Howard Dean goofs

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-12-03 12:15am

From an interview on Hardball:

DEAN: Iran is a more complex problem because the problem support as clearly verifiable as it is in North Korea. Also, we have less-fewer levers much the key, I believe, to Iran is pressure through the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is supplying much of the equipment that Iran, I believe, most likely is using to set itself along the path of developing nuclear weapons. We need to use that leverage with the Soviet Union and it may require us to buying the equipment the Soviet Union was ultimately going to sell to Iran to prevent Iran from them developing nuclear weapons.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-12-03 12:39am

"Look out! Zombie Lenin is coming!"

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-12-03 12:43am

You obviously never watched the Simpsons episode where it was revealed that the Russians were just lulling us into a false sense of security.

Post by **weemadando** » 2003-12-03 01:04am

Darth Wong wrote:You obviously never watched the Simpsons episode where it was revealed that the Russians were just lulling us into a false sense of security.

Yeah, I have... Where do you think the reference came from?

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-12-03 01:24am

weemadando wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:You obviously never watched the Simpsons episode where it was revealed that the Russians were just lulling us into a false sense of security.
Yeah, I have... Where do you think the reference came from?

Curses! Foiled again!

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2003-12-03 01:47am

God Bless live television.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2003-12-03 01:56am

Darth Wong wrote:Curses! Foiled again!

Every single time someone says that phrase, I picture them skulking around in a black cape and tophat, and twirling their handlebar mustache.

*Makes a mental note of 'dapper swindler version of Mike's Yoda avatar' in future Photoshop project ideas*

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-12-03 02:33am

His goofs make light of my life's work! The USSR will be recreated, mark my words ...

Wild Karrde · Post by **Wild Karrde** » 2003-12-03 05:29am

[ZombieLenin]MUST...CRUSH...CAPITALISM.[/ZombieLenin]

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2003-12-03 07:39am

Does Dean know something he's not telling us?

Iceberg · Post by **Iceberg** » 2003-12-03 08:56am

This "goof," though, was in context of an earlier statement:

DEAN: We’re spending a lot of money in Iraq. We’re spending money building tactical battlefield nuclear weapons, which are never going to be helpful fighting terrorism. And we’re not spending money on human intelligence and on cyber-intelligence and on cargo inspection and on buying the enriched uranium stocks of the former Soviet Union. If that stuff gets in terrorist hands, we have a major national security problem.

"Former Soviet Union" is a rather big mouthful to say several times in the same paragraph. He probably should have added "former" in the first sentence there, given that it was several minutes and a commercial break later, but such is life.

BlkbrryTheGreat · Post by **BlkbrryTheGreat** » 2003-12-03 11:02am

On a side note I saw Peter Jennings make the same mistake a few months ago.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2003-12-03 12:07pm

Ahhhh, Howard Dean another Northern rich boy with daddy's money who had to quit drinking because he was a lush. Basicly he's George Bush minus the Jesus with a side order of socialism.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-12-03 12:17pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:Ahhhh, Howard Dean another Northern rich boy with daddy's money who had to quit drinking because he was a lush. Basicly he's George Bush minus the Jesus with a side order of socialism.

A small jar of marmalade is smarter than Bush.