Originally Posted By mele I think Bush does it on purpose. Some people are stupid enough to find it endearing. He was elected and re-elected by acting like an idiot, why should he change? My husband pronounces antenna as "an-tanna" and I make fun of him every single time he does it. Bush knows he's mispronouncing it and he probably thinks he's really clever for continuing to do so. He's the kind of guy who thinks it's hilarious to flip off the camera...I've seen him do it numerous times in interviews before he became president. He's a dimwitted (expletive deleted). I'm sick to death of looking at him, hearing him speak and thinking about him. January can not come soon enough.
Originally Posted By jdub >> I mean, his wife is a former teacher, no? Couldn't she at some point just kind of drop a hint?<< She's mocked him on television for that. On the Palin mispronunciation: >> thinks it was deliberate.<< Again, I refer you to the speech transcript, where it's helpfully spelled "new-clear"--and that day, she got it right.
Originally Posted By alexbook There are so many serious reasons to object to Sarah Palin that I can't believe anybody is wasting they're time on this. I'd also like to point out that Jimmy Carter describes his graduate school major as "nucular engineering." Are you saying he's an idiot?
Originally Posted By mele I don't really think having an opinion on it means that I'm wasting that much time on it. I also don't think that having an opinion on this means that I don't have any other opinions. We're having multiple discussions over multiple things. We tend to discuss minutiae ad nauseam. I don't think mispronunciation of this word is the sole indicator of idiocy. Thankfully, Bush has given us multiple indicators. ;-)
