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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Kuros wrote: |
| Aw, cut Adventurer some slack. It's easy to pick up a distorted headline and run with it. |
No way. It may be easy to pick up a distorted headline and run with it. But is it not necessary to participate in its self-righteous tone and contribute one's own melodrama to the mix...
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| I think this is stupid. I am glad Mandela is alive and I pray for his health...I do think a president should be able to express himself without saying Mandela, a South African and world icon, is dead. I hope the next president will be very eloquent. |
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jinju
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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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. |
Bush made a mistake. But it ws a different mistake than lib idiots are trying to pin on him. he knows Mandela is not dead. He was using Mandela as a symbol of political resistance. Bush's mistake was not in thinking Nelson Mandela is dead. It was in using someone as vile as Nelson Mandela as a symbol to be upheld, in the first place. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:37 pm Post subject: |
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He was speaking figuratively..."Saddam killed all the Mandela's" Nice try.  |
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stevemcgarrett
Joined: 24 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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Adventurer:
Still belaboring the point?
It was NOT a malapropism at all as spliff has pointed out.
He was employing metonymy, to be precise (although I doubt he knows the term--but then I'll wager neither do most posters to this forum and apparently South African authorities).
Mandela is not God-like. |
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