Bush expected to make comment today on Indian Ocean tsunamis

[Catchawave]

CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) -- Interrupting a holiday vacation at his Texas ranch, President Bush is expected to speak publicly Wednesday for the first time about the Indian Ocean tsunamis that have killed tens of thousands

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/12/29/bush.quake/index.html

[Not_Giving_Up]

1. Oh darn

The little booger has to interrupt his vacation to talk about a crisis that he could care less about.

[asjr]

7. We all await with bated breath the words from the Oracle.

[strobetoad]

11. The correct phrase is "couldn't care less about"

When you say "could care less about", you're actually saying the opposite of what you intend to say.

[Not_Giving_Up]

23. The grammar police are out early!

It's 9AM here, haven't made it through my coffee yet, jeebus!

For the record, in Texas, we say "I could care less about...."

[tabasco]

32. That is a common usage everywhere I've lived.

I could care less what the grammar police say !

[strobetoad]

34. Then you just don't care....

..about language. One of the reasons BushCo is in power is because so many people have stopped thinking critically about what words actually mean.

[Not_Giving_Up]

45. I DO care about language

I'm usually the one playing grammar police. Sorry, it was early, and I wasn't fully functioning yet!

I agree that *co plays on stupidity.

[tabasco]

52. I speak English & German fluently ....

and am learning French. All languages have colloquialisms and you will have a happier life once you learn to get over it.

[donheld]

54. Welcome to DU

:hi: Most grammar police have a hard life. We must pick our battles wisely.

[strobetoad]

36. Then you don't care...

...about language. One of the reasons BushCo is in power today is that so many people have given up critical thinking about what is really being said.

[Art_from_Ark]

38. As one who works with grammar and communication every day

I have to agree that people should be much more concerned with words and their meaning

[rppper]

55. you are comeing dangerously close to disrupting this thread.

i am sure more than one of us will alert the mods if it continues...enough with the grammar lessons...we get the point...on with the meat of the thread.

[Tinoire]

49. On edit- delete. Thought Bush had said that... n/t

[Skittles]

42. sorry but it's not a Texas thing

it's a bad grammar thing, maybe common in Texas .......not trying to be the grammar police but I remember when I first came to Texas I used to see bumperstickers saying IF YOU AIN'T TEXAN YOU AIN'T SHIT - which literally could mean if you ARE Texan you ARE shit, surely not what they meant.

[Bouncy Ball]

69. That's true

I didn't realize that until a few years ago and now I say I "couldn't care less."

[liberalmuse]

2. How noble of him.

Interupting his holiday 3 days after the worst disaster of this new century to 'comment' on it. I'm sure his inspirational, albeit hollow, meaningless words will boost him in the eyes of his adoring public. Fucker.

[rkc3]

4. He'll tell us how they're just brown-skinned heathens and a few

heathen Europeans and not very important on the grand scheme anyway.

Stupid fucker.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

46. "There's less dark people I have to kill!"

"Hey, is this thing on?" :tap: :tap: :tap:

[DebJ]

3. he should team up with Arnie so we can hear how they both know

(now) what a tsunami is and what an earthquake is. That's about as deep as they can get.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

10. it will be fun to see if he can pronounce tsunami

t-suuu-nam-ee, y'all.

[Historic NY]

16. you stole my thought exactly........I want him t say it 3 time fast..n/t

[Bonhomme Richard]

5. "Uh, I'm sorry for the mericans......................

that died when the uh, shenam....., big wave, came into the ummm beach. I'm workin hard, hard, to make sure mericans have safe beaches to visit and uh, vacate, uh, without having to worry about uh,...uh,...lot's of water hitting them"

[Art_from_Ark]

41. Sounds like a typical bu$h comment

You wouldn't happen to be his speechwriter, would you?

[HeeBGBz]

6. We don't get to see his face as he lies

He sounds like he's slurring his words.

[HuskiesHowls]

8. He finally woke up??? n/t

[rainbow4321]

62. Sobered up, more likely...n/t

[HeeBGBz]

9. Oh he perked right up talking about Iraq

Fuck the war and the Iraqi faux election.

60,000 + people have died and need desperate help. I am so embarrassed that this freak is in a position of power. He makes me ill.

[Skittles]

12. FINALLY the f***wad speaks, not on TV, not from the White House

but AUDIO from F***ING CRAWFORD. HEAVEN FORBID HE INTERRUPT HIS G.D. VACATION TO DO SOME REAL WORK. HE MAKES ME SICK AS DOES *EVERYONE* WHO VOTED FOR HIM. :grr:

[TexasLady]

14. Pretzel Injuries

caused him to not wish to be seen on TV. or <insert reasons here>

How can anyone respect a person that spends more on a stupid Inauguration than aid for disaster victims(mostly KIDS!). Or armor for soldiers.
Or about a million other things.

:puke::puke: :puke:

[Skittles]

18. THE BASTARD IS STILL AWOL

HE'S ALWAYS AWOL UNLESS HE IS STARTING WARS OR GIVING MONEY TO HIS RICH GREEDY FRIENDS

[BrightKnight]

40. The press should ask him if he had a nice vacation.

[rainbow4321]

63. W stands for Waldo....

Always has...back when he was stealing the first election <and he was out campaigning like it was going to be a REAL election>, he pissed off the Texas lawmakers by running around the country instead of staying here and addressing TX problems <most of which he caused, BTW>. One lawmaker had made a comment that the W stood for Waldo and they felt like they were playing Where's Waldo/"W" when it came to getting shrub's attention.

He never did show back up here when the tornado went thru downtown Ft Worth..he was too busy "campaigning" outside of Texas and sent the Lt Gov. to survey the area. When the reporters asked the Lt Gov when shrub would be returning to look at the downtown devastation, the Lt Gov smiled and said the reporters would have to ask shrub's office.
Yet a few weeks later when that Catholic Church official died in NYC, shrub took time out and showed up for the funeral..guess he thought of it as a more important photo op than coming back here to TX.

[Lugnut]

25. That was bizarre

The arrogant SOB can't even bother to make a televised statement. :grr:

[Ganja Ninja]

30. Audio only so people can't see the smirk on his face ...

after so many brown skinned people died.

[UpInArms]

13. puking over the new "coalition" buzzword

9:43am 12/29/04 BUSH: INT'L COALITION FORMED TO AID TSUNAMI VICTIMS

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[OhioBlue]

60. my thought exactly

I'm so embarassed by him.

[ilovenicepeople]

67. And Satans little buddy was patting himself on the back

saying that the worlds leaders where phoning,praising the US,thanking them for all the aid. :puke:

[neweurope]

74. That's what I felt like... puking. Kofi Annan broke off his vacation

(!) to organize worldwide help - two days before Bush formed another "coalition" in order to influence political opinion at home. The world does not need a chimp. It's Kofi Annan's job and he's doing it very well, thank you...

[AFSCME girl]

15. Gee, does this mean he's

done clearing brush and taking strolls?! :grr: It's gonna be a long four years! :puke:

[UpInArms]

17. idiot thing "presumes"

9:53am 12/29/04 BUSH: 'PRESUMES' U.S. TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM ADEQUATE

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

[Catchawave]

19. We're sending in the marines?

and an aircraft carrier?

[Edgewater_Joe]

20. Guess Clinton Made Him Do It

And I mean that literally -- apparently Clinton's been all over the BBC commenting and representing the U.S.. Seems to have gotten under Dear Leader's skin.

Or somebody told him there's oil in Sri Lanka ...

[tabasco]

33. Thank goodness someone is showing the world we care.

Thank you President Clinton.

The world showed so much compassion after 9-11.

Bush's late and insincere statement is a gross embarassment to this Nation.

[7th Generation VTer]

21. Why

If people being actively washed away by the tsunami could take pictures with their video cameras, why the devil was this Q&A period not televised with video? Has Bush broken out with sores and boils again?

Did I hear him correctly when he said the US has pledged "$35 BILLION" dollars in relief? Every figure I've read was $35 Million. Not that I'm complaining, but if he said "Billion" when he was supposed to say "Million", someone's going to have some 'splaining to do. It was hard to tell with that fuzzy audio, though.

[noshenanigans]

22. *'s comment

"This certainly was a tragedy. But think how much wurse it coulda been! It's a shame these waves had to hit. Truly an act of our good Christian God. I used ta like tsunamis, too. I had one down at this neat bar down in Cancun- it had Cuervo and some of that there blue stuff, too. You know, it looks like that stuff they put combs in, but it's liquor.

Let me tell ya, that stuff got me tore up. Tore up like Southeast Asia.

Thank you, and God Bless America."

[whyzayker]

26. Word has it....

..that when Andrew Card whispered in Bush's ear about the disaster, * got an alarmed looked on his face and blurted out "Exactly WHO is going to sue Mommy?"

[Gregorian]

24. Shouldn't Bush be looking for Bin Laden? nt

[Catchawave]

27. yeah, that too...

...if only they went after OBL with the same intensity they went after Clinton, we would have had him by now.

[Gregorian]

29. That's great!

Oh my god, you got me laughing. I'll spare you the story. But suffice to say, my life's been on a parallel with the election, and today is perhaps the pinnicle. So I'm edgy and pissed off and scared. And your comment is SO TRUE. Brilliant.

[Catchawave]

37. Thanks, I wish I could take credit.....

Have seen the Clinton-OBL analogy used lots of times, but you're right, DUers are brilliant!

[Catchawave]

28. Audio? Now the Video?

From Crawford ?

How come the MSM covered every one of his campaign speeches *Live* ?

Makes me wonder why, why, WHY? First I thought edit, but he still said "35 billion" dollars?

He is so annoying, it's painful to listen to him :(

[Algorem]

31. gonna practice his love on the Pacificers now huh?

[PurityOfEssence]

35. As tsoon as he tsobers up...

It's been a hard, fun time swillin' and killin' them social programs.

[VegasWolf]

51. a little coke will clear the head. n/t

[Ramsey]

39. My reaction

To this overblown announcement that Bush will finally make announcment is: Whot he hell gives a flying rat's ass what that POS has to say!!

Sorry, that's just the way I feel.

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

43. It's a LITTLE TOO LATE, YOU SORRY SACK OF SHIT...

Awww...did the "Sun King" have to interrupt his vacation because of the pesky concerns of some "brown skinned" people. Don't these undesirables know that Shrub and his predominantly white male Repuke-ilk don't give a shit about their problems? How dare they ask for help!

JB

[Kimber Scott]

44. Interrupting his vacation? Poor thing. Dead people are just such an

inconvenience to him. I hope he's not too put out.

[rainbow4321]

61. If 9/11 had been 8/11 would shrub have stopped his Aug. vacation?

...or should I say now we see why he and his people let it happen in Sept instead of August.

[sakabatou]

47. "They were big."

"That is all."

[VegasWolf]

48. LOL. "It is a welly, welly big wave!" n/t

[GoddessOfGuinness]

50. He'll ask Americans to take a moment to pray for the victims

in Jesus' name.

[despairing optimist]

53. No football games on TV today, I guess

I bet he's hoping that any aftershocks don't interrupt the bowl games this weekend.

[MaineDem]

56. Inn-dough-knee-sha

Did anyone else notice him pronounce that like he had learned it phonetically?

And then he was breathless as if he was so pleased with himself for getting it right!

I really can't stand the sight of him.

[wordout]

57. "it was a catastrophic success"

[rainbow4321]

58. Beyond "our comprehension"....

Big word from chimpass...guess the phonics program has really paid off.

Funny, this quote can also be said about all the soldier and civilian deaths under shrub's regime....


"It's just beyond our comprehension to think about how many lives have been lost," Bush said after emerging from a holiday vacation at his Texas ranch to make his first comments on the four-day-old disaster



BTW, how nauseating is it that there may be 3,000 <by some reports> of Americans missing and the muther-you-know-what kept his butt at his ranch instead of hauling ass back to the WH?? Guess he saw it as too much "hard work".

[Aristus]

59. Bush quote: "Tsunami? Well, 'Sue's' kinda girly, ain't it?

Shouldn't sumthin' so tough be called, maybe, a "Butch-nami"?

[rainbow4321]

64. What chimp left out of his comments...

According to chimp:

"Well, I felt like the person who made that statement was very misguided and ill-informed," Bush said from his Texas ranch. "We're a very generous, kindhearted nation, and, you know, what you're beginning to see is a typical response from America."


He forgot to add "as long as you don't have oil under you land that we want"

[pacifictiger]

65. he looked so out of it

- yes the tragedy is truly beyond his comprehension.
He's also probably a tad bit ticked off too because the relief efforts will no doubt upstage his coronation happenings and terra propaganda.

[gort]

66. Let see, the cost for Bush's Inaugural Balls is at 40 million dollars

He's pledged 30 million in aid to Thailand.

I guess that means George Bush cares more about his "balls" than he does about the tsunami victims.

[Tight_rope]

68. I'm so sick of that useless ass....I wish he would just stop breathing!

[Bouncy Ball]

70. Um, I have a question

how exactly is it INTERRUPTING his vacation if all he had to do was give a little recorded statement? He didn't even have to leave his little pig farm. What, it interrupted his afternoon nappy-wappy for fifteen minutes?

My God, the hubris of him, his embarrassing misadministration and the nasty media just slays me every time. Nothing interrupted his vacation. Oh and by the way, THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DIED. But all the media can make a big deal about is that King George had to interrupt his afternoon drinks to make a fucking statement. Big fucking deal. Why is nothing ever expected of him? Why does he get away with this shit?

[Old Mouse]

71. translation:

Bush's statements about organizing a coalition are designed so that he can later claim emotional credit when speaking to his loyal base for all international aid.

Aid already rendered by countries such as japan will be mentioned as part of Bush's total coalition aid packages, as though Bush was responsible for the money coming out of Japan.

Simultaneously, the "stingy" remark will continue to be taken out of context to create the illusion of the UN attacking the Bush administration.

[Magleetis]

72. Who cares n/t

[Old Mouse]

73. His speech was based on one from the movie 'Deep Impact'

"Life will go on...We will prevail"
Morgan Freeman portraying the President of the United States speaking as a meteor caused tsunami threatens life on earth.

"We will prevail over this destruction,"
George Bush's speech on the Asian tsunami tragedy.

[Algorem]

75. sounds like something they'd do

they probably googled "compassionate,leadership,speeches" or something