Find the false quote & help test an exciting new concept in voting

[shereads]

This poll is the first real-time test of a concept that will be new to many American voters: evidence that you have voted! If the system functions as hoped, each voter will be able to tell how his vote was recorded.

Ambitious? Yes, it is. But this is the country who put a man on the moon, and if we can't get this voting thing to work, we should put some more of them up there.

All but one of the listed quotes can be traced to one or more Bushisms websites. No cheating; this is not an election. I'll reveal the answer when I'm satisfied with the number of votes, or when the Florida Secretary of State receives an irate phone call from the president's brother and orders me to stop counting.



Edited to add: That's my typo in the 2nd choice from the bottom. It should read, "Teach a child to read and he or her can pass a literacy test."

 

[Dar~]

The oval office one is my guess.

 

[Edward Teach]

This is one of those trick questions aren't they.


Ed

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

I can't keep track of all the idiotic things that the George the Lesser has said, and if could, I would have to go back to hammering my head against that wall, daily, like I did when I still lived in a country where my Commander-In-Chief said such nutty things.

In any case, I'm with Blackbeard on this.

All your choices have that taint of lunacy found in any George W. Bush quote. There is nothing in that list which is too idiotic for George, the Pretender, to have spoken.

I claim that “the fix is in.”

 

[Edward Teach]

I can't keep track of all the idiotic things that the George the Lesser has said, and if could, I would have to go back to hammering my head against that wall, daily, like I did when I still lived in a country where my Commander-In-Chief said such nutty things.

In any case, I'm with Blackbeard on this.

All your choices have that taint of lunacy found in any George W. Bush quote. There is nothing in that list which is too idiotic for George, the Pretender, to have spoken.

I claim that “the fix is in.”

Gotcha!!

 

[shereads]

I can't keep track of all the idiotic things that the George the Lesser has said, and if could, I would have to go back to hammering my head against that wall, daily, like I did when I still lived in a country where my Commander-In-Chief said such nutty things.

In any case, I'm with Blackbeard on this.

All your choices have that taint of lunacy found in any George W. Bush quote. There is nothing in that list which is too idiotic for George, the Pretender, to have spoken.

I claim that “the fix is in.”

I'm disappointed in both of you. As Bush-bashers, you are an embarrassment to your country. All but one of the quotes is by Dubya, and all are real quotes by actual persons who held high office. The mystery idiot was more earnest, and almost harmless in retrospect.

 

[Edward Teach]

Okay, number three was our president's preexcessor who was misunderestimated and caused Whitewatergate.

my first post was a good 'un


Edward The Subtle

 

[shereads]

Okay, number three was our president's preexcessor who was misunderestimated and caused Whitewatergate.

my first post was a good 'un


Edward The Subtle

The "No Student of Bushisms Left Behind" program is underfunded. I despair for the future. Not one correct vote! No wonder Diebold couldn't resist giving voters a little digital nudge.

 

[yui]

Okay, number three was our president's preexcessor who was misunderestimated and caused Whitewatergate.

my first post was a good 'un


Edward The Subtle

Hi Teach.

Yui the Not-So-Subtle

 

[Edward Teach]

Hi Teach.

Yui the Not-So-Subtle

Hey Yui



Edward The Youfu

 

[Subo97]

It's kind of like the Olsen twins

No matter what your good intentions, some of it is going to seep past your guard and infect your brain sometime.

I do believe I actually heard Dubya utter number three. it's a typical Bushism, crowing proudfully of his ignorance of history. I remember reading how Nixon would get drunk and occassionally talk to the presidential portraits. It was the most human and endearing thing I remember from his presidency. Any man who isn't humbled to be in the presence of relics of Lincoln, Washington and FDR is probably too full of himself to have the job in the first place.

I voted for the legislation/free press quote. It looks like too many words for the current slack jawed knuckle scraper to come up with in a row.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

While still operating as a Governor in need of a Governess, Shrub declared:

"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."



In this, he was parroting a remark made by another of the Republican Party’s Brain Trust, Dan Quale.

(In that one must take it on TRUST that they have an operating brain.)

“I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.”



http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/graphics/bush_nosepick.gif



As I said before, "The fix is in."​

 

[CharleyH]

I voted the last one because it was the LEAST idiotic. He has never asked a real question in his life, so that can't be true!

 

[CharleyH]

I voted the last one because it was the LEAST idiotic. He has never asked a real question in his life, so that can't be true!

Hm ... unless he was working under the guise of a CIA agent called George Bush?

 

[shereads]

While still operating as a Governor in need of a Governess, Shrub declared:

"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."



In this, he was parroting a remark made by another of the Republican Party’s Brain Trust, Dan Quale.

(In that one must take it on TRUST that they have an operating brain.)

“I understand the importance of bondage between parent and child.”



http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/graphics/bush_nosepick.gif



As I said before, "The fix is in."​

Quayle said it. If Bush quoted Quayle saying it, Bush is smarter than I gave him credit for. Thank God someone finally googled up a cheat.



Remember when the idea that Dan Quayle might become president was scary? How naive we were.

Meanwhile, back to the real test here: SEEING YOUR VOTE RECORDED! Did it work? Did it feel better than sending your vote into a void?

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

How come the results say nobody voted for Number One?




How Come, shereads?

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Can we forget about the nonsense spewing from The Shrub and test ouselves on other president's statements?

Which President Said That?​

1. America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

2. There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

3. I am not a crook.

4. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

5. It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

6. A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

7. In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

8. Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.

9. Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.

10. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

11. America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

12. Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process

1. John Quincy Adams
2. Herbert Hoover
3. Richard M. Nixon
4. Franklin D. Roosevelt
5. Andrew Jackson
6. Thomas Jefferson
7. Rutherford B. Hayes
8. William McKinley
9. Calvin Coolidge
10. George Washington
11. Jimmy Carter
12. John Fitzgerald Kennedy

 

[shereads]

This is one of those trick questions aren't they.


Ed

Okay, okay, okay. It's funny. I didn't acknowledge it earlier because I was trying to be sensitive to the president, in case he was here.

He's in a Public Sex chat over at Chatropolis, instead.

 

[Edward Teach]

Okay, okay, okay. It's funny. I didn't acknowledge it earlier because I was trying to be sensitive to the president, in case he was here.

He's in a Public Sex chat over at Chatropolis, instead.

Well, it's not like I asked you a half dozen times to notice. I only asked twice.

Why do I have the same feeling I had the time that woman called me "Big Boy?"


Eddie The Flattered

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

I am more inspired to patriotism by Bush than I ever was by Kerry, and most roused by Howard Dean when he was still in the runnin'. I can't think of many Democrats than instilled a sense of "pride" in me--though I can think of many whose policies I thought best.

Maybe politics is like literature... it can be accurate and neat and "best" and functional and goodly, but if it doesn't inspire you... eh... it's lacking the thing that begs concern.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

. . . Maybe politics is like literature . . . if it doesn't inspire you... eh... it's lacking the thing that begs concern.

Political parties should have platforms, not floor shows.

So what if you can’t dance to it.

There’s far too much shucking and jiving around election time, already.

 

[Subo97]

I asked my 7th graders, "Which presidents of the United States are not buried in America?" Out of 139 students not one knew the answer.

 

[Joe Wordsworth]

Political parties should have platforms, not floor shows.

So what if you can’t dance to it.

There’s far too much shucking and jiving around election time, already.

Oh, I think of it more like "political parties should have platforms, those platforms should both speak to me and speak for me... if they don't, it is only well-intentioned rhetoric".

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

I asked my 7th graders, "Which presidents of the United States are not buried in America?" Out of 139 students not one knew the answer.

Except for the American President buried in Saint Paul's Cathedral and the ones who are still breathing, I can't name a one.

 

[Edward Teach]

I am more inspired to patriotism by Bush than I ever was by Kerry, and most roused by Howard Dean when he was still in the runnin'. I can't think of many Democrats than instilled a sense of "pride" in me--though I can think of many whose policies I thought best.

Maybe politics is like literature... it can be accurate and neat and "best" and functional and goodly, but if it doesn't inspire you... eh... it's lacking the thing that begs concern.

Well, Bush was a cheerleader at Yale, don't forget. He does a decent job so long as someone has written good cheers for him and he has memorized them well. When he wanders off on his own he is a little less than inspiring.

wonder how long it took him to learn to spell Yale? Gimme a Why!


Eddie The Skeptic