What did he say?

[over30]

<p>Bush was in a tent at an outlet mall in Gulfport, Miss. at a meeting of Goveror Barbour’s commission on rebuilding. First he said this: Bush sat silent for the first part of the meeting, telling local leaders he didn’t want to interrupt important work. (I’ll let that one go - there are too many possibilities.)</p>

<p>I think I need a translation of this part:<br>
Bush told those gathered for the governor’s meeting: “We look forward to hearing your vision so we can more better do our job.”</p>

<p>I copied this from the Sun Herald, but first saw it on TV. I googled it to make sure I heard it properly. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/hurricane_katrina/12695765.htm[/url]”>http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/hurricane_katrina/12695765.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[bullwinkle]

<p>You heard it correctly- “… so we can more better do our job”.</p>

<p>I still prefer his comment “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, I won’t get fooled again”. (I guess the Prez listens to The Who-lol)</p>

[TheDad]

<p>My favorite Bushism still is:

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.

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<p>It was hysterical in the live presentation but amazingly enough it’s still on the White House web site. </p>

<p><a href=“Briefing Room | The White House”>Briefing Room | The White House;

<p>What’s sad is that, the slip of syntax notwithstanding, this administration would be hard pressed to be worse if they tried.
Corruption and cronyism at home, an ill-considered war abroad.</p>

<p>A blank check for the war, billions for tax relief for the rich (with a token bribe thrown in for the middle class), and then murmurings about fiscal restraint when faced with disaster response.</p>

<p>The poll numbers show that absent Swift Boat ads et alia, the majority of the country finally “Gets It” a few months too late. I can’t wait until this administration is consigned to the dustbin of history. What a pathetic excuse for a president Bush is: a morally bankrupt mental midget.</p>

[bullwinkle]

<p>TheDad - you could not have done a “more better job” by way of your post.</p>

[mootmom]

<p>The cover of The Nation from 11.13.2000 is still one of my all-time favorite political humor pieces. It’s hard to know whether to laugh or cry, though, since it was so prophetic.</p>

[garland]

<p>Okay, the other crowd is gone now. I have to share this:</p>

<p>Donald Rumsfeld is giving President Bush his daily briefing.
He concludes by saying: “Yesterday, 3 Brazilian soldiers were killed.”
“OH NO!” the president exclaims. “That’s terrible!”
His staff sits stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the President sits, head in hands.
Finally, President Bush looks up and asks, “How many is a brazillion?”</p>

[driver]

<p>Ah, another Bush Derangement Syndrome Self-Help Clinic. Carry on…therapy is good.</p>

[garland]

<p>If I didn’t laugh, I’d cry. (Well, I do that too.)</p>

[driver]

<p>With all this talk of alternate laughing/crying I’m thinking manic depression? Whatever it is, you’re nice folks and I hope you work it out together.</p>

[1moremom]

<p>Did you hear someone asked him recently what he thought of Roe vs. Wade? He said he thought people should have gotten out of New Orleans any way they could’ve.</p>

[garland]

<p>Good one, 1more!</p>

<p>Driver, I always do wonder how someone who seems so nice and has such good taste in music can align herself with the forces of evil and darkness. </p>

<p>Have you had your drinking water tested?</p>

[odyssey]

<p>I loved the “Roe v Wade” one when I heard it. And garland, I never heard your contribution. It is great. I needed a laugh.</p>

[emeraldkity4]

<p>Personally I don’t like Bush- I don’t like what he has done as a leader and a citizen, but he obvious is dyslexic even though he has denied it & to find humour in his malapropisms seems a little like laughing at a blind woman because she bumps into things.
I realize that Bush has denied being dyslexic, apparently because he believes that people with learning disabilities/differences are not as intelligent as others, but to even be slightly familiar with dyslexia, the way he phrases things and turns things around, it jsut seems obvious.
<a href=“http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featbrasel_113.shtml[/url]”>http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featbrasel_113.shtml&lt;/a&gt;

In denying that he has dyslexia, Bush has actually admitted having it. This matters not because dyslexia per se disqualifies him from high office—many great people have been dyslexic—but because his impulse was to lie about it, and the lie betrayed itself: “That woman who knew I had dyslexia. I never interviewed her.” Everyone was much amused by the fact that that denial was itself dyslexic. What no one noted at the time was its casual admission that the charge was true—"the woman who knew I had dyslexia," Bush said, and not “the woman who claimed I had” the problem.

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[driver]

<p>The Roe v. Wade joke was funny. Whatever it takes to get you folks smiling again. It’s a big beautiful world out there.

Have you had your drinking water tested?

We have hot-and-cold running Evian in our mansion.</p>

[1moremom]

<p>I think you know what it’s gonna take to get us smiling again. ;)</p>

[emeraldkity4]

<p>perhaps it is genetic?</p>

<p>Barbara Bush-“What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality,” she said during a radio interview with the American Public Media program “Marketplace.” "And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.</p>

[willow_41z]

<p>I have no doubt that this quote is accurate, since over30 looked it up, but I agree with emeraldkity. I can understand disagreeing with the president’s politics, policies, etc., but not mocking him for the way he speaks. Many times, I’ll get involved in a political debate, and it will boil down to this:</p>

<p>OPPONENT: Bush and the Republicans are freakin’ idiots!
ME: Why?
OPPONENT: The man can’t even say his words right! He’s stupid!</p>

<p>Abusing the president solely for his misspeakings is not only unfair to him, but it denigrates all the other people with speech problems and impediments. Are they stupid because they say things wrong, too?</p>

<p>On a side note, you might find this link ( <a href=“http://www.snopes.com/quotes/candidate.asp[/url]”>http://www.snopes.com/quotes/candidate.asp&lt;/a&gt; ) interesting. It’s a collection of misstatements attributed to both President Bush and Senator Kerry.</p>

[TheDad]

<p>Driver, I’m not surprised that you have hot-and-cold running Evian.</p>

<p>Hold a label up to the mirror and you’ll see the truth: EVIAN = NAIVE</p>

<p>So I guess the old saw is true…it’s the water.</p>

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<p>Willow, Bush’s verbal relatively trivial. But I doubt there’s enough memory on CC’s server to hold a catalog of his substantive shortcomings and as as shorthand they capture the man’s inadequacies perfectly.</p>

[bullwinkle]

<p>While the President may or may not have certain disabilities, I think matters go far beyond such things when you are the “leader of the free world” and to that end, I believe that he best captures a quote from Forrest Gump- “Stupid is as stupid does.”</p>

[driver]

<p>Hot and cold running Evian doesn’t have a label, TheDad–it comes out of the faucet. But that was clever anyway, and I hope the humor therapy continues to help you get better. :)</p>