# High Point of Bush's Presidency **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 9, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-point-of-bushs-presidency/356092 "2006-05-09T17:48:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-point-of-bushs-presidency/356092/1 "2006-05-09T17:48:20Z")
President Bush told a german interviewer this week that the high point of his presidency was when he caught a [7.5 pound bass](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/05/08/BL2006050800788_pf.html). What he forgot to mention was that he caught it on Bourbon Street. Thank you! I’m here all week. You’ve been great. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-point-of-bushs-presidency/356092/2 "2006-05-09T22:49:30Z")
Well, if you had asked me what the high point of his presidency is, I couldn’t think of a damned thing either. Whodathunk both Dubya and I would finally agree on something - there has been no high point during his regime in office. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-point-of-bushs-presidency/356092/3 "2006-05-09T22:58:18Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > President Bush told a german interviewer this week that the high point of his presidency was when he caught a [7.5 pound bass](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2006/05/08/BL2006050800788_pf.html). Sometimes, the man really comes across as Forrest Gump. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-point-of-bushs-presidency/356092/4 "2006-05-10T00:00:37Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > Sometimes, the man really comes across as Forrest Gump. Heh. I like that. Y’know, I voted for him, and I’m really getting discouraged. Maybe he’s just setting us up for a big finish. ROLLEYES SMILEY ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-point-of-bushs-presidency/356092/5 "2006-05-10T00:03:42Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > What he forgot to mention was that he caught it on Bourbon Street. That obviously means something to Americans, but I don’t understand it. ---
**Author:** ![Mayo\_Speaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@Mayo\_Speaks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mayo_Speaks)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-point-of-bushs-presidency/356092/6 "2006-05-10T00:05:04Z")
> [@Cunctator](#): > > That obviously means something to Americans, but I don’t understand it. Bourbon Street is a famous street in New Orleans’s French Quarter. ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-point-of-bushs-presidency/356092/7 "2006-05-10T02:58:52Z")
His departure. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-point-of-bushs-presidency/356092/8 "2006-05-10T03:03:03Z")
I have to think that most of Bush’s moments in the presidency have been high ones. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-point-of-bushs-presidency/356092/9 "2006-05-10T03:14:44Z")
> [@Large Marge](#): > > His departure. You beat me to it! I was going to say “His high point is/will be his last day in office.” ---
**Author:** ![CynicalGabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@CynicalGabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CynicalGabe)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-point-of-bushs-presidency/356092/10 "2006-05-10T03:17:31Z")
> [@Otto](#): > > I have to think that most of Bush’s moments in the presidency have been high ones. I figured the high point of his Presidency was when he was standing on top of a pile of rubble… ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-point-of-bushs-presidency/356092/11 "2006-05-10T06:11:21Z")
> [@Mayo Speaks!](#): > > Bourbon Street is a famous street in New Orleans’s French Quarter. … which is the city devastated by flooding from Hurricane Katrina, forcing the evacuation of most of the city and possibly the biggest domestic debacle of Bushie’s presidency after the 2000 Florida elections and the not-quite-as-blatant voter irregularities in Ohio in 2004. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-point-of-bushs-presidency/356092/12 "2006-05-10T08:11:43Z")
Yeah, I read that bit about what Bush said was his high point and thought up my little joke. When I wanted to tell it to someone, it was either the cockroaches in my bedroom, the gecko that eats the cockroaches, or you lucky people. Notice the high point of his presidency was catching a fish NOT Ossama bin Laden. ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-point-of-bushs-presidency/356092/13 "2006-05-10T08:29:49Z")
Wasn’t it a 7.5 pound perch? ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-point-of-bushs-presidency/356092/14 "2006-05-10T09:35:35Z")
It’s sad how much I know about this. The original transcript from the Whitehouse said perch, but then bloggers found out that perch don’t get that big. The Whitehouse explained Bush said bass but the article was in German and re-translated into English and they mistranslated bass as perch. It appears this is actually what happened. ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2006, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/high-point-of-bushs-presidency/356092/15 "2006-05-10T12:01:48Z")
> [@Rysdad](#): > > Maybe he’s just setting us up for a big finish. Oh, please, God, no . . . .