Can we please stop repeating and repeating the word GAFFE ..

[pangaia]

It's not just about GAFFE, or Joe Biden or, or..
It could be any word, or phrase about anything....
It's the mindless, repeated mouthing of words that have been used and used again and again and again...

people here are so much smarter than that..and smarter than I..

I know, I know.. "Pangaia, what word would you suggest?"
Okay, I had to look it up---

-faux pas
- " a social or diplomatic blunder" - humm. that seems a bit over the top

- "a minor blunder in speech" a bit long
- "slip' -- not bad

AH HA Found another maybe a good choice-

"SLIP-UP" -- "to make a small mistake, often as a result of not thinking carefully"
OR-- "a mistake that someone makes by not giving something enough attention"




Well, to me it's the principle of the thing.....


Any ideas for correcting this common behavior welcome---

[cwydro]

1. Someone used "flub" in another thread.

I like flub lol.

[pangaia]

7. Oh, that is good.. pretty non-critical as well...

[George II]

2. What's lost in all of this is that Biden has been doing exactly this for decades.....

....and it's been no big deal. Everyone knows who he is and he's been a very effective Senator and one of the best VPs we've ever had.

But, he's never been in the spotlight day in and day out so all of this seems "new" to people, even know it's not.

[pangaia]

8. I agree.. But, I have watched very, few of his 'gaffes' over the years,,,..

So I don;t know how to compare then and now.... I can only look at now...

[Garrett78]

18. Actually it has been a big deal. It's a big reason why his previous runs went so poorly.

Folks seem to have forgotten that hardly anyone considered Biden to be presidential material before Obama made the strategic choice of selecting an older white male moderate as his running mate.

He wasn't always lovable Uncle Joe who pals around with Obama buying burgers and ice cream.

He was gaffe-prone Biden who is way too touchy-feely with women, who left the 1988 race due to a plagiarism scandal, who dropped out after a miserable showing in Iowa in 2008, and who is too close to the banking industry.

Pre-Obama Biden was thought of much, much differently. That's just a fact. Now he's looking to move into the White House at an age greater than Reagan was when the latter *left* office.

And Obama didn't want Biden to run and embarrass himself. Name recognition is huge but eventually that runs its course.

Far too many have bought into the notion that we need an old white male to defeat an old white male.

[elocs]

3. Good luck with that, but gaffe is a word that fits and people know what you mean by it.

I think "gaffe" is here to stay.

[OhZone]

4. Mistatements - And Half of them aren't even mistatements.

They are just comments intentionally taken out of context.

I said my work was boring once, after saying a task was hard, annoying, uninspiring, and not creative.

But I was accused of being lazy and not having "enough" work.

No, boring often means "not interesting; tedious." Look it up!

It doesn't always mean non-existent.

If you are out to intentionally take comments out of context, and twist them, then you are a lying jerk.

One reason I will never vote for Kamala or Cory in the primaries.

((I'll still vote any Dem over Trump in the General though!))

[mtnsnake]

5. Using the word "gaffe" is actually being kind to him

because it's perceived as just another honest mistake by him in a funny sort of way which makes him look more human, rather than stupid. So be happy that "gaffe" has been the word of choice.

[wasupaloopa]

6. So do people have multiple slip ups weekly? I think you have a slip up occasionally like annual.

Gaffes happen regularly.

[pangaia]

9. Humm... See what I mean about some folks here are smarter than I am..

I never thought about it that way...

[murielm99]

10. Yes. I remember.

Some people do.

[Hekate]

11. "Gaffe" is a meme, a narrative, and a very lazy one. I absolutely hate it.

[left-of-center2012]

12. 'GAFFE', I think, is meant as a slur against Biden

Just as 'B.S.' is a slur against Sanders.

Folks will claim that 'gaffe' and 'B.S.' are just used in all innocence.

But,
in my humble opinion,
they are used intentionally as 'slurs'.

[pangaia]

13. I think I would attend to agree...

It certainly is obvious when some posters (I won't name the few names I can figure out) use BS with such unsubtle glee.

[left-of-center2012]

14. "use BS with such unsubtle glee"

With a wink,
and chuckling up their sleeve,
while saying/posting:

“Well, those are his initials.”

It’s juvenile, playground behavior.

[Princetonian]

20. I agree. I have never done so.

[Princetonian]

21. Absolutely.

[mcar]

15. Yes. Let's stop feeding into the media narrative

Biden's "gaffes" is Hillary's emails all over again.

If he, or any other candidate, truly says something that warrants discussion or criticism, let's have it.

But this parsing every damn word Biden says is tiresome - and only helps Republicans.

[MadDAsHell]

16. It's how politics works. I had never heard the phrase "crumbling infrastructure" until maybe 12...

years ago. It must have tested well in some focus group, because now no one can seem to come up with anything more creative and it's repeated over and over again by anyone talking about domestic spending.

[pangaia]

17. Like "self-proclaimed" in reference to Bernie Sanders.

Now, don;t mis-read my intent here.. just an example.. could be anybody..

[Hortensis]

19. Good game. Let's try other words for..."transparent"

springs to mind for some reason. The thesaurus offers these, among others:

see-through
barefaced
blatant
bold
brash
brazen
apparent
arrant
clear
flagrant
glaring
manifest
obvious
palpable

Suggestions for another? Many others also spring right to mind.