[WSIS CS-Plenary] holiday amusement

[Carlos Afonso]

Maybe not in the case of Dubya, which looks like Dubious... :) But 
still, may be a compliment for W...

--c.a.

William Drake wrote:

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>>Even Sidney Blumenthal calls her Condi...:-)
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>>Perhaps it's like calling George "Dubya," the nick-naming that the
>>latter is reported to like to indulge in.
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>Yes it's common, but objectionable.  As your Dubya example suggests, using
>nick-names for horrid public officials sort of humanizes and softens them,
>as if they were our neighbors, just regular folks.  And sometimes it gets
>taken further out into the realm of the surreal;  remember when the media
>was variously referring to Rumsfeld as a 'stud' and 'babe magnet?'  Right,
>and Stalin was sweet 'Uncle Joe'...
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