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Sure, if you have every word and action caught on tape you're bound to be
found by some as not as slick as the slickest of them all -- Bill Clinton.
Perhaps it's time to return dignity and honesty to the White House?
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A.C. Szul
http://www.erols.com/mack97
"There is no truth, only fictions woven by power to justify itself." --
Bruce Thornton, "Plagues Of The Mind"
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From: Alamaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, February 04, 2000 06:24 PM
Subject: [CTRL] Bushies' Slippery Tongues
> -Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">
> </A> -Cui Bono?-
>
> And all the while I thought Dannie Boie was reaching out on his lonesome
own
> when he really got to talk like he did ... and be understood!
Unfortunately
> for the article's writer, he ignores the difference between the "English"
(OKA
> "Britlandese") and "American" (spoken by 5 or so times as many people as
speak
> Britlandese) languages. Then there are the American dialecticalities, one
of
> which emanates from Tejas. A<>E<>R
>
> From The Telegraph (UK)
>
> {{<Begin>}}
>
> ISSUE 1715
> Friday 4 February 2000
>
>
> Bush image damaged by his slips of the tongue
> By Ben Fenton in Washington
>
> WITH nine months of public speaking left before the presidential election,
the
> oratory of George W Bush is coming under increasing scrutiny as he
continues to
> test the limits of the English language.
>
> Like President George Bush, his father, the front runner in the Republican
> presidential nomination race has already won a reputation for verbal
> contortion, linguistic gymnastics and the accidental coining of words.
>
> The governor of Texas can lay claim to having invented "tacular",
"mential" and
> "bariffs" and has begun to explore new forms of eloquence. He told
children at
> a New Hampshire school who were celebrating "Perseverance Month" that he
was
> happy to be joining them for "Preservation Month".
>
> Proving it was not just a slip of the tongue, he added: "I appreciate
> preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta
preserve."
> Having described himself in a Texas re-election campaign as "the education
> governor" he recently told an audience: "Rarely is the question asked - is
our
> children learning?"
> Mr Bush, who was heavily defeated in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday,
has
> demonstrated evidence that his malapropisms are hereditary.
>
> President Bush was renowned for putting syntax, vocabulary and meaning,
not to
> mention style, through a cerebral shredder before issuing his own
memorable
> remarks. "I mean, I think there will be a lot of aftermaths in what
happened,
> but we are going to go forward," he said after his candidate for a cabinet
post
> was rejected by the Senate in 1989.
>
> His ability to trivialise the tragic was demonstrated when, on being shown
> around Auschwitz, the then President said: "Boy, they were big on
crematoriums
> weren't they?"
>
> He also showed the way for his son by combining two words in one. On live
> national television he once refused to answer what he called a
"hyporhetorical
> question" and later refused to "hypothecate", presumably a combination of
> hypothesise and speculate, on another reporter's inquiry.
>
> His 53-year-old eldest son forges neologisms wherever he goes. He told an
> audience that they lived in a "world of madmen and uncertainty and
potential
> mential loss". Last month, he risked the wrath of the animal rights lobby
when
> he spoke of a desire to "rip down terriers and bariffs".
>
> Governor Bush has worked hard to eradicate his father's habit of rambling
at
> the podium during press conferences by using cue cards to answer even the
most
> "hyporhetorical" of questions. But he has not eradicated the vagueness of
> expression that led President Bush to refer in less than inspiring tones
to the
> "vision thing". Both men are masters of not quite expressing thoughts.
>
> Mr Bush Jnr told an interviewer: "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous
> world and you knew exactly who they were. It was us versus them and it was
> clear who them was. Today we are not so sure who the they are, but we know
> they're there."
>
> Father and son have recognised their shortcomings. "Some of the best of us
> mispronounce words," George W told a classroom recently, echoing his
father's
> famous observation that "fluency in English is something that I'm often
not
> accused of".
>
> But the difference between the two men is that President Bush was never
thought
> of as an unintelligent man, merely one who could not express his thoughts
in a
> way that made much sense to the rest of the English-speaking world. His
son is
> facing increasing questions about whether he has the basic qualities
necessary
> in a President, including intellect.
>
> He has publicly called the East Timorese "East Timorians", the Kosovars
> "Kosovians", the Slovenians "Slovakians" and the Greeks "Grecians".
> In the light of growing doubts about his oratorical reliability, not to
mention
> brainpower, Republicans may not have been completely reassured to see
yesterday
> that he had called for support in South Carolina from the master of the
> malapropism, Dan Quayle, a former vice-president.
>
> It was Mr Quayle who gave America perhaps the greatest of its recent
political
> speeches when he said: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to
have a
> mind is being very wasteful. How true that is."
>
> {{<End>}}
>
>
>
> A<>E<>R
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