… who doesn’t play political hardball very well. How else do you explain taking so long to give today’s speech?
For debate: If the next president is a conservative Republican with the charisma and political scruples of, say, Bill Clinton … will the left riot in the streets?
I’d like to clarify that to “extremists on the left”… the ones who have already shown a propensity to violence.
The OP is fucking incoherent. What in the blazing Hell are you talking about?
Oh, those guys. Yeah, you gotta watch out for those extremists on the left. Especially the ones with a “propensity to violence”. They probbaly will get violent, what with having that propensity and all.
Feeding some personal right-wing political porn fantasy, no doubt.
Pardon me, can you point me in the direction of the left-wing extremist mob. I’ve brought my pitchfork.
To be perfectly honest, I found the OP so difficult to parse I wasn’t exactly sure who was being attacked. Guess my reading comprehension skills could use some honing, but still, waht teh fux0rzzzz?
To help witht he OP:
Yes, Bush is a goober. It really can’t be denied.
Yes, he’s not particularly articulate.
Yes, he made a speech today and for the first time ever went into attack mode against the left and it’s accusations for like… three paragraphs. He did this in front of an extremely friendly audience.
Call it a trial balloon, carefully scripted by his handlers.
I predict that it will either be completely ignored, or, start a huge partisan battle/national debate… or something between those two.
Is GWB an inarticulate goober? Well, obviously he isn’t completely inarticulate, else you wouldn’t have understood the speech at all. As to being a goober…even without asking you to define what that means I’ll agree…he’s a goober.
Doubtful. They are convinced of their position. Having someone articulate positions they don’t agree with will merely spur them to disagree more vocally. Plenty of articulate Dems out there to challenge the 'Pubs after all.
Undoubtedly it will be completely ignored in some circles, and start a huge partisan battle here on this board. I’m sure there will be many a pit thread starting soon about his speech. 
Honestly this doesn’t seem much of a ‘debate’ to me. More like something that belongs in The Pit. Just MHO.
-XT
If I were one of the prez’s handlers, I’d tell him to ignore the accusations made by the senate Dems regarding the lead up to the war. Mentioning it is just gonna keep it in the news, and there are others far more able to make Bush’s case for the Iraq war far more convincingly then Bush himself, without giving the critisism the extra news-worthiness that a rebutal from the POTUS gives it.
Here is an article on the speech (I presume based on Scylla’s interperation of the OP that this is what he’s talking about) loopydude, as I agree the OP is a bit, er, unclear.
-XT
My apologies, let me break it down:
GWB = George W Bush… I thought that would be obvious in context
Innarticulate = can’t talk good… kinda like I write
Goober = hick
Political hardball = one of us isn’t watching Chris Matthews enough but maybe this is the first item open for debate. Apart from the example I gave, remember back when the left’s mantra was “we went in there without a plan”. Bush and his people let that be said without argument forever. Obviously there was all kinds of planning for all kinds of contingencies.
The next part about conservative with charisma and political scruples of Clinton makes sense doesn’t it? Perhaps there is no such person …debate?
Finally, “riot in the streets” and “propensity/violence” … heres where I let my bomb-throwing tendencies get the better of me. Would you not agree that while both the right and left have their individual lunatics like McVeigh and the Unabomber, doesn’t it seem like political mob violence is most often seen from the extreme left?
Propensity … my online dictionary here says “An innate inclination; a tendency” … that’s quite a range isn’t it. I’ll stick with the “tendency” side of the spectrum.
Overall, the way Bush is portrayed as evil incarnate by so many makes me wonder how those folks might react to someone who would actually be more effective.
You gotta watch out for those inarticulate goobers. You never know where you’ll find them. They’re actually the source of the saying, “No comment from the peanut gallery.”
Daniel
I can’t recall the last time Das Goober gave a speech in front of an audience that wasn’t. He’s somewhat “risk averse”. When it comes to giving speeches, that is.
That was the part I understood the least…
My oldest daughter got a bag of them when she went trick or treating. I’m thinking of running it for mayor.
“Dumber’n a bag a goobers.” I’m gonna have to call someone that soon.
Daniel
:wandering off to the pit
Didn’t he get beaten up by the vast left wing conspiracy press people in the Rose Garden a month ago?
There was the UN.
But tell me truly, Luce. Can you blame him for barring Warren Beatty and Annette Bening?
What the…:
It appears you’ve named yourself appropriately. I am having trouble parsing your previous post.
May I ask if you are native english speaker?
Nah. He’s a conservative.