Posted on 01/29/2007 9:49:29 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Bush didn't intend to insult Democrats: Snow
26 minutes ago
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 Tuesday, 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.
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heh...when Rush uses it, its a term of disrespect.
When W uses it, it's a Bush-ism, kinda like "nukular".
I'm not sure about southerners but I do know this, there is nothing democratic about the democRAT party.
It is, or at least was a few decades ago, but lately some in the GOP have been purposely using it because they think it sounds grating to the ears --- a kind of subtle Lakoffian slur.
Then let them stop referring to the Republican Party as "The Relious Right", right-wing wackos, and neocons. Besides that, it IS the "Democrat" party. There's nothing democratic about it.
Oh for God's sake.
The DUmmies have been toiling and seething over this perceived slight, and I can't believe it's made it this far.
I'm not surprised to see the MSM repeat this meme, that "Democrat Party" is a slight, though.
And, just for the record:
Democrat Party
Democrat Party
Democrat Party
Democrat Party
Democrat Party
Democrat Party
Heh heh.
I would have said, "If the shoe fits, wear it, you scumbucket traitors."
The adjectives for words with a -crat ending usually end in -ic. An autocrat commits an autocratic act. A bureaucrat ties you up in bureaucratic red tape. An aristocrat lavishes himself in aristocratic foppery.
No one ever says: "The Democratics and the Republicans."
Democrats say: "I am a Democrat" not "I am a Democratic."
This complaint is beneath nonsensical.
All the stuff they say about him and THIS bothers them?
I always call them democrat. LOL
Okay, he should never have said anything about it. Snow should have said " In light of the many slurs by members of the Democrat party to the President, I think you all can handle it"
"Bush is a idiot"
"Bush is a liar"
"Bush is a murderer"
"Bush is evil"
"Waaahhh he called us democrats and not democratic, Waaaah"
Yeah thats balance
The dims spend the last 7 years hurling every possible insult at the President and we're worried if we insulted THEM!!!??
Remember the MSM hissy fit over Newt's complaints about exiting the back door of the plane?
This seems at least as petty, but we won't get a whisper of coverage out of the MSM.
He should say, "I'm sorry I forgot the "ick" after Democrat."
You do understand the real reason the democratics hate this is because there is nothing democratic about them?
I rejoice in the knowledge that it irks the members of the Democrat Party; an organization that has ceased to be an American political party and now resembles a freakish collection of anti-American, anti-capitalist insurgent groups.
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Bob Dole made a big deal about using it in his 1976 Vice-presidential run to highlight that the Democrats did not have a monopoly on being Democratic. That is where modern common usage starts.
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