# Bush says Freedom for the millionth time ! **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 16, 2004, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-says-freedom-for-the-millionth-time/260084 "2004-08-16T14:38:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rashak\_Mani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rashak\_Mani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rashak_Mani)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-says-freedom-for-the-millionth-time/260084/1 "2004-08-16T14:38:51Z")
Talking about the Olympics “By coming together in friendly competition, all Olympians are sending the message that freedom and hope are more powerful than terror and despair,” the president said. Jeez… does anything Bush talks about NOT include the same keywords ? Almost every speech keeps pumping the same mind numbing expressions: “Freedom”, “Liberty”, “War” and “Terrorism”. A sprinkling of the occasional “power of liberty”, “complete the mission”, “great cause” or “compassionate”. I got the first speech on the White House site: Carpenter’s Speech. Same old thing. The same expressions repeated like a mantra. The same ideas banged repeateadly… he is even including “peace” more. Seems the polls about a “war” president weren’t good enough. He rattles on about values of this and that without explaining how he will accomplish them… and the speeches always have words inducing to his “common man” style… about his “worrying” and his “leadership”… about “America is great”. Anything concrete about how your going to “transform” the world ? Nope. Nevermind grandiose titles for everything: “Patriot Act”… “No Child left Behind”… “Operation Iraqi Freedom”… “Homeland Security”. No wonder criticizing Bush is unpatriotic… he is acting like a cult leader of sorts one would imagine. Just check out his speeches… Oh I almost forgot… the always present “good versus evil”. ---
**Author:** ![Jurph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/50afbb/32.png) [@Jurph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jurph)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-says-freedom-for-the-millionth-time/260084/2 "2004-08-16T14:42:59Z")
Take it to **Great Debates** if you want to debate whether it’s a good thing. Take it to **The BBQ Pit** if you just want to bitch. Take it to **In My Humble Opinion** if you want to find out what other people think about this phenomenon. But take it somewhere else. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-says-freedom-for-the-millionth-time/260084/3 "2004-08-16T14:48:16Z")
I don’t really know what your question is, but it’s not uncommon for a politician in speeches to make general, non-specific statements and not go into detail, nor is it uncommon for laws or programs or military operations to have “grandiose”, “high sounding” names. It’s just part of the way you communicate in politics as an attempt to persuade and take the rhetorical high ground, and this administration, like previous ones, has a communication’s team to make sure that the White House message gets out and that the actions of the administration get “spun” in a postitive light. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-says-freedom-for-the-millionth-time/260084/4 "2004-08-16T15:00:54Z")
Freedom is doubleplus good. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-says-freedom-for-the-millionth-time/260084/5 "2004-08-16T15:04:37Z")
If the question is “Has GWB said the word freedom a million times?”, then no, he hasn’t. That would require hime to say it 100 times a day for about thirty years. I doubt anyone was keeping score anyhow. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2004, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-says-freedom-for-the-millionth-time/260084/6 "2004-08-16T15:24:58Z")
The General Questions forum is for questions with factual answers. I don’t see any such question here, so I’ll close this thread. bibliophage moderator GQ