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Montagnard Donating Member (496 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-13-06 03:57 PM
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Rethuglican Focus Group Word of the Week
Edited on Thu Apr-13-06 04:06 PM by Montagnard
REGIME: re•gime also ré•gime
NOUN:
A form of government: a fascist regime.
A government in power; administration: suffered under the new regime.
A prevailing social system or pattern.
The period during which a particular administration or system prevails.
A regulated system, as of diet and exercise; a regimen.


During the press conference yesterday Scotty (Lying Sack of S**t) McClellan used it 35 times when discussing Iran. I suppose some Rethuglican consultant told him that it had negative connotations.

Once it sounded like, regime, regime, regime, regime, regime, regime, regime, regime……
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aden_nak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-13-06 04:04 PM
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1. Well, look at the first two definitions.
They are both highly negative. And can anyone remember the last country we constantly heard about in conjunction with the word regime? Anyone?
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-13-06 04:06 PM
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2. Hmmm. Trying to demoize another word in the English language
iI guess. There is always that identity "the Bush Regime" ya know.
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