Why does this statement by Bush about the Pope bug me?

''We look forward to the majesty of celebrating such a significant human life."

He said it today at a press conference. I don't know why it bugs me. I can't quite put my finger on it. I don't even know if it should bug me.

Its not right..... I don't know why either.

an anti-monarchist, that's all. :)

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Sort of like "time to pull out the real expensive brew!"

lying fascist ?

That'd be my choice. We all know he could care less about the Pope or any religious leader unless they were pumping him up.

"majestic" about the death of what he dubs a "significant" person.

Many of us are glad he's gone to his rest and is no longer in pain, but it's still death, and death is painful for many people, especially the death of someone as notable as JPII, a spiritual leader for many.

of the celebration.




It's still a meaningless phrase. Chimpy might as well have said "bigness of the big event" instead of "majesty of the celebration".

What I meant to say is that even though you can celebrate a life, "majesty" implies a positive experience, and since this celebration of life comes following a death, I'm not too sure anyone looks forward to it, as he says.

I'm picking at straws, I know, but I know the disdain he has for Catholicism and it makes me all angry again, this farce that he's acting out.

the Pope's passing.

He's too mindless to realize what he's saying.

"bigness of the event".

The word majesty bugged me...odd phrasing if you ask me.

I'm not Catholic so I don't know what all they call him but do they call him majesty? I know people call him Holy Father out of respect on his position in the Catholic church but I've never, personally, heard anybody call him majesty. He's not a king or anything. :shrug:

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0001618.html


"His Holiness"

He is called the Holy Father, His Holiness, the Pope, but not Majesty.

There's an almost global perception of him as an idiot pseudo-cowboy for whom even basic declarative sentences are insurmountably difficult. The words ring hollow, like the stilted politeness small children have been instructed to exhibit for their parents' elitist guests.

Also there's an underlying hypocrisy to consider in an American president, flush with oil money for generations, "honoring" a Pope for his "majesty" and "significance" when the Pope is supposed to be Christ's vicar on earth, a representative of a young Galilean, whose ministry's most visible aspect was poverty -- not "majesty" -- and helping the poor, the disenfranchised, the alienated, the alone, and the desperate.

Bush just can't stand next to that model and look real.

The sentence (I believe) is grammatically incorrect.
It really doesn't make any sense when you take it apart--just some words thrown together.
However, using the words majesty and celebrating on the way to funeral does seem a tad inappropriate as well.

I'll bet they wish they could correct what comes out of his mouth, before it reaches people's ears. The Time-Delayed President?

Trot out some nimrod to 'splain what he REALLY meant.

1. Is it possible that the word "majesty" in this phrase is out of place and out of context?

2. Bush may have been taken in by the radical difference between the world he saw at the vatican and his world of picking brush and zero intellectualism at his texas ranch.

3. Is it that in trying to use POETIC LANGUAGE, THE LANGUAGE PREFERRED BY THE POPE AS RELATED TO PAULA ZAHN BY ONE OF THE MONSIGNORS WHO KNEW THE POPE, Bush was trying to upstage the dead POPE and made a poor showing of it?

4. Is it that in referring to his looking forward to the MAJESTIC CELEBRATION OF SUCH A SIGNIFICANT HUMAN LIFE bush is actually making himself BIGGER THAN the POPE and making the POPE and life diminutive and unimportant ... BECAUSE there is no sense of humility in Bush's statement ... but rather it feels as if A SUPREME BEING (BUSH) is elevating one (THE POPE) who is LESS than he (Bush) is.

I suppose the possibilities are many ... but these are some of the things that come up for me reading your post... through his statement bush is not only upstaging the Pope but he has blown himself to be bigger in stature and significance than the Pope and is being benevolent towards the pope in recognizing the SIGNIFICANCE of the Pope's life.

x(

... Chimperor Codpiece can't avoid sounding condescending. Whether presenting a Medal of Honor (in which he has almost no part in awarding) or mouthing some fain praise, Caesar Disgustsus is always elevating himself and condescending twards the honoree.

Like it was a character flaw or something.

I'd not quibble with "the life of a great human being." But I quibble with both "human life" and "significant." As a Mathematics (undergrad) major, I know that "significant" means something far, far less than "great" or "large" ... and covers the smallest visible degree of accuracy. In fact, I personally use the words "significant" and "remarkable" when I want to condemn with faint praise. (After all, if I make a remark about something then it's 'remarkable' by definition.)

when in fact you would expect to say it is an honor to celebrate the life of that significant primate. He does so little right that this is really no surprise, but still, nice catch.

anything he says about "celebrating a human life" bugs me.

Taken in context with previous "look forwards', it means he's saying something because he has to, not because he wants to. Example: "we look forward to working with the 9/11 commission" which he was against. "We look forward to working with the Democrats in a bi-partisan way" which he does not.

spoke the words

but you know it's a lie.

His celebration is "majestic" while the Pope's life was merely "significant". He's holding his life as something higher, more valuable than the Pope's life.

It doesn't bug me much since it's consistent with his extremely self-centered personality.

"We look forward to the majesty..."???

Translation: "This is really impressive, because it's taking place in an old and beautiful bulding with lots of pageantry and ritual and many famous and powerful people will be there, so I get to look impressive by association." That's what I get out of it, anyway.

Saying "we look forward to the majesty of the occasion" sounds like a really crass thing to say in relation to anyone's death, if you ask me...all that money and all those fine schools, and Junior is STILL utterly lacking in any modicum of class and breeding.

Because that's what the RW is about, FORCING women to give birth.

That this man is a complete moron.

A Skull and Bones anti-funeral or something.

That implies that some human life is insignificant.

he is pushing his 'pro-life' hypocrisy line. x(