NationStates Jolt Archive

GWB stuff is pretty old, but I've never seen something like this before and I'm bored so I decided to post it. Poll - some of my favourites...
Full text of ones which didn't fit
1: 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.
2: I want to thank the President and the CEO of Constellation Energy, Mayo Shattuck. That's a pretty cool first name, isn't it, Mayo. Pass the Mayo.
5: Too many good docs are gettin' out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their -- their love with women all across this country.

"I hear there's rumors on the, uh, Internets"

"You forgot Poland"

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me... uh... you won't fool me again!"

Startegery FTW!

Eh, why not?

"The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany."

"I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive."

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully"

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully"

Mr. President obviously has never been to the Ships Inn. If I had the money, the Halibut would be extinct.

And again:

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier...just as long as I'm the dictator..."

GWB stuff is pretty old, but I've never seen something like this before and I'm bored so I decided to post it. Poll - some of my favourites...
Full text of ones which didn't fit
1: 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.
2: I want to thank the President and the CEO of Constellation Energy, Mayo Shattuck. That's a pretty cool first name, isn't it, Mayo. Pass the Mayo.
5: Too many good docs are gettin' out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their -- their love with women all across this country.

“Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010920-8.html

And again:

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier...just as long as I'm the dictator..."

He actually said that?

He actually said that?

According to this site, seventh from the bottom.

http://www.dubyasays.com/

I'll take this oppurtunity to give another:

"It's in our country's interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm's way."

He actually said that?
Yeah... heh, heh. Don't forget these:

"It's not a dictatorship in Washington, but I tried to make it one in that instance."

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it."

"There are no grey areas between good and evil"

"There are no grey areas between good and evil"

ZOMG SITH!

This is alot of fun! :D

"We got an issue in America. Too many good docs are gettin' out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their -- their love with women all across this country."

"There are no grey areas between good and evil"

Yeah there is. There's Chaotic Neutral, Lawful Neutral, and True Neutral. [/D&D]

“See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."

What? Nobody else?

"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe -- I believe what I believe is right."


"Wow, Brazil is big."


"But we've got a big border in Texas, with Mexico, obviously -- and we've got a big border with Canada -- Arizona is affected."

I'll say it again. This is really fun. :D

"Mission Accomplished" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished)

This is alot of fun! :D

"We got an issue in America. Too many good docs are gettin' out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their -- their love with women all across this country."

He said that? He's been watching too many <you know> movies.

"You forgot Poland"
Concurred.

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/2/-/bush_debate_poland.jpg

Concurred.

http://z.about.com/d/politicalhumor/1/0/2/-/bush_debate_poland.jpg

Am I the only one who thinks that the President's head has been attatched to a robotic body? I mean seriously (ok, not really), his head doesn't even fit with his body.

:D

Am I the only one who thinks that the President's head has been attatched to a robotic body? I mean seriously (ok, not really), his head doesn't even fit with his body.

:D

More like Dick Cheney. If he isn't a reanimated corpse, then I don't know what is. We used to think that Strom Thurmond had been a robot for 12 years before his "death", but I think Cheney might be one as well.

"Im not so sure they (Atheists) are a part of this country."

I personally liked it when he waved at Stevie Wonder.

"I hear there's rumors on the, erm, internets!"

The funniest thing i heard bush say is what he said in this discussion:

Bush: I wanna send people to the moon
Somone else: Thats already been done
Bush: then I... I wanna send people to the sun
Someone else: but then they will burn up.
Bush, no they won't, because I'm going to send them there at night.

"I refuse to be sucked into your hypnotheoretical ("hypothetical" or "theoretical"?) arguments."

“Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010920-8.html

I cant seem to find it in that large speech. Care to give specifics?

Bush's state of the union adress: "Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research - human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human-animal hybrids-"

Say what?

Bush's state of the union adress: "Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research - human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human-animal hybrids-"

Say what?

I think he found a furry website and took it as a serious threat to American ideals.

I think he found a furry website and took it as a serious threat to American ideals.

I think furries are a threat to the ideals of mankind...

It has to be:

"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."

I crack up whenever that is replayed. It just sums up Bush's utter lack of rhetorical skills.

It has to be:

"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."

I crack up whenever that is replayed. It just sums up Bush's utter lack of rhetorical skills.

this is the best.

My favorite would be "it's important for people to realize, when we're talking about war, we're really talking about peace."

Really hits home how very 1984 this whole administration has gotten.

http://www.break.com/index/sundaybush.html

GWB stuff is pretty old, but I've never seen something like this before and I'm bored so I decided to post it. Poll - some of my favourites...
Full text of ones which didn't fit
1: 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.
2: I want to thank the President and the CEO of Constellation Energy, Mayo Shattuck. That's a pretty cool first name, isn't it, Mayo. Pass the Mayo.
5: Too many good docs are gettin' out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their -- their love with women all across this country.

The Canadian-Mexican border bit is my favorite.

But let's be nice: Bush is just a horrible public speaker. He's not stupid. No one that idiotic could be President. He probably just gets nigh ridiculously nervous speaking in front of crowds and thusly makes mental errors leading to errors in speech. We've all done it. I know I have.

I cant seem to find it in that large speech. Care to give specifics?

Paragraph 30 (which begins, " Our response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated strikes."), second to last line of the paragraph.

I rather like: "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."

"the problem with the french is they have no word for entrepreneur"

I now use the "word" misunderestimated quite a bit, does that count?

"I'm the decider."

"I think we all agree, the past is over."

http://www.dubyaspeak.com/

Funny Dubya quotes!!!

Edumacated.

I have heard people use it in conversation, TV Shows and Cartoons.

It will be a real word someday.

"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating."
--U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000

Underestimating who?

"You don't need to be smart to be president"
--Republican Congressman J.C. Watts - said at a February campaign appearance on Bush's behalf. Washington Post, 6/11/00

Damn, I'm overqualified.

"Rarely is the question asked: is our children learning"
--Florence, SC, Jan. 11, 2000
Let's hope so.

"Actually, I -- this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about -- when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me."
--Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
Is it just me, or did this one sound paranoid?

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
--Reuters, May 5, 2000

So do baseball stats. Hey, you guys have been handing him the sports section and telling him it's the budget report, haven't you?

"I think we agree, the past is over."
--On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000

I hope so. The alternative involves a rip in the space-time continuum.

"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometime until we get an objective analysis."
--Meet the Press, April 15, 2000

So, you still don't know if our children is learning, huh?

"I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California."
--Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000

In his defence, west Texas is closer to California than DC is.

"We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations; their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal cufflink."
--Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, March 30, 2000

All cufflinks should be at the state or local level.

"The fact that he relies on facts -- says things that are not factual -- are going to undermine his campaign."
--New York Times, March 4, 2000

Facts are for wusses.

"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature."
--Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000
OK, so by extension, it's not Clintonesque to support supply-side. Got it.

"I understand small business growth. I was one."
--New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000

I'm not even going to comment on the implications of this one.

"How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?"
--Explaining the need for educational accountability, Beaufort, S.C.,Feb.16, 2000

Hey, if someone had offered to suckle me in school, I'd have taken them up on it.

"The senator has got to understand if he's going to have he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road."
--To reporters in Florence, S.C., Feb. 17, 2000

Nobody mixes a metaphor like you, George.

"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."
--Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000

Hey, at least he tried to warn us.

"We ought to make the pie higher."
-South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000

Is that anything like "special" brownies?

"I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less, I pontificate less, although it may be hard to tell it from this show. And I'm more interacting with people."
--Meet The Press, Feb. 13, 2000

Always straight and to the point.

"I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the tollbooth."
--Nashua, N.H., as quoted by Gail Collins, New York Times, Feb. 1, 2000

Down with toolbooths!

"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case."
--Pella, Iowa, as quoted in the San Antonio Express News, Jan. 30, 2000"

Again, no comment.

"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve."
--Speaking during Perseverance Month at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H.

What kind of preserves?

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
--Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000

Food fight!

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses."
--At a South Carolina oyster roast; quoted in the Financial Times, Jan.14, 2000

Stupidity is contagious?

"There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country."
--Larry King Live, Dec. 16, 1999

Amazing what you discover on the campaign trail.

"The important question is, How many hands have I shaked?"
--Answering a question about why he hasn't spent more time in New Hampshire; quoted in the New York Times, Oct. 23, 1999

...And how many of them had cooties?

"Keep good relations with the Grecians."
--Quoted in the Economist, June 12, 1999

They make a damn fine formula though.

"When it is all said and done, I will have made more money than I ever dreamed I would make."
--Dubya

I'm rich, y'all!

"Put the 'off' button on."
--South Carolina, February 14, 2000

Otherwise we'll never shut the thing off.

"I did denounce it. I de-I denounced it. I denounced interracial dating. I denounced anti-Catholic bigacy... bigotry."
--Referring to his Bob Jones University visit and the subsequent criticism, Virginia, February 25, 2000

So, let's hope the twins only date WASPs.

"We believe in opportunity for all Americans: Rich and poor, black and white...."
--From a speech at Bob Jones Univ., in South Carolina, 2/2/00

Ok, good. And?

"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself."
--George W. Bush puts an interesting twist on Jesus Christ's proverb: "Love thy neighbor." (Quote is from the Financial Times)

Misquoting the Bible? You make baby Jesus cry.

"I would have said yes to abortion if only it was right. I mean, yeah it's right. Well no it's not right that's why I said no to it."
--South Carolina, February 14,2000

Quick, which is it I believe again?

"My [tax cut] plan is realistic because it avoids meaningless 15-year projections."
--George W. Bush goes to extraordinary lengths to defend his tax cut plan. (Quote is from a Bush speech in Iowa, 12/1/99)

Armageddon will happen before then, so it doesn't matter.

"The fundamental question is: 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective."
--New York Times, 7/28/99

So you'll just have to take my word for it.

"There ought to be limits to freedom"
--at a Press conference at the Texas State House, May 21, 1999, referring to GWBush.com

AHA! Let it slip there.

"We have struggle to not proceed but to preceed to the future of a nation's child."
--Journal Gazette 11/12/00

HUH? :confused:

"My opponent seems to think that Social Security is a federal program. I believe that money is yours and you should be able to invest it yourself."
-The final Presidential debate

I love my grandmother, but no way would I trust her to invest all of her Social Security.

"Down in Washington they're playing with Social Security like it's some kind of government program!"
-NBC Nightly News (Date unknown, anyone out there know?)

The nerve!

"The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!"
--The first Presidential debate

Can't argue that logic...:rolleyes:

"They said, 'You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate [sic] with the people.' And I said, you know something? Whether it resignates [sic] or not doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing what's the right thing, and what the right thing is hearing the voices of people who work.
--Portland, Ore., Oct. 31, 2000

They've got to stop letting him improvize.

"It's your money. You paid for it."
--LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

So there.:p

"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.
-Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000

Won't someone please think of the children?

"If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it."
--The Presidential Debates. St. Louis, Mo., October 18, 2000

If it means something else, I'm screwed.

"It's going to require numerous IRA agents."
--On Gore's tax plan, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000

I thought you were either with us, or with the terrorists?

"I don't think we need to be subliminable [sic] about the differences between our views on prescription drugs."
--Orlando, Fla., Sept. 12, 2000. He then repeatedly mispronounced the word after his press conference.

And what was he on?

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully"
--Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000

Dare we dream of such a day?

"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"
--Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000

Gives new meaning to "my way or the highway".

"It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas."
--Beaverton, Ore., Sep. 25, 2000

Thank you, Captain Obvious.

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier...just as long as I'm the dictator..."
--Washington, DC, Dec 18, 2000, during his first trip to Washington as President-Elect

You know, he gave us fair warning. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

"They misunderestimated me."
--Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000

That'll larn 'em!

"That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century."
--On the Lewinsky scandal, Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000"

Don't you hate it when you forget what chapter you're on?

"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream."
—LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000"

Where do I pick up my wings? Flying would be cool.

"There's a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, 'I don't want you to let me down again.'"
— Boston, Massachusetts, October 3, 2000

See, he hears from the people all the time.

"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question"
--Reynoldsburg, Ohio, October 4, 2000

Dazed and Confused.

"You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."
--February 21, 2001 - President Bush at Townsend Elementary School, touting his education reform plans.

As night follows day...

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully"
Lies.
He actually said that?
Oh, yes, he did.
Harmonia Mortus Redux;11632050']ZOMG SITH!
No, they acknowledge the grey, they simply choose the darkness.
“See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction."
Yeah....:(
The funniest thing i heard bush say is what he said in this discussion:

Bush: I wanna send people to the moon
Somone else: Thats already been done
Bush: then I... I wanna send people to the sun
Someone else: but then they will burn up.
Bush, no they won't, because I'm going to send them there at night.
ROFLMFAO!!:D
It has to be:

"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."

I crack up whenever that is replayed. It just sums up Bush's utter lack of rhetorical skills.
No, it doesn't, but that is one of the funniest ones.
I rather like: "If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
Indeed.

"I strive to preserve these powers not only for myself, but also for my predecessors."

"I understand small business growth. I was one."

Lies.

Beware of the fish! :eek:

http://www.darkart.cz/images/gallery/pencil/evil_fish.jpg

Beware of the fish! :eek:

http://www.darkart.cz/images/gallery/pencil/evil_fish.jpg

:eek: Oh noes!
*stays away from the water, especially the Pacific Ocean*

Here's my favorite:
Look everyone. I've just come to realize that I'm the biggest fucking idiot to ever hold this job, and I'm going to give it up, right after I shoot Dick Cheney in the face, because that bastard's just evil.
He says that in my dreams from time to time. :D

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
--Reuters, May 5, 2000

:D

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
--Reuters, May 5, 2000

:D
Quoting stupid things that Dubya's said over the years is what one might call a "target rich environment."

I like the one where he was asked about Native American Nations and basically said they were their own sovereignties.
The way he said as well as what he said was classic. It was plainly obvious he didn't have a friggin' clue as to what was being asked.

edit: found it on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWiytuW79vU


And here's the question + answer:
Q Good morning. My name is Mark Trahant. I'm the editorial page editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and a member of the Native American Journalist Association. Most school kids learn about the government in the context of city, county, state and federal. And, of course, tribal governments are not part of that at all. Mr. President, you've been a governor and a President, so you have a unique experience, looking at it from two directions. What do you think tribal sovereignty means in the 21st century, and how do we resolve conflicts between tribes and the federal and the state governments?

THE PRESIDENT: Tribal sovereignty means that, it's sovereign. You're a -- you've been given sovereignty, and you're viewed as a sovereign entity. And, therefore, the relationship between the federal government and tribes is one between sovereign entities.

From Maineiacs extensive list:
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
--Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000
Doubly ironic if you consider his upbringing - coming as he did from one of the wealthiest and most influential families in America.
Of course he knows how tough it can be. He probably saw how hard it was first-hand when growing up, seeing his maids, cooks, gardners etc etc struggling to get by on next-to-nothing.
Either that or one of his aides told him as part of a goodnight story after tucking him in at the Whitehouse.

"I would have said yes to abortion if only it was right. I mean, yeah it's right. Well no it's not right that's why I said no to it."
--South Carolina, February 14,2000
And they called Kerry a flip-flopper...

"We'll bomb that bridge when we come to it."