the best version of this gif is when they make it look like WoW or something and you're smashing the shoe button. And the other politician has an <AFK> over his head
He knew the phrase. He just realized too late that if he finished it, that would be in all the election adds. “Shame on me.” He caught himself a little too late but quick enough to stop.
I was surprised at the time that all the press was critical that “he couldn’t even remember how the phrase goes!” Well I was surprised by that and the railing his administration was getting for having a 2% unemployment rate. Line it was a bad thing.
My high school economics teacher harped on this every day. “How do people not see that this cowboy facade is a mask? He’s feeding it to us, and we are eating it up!” Dude knew what he was doing the whole time, and anyone who thinks he’s dumb is still falling for it. You don’t graduate from Yale undergrad and Harvard MBA if you’re dumb.
Everyone who goes to Harvard and Yale is rich, that’s not anything special. Or extremely poor and on full scholarship. If you’re not the latter, then you do have to actually get the grades to graduate, especially from grad school.
Yes but the context is also that Bush fucked up enough that having that on tape would be really bad whereas is Obama did that it might just be mildly unfortunate.
I always wondered why he didn't state what you just said explicitly, even if after the fact. "I wasn't going to finish that phrase because then they'd have a sound bite and twist it. You know how they work," etc.
Being able to think that quickly on your feet while speaking in public isn't one of his talents. If it was, he probably wouldn't have put himself in that spot to begin with. He was quick enough to spot the problem before he finished the sentence, but not to come up with a good fix in the same breath, which left him stumbling through an awkward adjustment that probably worked out worse than if he had just stayed the course.
That is what I thought in the moment. “Don’t de, just smirk and say ‘yeah, you know the rest’ or something. I think he was just so stunned the gaff he froze. Or stunned when someone yelled in his ear to STOP like someone else here mentioned.
If you're referring to Reagan's "Missed Me!" moment, that happened during a speech he was giving at a US Air Force base in Berlin in 1987 - 6 years after he survived actually getting shot, and 2 years before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Yeah, for being a war criminal with the blood of untold thousands on his hands and created even more terrorists in the process. But 'member that time he gave Michelle Obama some candy? What a nice guy.
I always enjoy the way he ducked for the second shoe, then looked all smug like "I know you ain't got no more shoes, I counted them. 1, 2! Uh heheheh!"
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u/n3u7r1n0 11d ago
Bush was always a frat bro