[QUOTE=Mayo Speaks!]
**Dikembe Mutumbo **- makes sense
**Soldier who fought injured **- makes sense
**Guy who dived under a train to save another guy **- makes sense
**“Baby Einstein” lady **- wtf??
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Before I saw the transcript I thought you were joking. Now I’m dumbfounded.
Sentences he reads without the slightest notion of what he’s saying?
Times he references 9/11?
Times he says “War on Terror”?
Times he references sending a (clear, loud, strong) message?
Blames someone else (Saddam, Terrists, Islamo-fascists) for his fuck ups?
Implies a 9-11/Iraq connection?
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Other President’s would have given the exact same speech?
I don’t understand why anyone watches it either, but not because of President Bush, because there’s only one reasonable speech to give in this situation, regardless of who is President.
I’m feeling truly sad. For most of my adult life, I never missed a major presidential speech, because they seemed important. Even with presidents I voted against, I still listened. But I simply cannot force myself to look at and listen to this wretched motherfucker for that long.
[QUOTE=Baldwin]
I’m feeling truly sad. For most of my adult life, I never missed a major presidential speech, because they seemed important. Even with presidents I voted against, I still listened. But I simply cannot force myself to look at and listen to this wretched motherfucker for that long.
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It’s easy. Just think of the morbid fascination you get out of sniffing a carton of spoiled milk, or watching a piece of roadkill being devoured by maggots.
Baby Motherfucking Einstein is a $200M business? A business, and not a hideous tropical disease set to be eradicated on or before 2012 by WHO? Who bankrolls this $200M Baby Motherfucking Einstein business? I want names, damn it, names that can be copied and pasted onto a deportation list.
Holy crap, Bush is secretly one of the greatest philosophers of our time. In pointing out that people spent $200M on that dreck and its merchandise, he revealed subtly as a silk handkerchief falling onto a plush floor, and yet in our collective faces like a pimp-slap, the following message: “See how I got elected? If people will vote with their pocketbooks for Baby Einstein, they’ll do anything. Eat dog shit, join Scientology, hell, even buy a black velvet picture of Jesus riding a stegosaurus and twirling a lariat. Yee haw!”
[QUOTE=Una Persson]
even buy a black velvet picture of Jesus riding a stegosaurus and twirling a lariat. Yee haw!"
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Hell, I might buy one of those. It sounds hysterical.
[QUOTE=elucidator]
Too lazy to Google. WTF is “baby Einstien”?
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DVD’s for babies. Lots of colors and music. Supposed to make 'em smarter. Mine won’t pay any attention to them. More fun to punch daddy in the balls and hear him make that funny noise.
[QUOTE=Carol Stream]
You go first. What does the following exchange signify politically?
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Easy. Calling Cheney “reptilian” is a reflection on his moral character. Commenting on Pelosi’s ill-fitting dentures is a reflection on the skill of her dentist.
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic]
DVD’s for babies. Lots of colors and music. Supposed to make 'em smarter. Mine won’t pay any attention to them. More fun to punch daddy in the balls and hear him make that funny noise.
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Speak for yourself. When my kid was six month old BE’s Baby Mozart was the only think that would hold his attention - and keep him quiet - for half an hour. You have no idea how many showers, quick means, leisurely trips to the bathroom and visits to the SDMB that disk allowed, preventing our minds from snapping like ten-year-old rubber bands. As far as I’m concerned, the Baby Einstein lady deserves, at the very least, a Nobel Peace Prize.
In seven years, the president has never said ‘Jesus’, that’s every bit as often as he’s mentioned ‘Katrina’ or ‘cupcakes’. However, he did say ‘Osama’ for the first time this year.