Yeah, there is absolutely no way of telling what he’ll do or how he’ll govern, but at least someone will be happy.
By the way, I first read "breast-beating ’cowboy’ diplomacy" as "breast-feeding ’cowboy’ diplomacy". |
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Obama is popular in Europe because he has a worldly perspective - not because people support his stands on the issues, per se.
After 8 years of a self-professed ignoramus in the White House, people are happy to see America possibly choosing someone with a brain and can speak with some eloquence.
MP3 interview: Hungarians speak out for Obama (6mins) |
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When Hungarians can vote in our elections I’ll care what they think (that will make them Americans, and then they may have a whole new angle on the US)
Till then, not so much.
Hey though, don’t give up hope! I suggest they do what our geographic neighbors do, sneak themselves in across our border, hide in our cities, take up jobs Americans won’t do, and maybe the Dems will push to allow them to vote too by stomping down voter identification requirements.
Again, till then, pretty indifferent about who they want us to elect. |
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Obama makes more self-professed "inartful" statements than Bush does...
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Obama is popular in Europe because he has a worldly perspective - not because people support his stands on the issues, per se. Isn’t Carter popular in Europe too? |
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Obama makes more self-professed "inartful" statements than Bush does... What is a "self-professed "inartful" statement"?
As far as regular "inartful" statements... Come on, shark... Bush wins hands down.
If there is one thing about GWB that I’ll miss, is that he will no longer provide fodder for late night comedians like this.
Although, he still might provide Great Moments in Ex-Presidential History.
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Hey Pogue - you don’t think any other president said "ah" or screwed up during a speech?
I’m sure plenty did except there weren’t cameras sticking in his their faces to record every nuance.
Try to grasp the idea that with wall to wall video capability 24X7 these days it’s a whole new game and leads one to think GW is the only one who could ever sound like this.
But bet me - you’ll see more and more of it over time, and it won’t just be GW.
But I have to admit...some of that stuff IS quite funny. At least we won’t have to find him a job in Crawford when he comes back to Texas. I think he can get a job doing standup. |
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Hey Pogue - you don’t think any other president said "ah" or screwed up during a speech? You’re right.
But no one, in my opinion, will ever top GWB.Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country. Priceless.
Cheers. |
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Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country. Brilliant, really.
You’d think the Euro’s would find this more appealing.
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At least we won’t have to find him a job in Crawford when he comes back to Texas. I think he can get a job doing standup. There’s a precedent for that. I seem to recall Papa Bush doing a few stints imitating comedians’ imitations of himself.
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"Obama remembers that in 2004 John Kerry turned off many Americans by boasting of his popularity among the French,"
So that is why he is making a big thing of speaking at the Brandenburg Gate. I guess he thinks being popular with the Germans will work better.
"Isn’t Carter popular in Europe too?"
And don’t forget Jerry Lewis.
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What is a "self-professed "inartful" statement"? Read. Learn.Obama’s camp, walking back an earlier statement that the D.C. gun ban was constitutional, said it was "inartful" and didn’t reflect his views. |
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Oh I get it now. Shark means to say that Obama has admitted to making inartful statements. I wasn’t clear what he meant by "self-professed "inartful" statements." That makes sense now.
Thanks for clearing that up, Michael.
Now if you could just get back to me on how Jesse Jackson wanting to castrate Obama for talking down to black people and Nader accusing Obama of not having the “helping the poor, downtrodden black folks beaten by the Man” bona fides, has anything to do with the Left spreading rumors about Obama being a secret Muslim.
That would be kind of you.
Because right now I just don’t see how those two have anything to do with each other but in the most vague, broadest sense that the Left attacks themselves from time to time. And it certainly does nothing to show that Clinton or anyone else were behind those rumors.
That would be great, thanks. |
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Now if you could just get back to me on how Jesse Jackson wanting to castrate Obama for talking down to black people and Nader accusing Obama of not having the “helping the poor, downtrodden black folks beaten by the Man” bona fides, has anything to do with the Left spreading rumors about Obama being a secret Muslim. It doesn’t and I didn’t suggest that it did. "Most of these rumors" that I was referring to were the ones depicted in the New Yorker cartoon, only one of which was that Obama was a secret Muslim (the rumor I had just attributed to right-wing emailers). The examples of Nader and Jackson were just the two latest attacks on Obama, again coming from the left. IIRC, others were also discussed in the Hot Air piece. The point was that the rumors that the New Yorker sought to battle had come mostly from Hillary supporters during the primaries, not from right-wing hacks as has been alleged. If my linkage didn’t make that clear, then I apologize ... but whaddya want, I’m new here.
I greatly suspect that you already knew all of this, but since you’re being so reasonable I can’t help but respond. |
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To be fair, I’d have to agree that when it comes to mangling the English language, George W. Bush is the Yogi Berra of contemporary American presidents.
I’ve come to accept this as a feature, not a bug.
However, just as Yogi Berra didn’t say some of his most famous quotes ("It’s deja vu all over again!") neither did Bush say, "The problem with the French is that they don’t have a word for entrepreneur," and I feel the poorer on both accounts.
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