Comments on: A Freudian Slip?

By: Pancho

Pancho — Thu, 01 Jul 2004 18:44:27 +0000

Actually it has a nice ring if you look at #3

3. Dominance or widespread influence: the reign of reason. (reign of freedom).

Way to go President Bush! You scored a resounding victory for our proper place in this world, free. You did so in a region lost to this concept. ‘Let freeDom reign’ for our Iraqi brothers.

By: dAnimal

dAnimal — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:14:18 +0000

Actually, I think he saw Condi’s word “soveREIGN” on the note, and used that as a spelling aid. I also love how he put the capital “D” in the middle of “FreeDom.”

Though I have a second theory for the tinfoil hat folks–maybe this was a pre-arranged, staged photo-op press thing, and Condi wrote both the note and the sharpie message ahead of time, which would make her the poor wordsmith.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:46:48 +0000

I think they’ve Photoshopped it. What he really wrote was “Good, now I can resign!”

By: Human Bacon

Human Bacon — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:32:37 +0000

The expansive multi-nation coalition of the willing shake hands upon announcing Iraq�s sovereignty.

Bush: Whose the funkiest? Blair: You are, Bushie. You are. Bush: I gotta call my dad and tell him to start rolling out Carlyle and Investco�s new business opportunities. Blair: Word to that, Bitch. Bush: The duckets is gonna

By: DeAnn

DeAnn — Tue, 29 Jun 2004 02:30:17 +0000

Hee, if he meant to write “ring” and wrote “reign.”

But, I think he meant the “be predominant or prevalent” definition.

Still, though, it is weird to use a word like “freedom” with a word like “reign,” when they seem like virtual opposites.

By: dAnimal

dAnimal — Mon, 28 Jun 2004 23:27:30 +0000

Originally he was going to write “Dood, that’s tight,” but he decided to go for something historicable and poeticized.