
------Press secretary Dana Perino downplayed the incident, and said phonetic spellings are used to help interpreters.-----

Why would interpreters need phonetic spellings? Wouldn't they just need to read it and then translate it into whatever language/pronunciation they were interpreting for? LOL
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kath Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 08:17 PM
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223. Egg-zackly. No way in hell do interpreters need phonetic spellings.
such bullshit.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 08:26 PM
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226. Egg zack lee part 2
One of my professors in Spanish years ago worked @ the U.N. the translators
had to perfect in many different dialects of their language and know Geography,
history, and major world leaders ...... the idea that they would stumble over
Carcus (Venezuela) is pure bull shit.
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Manifestor_of_Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 02:54 AM
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276. I was a court reporter for almost twenty years.
And in English, we wrote everything either as an abbreviation or phonetically.

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SharonRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 06:07 PM
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196. I'm speechless
:rofl:
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YDogg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 06:13 PM
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198. Psst! It's "You-in", not "uhn."
Moran.
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jeff30997 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 06:14 PM
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199. Sarkozy (sar-KO-zee)
That one should be his priority.After all Sarkozy is one of Chimpy's biggest fan.
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ms liberty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 06:16 PM
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200. This really is too strange. I'm rendered speechless. K&R n/t
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tocqueville Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 06:57 PM
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206. Speak 'Bush' in one easy lesson


Ironically, one of the hardest names to pronounce, that of Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, was not written out in phonetic form, and Bush only briefly stumbled over it before getting it right.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070925/ts_alt_afp/unusbushlanguageoffbeat_070925220332
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BrklynLib at work Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 08:52 AM
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290. Is it just me, or does he look like he just farted??????
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Sarah Ibarruri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 07:24 PM
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210. Where's the draft? I want to see it. nt
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OnceUponTimeOnTheNet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 07:48 PM
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218. Check out #174, the ABC link seems to have it.
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Sarah Ibarruri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 08:25 PM
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225. What a dumbass Republicans elected as president!! nt
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OnceUponTimeOnTheNet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 08:53 PM
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232. Can you imagine the Big Dog needing such assist?
Me neither. If ever he would have stumbled on a word, he would have done the aw shucks grin, gently bit his lip in that Big Dog charming way, then cruised on thru. Perfection.
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Sarah Ibarruri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 08:08 PM
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300. LOL!! nt
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 07:38 PM
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214. Duh (DUH)
There's one he'll NAIL.
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rainbow4321 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 07:40 PM
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216. Uh-huh..and why would the interpreters need the cell numbers??
Edited on Tue Sep-25-07 07:51 PM by rainbow4321
And can they please start giving him the phonetics for "America" so we no longer have to hear him say "Amurika"??? Ditto for nuclear/"nucular"
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Tab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 07:48 PM
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217. This isn't uncommon
I used to read news on the radio and the AP wire always had phonetic pronunciations, so you can avoid making mistakes that might offend or just make you look uninformed. For instance, Sarkozy you might be inclined to pronounce as sar-KOZ-ee, not sar-KO-zee.

I'm not a Bush apologist, but for a draft document I think it's perfectly fine to have phonetic spellings so the person reading it can prepare.

This stuff about the translators, however, is bullshit. "Mugabe" is "Mugabe" in both what you're translating from to what you're translating to. That was just a stupid claim by Dana.
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OnceUponTimeOnTheNet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 07:52 PM
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219. I wonder how Dana explained her press reply to * .
LOL.
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 08:19 PM
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224. Here's the thing
Someone 'reading the news' is not expected to do anything other than say out loud what is on a piece of paper.

I realize our expectations have declined substantially of late, but one would hope and expect that a president of a large country, making a speech before the world, would have enough knowledge about what he was saying and the people and countries that he is talking about, that their pronunciation would be familiar enough to him (having discussed those things in depth) that he would not need a first grader's weekly reader to make an important speech.

I think there is a big difference here and just further demonstration that Bush is a clueless, sock puppet nitwit who doesn't have any fucking idea what he is doing. He is literally a puppet being given words to say, and he doesn't have any idea what he is doing,....at all
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OnceUponTimeOnTheNet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 08:57 PM
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233. Sock Puppet. That's what this makes me think of also.
He is the Cheney/Addington Sock Puppet. Excellent post, Kudos!
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Tab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 10:27 PM
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255. He is, but again, this is a preperatory document
not the official stand-em-up-and-read-'em. If he doesn't know it by then, something's really wrong.

And I agree, he shouldn't need to know by now how most of those names are pronounced. Maybe he does know, maybe he doesn't. I'm just saying it's standard in a prep document.

I'd be appalled if it made it to the tele-promp-ter, though.
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scarface2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 08:09 PM
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221. GEE ZUS CRY ICED
is he drooling?!?!?!
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 08:13 PM
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222. HAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAH !!!!!!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!

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llmart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 08:36 PM
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229. Countdown 'til Daddy goes to the press.......
to complain about how they're picking on his widdle boy.
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Doctor_J Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 08:38 PM
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230. My guess - * has NEVER read a document with Mugabe's name in it
we all know he reads nothing, and hears next to nothing. He couldn't pick the man out of a photo array, nor tell you what country he's from.
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Justitia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 02:08 AM
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272. Bush couldn't pick out Mugabe if he was in a line-up with 5 women -eom
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Norrin Radd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 09:09 PM
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234. Technically, those "phonetic" guides aren't standardized IPA notation.
What the speechwriters prepared for him is just a made-up, inaccurate system for the uneducated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipa
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dweller Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 09:35 PM
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239. DING! WE HAVE A WINNER !!
(deeng, wee have a wee-ner) for a pResident.

dp
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Acadia Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 09:11 PM
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235. AWWWWWWWWWWWWW poor little shrubery.
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Fly by night Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 09:28 PM
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237. This presumes that the Smirking Chimp can pronounce phonetically spelled syllables.
I know for a fact he can't pronounce "phonetically spelled syllables".

Bush is dumb as dog dung. And just about as folksy.

Have a beer with that man? Uh, no.

Garbage cans have more to say and more worthy substance than that sack o' shite.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 09:36 PM
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240. Wait. Is this the long sought proof that Bush can read.
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Mendocino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 09:41 PM
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242. Junta
He said Junta with a J and rhyming with punt(a). It's pronounced hoonta. This from someone who claims to speak spanish. I guess that one slipped by his handlers.
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 09:50 PM
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246. There was more than one error made
That's "sar-ko-ZEE," and not "sar-KO-zee"

With Bush you have not only the blind leading the blind,
but the deaf speech-coaching the deaf.

(Sacre bleu, ils sont les uns plus cons que les autres!)
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 09:52 PM
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248. Olbermann gave Perino the good person award
and said, rightfully, that any public speaker has pronunciation keys
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 10:01 PM
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251. Oops! Too late.
We've spun the story into the stratosphere.
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tabasco Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 10:47 PM
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258. That's baloney.
I have prepared high ranking Army officers for briefings and NONE of them needed pronunciation guides. They were expected to KNOW something about what they were talking about.

Why do you so vehemently defend Bush?
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frogcycle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 05:41 PM
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299. i hate the bastard with every ekll in my body
but there are better things to criticize him for.

this thread is noise
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MetaTrope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 10:04 PM
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252. Remember, that was NOT the final draft!
The copy Bush actually read from had pictures to help him. For instance, here was "Mugabe":
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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 07:32 AM
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285. Brilliant!
:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
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calteacherguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 10:17 PM
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254. Honestly, I would not have known how to pronounce some of those names. nt
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TexasBushwhacker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 11:56 AM
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295. But if you had to speak before the UN ....
and you were POTUS, you would know them, or at least learn them before you made the speech. It's not English is his second language. Besides, how many ways are there to say "Caracas"?

But I can top this actually. I had a psychology professor in college teaching "Human Sexuality" who pronounced vagina "vah-gin-ah", gin like the liquor.
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TankLV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 10:46 PM
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257. How much longer will the world deny what is plainly before it's eyes every fucking day...
bush* (boosh) is a fucking IDIOT and CRIMINAL...

he's a psychopath of the first order...

he should be arrested IMMEDIATELY and put in PRISON and away from doing any more damage...
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mallard Donating Member (460 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 08:49 AM
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289. Re: an offensive question
Q: Is the president an idiot?
A: That's offensive.

Yes, we are offended too.
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eppur_se_muova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 10:47 PM
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259. Teresa Heinz Kerry was a former UN interpreter ... let's ask her ...
if she ever got helpful pronunciation notes from the US President's staff.
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Cell Whitman Donating Member (872 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 10:47 PM
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260. Aren't we going to war with Kyrgyzstan (KEYR-geez-stan)?
http://www.abc.net.au/cnnnn/news/s971880.htm

The difficulties experienced in Iraq have not put Americans off going to war again, CNNNN's Julian Morrow found when he surveyed people on the streets of Texas.
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Zambero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-25-07 11:22 PM
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261. Who needs Will Farrell parodies with this sort of "Reality"?!!
An "offensive question" means that replying and providing a straightforward answer would be much too embarrasing.
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okoboji Donating Member (510 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 12:01 AM
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265. Dan Quayle......
has got to be shaking his head and saying, "I wasn't electable because I spelled potato wrong?"
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BigBearJohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 01:10 AM
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269. what a phuqing eeejit
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iwillalwayswonderwhy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 01:39 AM
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271. I wish one of his speech writers would slip this in
AhmreZInin tospendMORE tamewit mahfahm ily.
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WolverineDG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 03:33 AM
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277. I heard it live on CNN International
(lucky me)

Those marks weren´t for the interpreters. They were for El Mono (the Monkey) himself.

I hope the next President of the US can speak English.

dg
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Coes Donating Member (113 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 05:41 AM
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278. "Iraq" = "a wreck"
yes, also FOE-net-tea-cal-lee
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MadHound Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 05:51 AM
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279. You know, I hate to do this, but I'm going to defend the guy on this one
Sure, he's dumb as a stump, but at least he's trying to appear articulate, and using a pronunciation guide is a pretty standard deal. Most public speakers, TV talking heads, radio DJs, etc. use them. Sure, this seems really, really funny, but I would imagine that each and every single Democratic candidate has used them in the past and will use them in the future.

There are plenty of things to laugh at Bush about, but this isn't one of them. It's SOP for virtually all public speakers.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 06:06 AM
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280. I'd been trying to tell you DUers that...
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jimshoes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 06:50 AM
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282. If I had the job of
marking up El Stupido's speeches like that, I'd piss myself laughing every day. Is our prezidunce learning?
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TacticalPeek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 06:55 AM
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283. Signed: George Dubyah Boosh

:evilgrin:
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paparush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 09:12 AM
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291. Chay Nee iz really Prez ih Dent nt
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 11:09 AM
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294. ROLF!!! Hooked on BUSH-ONICS
Edited on Wed Sep-26-07 11:10 AM by radfringe
:spray:

You've heard of bushisms? well - this is BUSHONICS...
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JimboDem Donating Member (287 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-26-07 12:22 PM
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296. NAN-sea
im-PEE-ch himmm.
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Kurovski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-27-07 04:22 PM
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304. As if it were any comfort,
we must remember that Cheney is really the man pulling the levers.

He can pronounce words and names.

There...feel better now?















Me neither.
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panzerfaust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-27-07 04:39 PM
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305. Offensive?
Well SHU-it.

As we'all say in the Lone Star.
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Snarkturian Clone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-27-07 06:04 PM
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309. I like it when the white house is upset NT
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