Comments on: Bush: Saddam Hussein Killed Nelson Mandela

By: Buck

Buck — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:32:21 +0000

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.

By: cordeg

cordeg — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:28:00 +0000

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.

By: Magginkat

Magginkat — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:42:14 +0000

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…………….

By: nikolai

nikolai — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:08:57 +0000

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…