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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 08:35 PM
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Bush used "decision" twenty-four times in under nine minutes.
"I like making decisions," President Bush told Scott Pelley in a 60 Minutes interview at Camp David. In the interview, posted in video form but untranscribed on CBSnews.com, Bush shows that he also likes saying "decision" to the press. The chart below shows how often he said the word during each of the interview's nine minutes, including two times when he practically shouted it.

Twenty-four "decision"s in under nine minutes. It's an inelegantly noticeable tactic, but more confusingly, it merely emphasizes that the new Iraq plan was Bush's choice. That may communicate presidential strength, but why not emphasize a more specific word or phrase (as with the administration's emphases on "terror," "war on terror," "cut and run," and other more evocative terms)? Does Bush really think this "decision"-ing will make a difference, or has he just picked up a verbal tic after reading The Purpose-Driven Life?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/01/15/bush-uses-decision-24-t_n_38723.html
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 08:38 PM
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1. He is the self-proclaimed "Decider".
What an a$$hole.
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 08:39 PM
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2. Where's Rove?
Bushler's pre-recorded message is skipping.


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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 08:41 PM
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5. Rove is working on his math homework. He failed his last exam.
Hi Swamp Rat! Nice to see you. :hi:
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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 08:46 PM
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6. Way'at Olney Blue!
:hi:



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walldude Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 08:50 PM
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9. LOL... Simon says,
that is, without a doubt the worst performance I have ever endured..
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Olney Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 08:39 PM
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3. Deciders say "decision" as often as possible. It's in the handbook
for Deciders.
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Blue Fire Donating Member (588 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 08:40 PM
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4. How in the hell can dumbya make a decision?
He's the only person in the world who doesn't get geico.com!
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sweetheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 08:47 PM
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7. He's mocking the real 'decider's
Every one of the real deciders gets to look on as the big coward kills other
people's children whilst keeping his own out of harms way.

All hail the big snickering coward; he thinks we're all a joke.

Ha ha its all very funny from a man who decides nothing at all,
handed his orders by his snickering cohorts in crime, ha ha ha,
isn't killing off americans funny....

4th down and 80 yards, its a sure win bush, everyone get behind him for the quarterback snark.
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Lautremont Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 08:49 PM
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8. "I like making decisions."
Fuckin' five year-old, man.
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 08:51 PM
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10. DECISIONS THAT KILL CIVILIANS AND OUR SOLDIERS FOR WHAT.. ?? Halliburtons profits
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 08:51 PM
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11. Good catch, Mr. Douglas. That's the real message the * Admin has "decided" on.
Facts remain a subversive element, "spreading democracy" has worn thin, and thinner, and that shouting you hear from the hinterland most of us call America can be relegated to another President.

Aggghhh...
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onecent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-15-07 09:15 PM
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12. WHY is this man in control of ANYTHING? Jesus it's time for everyone
to fucking wake up.

Our future, our safety, our lives are not very stable with this moronic son-of-a-bitch in the whitehouse. He is a BLITHERING IDIOT.
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