# Where was the post of "Bushisms"?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-the-post-of-bushisms/255494>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 16, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-the-post-of-bushisms/255494 "2004-07-16T21:43:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-the-post-of-bushisms/255494/1 "2004-07-16T21:43:09Z")

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Sometime within the last six weeks someone posted a list of Bush quotations which were a little “strange” and nonsensical. I know that this information may not help to narrow the post down much, but I would really like to track down these quotes.

I really can’t remember anything about the content except perhaps a strange reference to the “future” in one of the quotations.

I have tried a search, but I’m not very effective. I’m interested because I _think_ that I may have heard my sister recently credit these to Kerry instead so I would like to try to find the sources.

Does anyone have a link to the post containing these quotations?

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**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-the-post-of-bushisms/255494/2 "2004-07-16T22:43:34Z")

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Maybe you can find it here and search anew:

> **[The 40 Dumbest Things George W. Bush Ever Said](https://www.liveabout.com/dumbest-bush-quotes-of-all-time-2734076)**
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> You have to appreciate a politician who makes us laugh. Revisit some of the wackiest, craziest, and just plain baffling quotes from George W. Bush.

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**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-the-post-of-bushisms/255494/3 "2004-07-16T22:46:56Z")

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Slate has it’s own collection here:

[http://slate.msn.com/id/76886/](http://slate.msn.com/id/76886/)

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**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2004, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-the-post-of-bushisms/255494/4 "2004-07-16T22:48:32Z")

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Slate magazine’s [Bushisms of the Day](http://slate.msn.com/?querytext=bushisms&id=3944&searchfromtoc=Go&action=fulltext)

And in the interests of bipartisanship, [Kerryisms of the Day](http://slate.msn.com/?querytext=kerryisms&id=3944&searchfromtoc=Go&action=fulltext)

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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-the-post-of-bushisms/255494/5 "2004-07-17T05:54:05Z")

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Thanks to all of you! By using all three sources, I was able to find enough material to back up my point.

(Amazing what 60+ years of sibling rivalry can do to motivate…)

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2004, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-was-the-post-of-bushisms/255494/6 "2004-07-17T14:28:50Z")

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This is a short poem made up entirely of actual quotations from George  
W. Bush. They have been arranged, for aesthetic purposes only, by Washington  
Post writer, Richard Thompson.

MAKE THE PIE HIGHER  
I think we all agree, the past is over.  
This is still a dangerous world.  
It’s a world of madmen and uncertainty  
And potential mental losses.

Rarely is the question asked  
Is our children learning?  
Will the highways of the Internet  
Become more few?  
How many hands have I shaked?  
They misunderestimate me.  
I am a pitbull on the pantleg of opportunity.  
I know that the human being  
And the fish can coexist.  
Families is where our nation finds hope,  
Where our wings take dream.  
Put food on your family!  
Knock down the tollbooth!  
Vulcanize society!  
Make the pie higher!  
Make the pie higher!