Let me get this straight...Bush is a cokehead, a dry drunk, AND Hooked on Phonics?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Phonetic Notes For Bush's UN Speech Accidentally Released

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/09/bush-speech-has.html

Bush's UN Speech Full of Fone-eh-tick Pronunciations for World Leaders

September 25, 2007 1:52 PM

ABC News' Ann Compton and Jennifer Duck report: Never before has the White House released a draft version of the President's speech to the annual United Nations General Assembly.

But this year, a glimpse of how the President sees his speeches was accidentally placed on the UN website along with the speechwriters' cell phone numbers.

Pronunciations for President Bush's friend French President Sarkozy "" appeared in draft #20 on the UN website. Other pronunciations included the Mugabe " regime" and pronunciations for countries "Kyrgyzstan " and "Mauritania ."

Most leaders submit a text in advance, especially to help the many translators who simultaneously turn the speeches into more than half a dozen languages. The teleprompter also needs to be loaded with a copy of the President's words so it will appear on glass screens in front of the lectern.

[PDJane]

1. Please tell me this is a joke.

It is, right? No?

How the hell can anyone have any respect for this man?

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. Well, I Photoshopped the Hooked on Phonics box in response to the story...BUT...

everything else in the post is NOT a joke.

:evilgrin:

[HooptieWagon]

3. I wonder...

... if he was reading the phonetic spelled version of "My Pet Goat" in the schoolroom on 9/11... :dunce:

edit: spelling - LOL!

[daninthemoon]

4. Nicely done!