Dan recalls that Sharon's delicacy made him reluctant to repeat what the president had told him when they discussed Osama bin Laden. Finally he relented. And here is what the leader of the Western world, valiant warrior in the battle of cultures, promised to do to bin Laden if he caught him: "I will screw him in the ass!"
dcat is no pollyanna. Far from it. Lord knows I know the business end of profanity, which I think has a perfectly acceptable and indeed necessary place in the language. And it is pretty easy to work up fake outrage when presidents are caught spewing profanity, telling off-color jokes, or generally acting like the world is their locker room. But this seems to cross a host of lines, as evidenced by Sharon's reluctance even to repeat the tale. At best it is unseemly. And for many of us it reaffirms the impression that Bush is unsuited for his position.
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Pure comedy. My new favorite bush quote.
I tend to agree with goodlib that the biggest issue is simply context. It seems like Bush does not know when the hail-fellow-well-thee-met approach is inappropriate. Nothing he says would surprise me at this point, and that is not necessarily a good thing.
dcat
Love the profanity, don't know about the context. My issue is that his potty-mouth (in this case) sounds like Nixon's. I am an afficionado of presidential cursing and no president talked of screwing more than Nixon, with Clinton a close second. Although my favorite bit of Bush 41 cursing was when he told a pro-life protester (this was back in '80) to go f himself. Good times. Reagan was great too. There are two different times when he described things he wanted to do to the testicles of Muammar Qadaffi. Both started with nailing the testicles to something (2x4, church pew), then a) throwing him out a window or b) pushing him over. Good times.
I don't trust a man who doesn't use profanity. Plain and simple.
Now that being said.... there certainly is a time and place for everything. Didn't Daddy teach you when and when not to use this type of language GW?
Like Tootle, I enjoy presidential profanity (and like Tootle, I also like when old men cuss). Like Chet desmind, I do not trust a man who does not periodically use profanity. But this comment goes beyond the pale. It isn't funny, and it isn't thrown off the cuff -- Sharon was embarassed by it, clearly, which is one element to consider. If it was used against Sharon and he was offended, that might be one thing, but when your putative conspirator in ashamed of his role in it, that's a problem.
i thought his "wprld class asshole" line a few years ago, for example, was fine, and was annoyed at the mock outrage over it.
dcat
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