Ok. How many Shakespeares has Kerry read?

[saltpoint]

Dubya says he's read "three Shakespeares."

[whometense]

1. Heard that.

:rofl: :rofl:

I bet Kerry's read at least ten Shakespeares.

[saltpoint]

2. ! Or even a dozen!

[ginnyinWI]

4. Hell, even I've read ten "Shakespeares."

The dummy thinks he's so smart! Doofus.

[ginnyinWI]

3. At the end of his book, The New War,

he quoted Yeats. And I'll bet he thought that idea up all by himself without the help of a political operative! :rofl:

And didn't somebody say he could recite poetry from memory?

[saltpoint]

8. I imagine Dubya flunking any high school English teacher's course

in Shakespeare, but imagine John Kerry shooting the gap with straight-As all season long.

It's one of a thousand good reasons why Kerry would have been infinitely better for our country than Dubya.

[karynnj]

16. One of the books or articles said that

He and Pershing (I think) recited Gunga Din in unison while on a Kerry's fathers boat watching the Harvard/Yale boat race. Kerry started both a debate and a literary club in high school.

[ginnyinWI]

5. I did a ranting post about * and his so-called book-reading last night:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2010057&mesg_id=2010057

[saltpoint]

9. I just posted in that thread, ginny. (#54)

Really good stuff you set in motion there.

[ProSense]

6. I thought it was the

title of a book!



:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[saltpoint]

7. LOL!

[Democrafty]

10. THREE?

I've read 29. Maybe I should be POTUS.

[saltpoint]

11. Twenty-nine, eh? Sounds pretty good. But can you clear brush!?

[_dynamicdems]

12. LOLOL!

:rofl: That's the funniest comment yet!

[Democrafty]

21. Touche!

[saltpoint]

22. Hi, Democrafty. I try to keep my mind off Dubya's public remarks

because it's so depressing to listen to him.

When he reads a prepared text the words themselves are at least coherent, but on his own two feet, he's just not worth the attention.

I can't wait for the first caucuses and primaries in 2008!

[Democrafty]

24. Hi, the OC.

(Can I call you the OC?)

I hear you. I've been waiting too long for a President who's smarter than me.

[saltpoint]

26. I hope a lot of DUers will volunteer for Democratic candidates this

fall and create a sweep of blue.

It would be terrific to take back both chambers of Congress in Washington, and if we can build the party with several local and regional offices as well, that would be great.

[Democrafty]

29. I agree.

It seems like a lot more Democrats are aware of the importance of Congress, and of a good party infrastructure, in taking back the WH (and just generally making life a little easier for Americans who are not, say Dick Cheney.) We learned the hard way when we didn't have that in '04.

[karynnj]

30. DU aside,

While atmy county headquarters, in a really Republican county - There are more Democratic volunteers than there were in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2005. That's a good sign, though there is no hope on the congressional candidate.

[ProSense]

31. I take issue with the statement: "at least coherent"

Center for Adoptation of Malfeance into Conanical English

:rofl:

THE PRESIDENT: Well, again, this is -- there was no malfeance involved. This was an honest disagreement about accounting procedures. And the SEC took a good look at it and decided that the procedures used by the auditors and the accounting firm needed to -- were not the right procedure in this particular case, or the right ruling, and, therefore, asked Harken to restate earnings, which it did. I mean, that's the way the SEC works. That's the proper role of an oversight group.

There was no malfeance, no attempt to hide anything. It was just an accounting firm making a decision, along with the corporate officers, as to how to account for a complex transaction.

Corporate malfeance has had an effect on our economy and we need to do something about it. That's why I was honored to sign the most comprehensive corporate reform legislation since Franklin Roosevelt was the President. The message is clear now. The message is clear to people who should know better. If you think you're going to find easy money in this country, you're wrong. What you're going to find is hard time if you cheat the people. (Applause.)

They applauded after he said malfeance?

:rofl:

Edited: He actually said it twice in the first speech!

[saltpoint]

32. Point well taken. I don't know what got into me.

:thumbsup:

:hi:

:dem:

[_dynamicdems]

13. He does tend to pluralize, like a first grader holding up three fingers,

"Three. I did three whole homeworks."

[Democrafty]

20. The plays are online. he could have read them on three different

internets!

[_dynamicdems]

25. LOL! Picking on Shrub is almost too easy, kinda like shooting quail. n/t

[Democrafty]

27. LOL! Or your friends. In the face. n/t

[Island Blue]

14. Perhaps he was talking about Shakespeare fishing tackle.

Maybe, after sticking the hook on the end of the jelly worm in his own mouth one too many times, he finally read the warning label on his Shakespeare Scooby Doo rod-and-reel combo - three times. That'd be my guess.

http://www.shakespeare-fishing.com/products/scooby/kits.shtml

[saltpoint]

23. LOL! Excellent.

[karynnj]

15. We read that many in High School English classes!

I remember that we read Romeo and Juliet, Julius Ceasar, and Macbeth. I would assume that Bush was assigned at least that many. He went to Andover, I went to a local public high school in a lower middle class to middle class Northern Indiana town, four years later. I've read and seen at least a dozen performed. (Though my then 17 year old was shocked I hadn't read them all when we saw Pericles (which I hadn't read) at the Globe in London - she had bought the collected works and read them over one of her high school summers.)

[wisteria]

17. LOL, maybe Williams should have asked him to recite something

from Shakespere. A few come to my mind,

"Give me my robe, put on my crown;I have immortal longings in me."

'Oh villian, villian, smiling, damned villian."

"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: words without thoughts never to heaven go."

and one final one that I think suits Bush well,

"And thus I clothe my naked villany with odd old ends, stol'n out of holy writ, and seem a saint, when most I play the devil."

[karynnj]

18. That last one is amazing - I guess it's true

for everything, there's a great Shakespeare quote.

[wisteria]

19. I have always loved how cleaver Shakespeare was with words.

I had to laugh when Bush said he read three Shakespeare's.He has enough trouble trying to master the New English language, let alone trying to figure out Old English.

[WildEyedLiberal]

28. Love that last quote

It had a cameo in V for Vendetta, too - an excellent analogy for our modern times (scarily enough). It really does describe these evil "religious" fascist warmongers.