Why does Bush keep saying "people in this part of the world?"....

[marmar]

He said it again in Minneapolis, talking about how people were dealing with the bridge collapse. He said the same thing on the Gulf Coast after Katrina....
Yes, Minneapolis and New Orleans are indeed "parts of the world" but who refers to them that way? Is it bad speechwriting? Or is it the Presidunce just trying (and failing) to be spontaneous? Or is it subtext - he's trying to tell Minnesotans that they're part of the world...but not part of America, so don't expect any help. :shrug:

[zabet]

1. The 'common person' does not live in the same

world that chimpy sees from his ivory tower.

[I Have A Dream]

2. It IS very weird phrasing!

:shrug:

[Breeze54]

3. Do you 'really' have to ask this?

HE'S A FUCKING NIMROD. A VACANT FUCK! A MINDLESS DWEEB!! A MORON!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[flvegan]

Simple. He's a fucking moron.

He doesn't care enough to find out that "people in this part of the world" are people in the US. He stopped giving a shit about the US when, uh...well, probably when he took his first fucking breath.

Little bastard.

[MadMaddie]

4. Yea...he is not sure about the states in the United States...

Just like he wasn't clear on where Iraq was and what Tribes lived there....just sayin..

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

5. At night, Bush sees Cheney playing with a giant-sized globe of the world in his office

like a beachball, throwing it up in the air and then catching it and wrapping his arms around it. And every once in awhile, Cheney interrupts his play to climb the curtains. Whenever Bush learns of a new place, like Minnesota for example, he goes down the hall to ask Cheney to point it out on his globe of the world.

[Deja Q]

6. He's trying to sound like 'the average Joe' while reminding us we are part of a global economy?

The latter in the context we do still have a lot going for us that people in other parts of the world don't.

Just a guess, but I don't think there's anything like a malicious intent behind it all.

[PA Democrat]

7. He flunked geography?

[hedgehog]

8. We've seen a lot of North v South threads on DU. I suspect that

Bush is one of those Texans who is amazed that non-Texans aren't monsters. Compare his attitude to those who claim all New Yorkers are rude, all Southerners are slow, all Westerners are Republican automatons, etc.

[Adsos Letter]

9. There is a belief that all westerners are Republican automatons?...

...hmmm...I've got to get out of California more often....


:D

[peekaloo]

10. He doesn't know where he is at the time. But he's pretty sure it's somewhere in the world.

[scorpiogirl]

11. If he says that phrase, then he doesn't have to remember! n/t