@FredPuli43
//Unfortunately, Naomi, when he said Bongo Bongo land, the one thing he hadn't in mind was shorthand for 'corrupt regimes in third world countries'. It would been self-explanatory without more, and he could have stopped there. What he had in mind was a, perhaps jocular, description of people who , en masse, he regarded as inferior and who, as he explained, also had leaders who misspent the money. Such an expression would play well with his audience. It doesn't play quite so well elsewhere. //
And there's the -really- worrying thing. He *was* (IMHO) just being a politician and playing to his audience. If he's guilty of anything, it's guilt for using terminology which all those in his audience -didn't need explaining to them-.
When interviewed, he goes on to say that "I said what a lot of people already think".
Naturally, we then take offence that he thinks anyone outside of the room in which the speech was videotaped could even think like that.
For me to claim 'I know what he meant', it's only because of past useage by the likes of 'Phil, the Greek' and Boris, as mentioned earlier in this thread and the lampoonery which inevitably follows.
Meanwhile, are we really saying that Foreign Aid is basically like sucking up to various countries because of oil/mineral wealth?
p.s.
Space program expensidure is justifieable if it's about putting satellites up that can assist them with irrigation plans, where to deploy fertilisers, where soil quality suits some crops and not others, guidance for hi-tech tractors and so on. All technological advances that help, you know, actually feed people and so on.
If it's only about weapons delivery systems, then stuff 'em.