… I'll be the first person to admit that GWB is a bit a of an intellectual midget.....
dumbass – oh my, the leader of the free world
just a small sampling of that intellect:
<b><font size=“3”>INTERNATIONALIST BUSHISM</font></b>
"Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment."
<b><font size=“3”>EDUKASHUN PRESIDENT BUSHISM</font></b>
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
<b><font size=“3”> INDIGNANT BUSHISM</font></b>
"They misunderestimated me."
<b><font size=“3”>ON TERRIERS</font></b>
"If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow."
<b><font size=“3”>GEORGE THE INDIGNANT PART 2</font></b>
"I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating."
<b><font size=“3”>BELIEVER BUSHISM</font></b>
"I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe -I believe what I believe is right."
<b><font size=“3”>ENERGY CRISIS BUSHISM</font></b>
"The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants."
<b><font size=“3”>ON THE JOYS OF READING</font></b>
"One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures."
<b><font size=“3”>VOLUNTEERISM BUSHISM</font></b>
"And so, in my State of the - my State of the Union - or state - my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation - I asked Americans to give 4,000 years - 4,000 hours over the next - the rest of your life - of service to America. That's what I asked - 4,000 hours."
<b><font size=“3”>LESSONS OF HISTORY BUSHISM</font></b>
"That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century."
<b><font size=“3”>BARD BUSHISM</font></b>
"There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again."
<b><font size=“3”>GEORGE THE DEEP THINKER</font></b>
"There's nothing more deep than recognizing Israel's right to exist. That's the most deep thought of all...I can't think of anything more deep than that right."
<b><font size=“3”>GEOGRAPHY BUSHISM</font></b>
"I was raised in the west. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California."
<b><font size=“3”>HISTORY BUSHISM</font></b>
"I think we agree, the past is over."
<b><font size=“3”>FISCAL LEADERSHIP BUSHISM</font></b>
"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
<b><font size=“3”>FOREIGN RELATIONS BUSHISM</font></b>
"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they were. It was us vs. them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there."
<b><font size=“3”>IMPROVING THE EDUCATION SYSTEM BUSHISM</font></b>
"How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?"
<b><font size=“3”>SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH BUSHISM</font></b>
"It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber."
<b><font size=“3”>QUOTAS BUSHISM</font></b>
"What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position."
<b><font size=“3”>POLITICAL MANUEVERING BUSHISM</font></b>
"The senator has got to understand if he's going to have, he can't have it both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road."
<b><font size=“3”>PRESERVING FOR THE PAST BUSHISM</font></b>
"I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well."
<b><font size=“3”>HEMIPSHERES BUSHISM</font></b>
"Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods."
<b><font size=“3”>SADDAM HUSSEIN BUSHISM</font></b>
"The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself."
<b><font size=“3”>ENVIRONMENTALIST BUSHISM</font></b>
"I know the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully."
<b><font size=“3”>EMPATHETIC BUSHISM</font></b>
"If a person doesn't have the capacity that we all want that person to have, I suspect hope is in the far distant future, if at all."
<b><font size=“3”>REJECTIONIST BUSHISM</font></b>
"I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me because I happened to go to the university."
<b><font size=“3”>LITERALIST BUSHISM</font></b>
"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test."
<b><font size=“3”>HOPEFUL BUSHISM</font></b>
"I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure."
<b><font size=“3”>SOCIAL ACTIVIST BUSHISM</font></b>
"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor like you like to be liked yourself."
<b><font size=“3”>APOLOGIST BUSHISM</font></b>
"Unfairly, but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against things. Anti-immigrant, for example."
<b><font size=“3”>THE PRESERVER BUSHISM</font></b>
"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve."
<b><font size=“3”>ANGRY YOUNG MAN BUSHISM</font></b>
"I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember." - On his discussions of the Vietnam War while a student at Yale University
<b><font size=“3”>MAN WITH A PAST BUSHISM</font></b>
Marijuana? Cocaine? I'm not going to talk about what I did as a child."
<b><font size=“3”>SCHOLARLY BUSHISM</font></b>
"I read the newspaper." - Answering a question about his reading habits.
<b><font size=“3”>WOMEN'S RIGHTS BUSHISM</font></b>
"States should have the right to enact reasonable laws and restrictions particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live."
<b><font size=“3”>GLORY DAYS BUSHISM</font></b>
"It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then."
<b><font size=“3”>PARENT BUSHISM</font></b>
"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis."
<b><font size=“3”>CRISIS LEADER BUSHISM</font></b>
"The press often ask me, well, is this the-is the evil one hiding from us in Afghanistan, the ones who have done this to America? I said, I don't know."
<b><font size=“3”>ON UNEMPLOYMENT</font></b>
"But if you've been laid off work, you're 100 percent unemployed, and I worry about it."
<b><font size=“3”>ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE</font></b>
"The suicide bombings have increased. There's too many of them."
<b><font size=“3”>ON GETTING TO THE BOTTOM OF THINGS</font></b>
"I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to know"
<b><font size=“3”>ON ARBOLICS</font></b>
"Arbolist...Look up the word. I don't know, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees."
<b><font size=“3”>ON RACIAL PROFILING</font></b>
"I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children."
<b><font size=“3”>ON FEDERAL PROGRAMS</font></b>
"They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program."
<b><font size=“3”>ON DEMONINATORS AND SUCH</font></b>
"One of the common demoninators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected."
<b><font size=“3”>ON FAMILIES</font></b>
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream."
<b><font size=“3”>ON EMBETTERING MANKIND</font></b>
"The federal government and the state government must not fear programs who change lives, but must welcome those faith-based initiatives for the embetterment of mankind."
<b><font size=“3”>ON THE DANGERS OF MALFEANCE</font></b>
"There was no malfeance involved. This was an honest disagreement about accounting problems...There was no malfeance, no attempt to hide anything."
<b><font size=“3”>GEORGE THE EDUKASHUN PRESIDENT PART 2</font></b>
"One reason I like to highlight reading is, reading is the beginnings of the ability to be a good student. And if you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams; it's going to be hard to go to college. So when your teachers say, read--you ought to listen to her."
<b><font size=“3”>GEORGE THE LONG-SIGHTED</font></b>
"Over the long term, the most effective way to conserve energy is by using energy more efficiently."
<b><font size=“3”>GEORGE THE STUDENT OF TACTICS</font></b>
"That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired."
<b><font size=“3”>GEORGE THE FRIEND OF GREECE</font></b>
"Keep good relations with the Grecians."
<b><font size=“3”>GEORGE THE OPPORTUNIST</font></b>
"The public education system in American is one of the most important foundations of our democracy. After all, it where children from all over American learn to be responsible citizens, and learn to have the skills necessary to take advantage of our fantastic opportunistic society."
