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Better help please..
Because they're projecting.
How about a president who presents speeches like a kid giving a grade D book report?
Why has no one bothered to notice that putting two people in charge (Rice and Hughes) of shaping our image abroad whose entire schtick consists of talking to people as if they're 8 years olds was probably not the best idea.
Bush wants people in that job who don't say things that confuse him.
Condecension is charming
I can't think of one appointment Bush has made that has ended in anything but disaster. At least he has a perfect record.
I tend to think the lack of fluency in Arabic, no understanding whatsoever of the culture, and the failure to spend any significant time in the Middle East combined with a mistrust of religion outside evangelical Christianity are also liabilities.
But hey, no one else in the Bush administration been qualified for any of their jobs - why start now?
More short bus foreign policy.
Besides, Rice and Hughes do what they do for domestic consumption. They're props, essentially, for the Bush Show. Actual conversations with other countries, eh, BOR-ing.
They probably thought it was an improvement over the way Bush talks to Americans - as if we're cranky, slightly retarded five-year-olds.
It drives me nuts having an idiot being condescending toward me - I can imagine how non-Americans might feel.
Bush wants people in that job who don't say things that confuse him.
And people who are stupid enough to do his fool's errands without asking questions.
The problem is not one of personnel. The entire Bush administration foreign policy -- to its rotting core -- is based on speaking to Everyone as if they were 8-year olds. Hughes, Condi, hell, the Dalai Llama himself, would be ineffective trying to represent this approach in diplomatic circles.
The only thing Bush Co. cares about is the politics end. Through that they are able to continue their graft, and business friendly policies.
It is really hard to get one's mind around the idea of how utterly bankrupt in morals and realistic ideas this administration is. One almost has to go back to the Roman Empire to find anything comparable, at least in the West. I am not exagerating.
55% of the American public has noticed. It's just the media that hasn't.
Hey! Don't make them get out the pacifier!
Repeat after me: He's a bad, bad man. Bad, bad man.
What? Why are you looking at me? This dynamic duo wasn't my idea. Not every screwup is my idea...
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It also helps that they are such warm and charismatic individuals.
goo goo gah gah
They're actuall... ah, fuck it, might as well post on the new thread upstairs.
It also helps that they are such warm and charismatic individuals.
LOL!
yumm
I noticed. I noticed that everything this Administration has done and said since the beginning was absolutly childish, but they never checked with me. Or, you know, 50% of the American people.
I'm sure Bush thinks these women are warm and charming.
I love how Bush speaks with a condescending tone, and says obvious statements, as if he just learned them (something like "evil is just...bad"), and then he smirks and makes that look, like "you peons just gotta understand what your Leader is explaining to you".
"talking to people as if they're 8 years olds was probably not the best idea." - Atrios
"Everyone knows terrorists are bad." - Atrios
That really is Condi's schtick, isn't it?
I always say that she must have been a decent member of the high school debating team when she was in 11th grade. She hasn't advanced her skills in rhetoric and discourse an iota since then.
They talk to everyone like 8 year olds out of habit from talkin to Bush...
Karen Hughes was on German ARD morning television this past week. The moderator asked what she hoped to accomplish and Karen was off and running (at the mouth, that is) with the party line. The moderator tried to ask her another question and finally was able to ask her if she hoped to dispel criticism about Gitmo. Hughes, off again, "these people are killers" "want to kill as many Americans as possible" repeated party line. The moderator by this time was laughing because she couldn't get a word in. She finally said, "The magazine, Der Spiegel, quotes you as saying that you are here (in Germany) to listen as well as explain the American position. What are you hearing?" Hughes blabbing about "fresh start with Mrs. Merkel", "a friendlier atmosphere" "work together with partners" party line ad nauseum. Hughes did not even understand the irony of her saying she was going to listen, and then blabbing incessantly with those huge unconvincing hand movements. She didn't understand that she was being laughed at.
Thats the way Mommy broke up the brothers fights then and now. Bush figures it'll work for everybody.
Not.
Did you see Bush giving a talk about his upcoming trip to India? Olbermann or the Daily Show (forget which) played it a couple nights ago.
He listed off a bunch of facts and figures about the country like he was presenting his fifth grade social studies project entitled "India - Its Land and People". With a laundry list-like precision he rattled off its population, it's biggest city, reglious make up, form of government and major exports.
He seemed proud as punch with himself listing all this info gathered from the nearest encyclopedia...like any eight year old. At the end of it a big red "A+" appeared on screen.
Can it actually be true this retarded fucktwad is really president of the United States?
It's what Bush enjoys. Most people talk to him like he's 7.
Bush probably feels they're effective communicators because... they talk as if their audience are 8 year olds.
"Why has no one bothered to notice that putting two people in charge (Rice and Hughes) of shaping our image abroad whose entire schtick consists of talking to people as if they're 8 years olds was probably not the best idea."
LMFAO / MFW
Prior to Hughes quitting the Bush administration back in 02 as PR liaison for Bush / baby sitter and speech coach, she was overheard in a Washington Eatery & Bar with a friend saying that she was leaving because she was sick of talking to Bush as though he was a kindergartner, Ha !
Everyone thinks that Bush has speech problems because he is form Texas, well that's not true, you can't blame that on Texas as Bush was born in CONNECTICUT, grew up partying on the east coast, went to east coast schools, got his first DUI in Maine, got bailed out of jail for the first time in Maine.
Bush himself lies and claims that he is from Texas but he actually has spent more time on the east coast than he ever has in Texas, he's a transplant to Texas and that's all he will ever be.
As far as his so called Texas speech problem goes, there is no such thing, his Texas accent is as fake as the fact that he is from Texas in the first place, the source of the real Bush speech problem comes from far to much booze and drugs while on his way to the White House, shows, doesn't it ?
Ah yea, you get what you pay for, that's a fact :-}
Did you see Bush giving a talk about his upcoming trip to India? Olbermann or the Daily Show (forget which) played it a couple nights ago.
He listed off a bunch of facts and figures about the country like he was presenting his fifth grade social studies project entitled "India - Its Land and People". With a laundry list-like precision he rattled off its population, it's biggest city, reglious make up, form of government and major exports.
He seemed proud as punch with himself listing all this info gathered from the nearest encyclopedia...like any eight year old. At the end of it a big red "A+" appeared on screen.
Can it actually be true this retarded fucktwad is really president of the United States?
Sammy | 02.25.06 - 4:32 pm | #
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You know, he actually seems to be diong a little better now that he's on the Phonic's ! Ha,Ha,Ha,......>
The only positive thing one can say about Rice was her appearance a while back at one of the refugee camps in Sudan. It was great to not have a white guy in a suit representing us there.
From the Washington Post:
The skepticism in the region was reflected in the blunt questions posed to Rice by Arab journalists.
In Saudi Arabia, a female journalist, dressed head to toe in a black abaya , demanded: "How is it possible to harmonize the U.S. position as a nation supporting freedom of expression and the right of people to practice democracy with your effort to curb the will of Hamas?"
Egyptian Television's Mervat Mohsen also rattled off a series of tough questions. "American calls for democracy have unwittingly brought unprecedented support for the Muslim Brotherhood, but you're not happy with the Muslim Brotherhood in power," he said. "Is this some kind of designer's democracy then, Dr. Rice?"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...6022400739.html
Apropos to this topic,here's another article about the Rice/Higuhes dynamic diplomatic duo.
Keeping Score:
Condi, Karen, Khaled and Moqtada
I had the opportunity to experience the style of American diplomacy when I attended a gathering in Doha where Karen Hughes spoke. She repeated the standard Bush administration policy goals, but did so in a manner that was rather condescending and insensitive. She failed to acknowledge many legitimate Arab concerns, and preached to our region through the narrow lens of post-9/11 American hurt.
Fine for Texas barbeques, but bad news for Arabian gatherings.
My own reaction to her talk was that it was a disaster -- an example of public diplomacy shooting itself in the foot, and hurting the U.S.' image among Arabs rather than helping it. I asked perhaps 50 other Arabs, Muslims, and even some Americans at the gathering, and they all had the same view. Hughes' aggressive, pedantic style makes us keep asking: why does Washington keep insulting us in this manner? Karen Hughes is an impressive person; her speechwriters are diplomatic nitwits
Rice, and Bush, always whine when they talk to the general public. Rice gets whiny and snippy when giving testimony in front of Congress.
she never sound confident about anything she says, sort of like she knows her whole life is a lie.
How did this woman get anywhere in life being theis charmless?
They always send out the women- frances townsend, laura condi karen mary matalin
are the men afraid of the public eye?
And they both use shellac aerosols on their hair, for God's sake!
"shellac aerosols on their hair" -- that's to keep their heads from exploding with all the lies they spew...
Why has no one bothered to notice that putting two people in charge (Rice and Hughes) of shaping our image abroad whose entire schtick consists of talking to people as if they're 8 years olds was probably not the best idea.
They may have done this on purpose (assuming they actually do want to improve our image abroad): they might just figure that since talking to Americans like we're 8 year olds gets enough 'Murkins to vote GOP for them to consistently and subtly be able to steal the elections the rest of the way, talking to furriners (whom many wingers assume to be dumb) that way will work doubly well.
Karen and Condi are about ready to have a going out of business sale.
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