You're kidding right? Not only does a candidate have to have a full head of hair, they can't speak like they're from anywhere TV network Mid-Western English?

So when my friend, a gentleman with a master degree who lives in Syracuse, NY, says "youse" instead of "you", it's out of ignorance, not an accent? And when someone from Brooklyn says they live on "turty-tree and a turd street", they're ignorant and not speaking with an accent? JFK's "pawk the cawr" accent was less ignorant? Kerry doesn't have an accent? You're kidding right? Or is it that only Southern accents are ignorant? Forgive me if I'm tempermental, but I've run across that kind of bigotry in the past.

"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

These are your infamous "16 words", right?

"In a July 11 statement, The Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet took responsibility for not removing the questionable sentence.

"Tenet said 'the president had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound. These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.'

"'From what we know now, [Central Intelligence] Agency officials in the end concurred that the text in the speech was factually correct -- i.e. that the British government report said that Iraq sought uranium from Africa,' Tenet said in his statement.

"'This should not have been the test for clearing a presidential address. This did not rise to the level of certainty which should be required for presidential speeches, and CIA should have ensured that it was removed, he said."

It isn't a lie if you have every reason to believe it's the truth. You're right, Tenent should have been dismissed long ago.

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