Bushism

[Dingo Jellybean]

Okay, I'm sure many of of you know what that is. What's your favorite Bush quote? Personally, mines is the most recent one:

"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."

[aeris2001x2]

yeah that is a classic.

i cant remember it exactly but its sumthin like this (any one know it exactly please post)

" Most Iraqis are innocent peace loving civilans. and we will hunt them down no matter what"

ok i know its not that, but u know what i,m gettin at

[Dingo Jellybean]

More:


"Then I went for a run with the other dog and just walked. And I started thinking about a lot of things. I was able to — I can't remember what it was. Oh, the inaugural speech, started thinking through that."

"We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House — make no mistake about it."

"I am here to make an announcement that this Thursday, ticket counters and airplanes will fly out of Ronald Reagan Airport."

"My trip to Asia begins here in Japan for an important reason. It begins here because for a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times. From that alliance has come an era of peace in the Pacific."

"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 — the rest of your life — of service to America. That's what I asked — 4,000 hours."

"I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children."

And finally, one of the most classic:

"It's your money. You paid for it."

[aeris2001x2]

wow, those are sum cool ones. i remember a speech once were he was taking the piss out of his own lingustic limitations. at least he knows the truth.

[Dingo Jellybean]

wow, those are sum cool ones. i remember a speech once were he was taking the piss out of his own lingustic limitations. at least he knows the truth.

"[W]e've had leaks out of the administrative branch, had leaks out of the legislative branch, and out of the executive branch and the legislative branch, and I've spoken out consistently against them, and I want to know who the leakers are."

That's the closest one I can think of.

[Dr Unne]

If you had someone write down your spoken words exactly as you speak them, you'd probably be rather surprised how almost incoherent they are. That's the nature of spoken language. We studied it a bit in a linguistics class I took. We think much faster than we can talk, and we parse language in a way that we hear what we're expecting to hear, for the most part. You can mix up words and leave them out, and the context carries your message across, along with nonverbal communication and whatnot. One good example is the Watergate tapes. This is what natural conversation looks like.

Nixon: Oh, Mitchell, Mitchell was at the point that you made on this, that exactly what I need from you is on the--
Haldeman: Gemstone, yeah.
Nixon: All right, fine, I understand it all. We won't second-guess Mitchell and the rest. Thank God it wasn't Colson.
Haldeman: The FBI interviewed Colson yesterday. They determined that would be a good thing to do.
Nixon: Um hum.
Haldeman: Ah, to have him take a...
Nixon: Um hum.
Haldeman: An interrogation, which he did, and that, the FBI guys working the case had concluded that there were one or two possibilities, one, that this was a White House, they don't think that there is anything at the Election Committee, they think it was either a White House operation and they had some obscure reasons for it, non political,...
Nixon: Uh huh.
Haldeman: or it was a...
Nixon: Cuban thing-
Haldeman: Cubans and the CIA. And after their interrogation of, of...
Nixon: Colson.

[Zell's Fists of Fury]

"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."

[Dingo Jellybean]

If you had someone write down your spoken words exactly as you speak them, you'd probably be rather surprised how almost incoherent they are. That's the nature of spoken language. We studied it a bit in a linguistics class I took. We think much faster than we can talk, and we parse language in a way that we hear what we're expecting to hear, for the most part. You can mix up words and leave them out, and the context carries your message across, along with nonverbal communication and whatnot. One good example is the Watergate tapes. This is what natural conversation looks like.

True, but the big difference is that these speeches are prepared. They are thoroughly checked for accuracy and intent of meaning. To slaughter prepared speeches that Bush has done so many times only makes him more susceptible to ridicule than anyone else.

[Azure Chrysanthemum]

Plus the way he mangles the language is rather amusing.

[nik0tine]

I don't think i have a favorite. There are just to many to choose from! Although that old saying in Tennesee is definetly up there, and so is this one. "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."

[fire_of_avalon]

I won't lie and tell you I don't find them amusing beyond all things, but I still think it's a pretty low blow to think of him as an idiot because he's a poor public speaker.

[aeris2001x2]

what? i thought he was a monkey who had been trained by his oil baron masters??? that explains his linguistic problem...

[Strider]

Don't misunderestimate me.

[eestlinc]

I won't lie and tell you I don't find them amusing beyond all things, but I still think it's a pretty low blow to think of him as an idiot because he's a poor public speaker.

i prefer to think of Bush as an idiot for the horrible way he has run the country.

[TheAbominatrix]

"I will not repeat it again, in French, nor in English, nor in Mexican."