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do you want a sassy leader?

Do you want a sassy leader?

  • Yes! I like playful rhetoric and funny quips!

    Votes: 14 100.0%

  • No! Being a politician is serious business and I find sarcasm disturbing!

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    14
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Some very good leaders have been quite sassy.

Winston Churchill, when confronted by a long-time political rival about his drunkeness responded, "Madam, it is true that I am drunk, but in the morning I will be sober. And YOU will still be ugly!"

Ghandi, when asked "what do you think of Western Civilization?", responded "I think it would be a great idea."

I can't think of any particularly sassy American politicians in this century.

Do you want a leader who's witty, sasssy, or otherwise equipped for verbal sparring and amusing banter?
 
Although one of the last Presidents anyone would consider 'sassy' Calvin Coolidge, had a great line. Known for being a man of very few words, a woman reporter at a state dinner, went up to him and said, "Mr. President, I bet my co-workers that I could get more than two words out of you, so please say something to me." Coolidge's reply, "You lose."
 
I dont know about history times, I'm no nerd.

Actually I agree with you about Coolidge.

Before mass media it was easier to be sassy.

Now it's a campaign libaillity.
 
I'd love to have a leader that continuously punks the media at every turn. Every now and then a fair question might be asked and the politician is obligated to give an honest answer, but when they start in with the jack-assy questions they deserve jack-assy responses.
 
WI Crippler said:
I'd love to have a leader that continuously punks the media at every turn. Every now and then a fair question might be asked and the politician is obligated to give an honest answer, but when they start in with the jack-assy questions they deserve jack-assy responses.
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I want a president who answers questions the way CJ Cregg does on the West Wing.
 
new coup for you said:
Some very good leaders have been quite sassy.

Winston Churchill, when confronted by a long-time political rival about his drunkeness responded, "Madam, it is true that I am drunk, but in the morning I will be sober. And YOU will still be ugly!"

Ghandi, when asked "what do you think of Western Civilization?", responded "I think it would be a great idea."

I can't think of any particularly sassy American politicians in this century.

Do you want a leader who's witty, sasssy, or otherwise equipped for verbal sparring and amusing banter?
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what' "sassy"? A guy who speaks his mind?

We got one, Karel de Gucht.
- he called the Dutch PM "a mix between Harry Potter and a rigid bourgeois without charisma"
- in Congo, he declared to the press "I haven't met many politicians in this country who gave me a good impression" (= euphemism for "all the congolese politicians I met were dumb")
- to the Ecuadorian president, who protested against the expulsion of 2 illegals: "instead of complaining about how Belgium treats its illegals, you'd rather wonder why so many people want to leave your country"

:mrgreen:
 
new coup for you said:
Some very good leaders have been quite sassy.

Winston Churchill, when confronted by a long-time political rival about his drunkeness responded, "Madam, it is true that I am drunk, but in the morning I will be sober. And YOU will still be ugly!"

Ghandi, when asked "what do you think of Western Civilization?", responded "I think it would be a great idea."

I can't think of any particularly sassy American politicians in this century.

Do you want a leader who's witty, sasssy, or otherwise equipped for verbal sparring and amusing banter?
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Churchill was a master of rhetoric. Just reading through an index of his wordplay is really entertaining.
Once could argue George Bush Jr. is unintentionally a snappy speaker.
Or of course there's always Prince Charles, with such wonderful use of words as saying to some British people staying in China, "If you stay here any longer you'll all be slitty-eyed."
 
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Do you want a sassy leader?

___Yes! I like playful rhetoric and funny quips!

___No! Being a politician is serious business and I find sarcasm disturbing!
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1. How about a leader that is pro American, and likes the American people?

2. How about a leader that takes the oath to protect and support the constitution and keeps the oath?

3. How about a leader who is not an *ss Kisser of the very rich, down trodder of the very poor and the elderly?

4. How about a leader that does not start wars just to line his corporate bosses pockets with tax money?

5. How about a leader that wants to end terrorism instead of
provoking
and
creating
more terrorists?

I don't care if the leader is sassy or funny, just as long as the leader is working for America for a change.
 
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new coup for you said:
Some very good leaders have been quite sassy.

Winston Churchill, when confronted by a long-time political rival about his drunkeness responded, "Madam, it is true that I am drunk, but in the morning I will be sober. And YOU will still be ugly!"

Ghandi, when asked "what do you think of Western Civilization?", responded "I think it would be a great idea."

I can't think of any particularly sassy American politicians in this century.

Do you want a leader who's witty, sasssy, or otherwise equipped for verbal sparring and amusing banter?
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You won't hear of one either - they're too afraid of being politically incorrect.:roll:
Personally, I like them sassy, it shows an intelligent wit.
Actually there was one I heard attributed to George McGovern - not in this century though, but it's good. He had held up a plane because of campaigning - and when he got on board he apologized to every one for them having to wait. Then he got to this one woman - and she woulnd't have any of it - she said ' your disgusting. He replied back to her," and Madam, your the biggest horse's *** I've ever seen.":rofl
 
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