In a speech defending his administration’s Iraq policy, Mr Bush said former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein’s brutality had made it impossible to unite the country.
Bush: “Mandela’s dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas.”“I heard somebody say, ‘Where’s Mandela?’,” he said.
“Well, Mandela’s dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas.”
The bizarre gaffe was made in a press conference in Washington yesterday.
Mandela became South Africa’s first black president in 1994. He won a Nobel Peace Prize for preaching racial harmony and guiding the nation into the post-apartheid era.
References to his death – Mandela is now 89 and increasingly frail – are seen as insensitive in South Africa.
Ya think? I imagine they’d be seen as insensitive anywhere, not to mention too stupid to contemplate
We already told you about the delusional antics of our president during his recent visit to Southeast Asia and Australia. We also postulated that Bush has advanced Lyme Disease, which causes brain fog and psychosis. But even we are becoming alarmed. This is getting way beyond just mispronouncing “nuclear.”
The Week magazine noted another mysterious Bush mistake.
He talked of the danger of terrorist groups such as “Jenna Islaaanah Nia,” which no one had ever head of (one can only assume that meant Jemaah Islamiyah).
The leader of the Indonesian terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, Abu Dujana, was arrested in June in connection with the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, along with more recent attacks. But hey, Bush knows someone named Jenna and it sounds a lot like that.
The Week also quoted the Sydney Morning Herald’s Annabel Crabb about Bush’s public speaking meltdowns in her country.
One could almost sense the craning CIA sharpshooters wearily exchanging their live rounds for tranquilizer darts.
“Time to get the big guy out of there, Hank?”
“Roger that, Chuck.”
If only it were that easy.
- Section: Politics
- Topics: Impeachment, Worst President Ever
bu$h is certifiably insane, that’s all it could be. His handlers prop him up and actually put this crazy stuff on the teleprompter. This accomplishes two goals:
1. To see if they still have total control and can make puppet boy say and do whatever they want and;
2. So they can study the amount of outrage over such a rediculous statment among Americans, which is not usually very much…
Someone should tell pResident Dick that his little puppet has a bad case of runaway mouth………. ah shucks, he knows that. This is why cheney selected himself and then bu$h to rule the world. If only the world would rise up & tell the butt kissing congress to get rid of them…………….
Ah,…yeah.
Imagine my discomfort at finding myself being put in the positiong of defending the rhetorical prowess of George W. Bush! Sounds crazy, right? Except that the author of this blog is apparently the only American more rhetorically challenged than the Prez!
See, that thar Texan was using a fairly common rhetorical device used by fellas enaged in speechifying.
Ahem. He did not, of course, mean to suggest that Hussein had killed the one-and-only Nelson Mandela, nor, in fact, the entire Mandela family (“all the Mandelas”). What he meant was that Hussein had killed all of the Iraqis who might have played the part in Iraqi history that Nelson Mandela had played in South African history.
See, it would be kind of like if someone — in a speech — were to ask “Where have all the Jack Kennedys gone?” That speaker would not actually be looking for clones of JFK secretly produced by the feds in 1963 from the slain president’s shattered brain matter, but merely asking why there aren’t more young, dedicated Democratic presidential candidates. See how that works?
I say, that’s speechifying, son, speechifying!
Duh.
cordeg: Your rhetorically challenged rhetorical challenge might have held up if just yesterday Bush hadn’t referred to Myanmar as “Burma” while addressing the U.N., hadn’t a couple of weeks ago substituted “OPEC” for “APEC” while in Australia and any of a million other idiotic gaffes he’s made while repping the Benighted States of America. Endowing Bush with a mastery of rhetoric is like giving Larry Craig a Hustler magazine. That dog won’t hunt, son.