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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 06:05 PM
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The message is clear to Mr. Kim Jong Il: Get rid of your NUCULAR weapons
I've hear this clip several times today of Bush thumping his chest with more tired "Bring It On" cowboy bravado BS while on his "The World Hates Us" tour of Chile...

How SERIOUSLY can you take him, with the dramatic pauses and the slow, measured, read-my-lips intonation of "NUCULAR?"

He's had four years to learn how to pronounce that word. If we end up in a nuclear war, I'd at least like the guy who's pretending to lead our country to be able to PRONOUNCE it.

:grr:
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DireStrike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 06:11 PM
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1. The media keeps forcing his ignorance on us
"It's a dialect" they say. "It's a legitimate form of pronounciation."
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troubleinwinter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 06:12 PM
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2. Sound it out, Georgie...
nu-cle-ar.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 10:37 AM
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17. "Mr. G....Bring down that wall"--said Reagan. Bush's declaritive sounds
much like Reagan's did several years ago--in which Reagan and his followers take credit for the fall of the Wall.

Seems to me that Bush is talking this from the play book of Reagon.
Bush wants to go down in the history books as the pred who broke the back of NK.
Just a thought--but bush's words sure do reverberate of Reagons!!
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THUNDER HANDS Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 06:12 PM
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3. you'd think he'd stop speaking like that now
I mean, its not like he has to convince the stupid part of America that he's as dumb as they are.
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arewenotdemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 08:55 PM
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15. True enough.
And he convinced the other part long ago.
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 06:15 PM
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4. Here's a clear message to the chimp.....
Fuck you, asshole!
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skylarmae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 06:17 PM
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5. good luck with that - I wish for something more attainable
I've been screaming e-mails to the white house and georgie porgie himself (as well as to pickles) about this for 4 years now. I've sent source after source providing the correct pronunciation and definition, to no avail.

I'm convinced it is part of his smug, 'in-your-face', fuck you attitude he thrives on. I also think that behaviors such as these are some form of sick perverted 'foreplay' from this frustrated, closeted, want-to-be person.
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TexasLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 06:26 PM
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6. if he can pronounce C_L_E_A_R, then
he can sureashell pronounce new-CLEAR..at least it would be close. Let me make this perfectly C-u-l-a-r..:eyes:
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Rumba Donating Member (277 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 07:03 PM
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7. T-shirts!


Oh man, we need t-shirts that say something like


George Dubya Bush 2004

"The world hates us tour"
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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 07:28 PM
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8. That WOULD be cool, wouldn't it...
This is the photo I'd use to go along with the lettering:



:toast:
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 07:30 PM
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9. He's folksy! He's plain-spoken! He's like us!
The media has painted him as Everyman.
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Zynx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 07:40 PM
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10. Actually, the message is "Get more Nucular weapons and we won't attack."
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tintin99 Donating Member (35 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 08:28 PM
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11. Does it really matter?
I don't think it's important. Aren't there more serious things to look at?

Even Clinton didn't pronounce it correctly all the time. Linguists see it a lot differently:

http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~nunberg/nucular.html

- TinTin
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wuushew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 08:47 PM
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12. Merriam Webster somewhat vidicates Bush
Edited on Sat Nov-20-04 08:48 PM by wuushew
Main Entry: nu·cle·ar
Pronunciation: 'nü-klE-&r, 'nyü-, ÷-ky&-l&r
Function: adjective


http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=nuclear


usage Though disapproved of by many, pronunciations ending in \-ky&-l&r\ have been found in widespread use among educated speakers including scientists, lawyers, professors, congressmen, U.S. cabinet members, and at least one U.S. president and one vice president. While most common in the U.S., these pronunciations have also been heard from British and Canadian speakers.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 10:30 AM
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16. Hi tintin99!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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blackangrydem Donating Member (361 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 08:49 PM
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13. It's his trademark and he knows it irks dems. He won't change now.
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-20-04 08:53 PM
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14. I saw a clip of that on the news at 6...he keeps up with that idiotic
'giggle' when he says shit like that. GODDAMMIT, I ABSOLUTELY HATE THAT FUCKING MORON!!!!!!!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH
:grr: :puke: :grr: :puke: :grr:
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LilKim Donating Member (355 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 02:39 PM
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18. I'm becoming convinced some people just
have a mental block against learning such things. It's similar to those who keep saying THE Ukraine or THE Sudan when the article prefix was dropped years ago when each country achieved statehood.

And then there are the retards who think lose and loser are spelled loose and looser. These people need to be slapped upside the head with a 2x4.
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Nov-21-04 04:07 PM
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19. They'd be fools to get rid of their nuclear weapons. We would invade
them in a flash. We never invade people capable of defending themselves. We are cowards.
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