Bush’s words leave lasting impression
By Joe Crowley
In My Opinion Column, Nov. 13, 2003
In my last column, I made my opinion on our president, George W. Bush, well known. I think George took one too many high and inside fastballs for the team during his college baseball days at Yale.
Fastballs aside, the fact he attended Yale might prompt one to believe he is at least well educated. (Notice that I DID NOT say intelligent because we all know that’s out of the question) Apparently not; I recently discovered several hundred “Bushisms” which refute any sign of education. I would now like to share some of my favorite Bushisms from the past four years. Please note that all quotes are accurate and have not been edited in any way.
“I recently met with the finance minister of the Palestinian Authority, was very impressed by his grasp of finances.” —George W. Bush, Washington, DC, May 29, 2003
You see, George, in other countries to hold a public position such as finance minister, or say President, having a grasp on what you are doing is pretty much the standard practice. I just wanted to bring you up to speed because it seems no one else has.
“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, DC, Sept. 21, 2003
This is a comforting thing to know. Again, Mr. President this goes back to being one of those things you should do. You are the leader of the nation and you should at least follow what is going on. A good example is the stories of JFK religiously reading up to 15 newspapers a morning just so he could know what was going on in America.
“First, let me make it very clear, poor people aren’t necessarily killers. Just because you happen to be not rich doesn’t mean you’re willing to kill.” —George W. Bush, Washington, DC, May 19, 2003
Note to President: Not all of us had the privilege to be born a multimillionaire so please, take the silver spoon out of your mouth and remove your head from the certain hole you have it lodged in.
“The problem with the French is that they don’t have a word for entrepreneur.” — George W. Bush, discussing the decline of the French economy with British Prime Minister Tony Blair
The problem with our President is that he is too stupid too even realize that entrepreneur is a French word. It’s things like this that make me despise our President. I know the French backed out on us in the war, but seriously can you blame them at all?
This foreign policy stuff is a little frustrating.” —George W. Bush, as quoted by the , April 23, 2002
And this is the guy we follow into war…the French know when to call it a day and head home. Not us, though; we give him $87 billion to clean up his mess.
“Sometimes when I sleep at night I think of (Dr. Seuss’s) ‘Hop on Pop.’” —George W. Bush, in a speech about childhood education, Washington, DC, April 2, 2002
This book is right around George Bush’s IQ level, In, fact he later reported that he can even understand 12 words in this book. Shouldn’t someone with an MBA from Yale be reading something a little more advanced?
The only good thing that I can say about the president is I’m happy he finally banned partial birth abortion. This is an issue that needed to be addressed for a very long time. It did take George almost one full term to accomplish, but at least he did do something to help stop abortion and for that I commend him. So congrats, President Bush, you finally put an end to the atrocious murder that was happening legally everyday in this country. A woman’s body is hers and she can do with it what she wants. Abortion to me is bad but it will never change. Partial birth abortion is just wrong and now it’s finally gone. Does this mean I think he should be re-elected? No! I think he should be banished to Iraq so he can live in the new $87 billion paradise he so valiantly fought to achieve. Hopefully, America has got its fix of Bush, because four more years of his stupidity is a fate worst than death. Vote Clark in 2004. I leave you with just one more Bushism that I think sums it all up:
“There’s no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.” — George W. Bush, May 11, 2001