# Obama = GW Bush **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 4, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270 "2008-01-04T15:10:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/21 "2008-01-04T16:33:41Z")
[QUOTE=WhyNot] He does? Holy shit, who stole Wisconsin?! :eek: [/QUOTE] OMG! Wonder if “Who Lost Wisconsin” will be as big an issue now as “Who lost China?” was ca. 1950! ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/22 "2008-01-04T16:37:54Z")
How can America close the cheese gap? ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/23 "2008-01-04T16:42:50Z")
Your next-door neighbor America has a president. Mexico has a president. Right across the Arctic Ocean you have Russia, who also has a president. Don’t you think it’s about time _you guys_ got a president? [/peer pressure] ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/24 "2008-01-04T16:48:19Z")
How does that old joke go about how Canada could’ve had “X” from the US, “Y” from France and “Z” from Britain, but they ended with…? I know Y = culture, and they ended up with culture from the US, but I can’t remember the other parts. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/25 "2008-01-04T16:51:11Z")
[QUOTE=Ponder Stibbons] Your next-door neighbor America has a president. Mexico has a president. Right across the Arctic Ocean you have Russia, who also has a president. Don’t you think it’s about time _you guys_ got a president? [/peer pressure] [/QUOTE] Hell yeah! Who needs a Prime Minister? What about separation of church and state? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/26 "2008-01-04T17:06:17Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] How does that old joke go about how Canada could’ve had “X” from the US, “Y” from France and “Z” from Britain, but they ended with…? I know Y = culture, and they ended up with culture from the US, but I can’t remember the other parts. [/QUOTE] This rings a vague bell but the only thing I can remember is that they could have had French cuisine and ended up with British. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/27 "2008-01-04T17:09:49Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] How does that old joke go about how Canada could’ve had “X” from the US, “Y” from France and “Z” from Britain, but they ended with…? I know Y = culture, and they ended up with culture from the US, but I can’t remember the other parts. [/QUOTE] They could have had politics from the Americans, food from the French and culture from the British. They wound up with food from the British, culture from the Americans and politics from the French. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/28 "2008-01-04T17:19:04Z")
**TFD** is correct. Why both Obama and Bush have penises AND share 99.9% of the same genes. Practically identical! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/29 "2008-01-04T17:31:25Z")
Obama has a penis, Bush \*is \* a penis. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/30 "2008-01-04T17:34:59Z")
Yes, what I look for in a president is a geek level obsession of all things Canada. Suck it Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/31 "2008-01-04T17:48:22Z")
> [@The Flying Dutchman](#): > > = I do not think this means what you think it means. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/32 "2008-01-04T18:03:15Z")
> [@](#): > > Last season, he had the Governor of Arkansas convinced that Canada was building an igloo to protect its parliament building. Rough day for Canucks, considering who the leading Republican candidate for President is. (Not that I believe the story, anyway.) ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/33 "2008-01-04T18:04:34Z")
[QUOTE=John Mace] Yeah, but they only do it while speaking French. That way the Americans can’t figure out what’s going on. [/QUOTE] It’d be easier if the lazy fuckers would start pronouncing the ends of their words. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/34 "2008-01-04T18:09:00Z")
Of course Canada doesn’t have a president. It has a governor. Canada is a state right? ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/35 "2008-01-04T18:12:03Z")
[QUOTE=Little Nemo] Of course Canada doesn’t have a president. It has a governor. Canada is a state right? [/QUOTE] Yes, but it’s a foreign state, dummy. Their president is actually the Archduke of Saskatoon, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/36 "2008-01-04T18:20:46Z")
[QUOTE=Lamar Mundane] Rough day for Canucks, considering who the leading Republican candidate for President is. (Not that I believe the story, anyway.) [/QUOTE] I think Huckabee was more in on the joke than he commonly gets credit for here, but it definitely happened, and it was broadcast nationally here. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/37 "2008-01-04T18:35:08Z")
[QUOTE=Raygun99] I think Huckabee was more in on the joke than he commonly gets credit for here, but it definitely happened, and it was broadcast nationally here. [/QUOTE] It says more about Canadians than Americans if they believe that he really thought they were building an igloo around Parliament, doesn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/38 "2008-01-04T18:35:51Z")
If you Canadians don’t lighten up, you’ll never get statehood. ---
**Author:** ![cards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@cards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cards)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/39 "2008-01-04T18:55:08Z")
[QUOTE=Maeglin] … I believe that GW Bush is a foreign affairs wizard and produced perhaps the most consistent and nuanced set of policies since Nixon. [/QUOTE] Is this a whoosh or are you serious? ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270/40 "2008-01-04T18:58:25Z")
[QUOTE=cards] Is this a whoosh or are you serious? [/QUOTE] If you have to ask, your hat is on the ground a block away. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/obama-gw-bush/432270.md?page=3)