Posted on 01/30/2007 12:10:40 PM PST by presidio9
When the president - any president we have - speaks to all of us, I try not to miss it on television, so I've seen a lot of speeches by a lot of presidents. I listened to President Bush the other night.
I have a clear opinion of which of our recent presidents gave the best speeches and which gave the worst but I'm not going to tell you because I don't want to make anyone mad. Some presidents, of course, have been good speakers but I didn’t like what they said.
President Bush has made seven State of the Union speeches now. He looks pretty good giving a speech, I think.
President Bush didn't used to wear anything in his buttonhole. In the last six years though, he's had an American flag there. A lot of men wear the flag, particularly politicians running for office. You'd think that the people who make men’s suits might make a suit for politicians with the American flag already built into it.
I wish President Bush would stop mispronouncing the word "nuclear” when he speaks.
He always calls it "nucular". "Free of nucular weapons…"…to acquire nucular weapons…to clean, safe nucular power." It makes you wonder how he graduated from Yale.
Wouldn't you think that Laura or one of the doormen at The White House would point out to him that the word is "nuclear", not nucular?
It always seems to me that a president should write the words he speaks himself but of course none of our presidents do. Lincoln's Gettysburg Address may have been the last Presidential address actually written by a President.
President Bush certainly doesn't write his speeches. Does this sound like George W. Bush: "Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are commitments of conscience and so it is our duty to keep them permanently sound."
The president certainly edits the speech he's given but no matter how much a president rewrites or rehearses what someone else has written; you can always hear the phrases that aren’t really his. They sound written.
Presidents are always saying "Let us."
"Let us do that."
I always say to myself "Who me?"
If the president is going to read what someone else has written, I think the writer's by-line ought to be shown on screen at the end.
The words spoken by the president were not necessarily his except for "nucular."
This must be one great and understanding country that allows an old nut like Andy Rooney to spew nonsense regularly - and get paid for it.
PS, Andy: President Carter also mispronounced nuclear. I expect you voted for him, didn't you?
Jack Bauer says "nookuler" and nobody messes with Jack Bauer.
Time for a Depends change, Andy...
When Jack Kennedy was president I wished that he could learn to pronounce the word "Cuba" instead of saying "Cubar". Heck that man couldn't even say water, he said "watah".
If I want to hear the words of a senior well into the depths of Alzheimer's laden dementia, I'll go see my grandma. At least there, she may tell a nurse to go "f" herself, which is funny.
Ha! I was going to post the same thing about Reagan. I was dumbfounded when I read 'In His Own Hand' and saw letters and addresses that he'd written in the sixties that were obviously the basis for speeches made in his presidency. And Rooney is old enough to remember that his idol JFK didn't like nucular weapons in Cuber.
Let's get one thing straight: The only reason that you are even CONSCIOUS right now is because Jack Bauer doesn't feel like carrying you.
The random firing of synapses brought to you by Andy Rooney.
I'd read this but, Andy Rooney's an idiot.
I doubt President Bush intentionally mispronounces the word to irritate people. Regardless of who mispronounces the word, it is very annoying.
Also, he continues to mispronounce it say the word democrat majority because he knows that it really, really, really irritates liberal people like you.
"President Carter also mispronounced nuclear. I expect you voted for him, didn't you?"
If President Carter can say nucular, why can't President Bush
From Lieutenant Carter's Navy record.
16 OCT 1952 - 08 OCT 1953 -- Duty with US Atomic Energy Commission (Division of Reactor Development, Schenectady Operations Office) From 3 NOV 1952 to 1 MAR 1953 he served on temporary duty with Naval Reactors Branch, US Atomic Energy Commission, Washington, D.C. "assisting in the design and development of nuclear propulsion plants for naval vessels." From 1 MAR 1953 to 8 OCT 1953 he was under instruction to become an engineering officer for a nuclear power plant. He also assisted in setting up on-the-job training for the enlisted men being instructed in nuclear propulsion for the USS Seawolf (SSN575).
One of the few things I agree with him about is that it's extremely bad form to mispronounce a word as important as "nuclear", especially IMO if you're the POTUS and thus have your finger on the trigger, so to speak. It implies a lack of intelligence and is at best a matter of carelessness. Surely by now he has been told the correct pronunciation. His refusal to get it right shows that he just doesn't care if he comes off sounding like a moron.
He also claimed to have shut down a run away nuclear reaction onboard a submarine. That tid bit was lost pretty quickly. It was too easy to disprove.
Andy Looney may have written this little bit himself, but he stole that nuclear crap from a million other left wing ding-bats.
bleh
He says it the way he does because he's Texan and lots of 'em pronounce it as he does. He is AUTHENTIC, okay? I seem to remember the peanut farmer pronouncing it the same way and never once did the media freak out about it. Besides, I think he has fun sticking it to all our little elitists who think they are so much smarter than he is.
Stand-up hacks have included this topic in their routines since he was the governor of Texas. Trust me on this one: He knows the correct pronunciation. He just doesn't care.
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