My embarrassing link to Bush
by Miki Saxon
In honor of President’s Day, the Biz Channel’s intrepid editor Kelly, AKA Tax Girl, wrote an amazing post linking quotes from all 43 Presidents to an appropriate blog, which took a ton of work and is very cool!But as I read through it I had a sinking feeling and my stomach started getting queasy. I just knew it was gonna happen in spite of the fact that I Kelly and I like each other. I knew it, I just knew it—and it did, right at the end.
Yeah, you guessed it; I got the link from GWB, master of inchoate thoughts, bungled comments and abuser of the English language.
“I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.”
All I can say it that I may write a leadership blog, but I’m no leadership!
So I wrote to our list and asked Kelly if I’d done something to annoy her, at which point, Miranda, of Yielding Wealth fame, jumped in saying that she’d take GWB with this quote,
“This is an impressive crowd — the haves and the have mores. Some people call you the elite. I call you my base.”
There are so many comments that display his cogent style, but this one, early on, showed his true colors.
“Bill [Clinton] wrote a book at Yale. I read one.”
Yeah, guy, it really shows.
What’s you favorite Bushism?
Your comments—priceless
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February 18th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Here’s mine:
“I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what’s moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.” —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 21, 2003
February 18th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Bushisms are like potato chips and Mormon wives… One just ain’t enough:
The Stupidest Things President George W. Bush Has Ever Said
10) “Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.” —LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000
9) “I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.” —Greater Nashua, N.H., Jan. 27, 2000(Listen to audio clip)
8) “I hear there’s rumors on the Internets that we’re going to have a draft.” —second presidential debate, St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8, 2004
7) “I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.” —Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000
6) “You work three jobs? … Uniquely American, isn’t it? I mean, that is fantastic that you’re doing that.” —to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005
5) “Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.” —Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004
4) “They misunderestimated me.” —Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
3) “Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?” —Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
2) “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
1) “There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.” —Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002
Video/audio clips of many of these and more at:
http://politicalhumor.about.com/cs/georgewbush/a/top10bushisms.htm
February 18th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Priceless… :)
My favorite Bushism is yet to come – at the moment he tells the next President-elect “good luck.”
February 18th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Shannon, One book and headlines only. Hmmm, maybe the real truth is that he’s functionally illiterate and is just faking it.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Sean, Great list and you’re right, it’s really hard to choose just one. But the scary part is when you realize the thought process that went to produce each of them.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Hey Mark, let’s just hope that he’s not contagious when they shake hands.
February 18th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Thanks for the link love Miki!
I do have to take a moment to defend my faith. Only one wife for Mormons since the before the end of the 19th Century :0) You’re thinking of so-called “fundamentalist” Mormons…who aren’t accepted as members of the LDS faith at all.
We can’t forget these gems:
“Is our children learning?”
“If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier…just so long as I’m the dictator.”
“I’m the decider, and I decide what’s best!”
And, finally, with our focus on GWB’s literary leanings: “Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of ‘Hop on Pop.'”
February 18th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Miranda, I’ve always found the combination of an enlarged ego and shrunken mentality makes for hilarious quotes—too bad this one is in such a position power.