Hey buddy, is it Chuck or is it Charles? (Eurinals offended mainly by Bush’s hokey style)

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | November 20, 2003

[RightOnline]

You two owe me a new monitor and one helluva cleaning out of my laptop keyboard here.

[NutmegDevil]

I'm from East of the Hudson and initially had a real problem while living for three years in Oklahoma. I took aggie courses to make better my garden. PhDs from Oklahoma State in agriculture-related disciplines would lecture with English so disjunct that I determined that I had to get over how they phrased their thought or there would be no transfer of knowledge taking place. I ended up enjoying how they dispersed language, paying attention to what they said, rather than how. Could be a lesson here for those northeastern "intellectuals" who already know everything worth knowing.

[Savage Beast]

"It is his style rather than his politics that causes many of the problems over here"

Exactly. To Leftists ("Liberals" in America) style, appearances, and intentions are of overriding importance--substance and results of little or no importance. Such people are incredibly shallow--intellectually and morally. (For one thing, they consistently mistake morality for sexual prudery and--as in all other matters--completely miss the point.)

[Steve_Seattle]

"The broad dialect there - of which Mr Bush said that "my Georgie is probably just about as bad as my English", is in fact known as Geordie . . ."

I wonder if it occurred to this reporter that Bush might have been making a self-mocking pun - his name is George, and he referred to his mangled English as "Georgie," comparing it to the British "Geordie" dialect. Or am I giving Bush too much credit?

[Sockdologer]

The president's speech at Whitehall Palace

He was certainly more polite than those who "welcomed him." I'm grateful to our real British allies, however. I suppose we probably shouldn't forget about those.

[Steve_Seattle]

One good thing about this trip is that it will give the Brits a chance to see the real Bush, as opposed to the caricature created by the British press. Of course, the trip is still mediated through the filter of the press, but there is much in a trip like this that can't be censored out.

[Billthedrill]

I don't get it - Dubya was trying to compliment the LSE faculty on their elocution when he said "dang it, fellers, y'all use yer tongues purtier'n a two-dollar whore." You just can't please some people.

[davidosborne]

.......... BRAVO BRAVO >>

[Sockdologer]

Aww. Be nice, you guys! She's not _quite_ as bad as Hillary :P

[Sockdologer]

Very true.

[Bernard Marx]

Bravo! You speak for me.

[davidosborne]

Well said.... deserves another BUMP...BTTT !!!!!

Can I quote you on that?

FReegards,

David C. Osborne

[stand watie]

W's style is too HONEST for both the "harebrained,arrogantly clueless pseudo-intellectuals" of the effete, spineless northeast AND for the hatefilled, ignorant,xenophobic left in europe.

free dixie,sw

[Interesting Times]

An excellent point, and perfectly stated.

[Smile-n-Win]

It remains only to add that the LSE is a hotbed of outmoded Marxist-Leninist economic theories.

As a student participating in their External Programme, I can definitely confirm that! I recently received my subject guide for Organization Theory. I opened it to take a gander at what I'd be studying and the very first thing that met my eye was this: "Marxist and radical approaches to Organisation Theory"

The sociology course I took last year was also full of Marxist theories, feminism, racism, what not...

[joesnuffy]

Surprised "Chucky" wasnt dressed in a burka and veil

[aculeus]

Perfect example of Eurinalism in this open letter (in The Guardian) to GWB by former scientist Richard Dawkins:

Dear Mr Bush (I'd say President Bush if you had actually been elected),

I've been asked to give advice to you on touching down in Britain. It is this. Go home. You aren't wanted here. You aren't wanted anywhere else either, but you may have been misunderinformed that Britain was the one place where you would be welcomified. Wrong. Well, presumably your best pal Tony welcomes you. But that's about it. Your motorcades, your helicopters, your triggerhappy guards will try to protect you from the people of Britain, who would otherwise spoil the photo-ops for the folks back home. But be in no doubt. We despise you here too. After you and Jeb stole the election (by a margin smaller than the number of folks you executed in Texas) you were rightly written off as a one-term president: a fair advertisement for Drunks For Jesus but otherwise an idle nonentity; inarticulate, unintelligent, an ignorant hick. September 11 changed all that. Not that you covered yourself with glory that day. You are said to admire Churchill. Can you imagine Churchill, at such a moment, panicking all around the country from airbase to airbase? Even nasty old Rummy bunkered down where he belonged.

This is merely an excerpt of the crank's letter.

[ladyjane]

It is his style rather than his politics . . .

Liar.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Maybe President Bush can bring the Queen another one of those singing 'Billy Bass' things she reportedly loves so much.

[maica]

I'm sure they get along fine; this article just goes to show how unenlightened the British really are

I wonder how many of these Britsnobs know that GWB spent a summer with one of the royal families at their home in the north of England (or in Scotland, I'm no sure) when he was a teen-ager. The Bush-Windsor relationship goes way back!