Bush leaves legacy of 'Bushisms'

Bryan · 01-07-2009, 09:21 AM

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dw....349d4808.html

The best one:

Too many good docs are getting out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country.

OneHope · 01-07-2009, 03:07 PM

My favourite is:

"Thank you, Your Holiness. Awesome speech." -April 16, 2008, at a ceremony welcoming Pope Benedict XVI to the White House.

mulletman · 01-07-2009, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Bryan

http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dw....349d4808.html

The best one:

Too many good docs are getting out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country.

I still can't figure out what he could possibly have been trying to say...

**Skeeter** · 01-07-2009, 06:07 PM

I'm assuming he meant "the work that they love" or something similar.

Demon_Hunter · 01-07-2009, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by OneHope

My favourite is:

"Thank you, Your Holiness. Awesome speech." -April 16, 2008, at a ceremony welcoming Pope Benedict XVI to the White House.

Everyone I meet I talk to them the same way I talk to everyone else. Im certain that if I ever met the Pope, as polite as I would probably be, a few "dude"'s and "awesome"'s and "sweet"s would slip out.

Those three words make up 90 percent of all words that I speek.

And some of those "bushisms" on that list, funny though they may be, just seemed like something a Texan would say. We have a way of expressionating ourselves that makes more sense to us than to non-texans.

**Epaphras** · 01-10-2009, 10:03 AM

My favorite is his butchering of the "Fool me once: shame on you. Fool me twice: shame on me" axiom.

Or that clip from the fund-raising dinner, "Here we are: the haves...and the have-mores. Some call you the wealthy elite; I call you my base".

S.B.Nichols · 01-10-2009, 10:27 AM

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Or that clip from the fund-raising dinner, "Here we are: the haves...and the have-mores. Some call you the wealthy elite; I call you my base".

I always figured that was Bush's attempt at humor, not a 'Bushism'

**redbaron** · 01-13-2009, 12:38 PM

Yes, if I'm remembering correctly it was from a dinner where they typically make cracks at their own expense, and quite a few politicians were there doing the same thing.

**adamwagg** · 01-15-2009, 12:51 AM

Its just that the US public is an equal opportunity employer.

tht00 · 01-15-2009, 09:15 AM

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Too many good docs are getting out of business. Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country.

I still can't figure out what he could possibly have been trying to say...

It looks like 'with women' is a misplaced modifier.

A simple addition would help the sentence tremendously...
"Too many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love [of work] with women all across this country."

But then it would lose all its funny...

**Epaphras** · 01-15-2009, 10:25 AM

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I always figured that was Bush's attempt at humor, not a 'Bushism'

I know; to me it's not even funny. It actually makes me angry because it betrays the true reason he stole the 2000 election especially - his base of the American wealthy elite.

S.B.Nichols · 01-15-2009, 10:40 AM

Because the only people that voted for Bush were wealthy and elite? No poor person or unprivileged person would ever have voted for him or donated money to him?

Demon_Hunter · 01-16-2009, 10:19 PM

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I know; to me it's not even funny. It actually makes me angry because it betrays the true reason he stole the 2000 election especially - his base of the American wealthy elite.

Thats absolutely ridiculous.