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What's In A Word???
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 5:00 am
by Col Hogan
Do you know there are over 100,000 U.S. troops in two countries getting shot at and killed???
Do you know there was a crisis with a foreign country threathening to fire missles at this country???
Are you aware of the continuing threat to the security of this country from both internal and external terrorist???
You wouldn't if you paid casual attention to the President of the United States, and the words he speaks...
He has spoken the words "health" and "economy" each more often than the words “Iraq,” “Iran,” “Afghanistan” and “terrorism” combined, the analysis shows.
"Jobs" are mentioned twice as often as “security,” and four times more than“war.”
“America” and its cousin “American” — feel-good favorites for speechwriters – combine to top the list of major nouns, with 2,929 mentions.
And equally telling are the words all but banished from the Obama lexicon. The president has come under fire from progressive groups for failing to advance a gay-rights agenda. Indeed, he has said the word “gay” only 13 times while in office, according to the POLITICO analysis.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0809/26073.html
Interesting read...
Discuss...
Re: What's In A Word???
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 6:26 am
by JMU DJ
Not so different from Bush?
Re: What's In A Word???
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:08 am
by hank scorpio
The Economy was the #1 issue going into the election last November and it still is for most, it is difficult for people to see beyond their pocketbook at a time like this.
Re: What's In A Word???
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 7:16 am
by Ivytalk
Hmmm. More references to Korea (117) than to liberty and freedom combined (116).
Re: What's In A Word???
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:25 am
by clenz
Wasn't Obama going to really help out the gay rights thing? He said the word gay 13 times? Holy shit, I use that word more than that every day.
And no I don't use it derogatorily or in the context of "that's so gay"...I actually use gay for happy and what not. Always have, probably always will
Re: What's In A Word???
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:26 am
by dbackjon
clenz wrote:Wasn't Obama going to really help out the gay rights thing? He said the word gay 13 times? Holy shit, I use that word more than that every day.
And no I don't use it derogatorily or in the context of "that's so gay"...I actually use gay for happy and what not. Always have, probably always will
Does TBH know you are so gay?
Re: What's In A Word???
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:30 am
by ASUMountaineer
dbackjon wrote:clenz wrote:Wasn't Obama going to really help out the gay rights thing? He said the word gay 13 times? Holy ****, I use that word more than that every day.
And no I don't use it derogatorily or in the context of "that's so gay"...I actually use gay for happy and what not. Always have, probably always will
Does TBH know you are so gay?
Jon +1
Clenz -1
Re: What's In A Word???
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:35 am
by clenz
dbackjon wrote:clenz wrote:Wasn't Obama going to really help out the gay rights thing? He said the word gay 13 times? Holy shit, I use that word more than that every day.
And no I don't use it derogatorily or in the context of "that's so gay"...I actually use gay for happy and what not. Always have, probably always will
Does TBH know you are so gay?
On occasion my gayness shows.
However, she has accused me of being homosexual a couple times. Long story on that, it involves her purse, a pink boa, and the mall in Cedar Falls.
Re: What's In A Word???
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:45 am
by ALPHAGRIZ1
JMU DJ wrote:Not so different from Bush?
Good call, the only difference is Hussein Obama spends way more money other than that they could be brothers.
Re: What's In A Word???
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:46 am
by Cleets Part 2
Col Hogan wrote:
He has spoken the words "health" and "economy" each more often than the words “Iraq,” “Iran,” “Afghanistan” and “terrorism” combined, the analysis shows.
"Jobs" are mentioned twice as often as “security,” and four times more than“war.”
Did you know that Korean missiles (if fired at America) couldn't even make it to Hawaii
Did you know that we really shouldn't even have 50 troops in Iraq much less 4,331 dead ones
Did you know that Afghanistan has been at war continuously since 1979... and prior to this recent stint had been at war for 60 years consecutively
Did you know that Team America World Police was a true story
Re: What's In A Word???
Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 9:21 am
by JMU DJ
ALPHAGRIZ1 wrote:
Good call, the only difference is Hussein Obama spends way more money other than that they could be brothers.
Not a big fan of the spending, but you could start a whole other thread on the deficits caused by the recent run of Presidents from Regan to now (minus Clinton). Throwing money at the problem isn't the answer, it was the same argument during Roosevelt's "New Deal" which was also criticized for "Redistributing the wealth."