Post #26,572
1/30/02 3:38:39 PM
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About 3/4 of the way through...
...he started to lose focus on the prompter...and IIRC that was the most evident screw-up...(not counting the butchering of the stewardess's name)
I wanted to choke when I heard the rebuttal.
We want to create a UNIVERSAL PENSION PLAN..
ok..no more Universal Health Care for the moment...breath easy...
BUT THEY ALREADY HAVE A UNIVERSAL PENSION PLAN. Its called Social Security...so the Dems have now admitted...Social Security is way to fucked up...SO LETS DO IT AGAIN!!!
Breathtaking.
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson
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Post #26,648
1/31/02 11:38:45 AM
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"he lost focus". Right. I was too harsh.
I should have taken his nanosecond attention span into account.
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Post #26,718
1/31/02 4:01:11 PM
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Missed point...
...because not only did he screw up your statement...he made several other reading mistakes and kept talking through punctuation.
He lost his focus.
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson
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Post #26,737
1/31/02 5:28:52 PM
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Umm... Was that supposed to be in his *defense*...?
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Post #26,760
1/31/02 7:20:45 PM
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Re: Umm... that would be a no
I am actually saying he screwed up more than just an little bit :-p
You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! Laurie Anderson
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Post #26,879
2/1/02 1:27:02 PM
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I see, I couldn't watch much of it.
I just cannot accept some one "leading the free world" who routinely and unashamedly destroys his own language.
I was right about one thing though. Having him in that office has given me a lot of empathy for my Russian friends who were always ashamed to hear Breshnev speak.
You can be from the southern US and not sound like a hick. Unfortunately, Dubya hasn't learnt dat yit. I'm afraid to listen to him too much. With all this talk about weapons of mass destruction, I'm afraid he'll try to pronounce "nuclear" again. How is it? "nOOkuler"? GACK!!!
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Post #26,882
2/1/02 1:34:08 PM
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Even J. Carter, with a Masters in NE, couldn't pronounce it.
He called it "noookier", IIRC.
:-)
Cheers, Scott.
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Post #26,898
2/1/02 3:31:36 PM
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Interesting
You can be from the southern US and not sound like a hick.
In other words, "if your regional dialect doesn't sound like mine, you must be stupid". The President doesn't sound like a "hick" to me, I know people with a much heavier southern speach patterns than his.
Darrell Spice, Jr.
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Post #26,901
2/1/02 3:42:20 PM
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actually, I shouldn't be surprised at the attitude
I was born in Alabama and lived in the south until 2nd grade. We moved up north where I was thrown into speech class because of my southern accent. It didn't matter that I did well in school, I just sounded "like a hick" to the yankees.
Darrell Spice, Jr.
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Post #26,925
2/1/02 7:09:03 PM
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Who you callin' Yankee, boy?
I'm from Hickory, North Carolina. My great-great Grandfather was with General Lee when he surrendered (no bullshit, I didn't know that until last summer, but it's a fact - Solomon Keller was there.)
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Post #27,009
2/2/02 5:16:20 PM
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And where did I say you were a Yankee?
I said that yankees, not you, tossed me into speech class because of my southern drawl.
My comment was more on how regional dialects create "impressions and expectations" about people from other regions. I've noticed a lot of negative flack about Texans by people who've never even been here, while people who've visited seem to be pleasantly surprised to discover that Texas is not like they expected.
I'm pretty sure that the Texas dialect is different than the North Carolina dialect, especially since you think The President sounds like a hick. To me, he sounds like a Texan.
Darrell Spice, Jr.
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Post #27,405
2/5/02 1:22:33 PM
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Thought you were including me in the group ;0)
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