Like the misunderestimating former President George W. Bush, Daley will change verbs, tenses, subjects, moods and even his mind--his voice ever rising with Vegas-like glissandos until he is an actual soprano--until reporters run out of tape or have to go file.
When asked in the 1990's if the General Assembly would approve a domed stadium near the convention facility McCormick Place, Daley replied "I don't think they can do it. Maybe the governor can. Maybe there's something down his sleeve. I want to look down there. I look down there a lot. There's nothing down there."
Asked about the national debt, he said about the federal government, "Standard and Poor's or Moody should grade them just like me. Otherwise we're saying to our parent corporation, 'Do anything you want.' What happens is a parent corporation does it, and then we all follow. They're in debt; we go in debt. Who cares? And that's what is wrong with America."
Of course when it comes to rogue pronouns and verbs and circumlocutions that never end up where they started, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and Daley seem separated--vocally--at birth.
Who can forget her response to the charge from Senator John McCain's staffers when she was the Vice Presidential candidate, that she didn't know if Africa were a country or a continent?
"So, no, I think that if there are allegations based on questions or comments that I made in debate prep about Nafta, and about the continent versus the country when we talk about Africa there, then those were taken out of context," she said according to the New York Times. "And that's cruel and it's mean-spirited, it's unprofessional, and those guys are jerks, if they came away with it taking things out of context and then tried to spread something on national news. It is not fair and not right."
How can there be a "continent versus the country" question when there is no country Africa? Even the movie Bruno knows that. And who is "we" when "we talk about Africa there"? Is she trying to spread blame for her mistake? And why Africa "there"? Is that like calling South America "down there"?
Then there's Palin's meandering Checkers speech about the clothes she did or didn't receive.
(Note: You can view every article as one long page if you sign up as an Advocate Member, or higher).
1
1
1
