As quoted in this week’s Newsweek:
“This is preservation month. I appreciate preservation. It’s what you do when you run for president. You’ve got to preserve.” **George W. Bush, ***praising students at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H., for their “theme of the month,” which was actually *perserverance.
formerly known as LauraRae
I’m a Raggety Ann in a Barbie Doll world.
I hope he chooses Dan Quayle for VP. Those two will make quite the pair. With boyish good looks and below-average intelligence, they should steamroll over their opponents.
SanibelMan - My Homepage
“Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There’s a frood who really knows where his towel is.”
I’m not the world’s biggest fan of George W., but as a copy editor I can’t help but wonder if this was a typo on Newsweek’s part. It has that look of a spell-checker error about it.
Catrandom
On looking over the Newsweek item again, I see that it was their purpose to point out the error. Sorry I misunderstood the item.
Catrandom
This was sent to me as part of a comedy newsletter. I do not claim any or all of these are actual quotes, or have not been taken out of context.
“You can be smart or pleasant. For years I was smart.
I recommend pleasant.”
Elwood P. Dowd
I can’t get the image of Emily Latella (sp?) from the old SNL out of my mind. I can just hear GWB saying to Newsweek about them pointing out his error; “Oh. Nevermind… Bitch.”
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” - Anne Frank
“I’m all for Lawrence Welk. Lawrence Welk is a wonderful man. He used to be, or was, or – wherever he is now, bless him.”
– George Bush Senior, defending the line item veto.
Obviously, it runs in the family.
Of course, it was Al Gore who said that a leopard can’t change its stripes.
Catrandom
from the same source as the above:
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Gotta say, politics has become the land of the soundbite and the “quote out of context for impact”, but Dubbyah leaves me totally cold. (I’m trying, feebly, to be fair here.)
He’s a lightweight, all around. Not a bad man, just not the stuff leaders are made of. I hate damning people by background–rich or poor–but sad to say, no one would be paying Dubbyah any attention if weren’t a Bush. Truly weird, it’s like the Republicans are hellbent on turning back the clock. Sorta like, “see, Clinton was a doofus so vote for Bush this time” without noticing that 8 years have passed.
Sigh. Wish there could be an election based on real ideas for a damned change.
Veb
That’s why I’M voting for John McCain … yup, even switched parties to do it.
Let’s all vote for John McCain, and show the party pashas that we grow weary of these nitwit game-show hosts they trot out for us every 4 years.
This guy has, on first glance, struck me as a frat boy stuck in the thoughtless go-ahead track. These quotes further that judgement.
Trapdoor to yer easy consultant-for-life job,JR.
dubya is an idiot!
He looks plastic, he sounds plastic, he even laughs plastic.
GOD I HATE HIM…and Gore almost as much.
Please South Carolina…vote him down!
-Frankie
“Mother Mercy, can your loins bear fruit forever?/Is your fecundity a trammel or a treasure?”
-Bad Religion
Yeah, McCain is vibrant and exciting and we all hope he stomps Dubya’s entitlement-frat-boy ass. But he’s also pretty goddam far to the right (as least too far for THIS pinko fellow-traveler). Remember, he fully supported the Gingrich-led right-wing loony revolt of 1994. And he’s from Arizona, land of Goldwater and the Martin Luther WHO?-ers.
Looks like I’m voting for the lesser of the two evils again this November.
As Robert Heinlein once said, you’ll rarely go too wrong by picking which politician you want to vote against.
That said, I think what our political system needs is the option of an “anti-vote.” Not a vote for the OTHER guy, just a decisive vote for “NOT candidate X.” Using the anti-vote would decrease the totals of the reprehensible scalawag you are against electing without implying any support for the other scalawag. Just think: if EVERYONE opted to use the anti-vote, no one would get elected, and we’d have the chance to see if an empty chair could do a better job than the asses who’ve been sitting in it lately.
Live a Lush Life
Da Chef
Listening to the Gores after Al’s win was painful, tempered only by the commentary by John Stewart afterward.
Is there a “none of the above” choice this year?
Wrong thinking is punished, right thinking is just as swiftly rewarded. You’ll find it an effective combination.
I absolutely agree with all of what Ukulele Ike said above. However, I must add that the buzz against McCain here in South Carolina seems to be because people around here think he is too LIBERAL.
Oh man, I think we found the secret identity of NewtonsApple. (eye-rolling smiley thingie)
On the other hand…what a great source of sig lines he is!!! 
Worse things happen at sea…
Does anybody else remember the program SimBush that made the rounds ten years ago? It was a program that took various statements, clauses, and parentetical comments collected from Bush’s speeches (Bush Sr, that is) and strung them together randomly. It was hilarious! Especially when you realized just how long it took you to figure out what was going on the first time you heard it. It sure seemed like GB trying to express himself in his usual way. He had such an elliptical way of talking, and such a consistent incoherence that it was a running joke of the press corps, or at least it would have been if they didn’t have to try to translate and clean it up before reporting what the POTUS was trying to say - no easy chore.
I wish I still had my copy.