Bush called terrorists "folks". Big mistake

[No Passaran]

I missed it the first time around. Paul Begala mentioned it

"Okay, Bush's first fumble. He stumbled around -- saying uhhh, uhhh -- before calling terrorists "folks." Folks? Folks are your in-laws. Folks are your neighbors. Folks are your friends. Folk music is boring. But terrorists are not "folks." They're animals, murderers, pigs, thugs. But folks?"

[RoyGBiv]

1. Or, as Jon Stewart put it ...

Folks are the people you see at the Olive Garden.

HUGE mistake.

[No Passaran]

3. the whole thing is right here

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/blog/09/30/begala.blog/

[RoyGBiv]

10. Good One : Bush "Wimps Out"

"Bush seems less certain, a little less strong than he is on the stump. He dodged the question about whether he thinks electing Kerry would mean another 9/11 for America. That's pretty gutless. He sends Dick Cheney out to make this vicious attack on Kerry, but when they're face-to-face Bush wimps out."

[JohnKleeb]

2. hah great point

I loved how Kerry attacked Kerry from the right on Tora Bora, he's been doing this since it happened and very few agreed with him at the time but now he's making it a point.

[bloom]

4. He called the people who attacked on 9/11 "folks"

When he first addressed the nation.

I kid you not. I was blown away.

[restorefreedom]

6. that's the first thing I thought

remembered how he blew it after 9/11 calling them folks.

I can't believe he did it again.

He really does have the IQ of a tree stump.

[libbygurl]

5. So did Jon Stewart on The Daily Show! "Folks," he said, are those...

...people you meet in...the Olive Garden! With the breadsticks and pasta..." etc.

[RafterMan]

7. Just like 9/11

I live in New York, but I was not *truly* afraid that day until I saw Bush saying "We're gonna git these folks..."

Please get rid of this idiot.

[KittyWampus]

8. Cause To Bush Those Terrorists ARE His Friends. Bandar Bush Hearts Saudis

[kentuck]

9. Yep. He called them a "group of folks"......

And we're going to fight a war for the next 100 years against a group of folks? They need to sound more menacing than a "group of folks" ..