Bush botches chance for quotable, historical comment on Saddam (predictably)

[xfer]

"I find it very interesting that when the heat got on,
you dug yourself a hole, and you crawled in it," the
president said."


WHEN THE HEAT GOT ON

 

[avi]

wtf? doesn't he have professionals writing for him or what? or is he too busy appealing to the 'common man'?

 

[xfer]

i bet they write amazing speeches, and he just fucks them up. like i bet that said something like "When the heat was turned up..." or something, and he totally ruined it. like the post-9/11 "we're gunna git THE FOLKS who did this." come on. they didn't write that.

 

[xfer]

basically, bush is condescendingly expressing that he thinks the common man is fucking ignorant and stupid.

 

[xfer]

umm...actually...i can't say i necessarily disagree with him.

 

[avi]

the sad thing is that I bet a ton of people eat that shit up

"he don't talk down to me! he's one of us, pa!"

 

[xfer]

i think it's a huge sign of ignorance when people aren't flattered someone's speaking to them using intelligent language. it means they think you can handle it, not that they're "putting on airs" and trying to insult you!

the lesson here is that you should always talk down to people and talk very slowly and use small words.

 

[avi]

what I don't like is when commies try to communicate using the most dense, complicated language possible so as to not appear as morons. I don't know which is worse.

 

[lizard]

"the workers control the means of production"
translated means:

the workers do the shit jobs.

 

[xfer]

hah well, academic intellectuals (who are usually left-wing commies, it's true) are a really specialized and small subset of people who talk using "big words". whereas people who talk down to "common people" are a pretty significant portion of the population.

 

[azal]

at least he didn't make up a word this time like "strategery"

I think his main problem is that he forgets what he just read on the paper when he lifts his head to make eye contact.

too many things for the brain to proccess at once.

 

[FuSoYa]

In this case he was answering a reporter's question, he didn't say it as part of a speech. Which means, he came up with it on his very own!

 

[azal]

*sigh of disbelief*

 

[Demonspell]

I agree with Xfer...I have infinitely more respect for someone who uses his intelligence in the most casual of conversations and refuses to mince words, even if he/she does come across as pretentious. I hate being in the company of people who can't speak in complete sentences. And people who consider Bush to be "one of us" because he sounds uneducated are morons.

 

[FalseTodd]

As to the "one of us" thing: the guy who works at the coffee shop down the street is a really nice guy. He is also not the first person I'd choose to boss around the military.

 

[xfer]

um i work at a coffee shop and if i were in charge of the military you had better believe i'd do a good job of it. my driveway would be shoveled spic and span, for one.

 

[FalseTodd]

I think they'd hate working for you even more than they hated working for Bill Clinton.

 

[azal]

what alex meant to say was he'd have hispanics shovel his driveway for less than minimum wage.

 

[FalseTodd]

Of course, my mistake.