Bush's Gaffes - Forgivable?

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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-uslett313395700jul31,0,1360273.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-headlines

Amid all the fuss over the now-repudiated claim in the State of the Union speech about Iraqi uranium dealings in Africa, a more recent and arguably more inaccurate presidential utterance has gone virtually unnoticed.

And the lack of attention paid to President George W. Bush's statement about Saddam Hussein and United Nations weapons inspectors may say a great deal about both the presidency and its current occupant, according to some veteran White House watchers.

On July 14, during a joint Oval Office news conference with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Bush was asked why he made the uranium assertion even though U.S. intelligence agencies had questioned its accuracy.

Bush replied that the CIA had cleared the speech, then added: "The larger point is, and the fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in."

The last sentence in that sequence simply can't be squared with the record of what happened in Iraq. In fact, the inspectors re-entered Hussein's domain in November after a four-year absence, quickly expanded their operations and worked until the eve of the U.S. invasion in March.

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[Kookaburra]

1. "...a president disconnected from reality..."

Well, no sh*t.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

2. NO

NEVERNEVERNEVERNEVER

[Dhalgren]

3. This is BS!

Sure, if this was a president who was dedicated to domestic projects, who worked for the betterment of the nation and the people, who was in line for humanitarian awards, and was every body's favorite uncle then o.k. forgive the "slips" and move on. But this cretin is a war criminal, a profiteer, a usurper and a venile, evil panderer. To let his "gaffs" go uncommunted on is criminal in itself.

[Tracer]

4. Sure wish DU had spell check.

It's VENAL, not venile!

I hate to be the spelling police, but the zillions of errors I see on DU do not reflect well on posters.

StupidBoy can't get a word out of his mouth without a mistake and, with good reason, gets slammed.

I'm slamming all the posters here who can't be bothered to look up a word in the dictionary!

[MyClaud]

6. Spell check would be nice a nice feature,

but when one is ranting and raving it's difficult to think about spelling. The repulsive state of the union has a tendency to make us all a little crazy, make our blood pressure soar, and at that point spelling goes out the window. :think:

[saigon68]

7. USE SMALLER WORDS

I love to use the common Anglo Saxon 4 letter words.

No mincing of meaning either.

[Redleg]

8. C'mon now. We ain't all lingists or whatever you call it.

Sarcasm is a wonderful thing!

[BiggJawn]

13. So we can all go to Hell in a handbasket....

As long as "handbasket" is spelled correctly.

There was a fellow on a local FIDO board long, long ago in a galaxy far away who rode me mercilessly over my not putting enough "L"s in "Really" and "Finally". I met him one day.

He was SO anal-retentive, he made Felix Ungar look like a slob.

Read into that anything you bloody well like.

[saskatoon]

18. You are down to erth

and make a hel of a lot of sense! Loved yore post

[Chico Man]

15. IE Spell

If you use Ie, this is a must have. It is free.

http://www.iespell.com/

ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage. It should come in particularly handy for users who do a lot of web-based text entry (e.g. web mails, forums, blogs, diaries). Even if your web application already includes spell checking functionality, you might still want to install this utility because it is definitely much faster than a server-side solution. Plus you get to store and use your personal word list across all your applications, instead of maintaining separate ones on each application.

[bif]

5. Cut him some slack.

He's totally fuckin' clueless about what's going on around him. His memory has been dulled by drug and alcohol abuse, and his short-term memory is totally fried. So how can we expect him to remember what has recently transpired without a script? Remember, he barely made it through college.

[LEFTofLEFT]

9. Gaffes my ass

That SOB is a lying war monger.

[Fovea]

10. No

He is already egregiously beyond Clintons stained dress.
His lies have imperiled the United States, and its citizens.
If he is not impeachable for that, then I fail to understand what impeachement is actually for.

[grytpype]

11. Bush really is as stupid as we think he is. n/t

[maggrwaggr]

12. that one's not a gaffe. That one is proof

that they're keeping him locked in a cave.

Look, Bush is just an employee of this organization. He does what they tell him to do, reads what they write for him to read.

He's a bad student, so he forgets what he's supposed to say sometimes.

They must get very angry with him at times. Maybe that explains the bruises on his face, etc.

[Flubadubya]

14. Why do you think they picked a dummy for the front man?

As the populace "acclimates" (as the article says) to the malaprops and comes to expect Bush to "booger things up", this provides the perfect "out" for the deviousness of the real masterminds, Rove, Cheney, et.al.

They can have Bush saying any outrageous thing he is wont to say, knowing that he can get away with it because the 'Murikan people will have already established such low expectations for him.

This is how they are getting by with their move toward facism without alarming the public to what is really happening. It is downright sinister, but that is exactly what this mis-administration is all about.

[saskatoon]

19. Masterminds

http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/073103A.shtml
The best analysis I've seen yet about what is really happening. This is on "Truthout Org" It will make you very afraid for this country, and in fact for the whole world. I urge you to read it.

[Flubadubya]

21. Thanks for the link saskatoon...

I've got it, will read.

[peterh]

16. Gaffes??…I see no stinkin’ gaffes…

I see outright lies spun in a fashion that only a dittohead could/would believe.
No gaffes here: The Bush administration's Top 40 Lies about war and terrorism

<http://www.citypages.com/databank/24/1182/article11417.asp>


<http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20030718.html>
Why A Special Prosecutor's Investigation Is Needed To Sort Out the Niger Uranium And Related WMDs Mess
By JOHN W. DEAN


If you want gaffes…go here:

<http://www.lifeisajoke.com/politics21_html.htm>

[GoddessOfGuinness]

17. Were Hitler's gaffes forgivable? n/t

[robbedvoter]

20. Oh, goody! American Entreprise fascists say it's OK

I am so glad this was an unbiased view of the emperor!

[Cronus Protagonist]

22. Just to rub his nose in it (pic)

It seems that's the only way to teach dogs toilet training:

http://bushspeaks.com/home.asp?did=133




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[Lisa]

23. as usual they have it both ways!

Bush's followers have upheld the fact that he went to prestigious schools like Andover, Yale, and Harvard -- they've gone on and on about how particular he is regarding his staff, demanding they be on time and accountable -- and how professional and businesslike he is!

But as soon as trouble surfaces, they throw up all sorts of excuses. Oh, someone else got the facts wrong. Someone else disappointed Our President (shame on them, slap-slap!). And how dare those heartless liberals make fun of someone who's not very swift and has a learning disability.

I'm getting tired of Republican leaders (Reagan and both the Bushes) who pick and choose like this. If they run for the presidency, they had better expect to be held to a pretty high standard of competence and responsibility. If they slam everyone else for being unethical or confused, why should they expect to be forgiven?

[Poiuyt]

24. What do you suppose Kofi Annan was thinking

when Bush said that?