04-13-2004, 18:29
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President Bush's Speech...
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04-13-2004, 18:50
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04-13-2004, 19:22
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I wish that they would give me permission to thump reporters asking ignorant or disrespectful questions.
The POTUS has just had his integrity questioned about six different times by these smarmy bastards.
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04-13-2004, 19:52
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Some of his answers came across as evasive, but they were mainly the ones in response to the ones clearly designed only to get a "gotcha!" soundbite ("name your greatest mistake" and "apologize to the American people"), so fuck 'em (the "reporters", not the American people).
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04-13-2004, 19:59
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I may have a greater grasp of nitpicky details, but he handled the questions with greater aplomb and grace than I would have. After that "the coalition is only piddling" question, I probably would have noted that a hundred and fifty Albanians may be nobodies to him, but that's 150 more Albanians putting their lives on the line for freedom than smarmy White House reporters and Democratic presidential candidates.
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04-13-2004, 20:00
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I didn't see Helen Thomas there.
Have they managed to ban the troglodyte for good ?
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04-13-2004, 20:11
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With respect to the media - 
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04-13-2004, 20:29
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Quote:
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I didn't see Helen Thomas there.
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Pardon my bluntness, but there was a bitch slapping, and the troll was killed.
She was a reporter, and should have remained impartial to report, not chose to editorialize for all the Dems and against all the Repubs. No better a reporter in her later years than Josef Goebbels.
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04-13-2004, 20:32
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Be as blunt as you like !
I like, it especially in this case
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04-13-2004, 20:38
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I read a line in a book once but can't remember the book. I think it applies to all reporters.
"When a dog pees on a fire hydrant, he's not breaking the law, he's just being a dog."
It's the nature of the beast.
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04-21-2004, 11:37
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To cut back in to the original topic,
Do you think it is important for a President to be eloquent both when reading and speaking freely? Much has been made about the difference between Bush's three-word, staccato style in comparison to Blair's fluid, almost off-the-cuff speeches.
Just wondering; not fire-starting,
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04-21-2004, 21:36
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Quote:
Originally posted by Solid
To cut back in to the original topic,
Do you think it is important for a President to be eloquent both when reading and speaking freely? Much has been made about the difference between Bush's three-word, staccato style in comparison to Blair's fluid, almost off-the-cuff speeches.
Just wondering; not fire-starting,
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It has an impact. But it surely is not necessary.
Consider that Winston Churchill was one of the greatest speakers in the last century... and Britain tossed him as soon as the end of WWII was clear.
I would say that Bill Clinton was able to stay in office partly because he was a slick speaker... that Ronald Reagan accomplished a great deal of what he did because of his ability not only to see the goal but to express it in a manner which reached the people... that John F. Kennedy is remembered as a great President primarily because of his speaking skills and Dwight Eisenhower is not primarily because of his lack of speaking skills. It didn't stop him from accomplishing a great deal.
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