Originally Posted By mawnck Just found this quote. Says it all, methinks: “You *can* fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.” George W. Bush 3-31-01
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo How about this one from the Shrub: "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
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." --Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000 and people wonder why I lost my faith in Democracy in 2000
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo "For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It's just unacceptable. And we're going to do something about it." --Philadelphia, Penn., May 14, 2001
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo "See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." --Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005 And if you can deal with it, here is the audio clip: <a href="http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushism-propaganda.htm" target="_blank">http://politicalhumor.about.co...anda.htm</a>
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo "Goodbye from the world's biggest polluter." --in parting words to world leaders at his final G-8 Summit, punching the air and grinning widely as those present looked on in shock, Rusutsu, Japan, July 10, 2008
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo "The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th." --Washington, D.C., July 12, 2007
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo "I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president." --as quoted in Bob Woodward's Bush at War
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo "Do you have blacks, too?" --to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2001
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Not so great moments with Mr Bush. Heck, the AA version in WDW is smarter and more ethical. Though he is supposedly religious, I am sure he will be nice and toasty for eternity if he is right about religion.
Originally Posted By donnyaz Just to be balanced here are some of President Obama's quotes <a href="http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/barackobama/a/obama-isms.htm" target="_blank">http://politicalhumor.about.co...isms.htm</a>
Originally Posted By wahooskipper Is he up for some award you guys are against? I mean...it's been nearly a year since he was in office....
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Yep, and people still hate other evil doers of history centuries later. Your point is?
Originally Posted By Dabob2 W was easily the worst president of my lifetime and I go back to the last months of Eisenhower.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper I guess my point is...what is the point? Does it serve to lessen the devisiveness of the nation? I don't think it is any better than what Rush and Beck do.
Originally Posted By donnyaz "Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain...administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change." --Candidate Obama July 22, 2008
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Rush and Beck are on Obama's back for every little thing he does, deserved or not. Beck has called him a racist, and plays little games like saying the birthers' claims "are out there. There's still controversy..." rather than just calling them for the falsehoods they are. With Bush, there's a wealth of things to legitimately criticize, and most of davewasbaloo's quotes speak to one or other of them.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 #17 is an obvious example of a slip of the tongue (as are many of the things in the link in #12). Every president does that. Bush was legendary for them - there were entire books devoted to these "Bushisms." But slips of the tongue are only that. dave's quotes of Bush speak to his philosophy and the disaster he brought to us for 8 years.
Originally Posted By donnyaz "I've now been in 57 states -- I think one left to go." --at a campaign event in Beaverton, Oregon Candidate Obama
