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Drui · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 541 Location: 'Jersey :}

So given the exchange between our illustrious president and Tony Blair on Monday, lemme hear your thoughts about the lovely language of the current administration...

Amilam · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 921

I don't think it's that big a deal. It's certainly a bit embarrassing that our President is more than a little lacking in eloquence and class, but we knew that before. Hell, a lot of people voted for him for just that reason (which I find many times more disturbing than an off hand swear word).

Still, none of the opinions he said were remotely surprisingly or misaligned from his public policy.
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WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11129 Location: Unknown Kaddath

Jinx · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 6:17 am Post subject:

I'm not even sure why this is news. It is news; I saw it on every major network yesterday / this morning.

So what? In what he thought was a private exchange with someone he's a close friend with, he used the word "shit".

Big. Fucking. Deal.

Now, if he'd said, "I think we should bomb the shit out of Damascus," that would be news. But not because of the word "shit".
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Marik · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 1233

I support and encourage the use of colorful language by presidents.

cletusowns · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 496 Location: Oak Park

If anything reading the transcript gives you an idea of how the worlds most powerful leaders talk to each other.

That and the UN is useless.
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Sojobo · Joined: 12 Jul 2006 Posts: 2392

My post was just a vehicle for making an astoundingly bad pun. Any views it may have expressed were not those of the author.
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Fhqwhgads · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 1337 Location: sfcaus

MsFrisby · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 1:43 pm Post subject:

Don't you live in Colorado? This state isn't nearly as red as Texas and Arkansas (where I used to live.)

Anyway, it's not the fact that "oooooo.. the president said a BAD WORD!" It's more that he acts so religious and espouses all these hard-line fundamental values and then, when he thinks the mics are off, curses and makes off-color jokes. It offends his main constituency. All those fine christian ladies who allow that the man should be the head of household and those ministers who think sinning = hell and not redemption.
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