tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15755953.post113878315398859109..comments2024-03-08T03:12:04.069-05:00Comments on da po' blog: Chokeda po' boyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13639638708282388176noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15755953.post-1138849715326071462006-02-01T21:08:00.000-06:002006-02-01T21:08:00.000-06:00Po' boy: Thanks for the clarification. I'll take y...Po' boy: Thanks for the clarification. I'll take your word for it, as there's no way I will sit through that again. Or even fast-forward.<BR/><BR/>I've been suspicious of "official" versions of speeches ever since I read a wonderful book about the humorous riches to be found in the official Congressional Record. Sorry I can't give you a title, but I've long since lost the book. <BR/><BR/>If you ever watch Congress on C-SPAN, you will often see House members saying, after speechifying for a few moments, "I request permission to revise and extend my remarks." This is always granted, and the Congressional Record, which is <I>supposed</I> to be the accurate record of what happened on the floor, is adjusted to whatever the Honorable Member wants it to say.<BR/><BR/>In the 70s, one honest Congressman (!), having received such permission, had his statement put into the official record, but then added [and I must paraphrase from memory], "It may appear from the Record that I made the previous remarks in a ringing speech on the floor of the House, but the fact is that I made them sitting alone in my office at night, typing away on my hot little typewriter." <BR/><BR/>I would eagerly vote in an instant for any congressman with that much honesty and sense of humor about himself. Pity we don't find them in Louisiana.Steve T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12075948665118760070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15755953.post-1138846965310983942006-02-01T20:22:00.000-06:002006-02-01T20:22:00.000-06:00Rereading the SOTU address and Bush's Jan. 12 spee...Rereading the SOTU address and Bush's Jan. 12 speech (first time I heard the $85B,and it still sounded like 86 to me), he's (or his speechwriter) the only person in Washington who seems to realize that there's fuzzy math involved. He never says "has allocated", pols of both parties do and the press does.bayoustjohndavidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03949531682454923206noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15755953.post-1138818541435374712006-02-01T12:29:00.000-06:002006-02-01T12:29:00.000-06:00Yeah, he said it. Check the link I provided for t...Yeah, he said it. Check the link I provided for the SotU and it will take you to whitehouse.gov where they provide the video of the speech. Go about one hour and two minutes in. However, I wouldn't put it past this White House to manipulate the transcripts.da po' boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13639638708282388176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15755953.post-1138815137091065942006-02-01T11:32:00.000-06:002006-02-01T11:32:00.000-06:00I'm guessing you got that last quote from an offic...I'm guessing you got that last quote from an official prepared version, which is passed out to the papers before he actually speaks. Because I opened my <I>NY Times</I> today and read that passage, "In New Orleans and in other places, many of our fellow citizens have felt excluded from the promise of our country..." and said to myself, wait just a minute here!!<BR/><BR/>I listened to the entire speech, an act of great self-sacrifice I can assure you, just to find out what he would say about us. I could swear I never heard the sentence I just quoted, and a friend I was watching with says he doesn't remember it either. I didn't videotape it -- self-sacrifice goes only so far -- but I really don't remember it.<BR/><BR/>What a disgusting, weaselly thing to do!! The <I>Times</I>, which historians will use as the definitive source, prints the prepared version, with the sentence that shows the closest thing he ever shows to recognition of the inequities revealed by the disaster. So he gets credit for that in the history books. But then he drops it from the speech <I>as delivered</I> and doesn't have to deal with the effects of millions of people actually <I>hearing</I> him say it!<BR/><BR/>What a snake.Steve T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12075948665118760070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15755953.post-1138812989335531052006-02-01T10:56:00.000-06:002006-02-01T10:56:00.000-06:00He probably thought that people on the Gulf Coast ...He probably thought that people on the Gulf Coast still don't have electricity. ("Certainly, <B><I>they</I></B> won't be listening to my address!") Perhaps that's why he invited Blanco and Nagin to the event-- or maybe it's because he wanted to deliver another slap to their well-deserving faces. Regardless, we <B>were</B> listening and realize the apparent commitment, or lack thereof, he has for our region. So what? He won’t be running for any office in the future.<BR/><BR/>http://cwmaxwell.blogspot.comCarson W. Maxwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16739432153706505668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15755953.post-1138812880134994432006-02-01T10:54:00.000-06:002006-02-01T10:54:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Carson W. Maxwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16739432153706505668noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15755953.post-1138812565880149822006-02-01T10:49:00.000-06:002006-02-01T10:49:00.000-06:00We don't have to worry about Washington. We contro...We don't have to worry about Washington. We control the oil and natural gas. You missed the main point of Bush's speech as far as Louisiana is concerned: the country is "addicted to oil." Addicts are desperate people & we have control of a big part of their supply <BR/> That's why we need to tax refineries and get our fair share of oil revenues from offshore.<BR/> Governor Blanco took the first step: <A HREF="http://bigfatneworleanskatrina.blogspot.com/2006/02/blanco-to-bush-screw-you-gov.html" REL="nofollow">See here.</A>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01870273707114864403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15755953.post-1138797667137523642006-02-01T06:41:00.000-06:002006-02-01T06:41:00.000-06:00He wants us to be a hopeful society, as in "Gee, I...He wants us to be a hopeful society, as in "Gee, I hope there isn't another hurricane this year."Rayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01680254535050891523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15755953.post-1138792643012652372006-02-01T05:17:00.000-06:002006-02-01T05:17:00.000-06:00He's like Chris Webber, calling for a time out whe...He's like Chris Webber, calling for a time out when he's run out of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com