Best of Bushisms?

[TerragonSix]

To me, the worst 'Bushism' is G.W. standing on an aircraft carrier, in a flight suit, with the words 'mission accomplished' on a banner on the bridge.

Made the U.S. look like a bunch of idiots as well.

 

[SlickTony]

To me, the worst 'Bushism' is G.W. standing on an aircraft carrier, in a flight suit, with the words 'mission accomplished' on a banner on the bridge.

Made the U.S. look like a bunch of idiots as well.

One of my favorite bumperstickers, which I've seen on a champagne colored pickup truck in my town:

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED, MY ASS!

 

[shereads]

That's really kind of disheartening. I was watching this and my husband, from across the room, asked me what I was looking at. I explained, remarking that the people who made this video must have had to do some heavy cherry-picking and slanting. He said he didn't think so.

I don't think it would be that difficult to put together something similar. I've worked with MBAs who are pitifully ignorant - and proudly so - of anything unrelated to the corporate world. ("Why doesn't Palestine just leave Israel alone?")

 

[SlickTony]

I don't think it would be that difficult to put together something similar. I've worked with MBAs who are pitifully ignorant - and proudly so - of anything unrelated to the corporate world. ("Why doesn't Palestine just leave Israel alone?")

Agreed. There's this guy at my workplace; he's the webmeister. He has whole strings of code committed to memory where other people (like me) would merely have bookmarked them; and he is phenomenal at taking strings of code and making images and actions out of them. He is a treasure; I'm glad that my company had the smarts to hire him. (Plus, he's a very hot specimen of his type, a nice person and he likes cats).

But outside of his profession...it was one thing when I casually said something about a "Sisyphean task" and then had to explain to him who Sisyphus was (once I did that, he had no problem picking up the analogy); but when Tim Russert died and he had no idea who Tim Russert was, I mentally threw up my hands.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

Reading a list of Bushisms, I go from laughter, to disbelief, to embarrassment, to anger. That goober with the mouthful of malaprops bankrupted my country and contributed to the deaths of thousands both here and around the world.

It is a testimony to the greatness of this country and our constitution, that we have managed (somehow) to survive nearly eight years of incompetence and misrule by the latest contribution to the American Presidency from the same "Grand Old Party" that gave us: U.S. Grant, Warren G. Harding, Herbert Hoover, and Richard Nixon.

Rumple Foreskin

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

Who said it?

"If we're an arrogant nation, they'll resent us. If we're a humble nation, but strong, they'll welcome us. And it's -- our nation stands alone right now in the world in terms of power, and that's why we have to be humble. And yet project strength in a way that promotes freedom. So I don't think they ought to look at us in any way other than what we are. We're a freedom-loving nation and if we're an arrogant nation they'll view us that way, but if we're a humble nation they'll respect us."

Ah, those innocent times, after the fall of the evil empire and before the fall of the two towers.

 

[shereads]

Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."-Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003

That one's always worth a bump.

 

[shereads]

"Thank you, your Holiness. Awesome speech."

-- George W. Bush, to Pope Benedict, Washington, D.C., April 15, 2008

 

[shereads]

To me, the worst 'Bushism' is G.W. standing on an aircraft carrier, in a flight suit, with the words 'mission accomplished' on a banner on the bridge.

Made the U.S. look like a bunch of idiots as well.

Despite the idiocy - or maybe because there are so many idiots - that photo-op worked magnificently for GWB, when it should have counted against him: the 2004 election. I saw pre-election polls in which voters were asked which of the two candidates served in the Navy in Vietnam. About half believed it was Bush who was the Vietnam vet.

 

[DeeZire]

Lyrics to a song I released prior to the 2004 election. I didn't actually write it, it's just a compilation of his sayings, set to music.

GEORGE W. BUSH SPEAKS

Will the highways on the Internet become more few?
That’s what the president said
I hope we get to the bottom of the answer soon
That’s what the president said
I know how hard it is to put food on your family
That’s what the president said
This is an issue that resignates with people
That’s what the president said

Our priorities is our faith
So we can embetter ourselves
And then we’ll build a hopefuller country
Without corporate malfeance

Families is where our nation finds hope
And where wings take dream
And quotas vulcanize society
That’s what the president said

A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes
To coming out of an economic illness
See it’s your money, you paid for it
That’s what the president said

The key to foreign policy
Is relying on reliances
I think we ought to raise the age
At which juveniles can have a gun

Teach a child to read and he or her
Will be able to pass a literacy test
I think we ought to make the pie higher
That’s what the president said
We cannot let the terrorists hold this nation hostile
So you disarm or we will
Farmers will be in the forethought of our thinking
That’s what the president said

This country has gone through tough times before
And we’re going to do it again
Our administration is making the right decisions
To bring the solution to an end

Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning?
That’s what the president said
I think we agree the past is over
That’s what the president said
We need a full affront on the energy crisis
That’s what the president said
So they better not misunderestimate me
That’s what the president said

(ad libs during fade out)

weapons of mass production!
subliminable!
compassionated!
Abu Guhh Guhh Guhh...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I suspect youre hot for him the way you obsess about him all the time.

 

[McKenna]

This isn't a Bushisms video, but it does help explain why he was elected:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qkHFk2hV28&feature=related

Dear God. I couldn't finish it, it was too painful.