Bush and Blair using same ear-piece? "you know" said 10 times...

[sabra]

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/07/28/national/w115057D74.DTL&type=politics

BUSH:

And so what you're seeing is, you know, a clash of governing styles.

For example, you know, the notion of democracy beginning to emerge scares the ideologues, the totalitarians, those who want to impose their vision. It just frightens them.

you know, I hear this amazing kind of editorial thought that says, all of a sudden, Hezbollah's become violent because we're promoting democracy. They have been violent for a long period of time. Or Hamas?

They just got a different tool to use than we do: They kill innocent lives to achieve objectives. That's what they do. And they're good. They get on the TV screens and they get people to ask questions about, well, you know, this, that or the other. I mean, they're able to kind of say to people: Don't come and bother us, because we will kill you.

BLAIR:

But actually, you know — and this is probably where the policymakers such as myself were truly in error — is that even before September the 11th this was happening in all sorts of different ways in different countries.

You can see this. You can see it in Kashmir, for example. You can see it in Chechnya, you know? You can see it in Palestine.

And it is going to be difficult. Look, we've got a problem even in our own Muslim communities in Europe who will half buy into some of the propaganda that's pushed at it _the purpose of America is to suppress Islam; you know, Britain's joined with America in the suppression of Islam.

you know, it's nonsense. The propaganda is nonsense. And we're not going to defeat this ideology until we in the West go out with sufficient confidence in our position and say, This is wrong. It's not just wrong in its methods; it's wrong in its ideas, it's wrong in its ideology, it's wrong in every single wretched reactionary thing about it.

I mean, you know, we want to see it happen as quickly as possible, but the conditions have got to be in place to allow it to happen.

And in relation to the multinational force, now what will be — it's not going to be the opportunity to fight, you know, to fight their way in, but the very way that you pose that question underlines this basic point, which is: This can only work if Hezbollah are prepared to allow it to work.

[Benhurst]

1. Couples often share mannerisms and figures of speech.

[walkon]

2. LOL

So true.

[Chiyo-chichi]

5. see below

[QuestionAll...]

7. heh. have you seen bush/blair Endless Love?

http://politicalhumor.about.com/cs/bushmultimedia/v/blendlesslove.htm

oldie but goodie.

[partylessinOhio]

3. US and Great Britain should both be ashamed and mortified.

All these two needed was to have been moved to two barstools and have drinks shoved in front of them. This was bar-talk about how they would run the world.

[NanceGreggs]

4. The constant use of the phrase "you know" ...

... can be interpreted as a cry for help.

In other words, the speaker is telling the listener: "YOU KNOW what's going on here, and I DON'T - please feel free to interrupt at any point and enlighten me with YOUR knowledge, because I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUCK I'M DOING."

That's just my theory, but I'm sticking to it.

They are both such, you know, losers.

[AndyA]

6. Well, you know, Bush isn't exactly the world's best speaker, and

Blair is, you know, Bush's patsy. They're both struggling to find a hint of legitimacy in their words. Deep down inside, they know the true reasons for the mess the world is in today.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. Blair says it all the time: eg 14 times in an interview in Australia

http://bhc.britaus.net/News/newsdefault.asp?id=702

Which is about once per sentence, because it's not that long an interview.

[gratuitous]

9. "They get people to ask questions"

Well, that's certainly the mark of every terrorist I've ever known. But I am puzzled by Stupidhead's assertion that it is "they" who kill innocent lives to achieve objectives. Look in the mirror much, George? Or do you have a dossier on each and every one of the uncounted tens of thousands of persons murdered by our military in Afghanistan and Iraq?

Damnable twerp.