Bush's "Comma" quote and Clinton.

[edhopper]

It seems the Clinton/Fox brouhaha has sucked all the air out of any other political talk the last few days.
So Bush can make an outlandish statement like,
I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is — my point is, there’s a strong will for democracy."
Except for a couple of boards and CNN it goes unnoticed.
Kerry was hammered for months about his "for it before I was against it" misstatement.
But W says something that should be condemned by all Dems and most other free thinking Americans. But it's swept under the rug.
We get the Dean Scream for a week, this I haven't seen in any MSM but CNN, where he said it.
Shouldn't this be featured in every Dem campaign ad.
Are we incapable of calling this idiot to task for anything he says?

[goclark]

1. I believe we are incapable, sad nt

[shain from kane]

2. I've only heard one other person talk with punctuation.

Dan Baird - I Love You Period Lyrics

Back when I was goin' to school,
I never learned a thing
All I did was daydream,
a-waitin' for the bell to ring
I had a certain teacher,
I always tried to impress her
When she stood up in the classroom,
I would mentally undress her
Then one day I decided,
that I would write a little letter
She said the spellin' was a masterpiece,
the punctuation could be better
I understood what she was saying,
I got the gist of her sentiment
She said "I don't mean to be degrading,
"but here's the way that it should've went:"

Chorus) I love you period
Do you love me question mark
Please, please exclamation point
I want to hold you in parentheses
I love you period
Do you love me question mark
Please, please exclamation point
I want to hold you in parentheses

Right on up to high school,
people said I was a writin' fool
All my letters became really great,
with punctuation that was never late
But I was havin' trouble meetin' girls,
I never knew the things to say
Soon I had 'em all overwhelmed,
when they heard me talk this way, like this:

Chorus) I love you period
Do you love me question mark
Please, please exclamation point
I want to hold you in parentheses
I love you period
Do you love me question mark
Please, please exclamation point
I want to hold you in parentheses

[BrotherBuzz]

7. Victor Borg took a stab at audible punctuation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2F0Lrz8DWtE

[buczak]

3. Life's not a paragraph

life's not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis

- EE Cummings

[livetohike]

4. Perfect buczak and a belated

welcome to DU :hi:.

[lectrobyte]

5. I want * to choke on that remark. See my thread on it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2224082

[MUSTANG_2004]

6. I don't see the outrage on either item

I watched the Clinton interview. It seemed like Clinton was stating his case firmly, but nothing out of the ordinary. I wouldn't have called it a meltdown or an angry outburst, or anything else like that. I didn't really follow his comments about Murdoch (didn't seem relevant to his point at all), but apart from that it seemed like a normal interview.

On the other side, I don't think Bush's comment was outrageous either. I completely disagree with it, as my fear is that Iraq will continue to destabilize, but he wasn't saying that people were dying for a comma, he was saying that the current violence is temporary. I suspect the lack of outrage and media coverage is because others see it that way as well.