Bush Needed Condi To Explain 'Articulate' Flap During Dem Primary

[babylonsister]

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/06/report-bush-needed-condi-to-explain-articulate-flap-during-dem-primary.php?ref=fpb

Book: Bush Needed Condi To Explain 'Articulate' Flap During Dem Primary
By Justin Elliott - June 2, 2009, 8:38PM


Did George W. Bush really summon his African-American secretary of state for a lesson on junior-high-level racial politics?

So reports Newsweek's Richard Wolffe in his new book on Obama, Renegade: The Making Of A President.

Bush found himself perplexed by the flap over Joe Biden describing Obama as "articulate and bright and clean" in January 2007. So, naturally, the president turned to the top U.S. diplomat, the trusted Condi Rice, to explain what the heck this was all about.

Here's the tidbit from the first chapter of Wolffe's book:

Bush was so taken aback with the public criticism of Biden that he called in his African American secretary of state Condoleezza Rice. "I don't get it," he said. "Condi, what's going on?" Rice told him what everyone else had said: that white people don't call each other articulate.

One has to ask: can we really blame Bush for not knowing the conventions attached to that particular adjective?

:rofl:

[billyoc]

1. I'll always be grateful to Bush for putting the lie to the value of an Ivy League education.

That fucking mouth breather is a Harvard MBA.

[babylonsister]

4. Amazing, isn't it. Proof that money and connections can do wonders. nt

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Chimp: Why is Biden calling Obama a bus?

[jimshoes]

3. And then condi had to explain what the word articulate

meant to mister I read 100 books a year.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

5. "Particulate? Isn't that the stuff the Dick keeps moaning about in

envelopes from his girl, Anne Thrax? How is that black fellow related to Anne? Say, are the Rangers on? I think they have a bunch of home games coming up."

[tanyev]

6. Figures. I'm certain nobody has ever called him articulate.

Assuming he even knows what the word means, he would take that as a high compliment.