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Title: Reviews Say Speech Sucked: Badeye Cops to it and then Spins Like a Top.
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URL Source: http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=100278
Published: Jun 29, 2005
Author: badeye
Post Date: 2005-06-29 11:03:29 by crack monkey
Keywords: Reviews, Sucked:, Speech
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Comments: 29
I've been reading the reviews this morning and there seems to be a universal agreement that Bush's speech last night sucked mongo donkey weenie. Badeye, in his own special way, seems to agree, i.e., he says that snap polls arn't to be trusted, but that some magical event will make things better next week. Or better still, maybe people will forget about the speech by next Tuesday. I'm glad to see we're all on the same page here. Soon we'll all be holding hands and singing. Here's the link: A Nose Up Bush's Ass And here's a repeat of the quote: 3. To: Ghost of Quantrill (#2) excellent speech I thought the President got the point across to the American people last night. Figure we will know the impact long about next Tuesday or so, giving time for word to spread, and a bit of thoughtful consideration. Snap polls won't get it. Badeye posted on 2005-06-29 09:12:16 ET Reply Trace
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#1. To: crack monkey (#0)
I FORCED myself to watch and hear that dreck last evening: Mrs.L had to leave the room as I alternated between laughter and screams at the lying chimperor. From the expressions on the faces of our military there, it seemed like if they had their sidearms with them, we might had another pres today...they were NOT buying the bravo sierra either.
I love it when this guy comments on issues using the term 'we' as the subject. A real neocon team player. He also uses it in a way that seems to indicate that he sees himself as an important analyst of sorts.
ROFL! What a dork..
"I've coined new words, like, "misunderstanding" and "Hispanically"." - GW Bush
OH dont you love this one?? ROFLMAO! 4. To: Ghost of Quantrill (#2) Thanks for the ping. Yeah, the speech was pretty much a slam dunk. I was listening to the local Air America station and even THEY thought so. Defender
"I've coined new words, like, "misunderstanding" and "Hispanically"." - GW Bush
ROTFLOL!
"But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of." Lord Byron
And here is another comment I noticed. 14. To: Defender (#4) Thanks for the ping. Yeah, the speech was pretty much a slam dunk. I was listening to the local Air America station and even THEY thought so. It would seem you missed my comment to you on another thread. You're no patriot, you're a bloody goose-stepper! dog-eat-dog posted on 2005-06-29 11:17:51 ET Reply Trace
"But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of." Lord Byron
On a thread yesterday, Defender capitalized "His" (meaning "Bush's"). I asked him if Bush is his God, but he claims it was just a typo.
Euw.. That IS truthfully the message they want to give that Bush is like the Blues Brothers.. on a mission from God. Now isnt THIS sickening? "I've coined new words, like, "misunderstanding" and "Hispanically"." - GW Bush
I was listening to the local Air America station and even THEY thought so. Defender Defender is so bad that I actually suspect he might be a troll from DU. Sort of like beau zeau in reverse.
I agree with Badeye. I thought he did wonderfully.. (Well, for Dubya anyway.. These things ARE relative) IMO, he got his "message" across in spades. The problem I saw was the message itself. It's essentially the same message (although revised slightly, to take the emphasis off WMD's) that he's been spouting since the beginning. Iraq is a threat, fight them there or in our streets, spreading freedom/nation building, the Iraqui's are showing progress, stay the course, be afraid, Remember 9/11! It's the same thing.. As one very astute 4UM poster commented to me last night.. these are all "Scrabble" speeches. You just take the same words & phrases, mix them up, and package them as a different speech entirely. That being the case, I don't see how it will make much of a difference in his approval or approval for the war. If it's all the same material, the same "message" and the same speech. How CAN it help?
Bush's claims about fighting them there so we don't have to fight them here will be problematic if he ever has to reduce the forces in Iraq or perhaps pull them out. How will he explain to Americans that he is taking actions that will likely result in the terrorists being 'freed up', and thus able to fight us over here? Only a plane ticket will stand between us at that point.
He will count on the short memory of the American people the power of his propaganda machine to confuse the issue. No problem at all.
I don't know. But if I had to guess, however.. I'd say he'll use the word "Freedom" a few hundred times and then claim that the newly liberated people of Iraq are now ready, willing and capable of managing the terrorist threat. This makes us the winners! Victory! hoo-rah! In fact the terrorists are so scared they're leaving Iraq and moving into Iran, thus forcing us to act there.. Seeing as how that's where the threat now lies and all manner of everything like that. ?
My thoughts exactly. Simple repetition of what is already not working and what his talking heads have been saying incessantly. Nothing motivational about it and no new details to help gain buy-in from people who are on the fence. How could a person who has been hearing that same exact blather for months change their mind after hearing it one more time? They won't. If anything, it will invigorate those opposed to the war now that he's confirmed that there is no additional justification or information to validate it.
One cannot say Iraq is a threat and then at the same time say we must train Iraqis militarily (which wouldn't even be necessary had the "coalition" not disbanded the Iraqi army two years ago). If Iraqis in particular and Arabs in general are some sort of permanent threat, you would want to disarm them of even the most innocuous weapons. There is an incredible amount of cognitive dissonance in his entire message, but fortunately for him his "base" is totally lacking in critical thinking skills. All of their actions in life are prompted by their reptilian brains. What he is really desperately hoping for is the creation of a viable puppet army beholden and loyal to its Zionist masters. And I just don't see that happening in our lifetimes.
No, no.. The claim is that the horrible terrorists are the threat. Not common Iraqui's
It reminds me a lot of Clinton after Waco labeling all "patriots" and "right-wing talk show hosts" as enemies of the state. Bush may not mean to label ordinary Iraqis as "terrorists" but enough of them have been "collaterally damaged" by now that that is no doubt how ordinary Iraqis see it. You hardly ever see the U.S. soldiers mingle with the "ordinary Iraqis" anymore, because both sides know either could go off at any time and that's because of all the innocent blood that has been shed. Of course, no soldier of an invasion or occupation force is technically "innocent" but I think they do instinctively know deep down inside that they shouldn't still have to be occupying that $hithole more than two years after it started. So that's where a lot of the trigger-happiness comes from. They'd rather waste 100 Iraqi women and children than have even one of their buddies bite the big one, particularly since the entire war was sold on false premises and Big Lie rhetoric.
I meant "after Oklahoma City" rather than after "Waco" in the above post. Clinton basically called Limbaugh a terrorist after OKC.
*Our task is to make the Iraqi units fully capable and independent.* *They are doing that by building the institutions of a free society -- a society based on freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, freedom of religion and equal justice under law.* *And we fight today because terrorists want to attack our country and kill our citizens, and Iraq is where they are making their stand.* I watched it too and was struck by the fact that it was all lies. He even included the dead Osama in his speech as a threat. I figured the speech was geared towards 4 year olds. I believed in monsters and bogeymen and such when I was 4.
you're absolutely right. how many times have you seen or read or heard "kill all the ragheads,", "all the GD iraqis are our enemy," and "nuke the whole damn country then let god sort them out?"
"I have sworn on the altar of Almighty God, eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of man". - Thomas Jefferson
There was actually one subtle policy shift in the words of Bush. He now distinguishes between the kinds of anti-Iraqi forces. There are: 1) Foreign fighter terrorists. 2) Baathist dead enders. 3) Criminals and thugs. 4) and the new group "insurgents" who we apparently can negotiate with.
Here's something I found on a site formerly dominated by bots. "Thank yo' an' fine evenin'. ah's pleased t'viset Fo't Bragg, home of th' Airborne an' Special Operashuns Fo'ces. It is an hono' t'speak befo'e yo' tonight. Mah greatess responsibility as president is t'proteck th' South Car'linan varmints, an' thet is yer callin' as fine. ah thank yo' fo' yer service, yer courage an' yer sacrifice. ah thank yer families, who suppo't yo' in yer vital wawk. Th' soldiers an' families of Fo't Bragg haf contributed mightily t'our effo'ts t'secure our country an' promote peace. South Car'lina is grateful an' so is yer comman'er in chief. Th' troops hyar an' acrost th' wo'ld is fightin' a global war on terro'. This hyar war retched our sho'es on Seppember 11, 2001. Th' terro'ists who attacked us an' th' terro'ists we face murder in th' name of a totalitarian ideology thet hates freedom, rejecks tolerance an' despises all dissent. Their aim is t'remake th' Middle East in their own grim image of tyranny an' oppresshun by topplin' govments, drivin' us outta th' region an' expo'tin' terro'. To achieve these aims, they haf continued t'kill in Madrid, Istanbul, Jakarta, Casablanca, Riyadh, Bali an' elsewhar. Th' terro'ists believe thet free societies is essentially co'rupp an' decadent, an' wif a few hard blows they kin fo'ce us t'retreat. They is mistaken, as enny fool kin plainly see. Af'er Seppember 11, ah made a commitment t'th' South Car'linan varmints: This hyar nashun will not wait t'be attacked agin. We will take th' fight t'th' enemah. We will defend our freedom, dawgone it. Iraq is th' latess battlefield in this hyar war. Menny terro'ists who kill innercent men, wimmen an' chillun on th' streets of BaghPaw is follerers of th' same murderous ideology thet took th' lives of our citizens in Noo Yawk, Warshin'ton an' Pennsylvania. Thar is only one course of ackshun aginst them: t'defeat them abroad befo'e they attack us at home. Th' comman'er in charge of coalishun operashuns in Iraq, who is also senio' comman'er at this hyar base, Juneral John-Boy Vines, put it fine t'other day. He said, "We eifer deal wif terro'ism an' this hyar extremism abroad, o' we deal wif it when it comes t'us." Our misshun in Iraq is clear. We is huntin' down th' terro'ists. We is he'pin' Iraqis build a free nashun thet is an ally in th' war on terro'. We is advancin' freedom in th' broader Middle East. We is removin' a source of violence an' instability an' layin' th' foun'ashun of peace fo' our chillun an' our gran'chillun. Th' wawk in Iraq is difficult an' dangerous. Like most South Car'linans, ah see th' images of violence an' bloodshed, cuss it all t' tarnation. Ev'ry pitcher is ho'rifyin' an' th' sufferin' is real, ah reckon. Amid all this hyar violence, ah knows South Car'linans ax th' quesshun: Is th' sacrifice wo'th it? It is wo'th it, an' it is vital t'th' future security of our country. An' tonight ah will explain th' reasons whuffo'. Some of th' violence yo' see in Iraq is bein' carried out by ruthless killers who is convahgin' on Iraq t'fight th' advance of peace an' freedom, dawgone it. Our military repo'ts thet we haf killed o' cappured hundreds of fo'eign fighters in Iraq who haf come fum Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran, Egypp, Sudan, Yemen, Libya an' other nashuns. They is makin' common cuz wif criminal elements, Iraqi insurjunts an' remnants of Saddam Hussein's regime who be hankerin' t'resto'e th' old o'der. They fight on account o' they knows thet th' survival of their hateful ideology is at stake. They knows thet as freedom takes root in Iraq, it will inspire millions acrost th' Middle East t'claim their liberty as fine. An' when th' Middle East grows in democracy, prosperity an' hope, th' terro'ists will lose their sponso's, lose their recruits an' lose their hopes fo' turnin' thet region into a base fo' attacks on South Car'lina an' our allies aroun' th' wo'ld, cuss it all t' tarnation.
Good analogy!
"I've coined new words, like, "misunderstanding" and "Hispanically"." - GW Bush
some really interesting replies to that post..
"I've coined new words, like, "misunderstanding" and "Hispanically"." - GW Bush
Hilarious! Two L.A. radio hosts (John & Ken) after the speech were arguing about why the terrorists were only attacking in Iraq. That is, why don't they attack us at home "again"? "Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Now you should know better.. you're using logic.. :P
"I've coined new words, like, "misunderstanding" and "Hispanically"." - GW Bush
which one is the bot? i'm really surprised either of them are. i used to listen to john and ken when i lived in san diego. i enjoyed them immensely-- particularly their commentary during the o. j. sham trial.
"I have sworn on the altar of Almighty God, eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of man". - Thomas Jefferson
I should know one from the other but I hardly ever listen to them anymore. Frankly, they were both fairly Bottish, but one more so; he said all arabs are crazies. Then he gave this pitiful explanation about why they haven't snuck over the border to terrorize us, preferring to fight our troops in Iraq.
"Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
#2. To: crack monkey (#0)
Figure we will know the impact long about next Tuesday or so, giving time for word to spread, and a bit of thoughtful consideration.
#3. To: crack monkey (#0)
#4. To: crack monkey (#0)
#5. To: lodwick (#1)
they were NOT buying the bravo sierra either
#6. To: crack monkey (#0)
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#7. To: Zipporah (#4)
#8. To: aristeides (#7)
On a thread yesterday, Defender capitalized "His" (meaning "Bush's"). I asked him if Bush is his God, but he claims it was just a typo.
#9. To: Zipporah (#4)
Yeah, the speech was pretty much a slam dunk.
#10. To: Zipporah, everyone here (#8)
This short video is worth repeating...
#11. To: crack monkey (#0)
I thought the President got the point across to the American people last night.
#12. To: Jhoffa_ (#11)
#13. To: Bayonne (#12)
How will he explain to Americans that he is taking actions that will likely result in the terrorists being 'freed up', and thus able to fight us over here?
#14. To: Bayonne (#12)
#15. To: Jhoffa_ (#11)
If it's all the same material, the same "message" and the same speech. How CAN it help?
#16. To: Jhoffa_ (#11)
#17. To: Sam Houston (#16)
One cannot say Iraq is a threat and then at the same time say we must train Iraqis militarily..
#18. To: Jhoffa_ (#17)
#19. To: Jhoffa_ (#17)
#20. To: lodwick (#1)
*We are improving roads and schools and health clinics. We're working to improve basic services like sanitation, electricity and water.*
#21. To: Sam Houston, JHoffa_ (#18)
Bush may not mean to label ordinary Iraqis as "terrorists" but enough of them have been "collaterally damaged" by now that that is no doubt how ordinary Iraqis see it.
#22. To: christine (#21)
#23. To: crack monkey (#0)
Man, those Bushbots are something...
#24. To: Diana (#20)
I figured the speech was geared towards 4 year olds. I believed in monsters and bogeymen and such when I was 4.
#25. To: Mekons4 (#23)
#26. To: Mekons4 (#23)
Smirk's illogic about killing 'em thar, rather than here, omits any explanation as to why they are not attacking us here now. Open borders here and everything, yet, all the terrorists are in Iraq. Amazing.
So the radio host who is the Bushbot says, "Well, that's because they aren't those kind of terrorists, they just want to fight as insurgents".
Which reminds me, the Pentagon released stats months ago, that at least 95% of the insurgents are Iraqis, yet Smirk continues the lie that there are all these foreigners fighting in Iraq. Pouring over the border from Syria. Well then why aren't they pouring over our Mexican border?
#27. To: robin (#26)
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#29. To: christine (#28)
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