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Errant leaders and their passive verbs

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President Obama said "I screwed up", when talking about the Tom Daschle fiasco. He didn't say, "Mistakes were made," a use of the passive verb that seeks to thrust the burden of the crime to an amorphous, distant other.

Is this, indeed, the dawn of a new America?

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Originally posted by FMF
President Obama said "I screwed up", when talking about the Tom Daschle fiasco. He didn't say, "Mistakes were made," a use of the passive verb that seeks to thrust the burden of the crime to an amorphous, distant other.

Is this, indeed, the dawn of a new America?
Ha ha.

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Originally posted by FMF
President Obama said "I screwed up", when talking about the Tom Daschle fiasco. He didn't say, "Mistakes were made," a use of the passive verb that seeks to thrust the burden of the crime to an amorphous, distant other.

Is this, indeed, the dawn of a new America?
I consider "screwed up" to be quite passive also when, in fact, he F***** up big time.

GRANNY.

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Originally posted by FMF
President Obama said "I screwed up", when talking about the Tom Daschle fiasco. He didn't say, "Mistakes were made," a use of the passive verb that seeks to thrust the burden of the crime to an amorphous, distant other.

Is this, indeed, the dawn of a new America?
he said ''I screwd up'' so what?

don't make a big deal out of it.

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Originally posted by FMF
President Obama said "I screwed up", when talking about the Tom Daschle fiasco. He didn't say, "Mistakes were made," a use of the passive verb that seeks to thrust the burden of the crime to an amorphous, distant other.

Is this, indeed, the dawn of a new America?
Nothing about Geithner, eh?

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Originally posted by generalissimo
he said ''I screwd up'' so what?

don't make a big deal out of it.
Stop stalking me, generalissimo. But if you do insist on doing so, please make a proper fist of opening your dirty raincoat and giving me a proper flash. Not this furtive, ineffective, nothing-to-show exposure.

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Originally posted by whodey
Nothing about Geithner, eh?
Mistakes were made, whodey.

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Originally posted by FMF
Stop stalking me, generalissimo. But if you [b]do insist on doing so, please make a proper fist of opening your dirty raincoat and giving me a proper flash. Not this furtive, ineffective, nothing-to-show exposure.[/b]
stalking you? give me a break, I've got better things to do instead of ''stalking'' you.

nothing-to-show exposure.
what? can't I just question the point of this thread? whatever happened to free speech...

just because Obama (aka messiah) said ''I screwed up'', doesn't mean its the ''dawn of a new america''.