Favorite Bushisms

Here are just a few:




"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully"

~Saginaw, Michigan, September 29th, 2000

"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures"

~U.S. News & World Report, January 3, 2000

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."

~Reuters, May 5, 2000

"It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way."—Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005

"If they pre-decease or die early, there's an asset base to be able to pass on to a loved one."—On Social Security money stored in private accounts, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, March 30, 2005

"I want to appreciate those of you who wear our nation's uniform for your sacrifice."—Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 14, 2005

"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB/GYN's aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country."—Sept. 6, 2004, Poplar Bluff, Mo.

"My views are one that speaks to freedom."—Washington, D.C., Jan. 29, 2004

"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods."—Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000

http://www.slate.com/id/76886/?nav=navoa

Hahaha... those sound almost like something one of my great (sadly fictional) heroes, Forrest Gump, would say.

Torley! be nice to forrest. Forest says simple things that have deep meaning. Bush says complex or just plain nonsensical things that we know must have meaning, but it's hard to focus on for laughing so hard.

Nookyooler

This one always tickles me:

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." —Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004

"Who could have possibly envisioned an erection — an election in Iraq at this point in history?" —George W. Bush, at the white House, Washington, D.C., Jan. 10, 2005

"They misunderestimated me." —George W. Bush, Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000


-LW

One of the stupidest of all:

RUR RUR RUR true... it's kind of the opposite.

"I want everybody to hear loud and clear that I'm going to be the president of everybody." -Washington D.C., January 18, 2001

"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe--I believe what I believe is right." -Rome, Italy, July 22, 2001

"I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure." - Interview with the Associated Press, January 18, 2001

"And there's no doubt in my mind, not one doubt in my mind, that we will fail." -Washington D.C., October 4, 2001

"We both use Colgate toothpaste." -On his relationship with Tony Blair, Camp David, Maryland, February 23, 2001

"She was neat." -On meeting Queen Elizabeth II, as quoted in The Times of London, July 18, 2001

"Russia is no longer our enemy and therefore we shouldn't be locked into a Cold War mentality that says we keep the peace by blowing each other up. In my attitude, that's old, that's tired, that's stale." -Des Moines, Iowa, June 8, 2001

"The suicide bombings have increased. There's too many of them." -Albuquerque, New Mexico, August 15, 2001

"My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the--in the Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that peace will never happen." -Crawford, Texas, August 13, 2001

"For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times." -Tokyo, Japan, February 18, 2002

"Do you have blacks, too?" -To Brazilian president Fernando Cardoso, as quoted in Der Spiegel, May 19, 2002

"Neither in French nor in English nor in Mexican." -Declining to answer reporters' questions at the Summit of the Americas, Quebec City, Canada, April 23, 2002

"The folks who conducted to act on our country on September 11 made a big mistake. They underestimated America. They underestimated our resolve, our determination, our love for freedom. They misunderestimated the fact that we love a neighbor in need. They misunderestimated the compassion of our country. I think they misunderestimated the will and determination of the commander in chief, too." -At the CIA, Langley, Virginia, September 26, 2001

"But all in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura an me." -Showing a new rug in the Oval Office, December 21, 2001

"More seldom than not, the movies gives us exquisite sex and wholesome violence, that underscores our values. Every two child did. I will." -To the Economic Club of Detroit, September 22, 2000

"It's very important for folks to understand that when there's more trade, there's more commerce." -Quebec City, Canada, April 21, 2001

"For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three nonfatal shootings. And, folks, this is just unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it." -Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 14, 2001

"Arbolist... Look up the word. I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees." -Crawford, Texas, as quoted in USA Today, August 21, 2001

"I think the private savings accounts ought to come from the payroll taxes people contribute into the Social Security trust. And this is an important issue that I'm going to prioritize right after I'm elected." -Announcing a cabinet appointment, December 20, 2000

"I want to thank you for taking the time out of your day to come and witness my hanging." -At the dedication of his portrait, Austin, Texas, January 4, 2002

"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." -Washington D.C., December 18, 2000

"And so, in my State of the--my State of the Union--or state--my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation--I asked Americans to give 4,000 years--4,000 hours over the next year--the rest of your life--of service to America. That's what I asked--4,000 hours." -Bridgeport, Connecticut, April 9, 2002

"If there are warning signs on the horizon, we need to pay attention to them." -Washington D.C., December 21, 2000

"There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead." -Washington D.C., May 11, 2001

"The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants." -Interview with The New York Times, January 14, 2001

"The reason I believe in a large tax cut because it's what I believe." -Washington D.C., December 18, 2000

"The thing that's important for me is to remember what's the most important thing." -Moline Elementary School near Moline Acres, St. Louis, Missouri, February 20, 2001

And my personal favorite:
"One of the interesting initiatives we've taken in Washington, D.C., is we've got these vampire-busting devices. A vampire ia a--a cell deal you can plug in the wall to charge your cell phone." -Denver, Colorado, August 14, 2001

"I admit it, I am not one of the great linguists." -To Tom Brokaw, Inside the Real West Wing, January 23, 2001

These are just my favorites. I've got LOTS more! ;o)

Dang I forgot my all-time favorite:

"There ought to be limits to freedom" May 21, 1999

Slate keeps a pretty good list running:

The Complete Bushisms
Updated frequently.
By Jacob Weisberg

http://www.slate.com/default.aspx?id=76886

Dang Jeff........ Print a book?

I've got THREE books full of Bushisms. The man says 10 times more that doesn't make sense than does.

Sadly this man was elected despite his cunnery with verbalism. *sigh*

And what's so funny about these is that we all say stupid things in our lives, we just don't have everything we ever say recorded, published and archived on the Internet.

Heh, I don't really like Bush, and this is funny, but this isn't really a big point against him. The ability to speak to a crowd and/or not make mistakes while speaking has very little to do with his presidential ability. Oh sure, it has something to do with it, but most of that something was over when he got elected.

Portmanteau quotation, or exhortation to alter the Z axis on a rezzed object?

My favorite Bushism: *Pretzel Choke*


A part of me wishes the pretzel won.