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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
> I don't care how much of the Bill of Rights he's trashed,
> I don't care if he engaged in insider trading at Harken,
> I don't care that he's wholly in the pocket of corporate interests,
> I don't care if he sorted coke,
> or drove while under the influence
> or was arrested for it,
> I don't care that he didn't answer any questions about the above,
> I don't care that he's an imperialist hegemon,
> I don't care that he's pursuing a convenient vendetta
> while simultaneously ignoring an actual diplomatic crisis,
> I don't care that he's using inconclusive data to fabricate a
> link between two philsophically opposed Arab groups
> I don't care that, in so doing, he's sending the tacit message that
> "All Arabs are the same," which is distressingly racist,
> I don't care that Karl Rove operates him like a ventriloquist's dummy,
> I don't care that the press corp treats him very gently despite the
> savage zeal with which the scoured the previous (ie, most recently
> elected) President's personal life to bolster false claims of perjury
> and criminal misconduct,
> I don't care that he ignores the public's opinion in all things
> including the environment
> and including corporate accountability
> and including the economy
> and including the 2000 election.
> I don't even care that he's cementing the international perception of the
> United States as a nation of war-crazy, trigger-happy, diplomatically
> primitive cowboys.
>
> What really bothers me is that he *STILL* says "nukuler."
>
> Dave!
I have to stop watching CNN....
Yeah, that 45 minute 'Infomercial' last night...
Ah, he wasn't the first peresident who wasn't an eloquent spokesperson, and
it's probably a given that he won't be the last...
We've been coddled since Carter--he was a very eloquent speaker; Reagan, an
actor who can say lines like the best of them; George Sr, who could actually
construct a sentence in his head and speak it without fumbling it; and
Bubba, who was very charming...
What can I say, we have Jean--he can't speak well in either of our two
official languages ;)
So there you are.
Dave K
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| (...) But Carter, if memory serves, said "nukuler". Even more amazing considering his job in the navy as a nuclear power plant technician/engineer (I forget the exact title). W. fumbles and bumbles pretty much the same as his Dad, who was not the (...) (22 years ago, 7-Mar-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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