Shit I just said
Shit I just said nucular, didn’t I?
(John McCain)
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You and a disturbing number of your fellow Americans. Pronunciation is somehow difficult.
Well, at least those Americans can understand and/or relate to him….
For certain values of ‘at least’…
It baffles me why people want a Joe Average (intelligence) president they can “relate to” instead of a smart person.
I’m not calling myself one of those Americans who can relate to him – I’m just making a statement about those who can.
Do you remember when intelligence was thought of as a positive attribute? Sigh. I guess i’ll just sit back and welcome the idiocracy.
Hasn’t been for a while. I suppose I will just wait to hold my coup until after most of the populace are babbling idiots.
‘until’?
Not quite ripe yet. I need to amass my cult of followers first.
Have you seen that movie, Idiocracy? Absolutely STUPID movie, and very hard to sit through, but it has an important underlying message. Sorry, your comment just made me think of it.
But they do want a smart person.
McCain is currently leading in the polls.
The grandson of an Admiral, the son of and Admiral, who broke SIX different fighter planes and ONE WHOLE AIRCRAFT CARRIER and managed to kill MORE AMERICAN SOLDIERS than the “foreign combatants” he is credited for. Smart guy.
And yet he *brags* about being fifth from the bottom of his class!
The truth is always stranger than fiction.
Ooh, a pack of smears.
If you believe that, you’re obviously on the lower half of the intelligence curve, and a Democrat voter. But I repeat myself.
You have any sources to disprove?
Proving their point.
NOT ANYMORE!!!!!!!
When is correct pronunciation somehow a requirement on an ICHC affiliate site? If anything, it’s a faux pas on these particular sites – it doesn’t matter if it’s political or not – it’s still a lolsite.
The certain Republican political figure who has pronounced it “nucular” didn’t do it on a “lolsite”.
Is this *actually* about the pronunciation then? I’d kind of assumed he’d meant to say ’sustainable’ or something, and people were just picking up on the accent joke for dessert, so to speak.
The joke is about the pronunciation, not the word choice, yes.
/facepalm
Cell nuclei are a serious threat to this nation.
WIN
double + WIN
“Nook-yoo-lar” is and has been the standard ITB (inside the beltway, i.e., Washington, D.C.) pronunciation ever since the word “nuclear” replaced “atomic”. Get over it.
that still doesn’t make it right!
Don’t see why I should get over it, frankly.
Agreed. This pronunciation is flat out wrong, and the correct pronunciation is not that hard.
Repeat this ten times fast:
“New Clear”
according to who?
If we “get over” everything, there will be nothing to poke fun at.
Sorry, good point.
So of course you’ll vote with me for the LOLs about the Democrat candidate who, uh, uh, seems, uh, that is, to, uh, wait, I can’t hear myself, unable to, uh, that is, eh, TALK WITHOUT HIS WORDS BEING SPOONFED TO HIM.
Hahahahahahaha, dat wuz rilly funnee, huh?
Hm. So if it’s the accepted pronunciation and we should “get over it” can you explain why someone bothered to spell it phonetically on the teleprompter at the RNC? “Terrorist states are seeking new-clear weapons” is the line. An independent photographer got a shot of it. http://davidwalterbanks.com
Funny thing is , Eisenhower, Carter, and Clinton also pronounced it this way from time to time. (Though Carter had that Georgian accent to blame for his mispronunciation. It has even begun to seep into some standard dictionary pronunciations.
True, GW has that New Haven CT accent to get around.
Actually, it was more of a Texan accent… Picked up from his time as Governor of that state, don’t ya know y’all.
kinda like those urban cowboy guys in the 80’s.
Isn’t it amazing how Texas thinks of him as “one of theirs” even though he vacations in Kennebunkport?
Though he was born and raised in New England, into a privileged family, and got a free pass through his education, people still think of him as a good-ol’-boy from Texas.
I still remember when during 41’s term, every few days he’d head home to Kennebunkport. Home to Kennebunkport, home to Kennebunkport, home to Kennebunkport… Then when the state of Maine asked for the back property taxes on the family home in Kennebunkport, suddenly the Bush clan claimed Texas as their homestead and told Maine to frig off.
Yep, gotta love those Republican downhome values and honesty.
sorry, but none of us here in Texas think of him as “one of ours.”
you’ve obviously never been to Texas.
This may be the only society in the world that persecutes the intelligent, e.g. the whole nerd joke thinge, etc.
Yep. Smart peeples is skerry.
What ? No more ” Bush is dumb”? Now we gotta listen to ” Ha ha- McCain is dumb”?
Bush is dumb. McCain just sold his soul to Satan to win an election.
Hmmmm….I thought Obama was the AntiChrist ! I’ll have to rethink this…
Nah… that would be George W. Bush.
Okay, this has been a point of political conjecture for decades. I’ll just come out and say it:
The AntiChrist is Peter J. Walinski of 396 Locust Ct, Peoria, Illinois. He is a middle manager in an ad agency, married, with a son in college. He drives a blue X-Terra and can’t really get into “Prairie Home Companion” like his wife.
Gorbachev is the antichrist. Or at least it is overwhelming likely that he is. (the odds were 710,609,175,188,282,100 to 1 back in 1993, I’m not sure if that has changed since.
Nope. He’s just a bastard.
Pete Walinski is the true AntiChrist. Due to a mix-up at the hospital, his publicist never got a chance to promote his image. Kinda sad, really.
Now you’re just messing with me. I thought “rethink” was officially out of the right’s lexicon.
It may be a synonym for ‘double think’.
Brings to mind that good old Einstein quote about doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results…
Only dumb people actually believe the “Bush is dumb” meme.
Just as only idiots parrot the “Obama-Ayers-terrorist” meme.
> Only dumb people actually believe the “Bush is dumb” meme.
I know one dumb person who doesn’t believe it.
The problem with bush is he’s either a completely incompetent idiot… or a deviously brilliant evil mastermind.
I’m not sure which possibility depresses me more.
I think it is more likely that he is an incompetent idiot who is controlled by a brilliantly evil mastermind.
Actually the lol is wrong. Sen McCain needs other senators to tell him when he screws upp on public statements. He can’t handle that part.