"the people in this part of the WORLD"!? * says:

[clover]

all you english teachers out there: why "world" and not "nation" when speaking of katrina victims? why "america's compassion" for "refugees," which places these victims outside of "america" at least linguistically? the poor are a third world, after all, is what i hear, more accurately i suppose, they are a second world to the one of this GOP cult.

[Lindacooks]

1. Maybe he thinks he's in Uganda or somewhere.

Sure doesn't sound like he knows that New Orleans is part of America.

[BlueJac]

2. He hasn't a clue without a cue!!!

[kliljedahl]

6. hell, he didn't know there were Blacks in Brazil

[murray hill farm]

3. that really was soooooooo strange

i kept thinking..what is he talking about..doesnt he realize that this is happening in the USA...it sounded like he was talking about some place that is on the other side of the world.

[clover]

5. yes. i felt spooked like i used to feel when i worked in a psych

hospital and i was testing a patient for orientation to time, place, and sense of personhood. i brought this up thinking there was some kind of racist political theory behind it--and i am sure that is part of it, at root--but i didn't consider his word choice to be a sign of, well, zaniness, until i read your emotional response and thought more clearly about my own. thank you. * is assuredly mad, in my view.

[RagAss]

4. He cloned the old tsunami speech......

[Zen Democrat]

7. He said "the good people in this part of the world" in all three states

and I think it was calculated and rehearsed to prevent him from saying the wrong city or state in his travels today. I don't think they could trust to Chimp to remember where he was, so he just said the generic "good people in this part of the world."

But why he didn't say "this part of America" or "this part of the country" is really strange.

[clover]

9. they are masking his dementia (nt)

[VOX]

8. Well, if the Earth is flat, he's concerned with the part of the world...

he's standing on -- so he doesn't fall off. :evilgrin:

[incapsulated]

10. They aren't part of his world

So it must be some other part of the world. They have black people there, too.