Yikes, this one is a keeper!

[wellstone_democrat]

Outside watering the garden a while ago I o'heard the neighbor behind the fence talking to his parents, etc. (they BBQ alot with the extended Freeperish family on the weekend). Politics was the subject and "native son" Chimpo was being discussed. Sonny boy (the 40something neighbor) says at some point, :"well if he did exagerate or even lie it wasn't like he was under oath"
Right back at him comes this slow Texas drawl (his 70ish dad): "where I come from--and you---a man doesn't have to be under oath to tell the truth."

that shut everyone up. Never heard that crew express one doubt about their darling before. They were definitely "uneasy". The interesting thing is that they are indeed "true believers"---they are very fundamentalist Southern Baptist, most of the family lives just out of town on ranches, and they really truly believed that the boy king was a decent moral man once he got over his bad ways and found Jesus. You make this crowd doubt your character, you have serious problems.

ON Edit: btw, these are the people that I feel sorry for. Not the hand-out-for-money-postitions-or-legislation crowd that backs Bush*. These are truly honest decent people who do their best and try to live their faith. You could go to them first with any problem and they'd help in a minute. They are honest and they have character (well, except for a few cousins that show up who ARE freepers!) and they truly believed this man did too.
naive perhaps but honest.

[Ellen Forradalom]

1. Now that's some real Texas talk

not the fake 'bring 'em on' stuff Shrub keeps spouting.

[wellstone_democrat]

3. you have a point there

In the three years I've been in West Texas, I've NEVER heard anyone spout that cowboy shit that the boy king does---in the last year or so a few young guys will repeat his moronic lines like they are cool but I've never yet heard anyone do it naturally. And that covers a lot of ground both geographically and socially.

Oh, and although he "grew up" (well, some of the time) in this city I've also yet to hear anyone with an accent like his. And, for the 100th time, why do his native-born wife and daughters NOT have an accent like the sometime resident? Its a mystery.

[Piltdown13]

5. Accent

It seems like the Texas accent gets more pronounced the further east you go...and I did meet some folks from the Midland/Odessa area in high school who basically didn't have the accent. (I was born and raised in El Paso, and I always get people out here in the Midwest who say, "You can't be from Texas; you don't have an accent!")

I agree about Bush...nobody in my extended Texas family talks like he does at all. You'd almost think he was faking it...although, living for long periods of time in different areas can produce some interesting speech patterns. :-)

[lkinsale]

8. You're in Midland?

Your instincts are correct. Bush ain't "from" Midland. He visited from time to time, on vacation from school back east. And the accent is fake. As are the cowboy hat and boots and the "ranch."

Bush just went out and bought his "spread" with the money he stole from his baseball park scam, and prances around calling it a "ranch. The man's never been close to a cow. And is there any brush left on that place?

That's what really makes me sick, how truly good people have fallen for him. Texas has changed, and not for the better. It's kept all the swagger and lost the heart.

[rasputin1952]

2. Now that is really eloquent...

I'm glad you o'heard that and passed it on. Most of the 'keepers' come from the real people of the world, not from harried sound bites that are orchestrated.

I am truly impressed!!!

:hi: :bounce:

[otohara]

4. Clinton's Lie Didn't Result In Death & Destruction

Lord these people are twisted in their thinking aren't they?

[GalleryGod]

6. Regular GOPers are Just Dupes

:spank: Not the NeoCons, those Repubs that are in everybodys hometown-like from the nonexistent Rockefeller/Ike Wing:beer:

[goforit]

7. This is what I have been trying to tell them , * had hyjacked their party.

It is truely sad to see such an adorable group of people
ignorant as hell.

Quite frankly, All those Pat Robertson and Jerry Fawell followers
have been taking these type of people for a ride for a long long time.

This is why EDUCATION is so important.
These people just can't go through life allowing other people to think for them. They have to know how to problem solve and decipher
the best solution for the problem.
They just don't want to think.
As long as they have their sports,TV and beer that is all that matters.

I only have so much sympathy for so long.....
people are getting killed
daily.

[junker]

9. Poor bastard buddy.

Have a friend, runs a govt contractor shop here. Rabid conservative, bushie supporter, we almost came to blows over pre-war war lying. He knows I hold pond scum in more respect than the pissant boy-king, but anyway, since the war, we don't bring it up. I am more than willing to poke his eye with told-you-so dumbass kind of statements, but somehow I feel real sorry for him as he really did believe. Now bushie boy never did lie to me as I knew not to give any credence to the shuck comming outta his mouth, but my longtime, deluded buddy is different. He really bought it all. So now, I get the vibes of fragility, like his whole world is going....poor bastard. Hard times ahead, and we all will be paying for bumbling for years, but those who supported it will twist deeper in their souls as each and every linked event unravels before their eyes.

[scottxyz]

10. Actually he might have been under Oath

Because the State of the Union speech is a requirement mandated by the Constitution, there are grounds for claiming that while delivering it the President is indeed under the Oath of Office he takes at his inauguration, where he swears to "faithfully execute the duties..."

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/howtoimpeach.html

(This is actually a quote from an earlier DU discussion, re-posted on Take Back The Media.)

[newyawker99]

11. Hi junker!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast: