# 10 Things I Hate About The Speech **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 11, 2007, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521 "2007-01-11T06:40:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/41 "2007-01-11T19:59:32Z")
[QUOTE=Tracy Lord] And on top of everything else, it preempted Carolina basketball. BASTARDS! [/QUOTE] Just watch pro ball instead. That’s where all those guys will be playing next year anyway. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/42 "2007-01-11T20:11:17Z")
[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose] A sizeable percentage of whom are old enough to remember Vietnam as “Current Events”, not “History”. Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on me. [/QUOTE] No, no the quote is: “Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me…you can’t get burned again.” ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/43 "2007-01-11T20:17:11Z")
[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose] A sizeable percentage of whom are old enough to remember Vietnam as “Current Events”, not “History”. Burn me once, shame on you. Burn me twice, shame on me. Sez the boys (and girls) downtown. [/QUOTE] Too bad the BaGs downtown didn’t feel the burn _before_ November 2004… ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/44 "2007-01-11T20:22:29Z")
I honestly don’t understand why anyone watched this speech. Unless they’re very young or very old with hope springing eternal. What was the draw? Like rubbernecking a car wreck or something? I sort of wish people would en masse just ignore his next prime time buttinski speech. Maybe he’d get the message. But then again, probably not. ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/45 "2007-01-11T20:47:04Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Too bad the BaGs downtown didn’t feel the burn _before_ November 2004… [/QUOTE] Yah, and it’s amazing how fast you can scrape a “Bush '04” bumper sticker off your car if ya really want to… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/46 "2007-01-11T20:47:31Z")
I hated the fact that it pre-empted the 6:00 - 7:00 pm iteration of _All things Considered_ that I listen to as I drive home from work. So I had to listen to Helen Borgers on KLON. She sounded like she’s dealing with an upper respiratory infection, and I don’t think she was making the effort to play her “A” material. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/47 "2007-01-11T20:49:08Z")
[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose] Yah, and it’s amazing how fast you can scrape a “Bush '04” bumper sticker off your car if ya really want to… 😃 [/QUOTE] Swear to OG, this morning on my way into work I saw one that said, “_I NEVER THOUGHT I’D MISS NIXON_” ---
**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/48 "2007-01-11T20:51:40Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] I honestly don’t understand why anyone watched this speech. Unless they’re very young or very old with hope springing eternal. What was the draw? [/QUOTE] Maybe hoping for a wardrobe malfunction. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/49 "2007-01-11T21:16:36Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] Swear to OG, this morning on my way into work I saw one that said, “_I NEVER THOUGHT I’D MISS NIXON_” [/QUOTE] I saw that same bumpersticker yesterday on my way home from work. That guy must have driven all night to get down to Anaheim in time for your morning commute. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/50 "2007-01-11T21:22:07Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] 10. (your favorite moment here…) [/QUOTE] The ham-fisted use of the Presidential Library as the setting for the speech. “See, I’m not a mealy-mouthed moron, I’m in an actual library! With books 'n stuff!” ---
**Author:** ![SoCalled](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@SoCalled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SoCalled)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/51 "2007-01-11T22:03:36Z")
I nominate Bush’s attribution of ownership of the Baghdad security plan to the Iraqi government. > [@](#): > > Only Iraqis can end the sectarian violence and secure their people. And their government has put forward an aggressive plan to do it. True, Al-Maliki made an announcement on Saturday. > [@](#): > > Our military commanders reviewed the new Iraqi plan to ensure that it addressed these mistakes. They report that it does. They also report that this plan can work. Sure, the generals reviewed the “Iraqi” plan and reported favorably on it to the Crotch-Sock-in-Chief. They were pretty sure that he’d like it, too, because it had sprung from his very own long-barren brow. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/52 "2007-01-11T22:08:40Z")
[QUOTE=Duck Duck Goose] Maybe hoping for a wardrobe malfunction. [/QUOTE] Ahhhhhhhhh! My mind’s eye! I’m not supposed to get eww in it! ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/53 "2007-01-11T22:11:01Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] I watched Kill Bill, as I wanted to see something smarter and less violent. [/QUOTE] For something smarter than Bush, try _Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure_, or _Dude, Where’s My Car?_ ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/54 "2007-01-11T22:14:23Z")
[QUOTE=rjung] The ham-fisted use of the Presidential Library as the setting for the speech. “See, I’m not a mealy-mouthed moron, I’m in an actual library! With books 'n stuff!” [/QUOTE] Two things: it’s pronounced “lieBERRY.” Second, it was not ham-fisted because as we all now know Thomas Jefferson’s Koran does not reside there. The 27 percent who still support this president’s War Policy totally dig that. He was totally pandering. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/55 "2007-01-11T22:20:50Z")
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99] Swear to OG, this morning on my way into work I saw one that said, “_I NEVER THOUGHT I’D MISS NIXON_” [/QUOTE] Just Googled “never thought i’d miss nixon” “bumper sticker” because I think I want one of those! Looks like I’ve got a choice of designs. It even comes in fridge magnets, with a pic of the Trickster on it. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/56 "2007-01-11T22:22:02Z")
[QUOTE=El Cid Viscoso] Two things: it’s pronounced “lieBERRY.” [/QUOTE] Exactly. It’s always easy to remember - it’s the opposite of strawBRARY. -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/57 "2007-01-11T22:45:56Z")
[QUOTE=RTFirefly] For something smarter than Bush, try _Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure_, or _Dude, Where’s My Car?_ [/QUOTE] I’ve started calling this war ‘Dick and Dubs’ Excellent Adventure;’ feel free to use that if you like. And ‘Bogus Journey’ works just as well. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/58 "2007-01-11T23:09:36Z")
[QUOTE=Kyla] Sure, everyone on my friends list is laughing over something called Dick in the Box (me: WTF? I don’t think we have dicks in boxes in Bulgaria?) [/QUOTE] It’s a clip from an American TV show. Justin Timberlake (an American singer) sings about wrapping his dick as a Christmas present and giving it to his girlfriend. [NBC-Special Christmas (Dick in a Box)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dmVU08zVpA) ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Carrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/59 "2007-01-11T23:22:28Z")
I watched about thirty seconds of it before CNN cut out; I was about sick of Shrub’s voice and face, so I just took two minutes to read the speech itself on I believe CBS. Feingold is talking about cutting funding for any more troops to go to Iraq: [Time to Use the Power of the Purse](http://dailykos.com/story/2007/1/11/155348/355) ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2007, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521/60 "2007-01-11T23:30:32Z")
[QUOTE=RTFirefly] For something smarter than Bush, try _Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure_, or _Dude, Where’s My Car?_ [/QUOTE] Or just put a rock on top of the TV and stare at it. Zero intelligence is better than negative intelligence; Bush is the living incarnation of the old joke that goes “Watch him very carefully. Then do the exact opposite.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/10-things-i-hate-about-the-speech/387521.md?page=4)