Saddam 'Crawfished,' Bush Says in Verbal Attack

Reuters ^ | September 04, 2002 | Randall Mikkelsen

[SunStar]

The schmucks at Reuters don't know what to make of the President sometimes... LOL

[eureka!]

Thanks for the "news" Reuters. Here's hoping W says more of the same....

[joyce11111]

Ya jes gotta luv W.

[maica]

Brit Hume on Fox News discussed this new word usage tonight. What a great soundbite President Bush gave the reporters today. They cannot resist using it on every newscast.
By tomorrow some gifted cartoonists will have drawings of Saddam scurrying into a hole!

[Shermy]

I think "frankenfished" would be a hipper metaphor.

[dighton]

Texas's Largest Crawfish Boil

Guess who is "guest" of honor.

[Miss Marple]

FYI. Hahahaha!

Off to make dinner!

[alnick]

"Crawfished" refers to the freshwater crustacean -- also known as a crayfish, crawdad or mudbug -- and its knack for scurrying into a hole when discovered.

Actually, to crawfish is to back out of something. If you approach a crawfish, it will kind of stand up and throw its arms up and back up. When you see this, you can kind of visualize a human when he throws his arms up and backs up and says, "Oh no, I'm not going to do that.

[AmishDude]

who has long cloaked his Connecticut Yankee roots with the plain-speaking style of his adoptive Texas,

Where do you start with this little gem of bias? "Connecticut Yankee?" While that may have been true of his father, GHW Bush moved to Texas in 1951. GW Bush's only formative experience with Connecticut was in college.

[mc5cents]

All I know is that my mother's crawfish salad was the best dang thing I ever ate. My mom was from Key West and they called Florida lobster(no claws) crawfish.

[Centurion2000]

Bush's rhetorical blast undoubtedly led to head-scratching in foreign capitals

And D.C. as well, till they got the Texan-English translation :)

[Samwise]

Yep! That's the Dubya I luvs.

One of my favorite lines during the campaign was when a reporter asked him what the difference between him and his dad was. Without hesitation, he responded, "Why, I'm from Texas."

It was priceless. Dubya looked at the reporter as if the reporter were from another planet.

"Why, I'm from Texas" spoke volumes.

[Wphile]

I caught that too about he Connecticut Yankee - BS. George W was 2 when they moved to Texas. Sheesh.

[Ditto]

The president, who has long cloaked his Connecticut Yankee roots with the plain-speaking style of his adoptive Texas, often turns to vivid, folksy language...

Can't they give the guy a break? Yes, he was born in Connecticut, but he has lived in Texas from the time he was a baby. Hell, I've know adults who moved to Texas, and after a few years they start talking like that too.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

For friendly FReepers not accustomed to Texas jargon, a crawfish (aka crawdad) moves in a sideways manner. The Presidents use of the word refers to Saddam's constant dodge of international law and manipulation of the media.

[AmishDude]

I'm sure the byline would read "Samuel Clemens".

[SouthernFreebird]

I can picture Saddam doing the dance scene in 'the best little whorehouse in texas'... singing' the Sidestep

[groanup]

"For friendly FReepers not accustomed to Texas jargon, a crawfish (aka crawdad) moves in a sideways manner"

Not so! The forty million or so that I have seen over 51 years in the streams of Georgia shot straight backwards when molested like many a salt-water crustacean.

[PhilDragoo]

who has long cloaked his Connecticut Yankee roots with the plain-speaking style of his adoptive Texas,

George Walker Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Conn., the eldest son of President George Bush, who was then still a student at Yale. In 1948, the family moved to Odessa, Tex., where the senior Bush went to work in the oil business.

W moved from Connecticut to Texas at the age of two.

The French are so full of sh!t it distorts every uttering they make concerning our president.

They have leurs têtes lèvent leurs anuses .

For those of you in Fleuve Linda, they're as blind as crawdads' clymers.