Now we know how Bush finally learned how to pronounce nuclear [NU-CLE-er]. A draft of Bush's U.N. speech complete with phonetic spellings appeared on a U.N website before the embarrassed White House had it yanked down.
I'm guessing that the challenged Commander Guy has a grade school teacher write in the phonetic spellings for him. Or maybe Laura does it.
The speech included these helpful spellings for the Poser-in-Chief:
• Kyrgyzstan [KEYR-geez-stan]
• Mauritania [moor-EH-tain-ee-a]
• Harare [hah-RAR-ray]
• Mugabe [moo-GAH-bee]
• Sarkozy [sar-KO-zee]
• Caracas [kah-RAH-kus]
Hmmm, so the new French President's name is Sar-KOzee.
I guess he was just rubbing it in when a reporter asked Press Secretary Dana Perino: "Does the president have a hard time pronouncing some of these countries's [sic] name?
Sounding like she was pouting, Perino fired back: "I think that's a [sic] offensive question. I'm going to just decline to comment on it."
Duh. Like the whole world doesn't already know the answer.
Over at Foreign Policy, we learn that even with all the special help, Bush still managed to mangle some of the pronunciations. That's our Republican pResident! Gawd help us if we can't do better.
The Swamp: Bush speaks of some hard-to-pronounce countries
Graphics via Huffington Post
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