There are so many, aren’t there? The mangled language, the sometimes-indecipherable phrases that have tumbled from the lips of our outgoing frat boy president, the one with the lowest approval rating in history. There’s nothing even mildly amusing about what George Bush did to this country and others, but his snicker-inducing way with words will likely be part of his legacy, perhaps with disbelief, for generations to come.
To his credit, he knows we laugh and goes along with it, just like Yogi “Baseball is 90% mental — the other half is physical” Berra. But really, what else can he do? So as he packs up his cowboy boots and finally yee-haws his way back to Texas, let’s remember some of the things only Dubya could have said — and did.
“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.”
Nashville, 9/17/02
“The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the – the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice.”
Washington, 10/27/03
“You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.”
CBS News, 9/6/06
“They misunderestimated me.”
Bentonville, AR, 11/6/00
“You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.”
Townsend, TN, 2/21/01
“Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?”
Florence, SC, 1/11/00
“Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.”
LaCrosse, WI, 10/18/00
“Will the highways on the Internet become more few?”
Concord, NH, 1/29/00
“Information is moving. You know, nightly news is one way, of course, but it’s also moving through the blogosphere and through the Internets.”
Washington, 5/2/07
“Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat”
Washington, 9/17/04
One that might have been a favorite is an urban legend. It’s been widely reported for years that Dubya said, “The problem with the French is that they don’t have a word for entrepreneur.” Sounds like something he’d say but Snopes calls it a myth. Bush supposedly said it in 2002 to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, according to Baroness Somebody or Other who claimed Blair had her in stitches with the story. When the Washington Post tried to confirm it, she never got back to them but Blair’s spokesman did and said flat-out that Blair never heard Bush say it and never told the baroness he did.
But Bush did say this — in Washington on May 12 of this year — and he’s probably right:
“I’ll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.”
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