Actually, those mistakes where he fault of the Intelligence. And who screwed up the Intelligence?
Bum ba da dum!
BILL CLINTON!
I live in northern Maine, so I happen to say things a bit strange at times. What the heck does that have to do with being a good president? I hate it when people bring that up. It’s COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT!!!
Does it matter if you pronounce a word wrong? Well, to a point no. But there also comes a point to where you begin to wonder just how competent someone is if it’s words they should be familiar with.
If my dentist can’t pronounce the name of Iceland’s capital correctly, I don’t really care. But if he can’t pronounce the word “toothbrush” or “cavity” properly (assuming he doesn’t have a speech impedement, and is mispronouncing them because he doesn’t know any better), I’m going to start to worry. If the President of the United States can’t pronounce “Deoxyribonucleic acid” proplerly, who cares? But what if he, for instance, couldn’t pronounce “California” properly? I’d say then it’s legitmate to wonder about.
And this isn’t a knock against accents. It’s not about someone with a southern twang, or Minnesota long “Os”… the discussion (not mine, but I’ll comment on it) was about misprouncing names of countries and terms that a President deals with day in and day out (ie, “nuclear” and “Iraq” for two). Though with Palin, as I said before, it’s my hunch she’s mispronouncing “nuclear” wrong on purpose, trying to sound more “common.” I think it was no accident she picked the same word George Bush is famous for mispronouncing, to “mispronounce” the same way herself.
Not to pick on the French (just need an example here…) but what would you think of the leader of France, if he kept referring to us as the “Untied States?” or “United Stotes?” This isn’t that important an issue to me, but it’s always good to imagine how you’d feel with the roles reversed. What would you think of that French leader?
What about Arnold Swarthen…whats his name…he can’t say california the proper way…
I don’t think that political candidates would stoop to the level of saying words with twangs or speech differences to win elections…its crazy!
No, Arnold’s trouble is because of his accent. As I said before, you can’t fault someone for their accent, whether it be southern twnag, Minnesota, or Austrian. The talk was about people not with accents, but saying things wrong. “Nu-ku-lur” isn’t because of an accent.
Here’s another example.
Sarah Palin yesterday called Afghanastan “Our Neighboring Country.” This from the lady who claims foreign policy experience because she can simply see Russia from Alaska. Now I could be wrong, but the last time I checked, our neighboring countries were Canada and Mexico, unless the US has somehow floated over to the other side of the world while I was asleep. During the debate, she twice (not once as a harmless mistake, but twice) gave the wrong name for the NATO commander in Afghanastan, confusing him with Bush’s old Press Secratary. It’d be bad enough if she did this while being asked a question that took her by surprise (showing just how unready she is to be President), but it wasn’t a question asked by someone else, it was her own statement that she wanted to say. Twice.
Well yet again yesterday, in her speech (not in response to a question, but in her own speech), she referred to Afghanastan as “Our Neighboring Country.” Here’s the full quote. This is her own speech, with no “excuse” of it being a reporter asking her the question.
“They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan,” she told several hundred supporters at a fundraising event in San Francisco.
But leaving the world and our country in the hands of someone so surpremely unqualified if something happened to McCain (or McCain, who would do something so irresponsible just to energize his base) doesn’t matter at all to people who like her views I guess. Personally, I think McCain should’ve nominated my plumber.
By calling it “our neighboring country” she probably meant symbolically.
And if you watched something other than liberal-run news stations, You’d realize by the Russia thing she meant that if Russia was to attack us, what state would be attacked first? Alaska. Thus, Alaska must have a good defense and knowledge.
Huh? Sorry, but that doesn’t even make sense. Maybe I’m just not understanding you… so can you please explain to me then, how Afghanastan could possibly be considered (even symbolically) to be our “neighboring country?”
And this is going back a few posts, but I see you wrote:
“I want to make this clear:
BUSH WAS NOT THAT BAD OF PRESIDENT!”
Okay, no problem… everyone’s entitled to their own opinion. But can I just ask you one small favor? Please, oh please go on every internet board you know of and post this! Really! You’ll do the pro-Obama camp more good than they could ever do on their own! 
Afghanistan is always our neighbor jsut like Russia is our neighbor…or England or Spain…we all live in one big earth and we all interact with each other…get it!
To the average American; candidates don’t win votes by acting supernatural or highly developed. What the American people want is someone down to earth…who understands their problems and has a “viewable” plan to fix it.
And about Pres. Bush…he has disapointed million with his whimpy leadership. But what would Gore or Karry have done?? Would they have done any better?? would we still be fighting terror? would we have carbon taxes?
joeshia: Um, excuse me, but what other board have I posted that on? Give me a link, and I’ll take it back.
And don’t lecture me on defending my opinion, given the fact you go on all the political boards and post stuff like this.
EDIT: Sorry, I misread. Anyway, yes, Bush has done some pretty stupid things. But who hasn’t? Seriously? It’s been hard, bad things have happened, but they are not all Bush’s fault.
My friend claims that Sarah is sucking up just to become McCain’s towel girl. 
Ah, politics amuse me. I don’t even know why you people bother to discuss about people who want to run all over our lives, no offense.
No, I don’t. If we are all “neighbours” then why the need to specify that one country is more neighbouring than the other? Admit it - calling Afghanistan and the US neighbours was a flub and I don’t care how you twist the words around it just doesn’t make sense.
i don’t see how one country can be less neighboring that another…we are all next to each other.
So why the need to point out a country as “neighbouring” in the first place if we are all the same in terms of status? Which is the only way that sentence Sarah Palin said could make actual sense, since she sure isn’t talking about proximity of one country to another… Why the need to call Afghanistan and the US neighbours if we are all neighbours in this world anyway?
becuase she wanted to point out that we really are neighbors…
Did you hear Obama tonight on Pakistan?
He said he would do everything to get Bin Laden…
is Pakistan a neighbor to you Rachel?
No.
do you have any neighbors??
because America is considered the peace maker so everyone is our neighbor…
Afghanistan is our neighboring country, in a way, because we both make an impact on the world. Afghanistan is one of the countries that sells other countries oil, which is very important right now.
Goodness, I have no idea. It doesn’t really concern me since I’m not American and I dislike politics anyway. But I liked Obama over Hillary. And to me, it just seems as if Palin suddenly jumped into the politics scene from NOWHERE… kind of like McQueen did into the racing scene. 
. . .
or maybe that’s just because I don’t keep up with the news.
Oh No! she jumped onto the scene…it was kinda like a hidden present.
Did anyone notice that for the second time in two debates, Obama wore a flag pin, but McCain did not wear a flag pin?
Not that it matters to ME (it doesn’t), but the right wing went absolutely NUTS when Obama didn’t wear a flag at times. So much so that during one of the televised primary debates even the moderators brought it up, reading a question from someone in the audience, questioning Obama’s patriotism for not wearing a flag pin. And not a peep when McCain decides not to wear them during his debates. So would I be justified to say then, that McCain isn’t patriotic simply because he doesn’t wear a flag pin? Why not? That’s exactly what the right was doing to Obama before. I think any rational person can agree that one’s patriotism doesn’t hinge on whether he wears a flagpin or not. But what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, right? So I’ll say it, simply to mimic the right-wing. “Why hasn’t McCain worn a flag pin at his last two debates? Is he not patriotic? Someone patriotic would be wearing the pin of our great country!”
Just like how the right has railed against teen pregnancy being a symptom of “liberal upbringing.” Until it happens to them, then it’s "god’s gift. Just how stupid do they think we are?