I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
uno!
Male... female... it only really matters if they are trying to marry or have sex.
So he's a man.
What's the difference?
P.S. Is he pretty?
I used to think it was impossible for small groups to have undue policy impact in our system, but the Bush admin demonstrates it really is possible for 4 or 5 people to hijack our government.
It really is just Bush, Cheney and four or five little neo-cons. Apparently, they don't even have an intern with a library card and basic research skills.
This is an incredible gaffe. Obviously, the news media will never let him forget this one. He'll be laughed right out of the presidency by the SCLM.
She's a man, man!
It's those damn foreign names. They need real names like Mary, Ruth, or Bathsheba.
Errare humanum est, and doubly so in Bush's case... but there's a time and a place to at least attempt to not make such fluffs as these...
It has been a very, very good week, here in the lefty blogosphere, as many have commented, you couldn't make this shit up if you tried.
"So what's the difference?"
liar.
crook.
dope.
Joe Briefcase, I guess they don't trust anyone at all, so it's just Cheney, Wolfie, Rummy and google, running this show.
Interesting sidenote on how our prejudices frame these stories.
If this had happened during the Clinton administration the Right would have accused Clinton of false sincerity. "He's paying tribute and acting like he relly cares but he's never heard of this person before."
For Bush, who is of course "stupid," the attack is that he is too dumb to know the diference.
Presidents do goofy things all the time. But the actions themselves are like political Rorschach tests. I think how we choose to frame them (e.g. evil, corrupt, stupid, cynical, opportunistic, insincere, hypocritical) says a lot about our prreconceived notions (which aren't necessarily wrong).
Well. I guess it was an honest mistake. Names ending with "i" are typically female names. However, this is the President, and no doubt has people around him doing fact-checking.... OH WAIT!
George, you're fired.
Adam - Yeah, that's the thing that bothers me. Do they just send Bush out in front of the cameras without bothering to fact-check what he's going to say first? How incompetent a staff does he have? Don't answer that, I have enough stress right now...
Well... it's not as if this administration really cares about the facts. "Facts?! We don't need no shtinkin' facts!!!"
Hey babe,
Take a walk on the wild side...I said hey George, take a walk on the wild side and the republican girls say
do de do de do de do do do do do
I've always maintained that the average male Republican can't tell the difference between a man and a woman. It's been well documented that practically all the men who are unwittingly seduced by transvestite prostitutes are Republicans. At least, they claim it was unwittingly after they're caught.
It's so hard to tell the difference, what with all of them heathens wearing lots of rags wrapped around their heads and faces and stuff. Maybe now he'll fire Tenet...
And the laughs just keep coming!
From AP:
Supporters of gay marriage are applauding an opinion by the attorney general that banning gay marriage probably violates Oregon's constitution.
"This is huge. It's clearly a victory for the civil rights movement in Oregon," said Senate Democratic Leader Kate Brown, who is an acknowledged bisexual.
Tear down the wall!
C'mon, folks, give the malAdministration a break. They can't always be right, and certainly issues such as nuklar proliferation and war and oil are more important.
After all, to get this right they would have had to google search, and find that Krista Riddley, Amnesty Interlational USA's Advocacy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, mentioned him and his family during her (his?) testimony to the House International Relations Committee on March 10.
It's at http://tinyurl.com/2qg8m
Of course, it is a bit of a stretch for these guys -- the testimony calls him/her "Fathi al-Jahmi."
Interesting sidenote on how our prejudices frame these stories.
If this had happened during the Clinton administration the Right would have accused Clinton of false sincerity. "He's paying tribute and acting like he relly cares but he's never heard of this person before."
For Bush, who is of course "stupid," the attack is that he is too dumb to know the diference.
Not untrue, but not complete. The accusation of Clinton would've taken that direction because they knew he was smart and would've checked his facts.
The accusation of Bush would be based on his demonstrated disregard of even the most basic facts, exemplified beautifully by his blowing this most basic of facts.
Each side attacks based on what they know best. For the Dems, that means substance. For the Repubs, that means appearances.
It's been well documented that practically all the men who are unwittingly seduced by transvestite prostitutes are Republicans. TownDrunk
Are you serious? I remember the first transvestite I ever saw -- in a bar in Memphis. S/he was friendly and attractive and flirting with some guys in the group I was with. They were good men, so it turned out okay. (They were embarrassed.)
It's those damned Log Cabin Republicans and Andi Sullivan I tell you! They set him up! As Rev. Jimmy Swaggert said "They look like good girls to me."
W is an imposter. he didn't say' was he PURDY?'.
There's another angle here.
As far as W and his staff are concerned, you're not even dealing with real people when discussing some Libyan, so why bother to do the research?
After all, the woman isn't a white male protestant millionare, so she's hardly worthy of consideration.
Hey Tinman:
You're using my copyrighted word "maladministration". I've been pushing this word wherever I can (including letters to the editor, etc.) for several years now. But you (and everyone else) have my full permission to use it. 
Use it in good health! Spread the word!
Cheers,
-- Arne Langsetmo
P.S.: Folks, don't flame me on whether such a word can be copyrighted (or trademarked). I've long been of the opinion that copyright and trademark law has gone beyond what it's legally empowered to do, and am pissed (for instance) that McDonald's thinks it's got the trademark on "Mc", and so went and leaned on a nice woman, name of Sarah McCaughee, who had the temerity to name her coffee shop "McCoffee's". . . .
After THAT faux pas, Bush should be required to play "Lola" at all his campaign stops!
Don't be too hard on him; it could happen to anyone. Didn't President Bartlet almost make that mistake with the ambassador from South Korea? Luckily Charlie told him that the bronze-medal fencer was a woman.
"Don't call him a woman, he's an athlete."
"No, I'm serious, she's a woman"
"A woman, you say?"
"Yep"
George has moved beyond the simplistic and limited false duality of seeing human beings in terms of male/female - his more enlightened views instead see people in terms of campaign donor/teeming rabble. Jahmi, a clear member of the rabble category, should therefore be honored that he/she/it even rates a mention from the Little Prince.
This was not Bush's only episode of gender confusion recently. Here is an excerpt from a recent LATimes story by Maura Reynolds. Apparently Bush is not only a cowboy who is afraid of horses, but he appears to be one who does not know the difference between a cow and a bull.
"I thought there was a lot of bull in Washington, D.C.," the president joked as he admired a dozen red and gray Brahman heifers during a 40-minute visit to the Houston Livestock Show, despite the gender of the cattle in question.
Nobody's perfect
Nobody's perfect
Yeah! If Jahmi was perfect, she would have been born a man so as not to cause our Dear Lear embarrassment!
'Dear Lear?'
Dammit. Dear Leader.
I can wreck a punch line with the best of them.
I can think of a new job for him. Brush clearer on a chain gang.
Or how about dock inhabitant at the hague?
man...woman...what's the difference?
Didn't he ask what's the difference about WMD vs WMD programs?
I think I'm showing my age.
"nobodies perfect" is the last line in the Film "Some Like it Hot".
The second to last line is relevant to current debate.
"You can't marry me, I'm a man"
will our grandchildren get the joke ?
Was Bush Pilate in the "Life of Brian"?
PILATE
Now, Jewish wapscallion.
BRIAN
I'm not Jewish ... I'm a Roman!
PILATE
*WOMAN*?
BRIAN
No, *ROMAN*. (But he's not quick enough to avoid another blow from the CENTURION.)
PILATE
So, your father was a *WOMAN*. Who was he?
BRIAN (proudly)
He was a centurion in the Jerusalem Garrison.
PILATE
Oh. What was his name?
BRIAN
Nortius Maximus.
Someone wrote that names that end with "i" are usually female. Like Ali.
More seriously, it seems that a typical feminine ending in Arabic is "a", like Fathima, Yasmina, but there too many endings to rely on them without knowing the language.
Shouldn't we demand that our leader and representative of our nation reflect an intellect higher than average, rather than waaay below?
Just asking—
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