I can't vote for a Dem. who says "nucular"...

[jenmito]

And Evan Bayh does pronounce it "nucular." Petty but annoying. I don't even know where he stands on the issues but I can't stand 4 more years of mispronunciation. :shrug:

[Totally Committed]

1. I can't support him because he's a DLC Posterboy....

I guess we all have our lines in the sand.

TC

[jenmito]

16. That, too...

But yes, "nucular" is my line in the sand.

[LSparkle]

2. Me, too ... The more people pronounce it that way, it makes * look right

NO WAY!!!!

[jenmito]

8. Exactly. It's as if the king deems it a word so people follow...

rather than correcting him.

[Warpy]

14. It's a dead giveaway to one of two things:

either the speaker is career military without much education or he's a redneck. I've never heard anyone else saying it that way, not after they got laughed at in grammar school. Rednecks and career military seem to learn slow, though.

[Clark2008]

17. So, I guess you think Wesley Clark and the late great Col.

Hackworth are stupid?

Hardly.

[jenmito]

21. To be fair...

Warpy said a military man without much education. Clark had a lot of education.

[Warpy]

30. Right, but conformity can be an ugly thing

and if you're career military, the dummies laugh at you if you pronounce it correctly.

[Clark2008]

31. Valid point.

And my apologies to Warpy.

I read it incorrectly.

[kath]

33. Does Clark say "nucular"??

[jenmito]

34. No. n/t

[bullimiami]

3. damn, that is so stupid it makes me feel like im taking

crazy pills.

[jenmito]

6. What's stupid is mispronouncing "nuclear." n/t

[kurth]

4. Is that a hereditary speech impediment or something?

[Duer 157099]

5. I agree

This is one of my major pet peeves.

What part of their brains just don't work? It's willful ignorance if they don't have a pathological reason, and willful ignorance is intolerable in an elected official (it's barely tolerable in anyone, but hey that's the nature of freedom)

[truebrit71]

7. I can't vote for a Dem called Bayh...

...

[jenmito]

10. I can hear the Repubs.' line now...

Bye-bye Bayh!!!

[karynnj]

32. I would have voted for Birch Bayh in 1976

He backed out - I think because his wife was ill. He was anti -war and more liberal than his son.

[Richardo]

9. So does Jimmy Carter...

...and he was a nuclear engineer.

I think it's a 'southren' thing.

[jenmito]

11. Maybe he was a "nucular" engineer. n/t

[Clark2008]

18. No. I'm Southerner and I don't pronouce it incorrectly.

But, then again, I live 30 minutes from Oak Ridge. We'd better know how to say it correctly around here. LOL.

[tridim]

26. Monkeyboy isn't "southern"

He just pronounces it incorrectly because it makes more average Joes want to have a beer with him.

[VaYallaDawg]

29. Didja hear about him making some asshole statement in

some Red state the other day -- "Let me tell it to you in Texan."

That pinhead's Texan is just about as authentic as my mandarin Chinese. And my Chinese is limited to moo goo gai pain, which may not even be Chinese at all!!

[jenmito]

36. I did. He then went on to say his same line...

"If you're talkin' to al Qaeda, we wanna know why-seems like to me."

[last_texas_dem]

12. I argued with a right-winger one time

who claimed that I shouldn't mock Shrub for saying "nucular" because Jimmy Carter said it that way. Having never heard Carter say it, I don't know whether he really said it that way or not, but I have my doubts. But yeah, I definitely agree with you on the obnoxiousness of that pronunciation.

ON EDIT: Having now seen two others on this thread who have noted that Carter said it that way, I will have to concede that it's true. It's still annoying to hear Shrub say it, though!

[Clark2008]

13. Jimmy Carter said it that way and was on a nuclear sub

:shrug:

But, I won't vote for Bayh because he's just, well, kinda creepy in an off-beat sort of used car salesman kind of way.

[LSparkle]

24. Or a Bible salesman -- that's what he looks like to me

How hard is it to say "nu-CLEAR"? It's CLEAR that's how it's pronounced ... I heard someone say the other day that they thought Shrub's pronunciation has more to do with subliminal desire to NUKE-YOU (LAR).

[realisticphish]

15. Newkyoolar

just drives me up the fucking wall. I don't know why

[jenmito]

19. Me, too...

WHY DOESN'T SOMEONE CORRECT BUSH as well as anyone else who says it?

[Quakerfriend]

23. That's what I want to know.

You'd think his handlers would be on it!

[LSparkle]

27. I think that's why everyone around him started using "WMDs" instead

so he wouldn't have to mispronounce nuclear time and again.

[realisticphish]

25. that's what boggles the mind

wouldn't you fucking TELL him?

or...

maybe its planned. Make him look like an average joe? Seriously, it's a thought

[jenmito]

37. Yeah, they probably think it's a plus...

Makes him sound stupid like his average supporter.

[electron_blue]

20. Let it go. I've known many nuclear physicists over the years and a high %

of them say "nukular". I don't how Bush pronounces different fields of science, so long as he funds it.

[jenmito]

22. Nope. I can't let it go. n/t

[LSparkle]

28. Me, neither, especially because he's such a war-mongerer

If he weren't so hell-bent on using those types of weapons (or power), he wouldn't have to use the word so frequently. If he wants to be the "war-time preznit" then he should at least PRONOUNCE the war implements correctly!

[jenmito]

38. True. n/t

[gulliver]

35. Carter says it that way. Bush spells it that way.

[jenmito]

41. Good one! n/t

[Catchawave]

39. Can we stop bashing Dems ?

Just saying, this stuff is getting old, and we have an important election coming up in 2006.

[jenmito]

42. Sorry...I said it's trivial. But it bugs the **** out of me! n/t

[greendog]

40. Don't forget Bayh holds Dan Quayle's Senate seat...

...wonder how he spells potato?.....and it appears he's thinking about running for the Vice Presidency. Hmmm.

http://www.quaylemuseum.org/