The Consequences Of Your President Speaks!

Christ, what a dumbass.

Nelson Mandela is still very much alive despite an embarrassing gaffe by U.S. President George W. Bush, who alluded to the former South African leader's death in an attempt to explain sectarian violence in Iraq.

"It's out there. All we can do is reassure people, especially South Africans, that President Mandela is alive," Achmat Dangor, chief executive officer of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, said as Bush's comments received worldwide coverage.

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"I heard somebody say, Where's Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead because Saddam Hussein killed all the Mandelas," Bush, who has a reputation for verbal faux pas, said in a press conference in Washington on Thursday.

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References to his death -- Mandela is now 89 and increasingly frail -- are seen as insensitive in South Africa.

Comments

[Bruce]

Now, THAT'S funny! The news people misunderstood an obvious metaphor.

[Big Mo]

Don't you think that you're the dumbass, considering that you and the reporter took this wildly out of context?

He was speaking metaphorically, and not referring to the actual Mandella.

First item for your enjoyment:

http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110010637

[nuts]

S'matter? Bush a little too nuanced for you? Dumbass, indeed.

[Holden Caulfield]

Obviously Atrios does not have the dumbest trolls.

[pie]

He was speaking metaphorically, and not referring to the actual Mandella.

Bush wouldn't know a metaphor if he hit one with his tricycle, as he's so often demonstrated.

Who's the dumbass?

Dang! I still can't believe bush has any supporters, but we can't all be aware and intelligent.

[Virginia]

Obviously Atrios does not have the dumbest trolls.

Posted by: Holden Caulfield

You're gonna get sued for alienation of affection.

[Jack K., the Grumpy Forester]

...Congratulations, Holden. Now you've truly hit the big time! Three troolz!

[enthusiastic golf clap]

[Anymouse]

You people are thick -- even after you've been proven wrong you just keep on going! Totally oblivious to reality!

[Matteo]

Uh, Caufield, you're dancing in the wrong endzone. Congrats on being pwned by the Wall Street Journal.

[Morgan K Freeberg]

Hmmm...so OpinionJournal gives us the relevant information, and you tell us what to think. Whom to believe.

[ichigo]

Bush wouldn't know a metaphor if he hit one with his tricycle, as he's so often demonstrated.

Who's the dumbass?

The is the old "fake but accurate" argument. Even though it's humorously wrong, it's still OK because everyone's supposed to hate Bush. I don't know about you, but anyone who got through Yale, who managed to pilot a fighter jet, and who's spending 8 years as President can't be all that much of a dumbass, no?

A fool and his blog...
One hopes you learn to think on your own, your post shows a gross lack of comprehension (try not to procreate before you learn to think)

[B.]

George Bush stupid? Naw, Reuters just dishonest.
Next Reuters reports Dan Quayle misspelled potatoe.

[Allan Jacobson]

It appears that Holden Caulfield is a lazy dumbass. President Bush used a rhetorical device to make his argument more lucid. A dumbass does not recognize anything rhetorical.

[John]

Can we all agree that Holden Caulfield is just as smart as his post suggests?

http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110010637

Cheers,

John

[Curt]

Who is the dumbass, beeeyoootch?

[Steven]

This is pretty embarassing for you. Maybe you should admit you mistake and apologize.

[luke]

Three cheers for the internet, where showing off how dumb you are increases traffic.

[egately]

Shame on you, Mr. Claufield.
Or do you even know what shame is?
In Japan, you would fall upon your sword to save for your family.
Luckily, you are not from Japan and have no face to save.

[egately]

Shame on Reuters, too, for their obviously biased reporting techniques.
One of these days, perhaps we will get some news that is just accurate facts.

[Bobtastic]

Priceless! Thanks for leaving it up, at least. I suppose that shows you have balls, if not brains. Or maybe it shows that you're not just gullible and stupid, but impervious to reason.

Tell ya what. I'll go look around your blog, see if you have acknowledged your appalling error someplace else, and report back.

[Bobtastic]

And..... NO! No sign of a clue in any of the stories since this one went up!

WOW! You are every bit as wonderful to me and mine as MoveOn.org's *>BRILLIANT<* "Betray-us" ad! Thank you so much!

[Bobtastic]

btw, the pseudonym "Holden Caulfield" is also priceless and reveals a spectacularly thoughtless, shallow, and narrow world view. I'll bet you have NO IDEA why I would say that!

[Mike's America]

It's so funny to watch you lefties discard what little intellectual integrity you have left.

You are all so poisoned by hate that you're becoming ever more irrelevant and an embarrasment to yourselves and your family.

Grow up!

[Anonymous Hollywood blacklist dodger]

Bush's I.Q. (extrapolated from SAT score): http://www.csbsju.edu/uspp/Election/bush011401.htm

And yes, Gore's is higher.

But statistically Bush's is likely higher than yours.

...WR on yr blog, pwning your posts! SNAP

[caliph garrett]

Attack, my flying monkeys! Surrender, Holden!

[Colden Haulfield]

Beclown! Beclown! Beclown!

[Harv]

"Bush's I.Q. (extrapolated from SAT score): http://www.csbsju.edu/uspp/Election/bush011401.htm

And yes, Gore's is higher."

And yet, Bush won in 2000, despite the attempt do recount until the Democrats won (like they were able to in Washington state, a few years later), and he beat Kerry.

So much for Gore's brain. ;-)

[Save Harv]

Harv, stop giving Gore head, and don't take him up you little a$$ either.

[juandos]

Well yet another grabbing his ankles LIBTARD metaphorically opens mouth and sticks foot in it all the way to the rectal orifice...LOL!

[body and mind]

yea it is funny that people still think he is alive. you know what i bet he is hanging out with elvis ghandi and jesus!!