Bush didn't intend to insult Democrats: Snow ( "I congratulate the Democrat majority" at SOTU)

[Kadie]

Bush didn't intend to insult Democrats: Snow
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush did not intend to insult Democrats by failing to pronounce their party's full name in his State of the Union address, spokesman Tony Snow said on Monday.

In his speech last Wednesday, Bush declared to a joint session of the U.S. Congress that "I congratulate the Democrat majority." Some Democrats were incensed he did not say "Democratic." The party's proper name is the Democratic Party.

Republicans for years have dropped the last two letters of the name as a slight to the party. Bush's prepared text of his speech had the proper pronunciation, but when he delivered it he made the mistake.

Snow said Bush meant no slight.

"I want to thank everybody for making three mountains out of a mole hill. The president, when we asked him about it, said, 'What?... I didn't mean anything by it,"' Snow said.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070129/us_nm/bush_democrats_dc_1

[Journeyman]

1. Well, that's a possibility. . .

n/t

[seabeyond]

6. but not a probability n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. No it's not!

[kenny blankenship]

2. * meant no offense, he's just too stupid to pronounce words with more than 3 syllables

His thinkum gives out after marshalling 3 sounds in a row.

[Norquist Nemesis]

Bush is a shithead!

Wha??? No, I didn't mean anything by it.

:grr:

[peekaloo]

3. I believe our glorious pResident! He didn't mean to congratulate the Democratics.

:sarcasm:

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[Hand]

4. Chimpy insults all of humanity by just breathing. nt

[soswolf]

5. I always thought that "what...?" was his stock response

to anything asked of him that didn't involve baseball.

[tularetom]

7. Good they are starting to think about it

Just keep nailing them on it -keeps them off balance.

[WinkyDink]

9. And makes the next time less easy to explain away.

[yellowcanine]

10. Ok, let's see if he stops using it then. "Trust but verify." - Ronald Reagan.

[librechik]

11. Snow is such an innocent little Sunday School Teacher type

of course she believed Dear Leader when he said he meant no harm.

[stanwyck]

12. He's the President. Learn the correct name

of the other major political party, for pete's sake. And I WAS insulted. C'mon. How hard is it for a professional politician to know the correct name of the opposing party?
Ignorance is not an excuse. He's had YEARS to learn the correct name and he's either too lazy or thinks it's "funny" to say the name incorrectly.
And Snow is again being a total whore to pretend not to be able to understand why people are insulted. I doubt the man would appreciate being called "Phoney" all the time instead of Tony. Or maybe he's used to that by now.

[RaleighNCDUer]

13. It's not *'s fault that he cannot read --

The published text of his speach said "Democratic majority" - but poor, befuddled * doesn't read all that well, so it's not really his fault.

[Ilsa]

14. Of course it was intentional! He's a BULLY and wanted to give Cheney

a hard-on. He does demeaning shit like this to people all the time, even friends. He does it because he is a BULLY.

[Ganja Ninja]

15. I guess in his defense he is rather lazy and stupid.

So dropping the last two letters may have been a mistake. That is if they are admitting that it was one more a lazy stupid mistake in a long list of lazy stupid mistakes by a lazy and stupid ignoramus who isn't fit to sweep the floors at the White House let alone hold the office of the presidency. Is that what Tony is saying?

[donco6]

16. Mountains out of a mole hill, my ass.

This is not a mole hill. They've been pulling this shit for years and it's time for the Republican leadership to grow the hell up.

[moondust]

17. They're lying.

Wingnuts are doing everything they can to popularize this pejorative much as they would a racial slur. It is no accident that it found its way into the SOTU.

[Hubert Flottz]

18. I guess it would be hard to read clearly with ones head that far up

one's ass.