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Quote of the Day: “Bless Your Heart”
“And should life get dicey, I have a couple surefire strategies for coping. You can say almost anything with both strength and dignity if you start with, ‘With all due respect.’ And a well-timed ‘Bless your heart’ will keep your enemies guessing. So live your life with grit and grace. Count your blessings. Love your family. And remember: Even on our worst days, we are blessed to live in America.” — Nikki Haley
Every time I think of these two comments, I can’t help smiling. The “Bless your heart” comment is apparently one she uses in a sardonic way, Southern woman-style. She said it to President Trump after he attacked her during his first Presidential campaign when she wasn’t yet supporting him. The “With all due respect” comment, if I recall correctly, was her reaction to Larry Kudlow, after he publicly called her “confused” because he was unsatisfied with something she reported. It wasn’t his best moment, and she wanted him to know it. Eventually, she persuaded him that he had to publicly correct the record.
I admire Nikki Haley because she has an iron will and loads of grit. She is also compassionate and sensitive, actually suffering from PTSD after attending the funerals of the victims of the South Carolina church shooting. She has also learned that when she has a strong reaction to something that happens or something said, she tries to wait 24 hours before responding.
Her intellect, patience, humor, and dedication to this country have served her, and all of us, very well.
I hope she runs for President in 2024.
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Haley-Crenshaw 2024!
OOh, I like it! That black patch is so sexy! ;-) Actually I do like him, too, and I think they’d make a great pair. Time will tell . . . thanks, @oldphil!
I really want a solid candidate in 2024, and if she was a woman, it’d be great. Because I can’t wait to tell all my liberal friends they are sexist for not voting for her.
That works.
From her book regarding the comment from Larry Kudlow:
This was what caused the kerfuffle with Kudlow:
The White House did not tell her about the change.
Suzy,
Oh, how I like this gal.
Regards,
Jim
I am wary of her. Not really worth it right now to explain why, and I could be wrong.
Anyway, I have grown very tired of this method of expression.
The “with all due respect” phrase is overused and blatantly misused in nearly every case. At best it is a meaningless, at worst it means the opposite.You can disagree with someone and still respect them. You don’t have to use this phrase. It’s a kind-of verbal cudgel, or a set-up phrase for a zinger.
Worse is the “ bless your heart”. If I understand the Commandment “ Thal shalt not take the Lord’s name in vain” correctly, I believe this is the kind of thing it refers to. Vanity is ego and glorification of self. Saying bless your heart when you really don’t mean it, and using the phrase to make yourself look good, putting down someone in a condescending manner, is ugly. It’s a virtue-signal that you hide behind piety when dealing snark. You want to be snarky, I got no complaints. You want to pretend to be superior using what is ultimately sarcasm couched in religious terms, I lose respect.
It makes the speaker look hypocritical, and doesn’t say much for the speakers religious beliefs.
Susan Quinn’s expected response to Franco:
With all due respect, Franco, Bless your heart…
😉
To me, the phrase “with all due respect” has always seemed to beg the question of how much respect is due.
I was considering doing it.
I don’t remember when I first heard that phrase used, but I though it was positive, as I grew up near Chicago. But I’ve never understood the difference between flammable and inflammable either.
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There isn’t one. The opposite is non-flammable.
I was trying to make a Yakov Smirnoff joke. My bad.
I knew a sergeant in the Army, great soldier, great leader, runs the KFC in Bellefontaine, OH now. He always said “If you say ‘with all due respect’, it’s only because you are about to disrespect someone.” I think he’s got a point.
C’mon, Franco, it’s all about having a sense of irony. You know very well that’s what she was doing. Don’t go literal on me. And Trump thinks she’s great. She was using “with all due respect” as a poke. The same with “bless your heart.”
Seriously? She didn’t bring G-d into it. You did. Now go to your room. ;-)
I think the context matters a great deal–who is saying it, why, and the tone. It’s called subtlety.
Sort of. “Bless your heart” is short for “G-d bless your heart.”
I’ll stick with the “sort-of.” The sardonic part.
I doubt anyone who grew up hearing and using Bless Your Heart, uses it specifically to call down a blessing from God. I hear it as a loving way to correct someone, as in a familial relationship, albeit with a bit of exasperation. You couldn’t be more wrong and I still love you, sort of thing.
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Interesting you say that. I have two conflicting thoughts about her:
She is the consummate politician. And she is quite flexible. And very good at reading trends.
Which begs the key question: what are her principles?
I’m of the mind that God, or some higher saint is implied here also. Otherwise it means that the person saying bless your heart has the power to do so. I don’t know a religion, other than modern leftism, that believes people can bless other people.
Sarah Palin is
dumbnot intelligent. Nikki Haley is intelligent.I worry about Nikki Haley the same way I worry about all politicians. But I worry less about her…because she is so HOT! I am enchanted by her exotic beauty. (sexist!)
Yes, but this Still doesn’t make sense to me. I love you but you’re wrong , still has the pretense that the person who is being challenged automatically or inherently believes that criticism, or a challenge means you don’t love or like him/her.
Where did that idea come from?
Otherwise it’s a debating tactic that gets old real quick. Can’t people see the vapid condescension in these phrases?
I can see using them from time to time (although I certainly won’t) but the quote in the OP is about using it as a tactic. Cute, Nikki, but a big fail in my book.
PS Love ya, Susan!😘
Hippie Catholicism.
I too, liked Palin at first. I loved how she directly challenged the media. But then she lost me because she was a pretty bad candidate. I would say she, more than any other political candidate, suffered from the hot chick syndrome.
Haley is much more capable and substantial but still, I see a bit of that hot chick thing going on. That’s actually something that men do to women, but the women internalize it unconsciously, which is normal.
Nothing personal, but you smell bad.
With all due respect, you are an idiot.
Honestly…. (lie)
To be clear…. (obfuscation)
The press attacked Palin. McCain’s people attacked Palin. SNL attacked Palin. People think she said things that one of the actresses on SNL said. Palin may have been slightly out of her depth (as was McCain and his entire campaign). She was from a small population state. She had not been governor for long. She was not ready for the vindictive and partisan national media. On the other hand, she didn’t ask to be asked to run for VP. If anything, she was a sort of a pre-Trump in the second slot. But there is still a lot to say for Sarah Palin.