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Why not she has already shown that she is better than her husband on every issue and every capability to be human and intelligent.
January 19th, 2006 at 1:03 pm“She’s not interested in running for office. She’s interested in literacy”
If only Laura would work with George on his own literacy issues.
January 19th, 2006 at 1:03 pmShe’s more preoccupied with beef jerky, cigarettes and iced tea. I’ve heard she makes a killer “Beef Jerky Gravy” at Thanksgiving…
January 19th, 2006 at 1:06 pmW is trying to say that politics and literacy are mutally exclusive.
January 19th, 2006 at 1:07 pmThank God, thank the Fates, Zeus, Apollo..etc. By her inaction and stepford-like behavior she has done nothing but downgrade women.
January 19th, 2006 at 1:07 pmhttp://whitehouse.org/firstlady/recipebox.asp
Slim Jim Gravy~
January 19th, 2006 at 1:08 pmLess Bush, more trees!
January 19th, 2006 at 1:08 pm“She’s not interested in running for office. She’s interested in literacy”
Like irony much?
“I glance at the headlines just to kind of get a flavor for what’s moving. I rarely read the stories, and get briefed by people who are probably read the news themselves.” —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 21, 2003
“Bill wrote a book at Yale. I read one.” —George W. Bush, on William F. Buckley, Al Smith Dinner, New York City, Oct. 19, 2000
“Reading is the basics for all learning.” —George W. Bush, announcing his “Reading First” initiative in Reston, Va., March 28, 2000
“People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I’ll give you an example; I don’t read what’s handed to me. People say, ‘Here, here’s your speech, or here’s an idea for a speech.’ They’re changed. Trust me.”—Interview with the New York Times, March 15, 2000
January 19th, 2006 at 1:11 pmYou misjudge the lady. She is obviously not nearly as intelligent as her husband. It is painfully obvious if you look at who they chose for a spouse.
January 19th, 2006 at 1:13 pmThis thread may turn into a list of bushisms… which is great. I once made a book full of bushisms and gave them to friends, it was quite thick.
January 19th, 2006 at 1:16 pmHe’s bragging that his wife is a dummy? go figure.
January 19th, 2006 at 1:16 pmThe Stepford Wife as Senator? I should hope NOT!
January 19th, 2006 at 1:18 pmheres a new one!
As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself — not here at the hospital, but in combat with a cedar. I eventually won. The cedar gave me a little scratch. As a matter of fact, the Colonel asked if I needed first aid when she first saw me. I was able to avoid any major surgical operations here, but thanks for your compassion, Colonel.” —George W. Bush, after visiting with wounded veterans from the Amputee Care Center of Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 1, 2006
sad
January 19th, 2006 at 1:21 pm#10
A few of my favorite bits of wisdom uttered by King George the Dumb:
“I standby all the misstatements that I’ve made.”
“I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.”
“A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.”
“It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.”
January 19th, 2006 at 1:22 pmphew, america has ducked a bullet
January 19th, 2006 at 1:24 pmThank goodness, no Laura Bush 2008 model, in government anyway.
January 19th, 2006 at 1:24 pmOf course this is another slap at the Clintons – Republicans just can’t help themselves. If her interest is in literacy she’s not doing a very good job, either with her idiot husband or American children – illiteracy is on the rise in this country, both with children and adults. U.S. Department of Education statistics show that the high school dropout rate is 29% in this country; in Japan, the rate is 5% and in Russia, 2%. So much for No Child Left Behind, huh?
January 19th, 2006 at 1:28 pm“Wow! Brazil is big.” —George W. Bush, after being shown a map of Brazil by Brazilian president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brasilia, Brazil, Nov. 6, 2005
January 19th, 2006 at 1:30 pmDon’t kid yourselves. The Bushes dog could get elected in Texas.
January 19th, 2006 at 1:30 pm#19 -
January 19th, 2006 at 1:31 pmCompared to W he is overqualified.
Just sayin’ . . .
January 19th, 2006 at 1:32 pmMy favorite Bush utterance:
“It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.”
January 19th, 2006 at 1:40 pmoh thank goodness we have anough fools there already
January 19th, 2006 at 1:42 pmWell, if he thought that Brazil was big, he sure knows that Africa is a continent, right? Right?
We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.
God, he’s such an embarrassment.
January 19th, 2006 at 1:48 pmAhhh my personal favorite… It took a minute to find, because of the sheer number to sort through….
Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren’t able to practice their love with women all across this country.” —George W. Bush, Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004 (Watch video clip or listen to audio)
January 19th, 2006 at 1:52 pmYep, Good Vibes, that is a good one! ;)
Isn’t it amazing the sheer volume of “Bushisms” there are out there? I think it must be a full-time job to keep track of them!
January 19th, 2006 at 1:57 pmWhy can Laura not speak for herself? I guess the Bush family life is no different than his political dictatorship.
January 19th, 2006 at 1:58 pmSo Bush wants everyone else in Washington to be open to scrutiny except HIMSELF. You go, Emporer George. And keep Laura in the kitchen where she belongs. Be sure not to let Laura speak for herself, George. You can do all the talking for her, after all, she is more popular than you are and we certainly don’t want anyone to outshine you. You are the Emporer! You have absolute rule.
It’s time for a change in Washington. November 2006 can’t come fast enough.
January 19th, 2006 at 2:01 pmThis is the last one… I have to limit myself or i could go on all day. Now prepare to laugh! or cry.
“We actually misnamed the war on terror. It ought to be the Struggle Against Ideological Extremists Who Do Not Believe in Free Societies Who Happen to Use Terror as a Weapon to Try to Shake the Conscience of the Free World.” —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004
January 19th, 2006 at 2:01 pmThank God that Laura who obviously doesn’t have a mind of her own, but is controlled by the Chimp won’t be running for any office. The last thing this country needs is anymore of the Buschovites than we already have had to suffer with. If only we could be done with the ones who are around now.
January 19th, 2006 at 2:11 pm“We actually misnamed the war on terror. It ought to be the Struggle Against Ideological Extremists Who Do Not Believe in Free Societies Who Happen to Use Terror as a Weapon to Try to Shake the Conscience of the Free World.†—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Aug. 6, 2004
Comment by good vibes — January 19, 2006 @ 2:01 pm
January 19th, 2006 at 2:12 pmLet’s try this play with letters – ‘SAIEWDNBFSWHUTWTSCFW’ What’s that spell?
“Let’s try this play with letters – ‘SAIEWDNBFSWHUTWTSCFW’ What’s that spell?”
Clusterf*ck?
January 19th, 2006 at 2:18 pm25
I’m changing my name. I’m now “Gus, OBGYN, Gigolo, Lover”
January 19th, 2006 at 2:21 pmCommentor 9
January 19th, 2006 at 2:23 pmSince when has poor judgement dissbared anyone from public office?
Since when has poor judgement stopped the electorate from
placing an imbecile to said public office?
“She’s not interested in running for office. She’s interested in literacy,” Bush said during an appearance at RK Moving & Storage here.
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He realized most other people do have the capacity to walk and chew gum at the same time, right?
January 19th, 2006 at 3:10 pmha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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Sorry, but I thought someone said Laura Bush and ‘run for Senate’ in the same sentance…
She is an enormous embarrassment to women in general, especially those of us who think for ourselves. This is one of those rare cases when I actually condone the idea of her keeping her mouth shut and staying out of sight…
January 19th, 2006 at 3:32 pmgood vibes,
Aren’t those Bush quotes hysterical? I was telling WORFEUS that I think Bush is his own worst enemy. Every time he opens his mouth he says something irrational or something that shoots himself in his own foot.
“The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.”
Nope, not Laura, but G.W. said this (San Antonio Express-News, January 30, 2000; speech in Pella, Iowa).
January 19th, 2006 at 3:36 pmWhy can Laura not speak for herself? I guess the Bush family life is no different than his political dictatorship.
Comment by John Dough — January 19, 2006 @ 1:58 pm
Exodus 20:17
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
I think that covers it… his religion considers his wife a possession equal to his ‘ass’
January 19th, 2006 at 3:39 pmCommentor 34,
You misjudge the electorate. The electorate did not elect the imbecile. In the first case the imbecile was anointed by fraud with the blessing of the Supreme Court and in the second case it was just more of the same.
January 19th, 2006 at 3:43 pmOf course this is another slap at the Clintons – Republicans just can’t help themselves. If her interest is in literacy she’s not doing a very good job, either with her idiot husband or American children – illiteracy is on the rise in this country, both with children and adults. U.S. Department of Education statistics show that the high school dropout rate is 29% in this country; in Japan, the rate is 5% and in Russia, 2%. So much for No Child Left Behind, huh?
Comment by CarolSoprano — January 19, 2006 @ 1:28 pm
Bull’s eye. It’s their redneck way of attacking a liberal woman with a brain that functions, and men who find that attractive.
I do not know a single teacher or Administrator in this red state where I live who likes that assinine policy (No Child Left Behind), including me. It was written in a theoretical vacuum by people who’ve never been in a classroom teaching, or those who weren’t very good at it, so they were promoted…
I listen to my students. You can teach them anything if they enjoy what they are doing and feel like a valued part of the process. But many teachers think lecturing at them is the only way to go – hence NCLB. And we wonder why our country continues to decline every year in comparision to the rest of the world. It’s because we are leaving them all behind…
January 19th, 2006 at 3:47 pmI think that covers it … his religion considers his wife a possession equal to his “ass”
That’s actually pretty funny, unbelievable … I almost snorted my cherry coke … (although, a nice ass was extremely valuable back then (more so than now)) … you fogot to mention that wife is mentioned AFTER house. See … I do have a sense of humor.
January 19th, 2006 at 4:18 pmalthough, a nice ass was extremely valuable back then (more so than now)) …
Comment by Giacomo — January 19, 2006 @ 4:18 pm
A nice ass is always valuable, Giacomo, at any age…. oh wait… what kind of ‘ass’ are we talking about? ;-)
January 19th, 2006 at 4:22 pmHe’s a perpetual idiot machine. From the article:
“I’m pretty certain, when I married her she didn’t like politics or politicians,” Bush said.
translation:
“I think we talked about politics once before we got married. I told her I don’t like politics or politicians.â€
Laura Bush has made a contribution to literacy:
January 19th, 2006 at 4:27 pmIn late January 2003, in response to an invitation to a symposium by Laura Bush to celebrate “Poetry and the American Voice,” Sam Hamill declined; a longtime pacifist, he could not in good faith visit the White House following the recent news of George W. Bush’s plan for a unilateral “Shock and Awe” attack on Iraq. Instead, he asked about 50 fellow poets to “reconstitute a Poets Against the War movement like the one organized to speak out against the war in Vietnam…to speak up for the conscience of our country and lend your names to our petition against this war†by submitting poems of protest that he would send to the White House. When 1,500 poets responded within four days, this web site was created as a means of handling the enormous, unexpected response.
Since then, the “accidental groundswell” grew to include poets from around the world. There are presently more than 20,000 poems in this,
the largest poetry anthology ever publishedhttp://www.poetsagainstwar.net/
A nice ass is always valuable, Giacomo, at any age…. oh wait… what kind of ‘ass’ are we talking about? ;-)
As a kid, I always laughed when a preacher would read aloud John 12:14
“And Jesus, having found a young ass, sat upon it”
always conjured up a vivid image … never understood why they didn’t say mule.
January 19th, 2006 at 4:30 pm“always conjured up a vivid image … never understood why they didn’t say mule. Giacomo”
It’s another example of how language and context changes, and why the very concept of ‘literal’ reading of any ancient book – especially religious ones is just plain ridiculous. People who believe in talking donkeys, flat 8000 year old earths and virgin births are just as silly as any adult who believes in santa claus.
January 19th, 2006 at 4:55 pmGiacomo, you had an impure thought in church and weren’t struck by lightning? Must’ve been your lucky day…
January 19th, 2006 at 5:47 pmPeople who believe in talking donkeys, flat 8000 year old earths and virgin births are just as silly as any adult who believes in santa claus.
Comment by RightPunch — January 19, 2006 @ 4:55 pm
Amen!
:)
January 19th, 2006 at 5:47 pmyou fogot to mention that wife is mentioned AFTER house.
Those Old Testament cats had their priorities.
January 19th, 2006 at 6:12 pmOf course she won’t run. She’s a drug addled pea brain.
January 19th, 2006 at 6:48 pmWhat’s more important about this story is that his wife would never ‘win’ a senate seat. :)
January 19th, 2006 at 7:38 pm#44 there is a diffrence between an ass and a mule. Don’t know if there were mules in the bible times. An ass is a jackass or donkey breed. A mule is a hibred by crossing an ass with a mare (horse). Not being critical of you just sending out my spin….Blessings
January 19th, 2006 at 9:20 pmWhat’s more important about this story is that his wife would never ‘win’ a senate seat. :)
Comment by RightPunch — January 19, 2006 @ 7:38 pm
Sadly, Diebold could win it for her… And I’m going to learn to speak Dutch just in case. :)
January 19th, 2006 at 9:32 pmIf they put the deadly driver Laura up for any election I’m thinking of Costa Rica. A friend just got back from a vacation there and said it was wonderful. Bush should worry, if Laura ever get’s tired of his b.s. he had better keep all the car keys, that lady plays for keeps….Blessings
January 19th, 2006 at 10:11 pmThat’s what we need – a stepford senator.
January 19th, 2006 at 11:30 pmI feel like Hillary is asking for it. Saying silly things like the plantation statement is transparent and patronizing.
If that was’nt a staged, carefully planned press grabber I don’t know what is.
I really hope I am not the only liberal who can’t see through these cheap, pandering (hacklike even) stunts.
I cannot in good conscience vote for Hillary. We need to do better.
I think Hillary is on which ever side happens to be in the room at the moment.
January 20th, 2006 at 3:45 amI cannot in good conscience vote for Hillary. We need to do better.
I think Hillary is on which ever side happens to be in the room at the moment.
Comment by WORFEUS — January 20, 2006 @ 3:45 am
I would love to see a woman in the White House… As many studies have shown that women treated with equality in a society is better for that society (lower crime, unemployment, birth and war rates). But the problem is that
January 20th, 2006 at 7:27 amHillary is missing something vital – she seems to be missing human compassion. Even Georgie has it, as misguided and misdirected as it is. Our current culture votes for people with whom they can identify, and even as a strong, educated and professional woman, I do not identify with Hillary.
Great news if it’s true…
The last thing we need im the senate is another Manchurian candidate…
January 20th, 2006 at 9:03 amEven the GOP would eat her alive for her views.
January 20th, 2006 at 5:06 pm