Bush calls HIV/AIDS an "addiction"

[Bluebear]

I'm sure he meant "affliction" but the Freudian slip strikes again....

>>HIV/AIDS, you see, is a challenge, it's a direct challenge to the compassion of our country, and to the welfare of not only our nation, but nations all across the globe. It's really one of the great challenges of our time. This disease leaves suffering and orphans and fear wherever it reaches.

Every man and woman and child who suffers from this addiction, from the streets of Philly to the villages of Africa, is a child of God who deserves our love and our help. And that's what I'm here to talk about today. We're provided -- we're determined to provide that help. We're committed to help those at home and help those abroad. To whom much has been given, much is demanded.<<

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/06/20040623-4.html

[bowens43]

1. President Dumb Ass.......

what an embarrassment.

[tnlefty]

4. Remember that he's our Education pResident......

Is our children learning?

[digno dave]

28. He always seeems to mess up the most when he is discussing something he

could care less about. Hence this gem.

[BR_Parkway]

2. If every person is a child of God

I wonder what scripture he distorted to make it ok to bomb God's children

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Maybe he thinks everyone who has AIDS is a needle fiend?

[TrustingDog]

5. The Energizer Dumbass - he keeps flubbing and flubbing and flubbing...

[Commendatori]

6. Not only that, but

I disagree with "every...deserves our love and help." No one DESERVES love.

If you disagree, explain to me how Bush himself or Freepers deserve YOUR love. This sort of drivel just pisses me off.

[bubblebuttbeauty]

11. Maybe they deserve a little tough love?

Whip them into shape with the kindness of our hearts?

[Commendatori]

14. Welcome to DU.

No, Repugs are immune to that, and even if not, I have a huge problem with the word "deserve."

I believe the poor should be helped, for instance, because it's the right thing to do - not because they "deserve" it.

[Bluebear]

34. Welcome to DU goofball!

[noonwitch]

7. A new bushism

A funny one at that

[Bluebear]

50. .

[neoteric lefty]

8. I think it was a typo because

if he truly tried to pronounce 'affliction' then he would have said something akin to 'affriction' or 'afligiton'. He garbles the words that are written.

[TrustingDog]

12. or he would have said 'Abu Daboo Doo'

[Bluebear]

13. Or Abu G-rape

[neoteric lefty]

23. "Grape ape... Grape ape" n/t

[neoteric lefty]

24. pic :)

[Forkboy]

41. hehe...best post of the day!

:thumbsup:

[billybob537]

9. Like a rock, only dumber.

[Cheswick2.0]

39. lol

like a plank only thicker.

[Bluebear]

46. lol

[Maine-i-acs]

10. 20 million for AIDS, 200 billion to destroy Iraq

Shrub sure has his priorities in order.

[nostamj]

15. thanks! went right into the ?W script!!

(new couplet for the parody of "Brush Up Your Shakespeare"

A MAN WHO CALLS AIDS AN "ADDICTION"
IS A MAN BEGGING FOR AN EVICTION

BRUSH UP YOUR BUSHSPEAK.....

[Bluebear]

16. Being a musician, always glad to further American Musicl Theatre

:)

[Anaxamander]

17. The link you put now says "affliction" (NT)

[Bluebear]

20. It certainly does, now I would love to see the tape

Did he say affliction or addiction? Does their transcript "clean up" what he REALLY said?

[Salluc]

18. Yup

Thank you. I heard that too. Plus, I heard him talking about an admonition to fight AIDS. ????? So embarrassing. So pathteic.

[young_at_heart]

19. There is a calendar about this man's inability to speak English

It's a daily calendar and has his many "mis-speaks".....such as "Is our children learning?", etc. I'm not sure, but I think this is the second year of such "embarrassing to America" blunders. I wonder how many have been sold?

[cosmicdot]

21. he was prolly thinking of Big Pharma's contributions to his campaign ...

... as the addiction ...

this from a 2003 commentary:

On the Eve of G8 Summit,
Bush Delivers Emergency AIDS Relief
to Republican Allies

By John Tarleton
ZNet

June 1, 2003

"Having signed a five-year, $15-billion global AIDS relief bill days before the G8 Summit in Evian, France, George W. Bush is now asking Congress to trim more than $1 billion from this year's funding. This is only one of many questionable features in an aid initiative that ostensibly signals a return to a more "compassionate" U.S. foreign policy.

~snip~

"The GOP received $20 million from the pharmaceutical industry in the 2002 election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

~snip~

"The 2001 version of the bold new AIDS relief plan received lots of favorable press, especially in the U.S. So, why not try it again?"

http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/develop/aids/2003/0601allies.htm

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[radfringe]

22. sounds like he did mean "affliction"

doesn't anyone check his "word-a-day" desk calendar to make sure it doesn't conflict or pose potential problems when he opens his piehole?

[bluedog]

25. Addiction.........

Thats what he said and thats what CNN has been playing the tape of...The WH cleaned it up on the web site in his speech..........

[Bluebear]

26. Gee, that's not revisionist & disingenuous is it, George?

[nostamj]

27. thanks for the confirmation!

I REALLY wanted to use the new ?W lyrics (see post #15) but I won't put ANYTHING in the show that I can't back up with facts.

[Bluebear]

51. I see it on 3 different sources now, think you're safe!

[Bluebear]

53. .

[kiahzero]

29. Non-scrubbed transcript

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/06-23-2004/0002198849&EDATE=

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040623/dcw037_1.html

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=130-06232004

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/8993690.htm?1c

[bluedog]

30. thanks........

I knew I heard that addiction and thought what the f**k is he talking about......

[Bluebear]

31. Thanks for that link

[smirkymonkey]

32. More Bushspeak?

"from the streets of Philly to the villages of Africa" - is that code for "Dark People"? And of course, we all know how all "dark people" are drug addicts, right? :grr:

What a stupid little turd!

[Bluebear]

33. Another unscrubbed link

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usnw/20040623/pl_usnw/transcript_of_remarks_by_president_bush_on_compassion_and_hiv_aids130_xml

Shame on the White House for changing the actual speech! America needs to know what their President really says!

[laylah]

35. What an ignorant

Dumbass! :mad:

Jenn

[onecitizen]

36. I THOUGHT that was what he said!!

I couldn't be sure though cause I don't make a habit of listening to him.....or looking at him. I had company at the time and said "did he say what I think he said?" We both laughed and laughed at the idiot. You could tell he THOUGHT he spoke correctly cause he didn't slow down one little bit.

[xchrom]

37. president fumble fuck

garbles another one -- this man cannot get anything right.

[opihimoimoi]

38. The man cannot even communicate properly, then how in the world can he

LEAD US?

He sez one thing but means something different? How confusing and revealing of his weakened mind.

[Lisa]

40. remember that time he caused an international incident with North Korea

He accused them of having broken an agreement. Turned out that he was speaking hypothetically and forgot to use the subjunctive, and it came out as if they HAD done this.

This kind of slipup can be quite dangerous when conducting diplomacy.

[opihimoimoi]

42. There might be a time when he uses the RED Button.....

"OOPs, Sorry! We just let loose 8576978 Nukes! Sorry! Mistake~~!!"

[Bluebear]

43. My bad, I meant to press the GREEN button! I get so confused!

[billybob537]

52. Thats not really fair he can't spell DIPLOMACY!

n/t

[Deja Q]

44. He makes two goofs. One is typical stupidity, the other is VERY terrifying

Every man and woman and child who suffers from this addiction

Our Archie Bunker wannabe meant to say "affliction". :eyes:


To whom much has been given, much is demanded.

This is the scary shit. Apparently those who get AIDS meds owe * and America a lot.

What th fuck happened to the sanctity of human life? Helping out people where people need it? Oh yeah, if there's a buck to be made, people then become SLAVES.


Forget this fascist ANTI-CHRISTIAN bastard. He's a phony, proven to be one by himself a thousand million times over.

[name not needed]

45. Jesus H. Christ in a Chickenbasket

Houston, we have a dumbfuck.

[happynewyear]

47. the village idiot wins another one

for the most dumb assed thing to say of the year! What a dry-drunken moron!

[goclark]

48. I saw a post here about Victor Ashe

I believe it was yesterday. The post suggested that if you did a google for George Bush and Victor Ashe it would explain more about this long time friend of GW's.
Well I tried it. One of the links talked about Victor having HIV, is that a tabloid lie or is it true?

[JustinF]

49. At least he didn't echo Rush's thoughts about AIDS

Earlier this week Limbaugh said that AIDS hasn't spread to the heterosexual community, except in Africa, which is all because of "promiscuity." Makes me want to kick his gigantic, racist, homophobic ass.

[GoneOffShore]

54. But they've cleaned it up

and changed 'addiction' in the transcript to 'affliction'.
Did you cache the page or do a screenshot?
They must keep the unelected idiot's gaffes from the public.

When, oh when, will this torment end?

[Bluebear]

55. See post 29, unscrubbed links