MSNBC: Bush speech will run about 23 minutes and there will be some poetic language

[sabra]

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/01/10/29257.aspx

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NBC's Kelly O'Donnell reports that the speech will take place in the White House Library, not the Map Room as was previously announced. According to Administration officials, it will run about 23 minutes and there will be some poetic language -- but mostly complex explanation of Bush’s plan and the circumstances that have led to this point. The advisers note the president will say, in effect, "I get it." He will take responsibility and acknowledge that past attempts to secure Baghdad have failed, and he will explain how and why he expects different results this time.

[elehhhhna]

1. Poetic languauge or poetic license? Bonus question:

What does "I am nor a crook" rhyme with, anyway?

[Wickerman]

2. First time Bush will have been in a library since he stopped

by to sexually harass Laura back in their dating days.

aw, memories.

[hatrack]

3. I just LOVE it when the Chimp-in-Chief gets "poetic", dont you?

:puke:, :puke: and :puke: again.

[rodeodance]

6. is that the Freedom liberty stuff?

[hatrack]

10. Only if it's on the march . . .

Kind of like skidmarks are on the march down Bush's Munsingwear.

[originalpckelly]

13. "I gave your son a gun...

Then sent him to die in the fun.

Hey, Dick, this poetictry is fun."

[soothsayer]

25. Like the romantic "the lump in the bed" poem to laura?

[Solly Mack]

4. "complex explanation of Bush’s plan " For to laugh!

Complex my sweet bippy.

"Just give me one more chance. Trust me. Believe me. We can win. Honest!"

[rodeodance]

5. cause he looked into Malke's eyes and he has resolve

[sabra]

8. that was a classic

:puke:

[radfringe]

7. so now he's the poet in commander?

there once was a man in Iraq
who's people thought he was on crack
he flumbbeded a speech
now he's impeached
and the pundits cried "give him some slack"

[karlrschneider]

32. The poet Laura ate?

:evilgrin:

[radfringe]

34. you bad...

I'm only sorry I didn't think of it first.. :rofl:

[Contrary1]

40. I am the DU Decider...

And I have decided this is the best comment of the day!

:toast:

[WiseButAngrySara]

9. If I watch him (which I won't) there will be FOUL language;

NOT poetic language! The thought of B* appreciating anything beautiful makes me gag! and the gross incongruities...

[Efilroft Sul]

11. The only poetry that comes to mind with Bush is "The Second Coming."

W.B. Yeats:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

[Benhurst]

12. Bush* will quote from his favorite, "Ding, Dong, Dell. Pussy's in the Well." NT

[NewJeffCT]

16. No - he'll say why he is going against the generals using this

from Black Sabbath:

"Generals gathered in their masses, just like witches at black masses/

Evil Minds that plot destruction, Sorceror's of Death's construction."

Clearly, with that in mind, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colin Powell, John Abazaid, etc are like witches and sorcerors, who are obviously evil pagan surrender monkeys who play Dungeons & Dragons. So, with that in mind, Bush had to go against their evil advice.

[matcom]

14. Bush: "Surge will be double-plus good"

:eyes:

[mikeytherat]

15. The classic line of the abuser, the addict, and the duped:

"This time it will be different."

mikey_the_rat

[Avalux]

17. He can say whatever he wants, no one's listening.

All of a sudden, the American public is supposed to believe he knows what he's doing? When everyone with a brain is opposed to his new "Plan"? HA HA HA!

:rofl:

Good luck with that, George.

[SoCalDem]

18. Poetry.. how nice.. how genteel of him

Roses are red
Violets are blue
Soldiers are dead
And I can kill more too

by Dubya

[Ishoutandscream2]

19. All Bush can do will be a limerick

"There was an old hermit named Dave. Heh, heh, heh."

[spanone]

20. Words are cheap, especially from a cheap man.

[gratuitous]

21. A 23-minute speech?

That's what he's been working on for the last 10 weeks? A 23-minute address? And what, pray tell, will he be saying tonight that he couldn't have said last week? Or last month? Or two months ago?

[janx]

22. This means that the speech writers delved into a google

or two of some poetic lines that might sound good when inserted into the speech. One of them may even have cracked the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations or some kind of poetry concordance.

But since the Chimp has the oratory ability of an eight-year-old, he'll destroy the lines. Wait and see.

[Javaman]

23. Actually no, he* doesn't get it, if he* did, he* would be pulling out the troops.

colossal racist failure*

[htuttle]

24. "I like toast"

[soothsayer]

26. A thousand points of fright?

[rebel with a cause]

27. I've got a poem for him to read

Georgie’s Lament by FR

Isn’t it funny the secrets that we hold
Deep inside where the feelings run cold?
Isn’t it funny that no one can see
The evil that lives within you and me?
And isn’t it funny that the masses follow us still?
That we can’t be stopped is the biggest thrill.
Isn’t it funny; they don’t see the smirks that betray all
Like sheep they follow us to their eventual fall.

They’re marching in the streets chanting our names
Taking over nations, simple pawns in our games.
And the people don’t know and nobody cares-
The media amuses them with lion, tigers and bears.

Isn’t it funny how we smile and nod?
Giving the impression that we come from God.
Isn’t it funny that only some of them knows
That we created the cold wind of war that blows?
And isn’t it funny how that few continue to beg and cry;
Asking over and over for us to tell them why?
Isn’t it funny that we don’t answer for what we do?
We are above the law unlike the rest of you.

They’re taking to the streets, calling our names,
Cursing us and setting our effigy up in flames.
And the people don’t know and nobody cares-
The media amuses them with lion, tigers and bears.

[spanone]

28. If death and destruction are poetic, have at it junior.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

29. There is only one additional american that should be in Iraq

walking door to door. Maybe after he finishes his poetry reading he can suit up...

[ck4829]

30. **: "What rhymes with September the Eleventh?"

[Norquist Nemesis]

37. The year 2000 and Seventh!

LOL!

[Nutmegger]

31. Doesn't matter what he thinks. The funding will be cut.

CUT IT NOW!

[Marr]

33. Words are free.

And GW Bush is one of the worst and most dedicated liars we've ever had in public office. His speech is meaningless, his claims are meaningless.

I'd settle for some honest coverage of his *actions*.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

35. "The Charge of the Light Brigade" would be appropriate.

Especially the second stanza:

"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Someone had blunder'd:
Their's not to make reply,
Their's not to reason why,
Their's but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred."

Substitute "surge" for "charge" and "sacrifice" for "die". The "blunder'd" needs no substitution.

[Norquist Nemesis]

36. He could save us all the time and do it in two minutes or less

"Look! I am the President and I'm going to do whatever the hell I want! Got it? God Bless You and God Bless America."

On second thought, make it a 15 second spot and be done with it! That's the essence of what his speech is going to add up to. :grr:

[huskerlaw]

38. What, exactly, does he "get"?

Cuz from where I'm sitting, it appears he's even more clueless than usual. Which wouldn't really bother me, except now 20,000 more Americans are going to be put in danger for nothing. God only knows how many of them and how many innocent Iraqi civilians will die. In a "surge" that absolutely nobody with any knowledge of the situation supports...

Tell me, sir...what exactly is it that you "get"?

[Ganja Ninja]

39. "Roses are red and violets are blue."

"I'm getting rich. How about you?"

[libnnc]

41. And he'll close it with a moment of Martha Graham-esque

interpretive dance.


Poetic. About as poetic as My Aunt Fannie in a mu-mu.