@Professor:
On the one hand, I applaud your tolerance and the fact that you don’t filter or censor posts. On the other hand, there must be a limit to how much damage a saboteur like Andrew can inflict on your site. Andrew’s modus operandi at the LR blog is: whenever he sees a topic that’s damaging to what he perceives as his “cause”, he takes a dump of thousands and thousands of lines of totally irrelevant off-topic cut-and-paste garbage, thus making the topic unreadable. That’s what he has done to you here on this page. I would recommend deleting any dump like that. Make the cut-off at, say, 2,000 words and delete the rest.
@Peter who wrote: “Sorry to disappoint you, but Putin did say “Stalin” instead of “Lenin” — but clearly this time it was just a verbal slip…“
No. Can’t you read? Let me remind you:
Владимир Путин выдержал паузу: – “У меня встречный вопрос. Кромвель был лучше или хуже Сталина?”
In case your Russian is rusty, this says:
Putin took a long pause: “I have a counter-question for you. Was Cromwell better or worse than Stalin?”
“Counter-question”! That means “a different question”. So, Putin changed from Lenin to Stalin on purpose and openly told the journalist that he was asking a DIFFERENT question. Unfortunately, the original translation here was: “another question”, which hides this fact. So, everything was on the up and up. As always, it was lost in the translation.
Peter continued: “… rather than yet another demonstration of his hopeless inability to handle unscripted questions.“
Nonsense. You are for some weird reason confusing Putin with Bush. Putin is the smart one. Bush and Palin are the retards. Here are some typical videos and quotes of Bush and Palin answering unscripted questions:
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2008/1001/couric-strikes-again-asks-palin-impossible-question
Couric strikes again – asks Palin impossible question:
It was a pretty simple question. “When it comes to establishing your worldview, I was curious, what newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this to stay informed and to understand the world?” Couric asked.
“I’ve read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media,” Palin responded.
You think Couric may have had a follow-up to that response? You’d be correct. And it wasn’t a devious follow-up. In fact, it was two words. “What specifically?”
Same response. “Um, all of them, any of them that have been in front of me all these years,” Palin said.
Palin On Foreign Policy
“Exclusive”: Katie Couric talks with Gov. Sarah Palin about her foreign policy experience and Alaska’s proximity to Russia
Bush Speech on Tribal Sovereignty
“Mr. President, what does tribal sovereignty mean in the 21 st century?”
“Tribal sovereignty means that: it’s sovereign. it’s, you’re a, you’re a — you’ve been given sovereignty, and you’re — viewed as a sovereign entity……. And therefore the relationship between the federal government and —– tribes is one between —— sovereign entities.”
Bush “Fool Me Once…”
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee—I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee…. — that says: “fool me once – shame on……… shame on …… you? You fool me—you can’t get fooled again!”
“You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.” –interview with CBS News’ Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/bushismvideos/youtube/bushharmamerica.htm
“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.” –Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/bushvideos/youtube/bush-obgyns.htm
“Too many good docs are getting out of business. Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.”
“Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?” -Florence, South Carolina, Jan. 11, 2000
“I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.” –Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008
“The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him.” –Washington, D.C., Sept. 13, 2001
“I don’t know where bin Laden is. I have no idea and really don’t care. It’s not that important. It’s not our priority.” –Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002
“Goodbye from the world’s biggest polluter.” –in parting words to world leaders at his final G-8 Summit, punching the air and grinning widely as those present looked on in shock, Rusutsu, Japan, July 10, 2008
“I wish you’d have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it…I’m sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with answer, but it hadn’t yet…I don’t want to sound like I have made no mistakes. I’m confident I have. I just haven’t — you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I’m not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one.” –after being asked to name the biggest mistake he had made, Washington, D.C., April 3, 2004
“For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It’s just unacceptable. And we’re going to do something about it.” –Philadelphia, Penn., May 14, 2001
“They misunderestimated me.” –Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
“I would say the best moment of all was when I caught a 7.5 pound largemouth bass in my lake.” –on his best moment in office, interview with the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, May 7, 2006
George W Bush Comedy Quotes
“I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.” –Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000
“Do you have blacks, too?” –to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2001
Reporter: Is the tide turning in Iraq? — Bush: “I think – tide turning – see, as I remember, I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of, it’s easy to see a tide turn……….. Did I say those words?” June 14, 2006
“You are working hard to put food on your family.” –Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000
“My pro-life position is: I believe there’s life. It’s not necessarily based in religion. I think there’s a life there, therefore the notion of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.” – Quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 23, 2001
“Border relations between Canada and Mexico have never been better” September 24, 2001
