For good or ill, depending on your political stripes, I don’t think we’ve seen as entertaining a political figure as Dubya take center stage since Dan Quayle. And I believe we’ve missed a pretty good bet in Sarah Palin. At least, Tina Fey might think so. But she’ll be back, no doubt.
That said, please give me your most enduring memory of Dub for our family album. Everything is welcome. For example:
Favorite Manglish
Winner: Strategery.
Honorable mention: misunderestimated. (This one might actually make it)
Favorite joke
Condoleezza Rice: Mr. President, I have bad news. Six Brazilian policemen were killed in today’s riots.
Dubya: My God, that’s awful. (He pauses in consternation.) Say, Condi, how many *is *there in a brazillion?
Favorite Video
Gotta be the locked door, but I’m afraid that we’re gonna be stuck with the size 10 shoe. To his credit, Dub said, “I was able to see into the man’s sole.” I hope that quote wasn’t manufactured for the Press afterward.
Favorite “what the hell is he talking about?” moment
Ok Ok I know now what he was talking about and it was really just my ignorance that made it funny but come on I can’t be the only person who said “WTF?” right?
Edwin Edwards was entertaining. Huey Long was entertaining. Gerald Ford was entertaining if you like slapstick. Bill Clinton was entertaining. Shrub was mostly annoying, mixed with embarassing.
I hate to stick up for the guy, but “strategery” was from an SNL skit (the Bush-Gore debate where Gore’s solution was to put everything in a “lockbox”). As for things the man actually said, “Fool me once…” was comedy gold.
I’m looking forward to a much less entertaining eight years.
**Munch **and Schmoe, just watched the SNL Gore v. Bush debate video. Loved it. Amazed that I missed it. It’s possibilistic (thank you, G.B. Trudeau) that I will have to find another winner.
Thank you for the education. Actually, it clears up the “lock-box” joke that I *thought *I’d gotten (but actually didn’t really) in the “Alternate Universe” State of the Union speech by Gore on SNL.
I think my favorite was his observation that “Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.” I would’ve been entertained more by his presidency is it hadn’t had such horrible results.
Yep, it’s been hilarious. I hope every senior member of the Bush administration and a significant percentage of senators and congressmen develop chronic, untreatable insomnia and eventually die miserable, poor, and alone.
In a way it’s sad: I get the impression that now, finally, far far too late, Dubya was finally starting to get the smallest spark of a clue. Like an axe murderer being strapped into the electric chair and starting to wonder if maybe, just maybe, he did something wrong.
The way I figure it, we (as a nation) can do one of two things. Either we could rip at our hair, gnash our teeth, and piss and moan about how awful everything is now, or we and point and laugh at the dumbasses who got us into this mess.
Or we could, you know, at least try to publicly shame him by relentlessly bombarding him with the message “This is what you did, it was awful, you bear a great percentage of the responsibility for hundreds of thousands of deaths and even more grievous injuries, and you are an absolute disgrace to the human race.” Making it into a joke just demeans the catastrophic losses that the world has suffered in the past eight years because of Bush and his cronies. He’s not a dumbass, he’s a malicious, hateful, irresponsible, power-abusing asshole who does not deserve to quietly slip out of the public sphere; we should make it as painful as possible for him.
i gotta go with the ob-gyn comment. that was stand out.
he would have been funny if he was vice president. as president not so funny.
when the entire 8 years can be summed up by the quote “so what” from bush and “so” by cheney, they are so far gone from reality that even a long stay at gitmo couldn’t give them a clue.
