"the President felt the need to buck up the country"

[Cocoa]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A41596-2005Jan27.html

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Here's NBC's David Gregory: "On this deadly day in Iraq, the president tried to steel the country, steel the U.S. public, while at the same time urge Iraqis to seize Sunday's election, which he called a grand moment in Iraqi history. . . .

"It was . . . clear the president felt the need to buck the country up today."

[montanacowboy]

1. Maybe the Whote Gregory meant to say

fuck up the country? right?

[ewagner]

2. Hey David..........

Just exactly what color is the sky on the planet you live on????

[Minstrel Boy]

3. a typo, surely. n/t

[Cocoa]

5. also, country should be plural n/t

[tridim]

4. Buck the country up? Or F*ck the country up?

I assume that's what you're getting at.

[CBHagman]

6. And he probably meant "steal," not "steel."

We could go on in this vein for some time.

[soleft]

7. Isn't he the guy Bush ridiculed as a inter-continentalist

Thought for a while he was being a little tougher on Bush than rest of the lame press core, tho that ain't saying much. Lately it seems he's on the payroll

[Inland]

8. So he sent a Teddy Bear Bouquet through FTD.com

and told us a number of comforting, if obvious, lies.

[CindyDale]

9. He's just having fun with homonyms and rhymes

You can tell:

steel - steal

[Ganja Ninja]

10. If he really wants to buck up the country he should resign.

[Cocoa]

11. that would be a huge morale booster

it would be morning in America big time.

[susu369]

12. Stretch - stretching the truth

pathetic to see Gregory with his lips locked on bu$h's behind. I hope one day Gregory will feel some remorse.