A new 'Bushism': We're gonna get us

[Whitey]

installing a functional retard

I know. Bush should just not talk much. Everytime he opens his mouth people around the world say "WTF?".
People expect their president to be able to read and speak atleast. Last time I checked a politician made his money by his mouth, if his dad wasn't who he was he'd be broke. Now Jeb looks normal, can talk and is somewhat charismatic, why on earth did they push GW up front?
Today especially when anything you say will be used against you. One thing about Toney, that guy can give a speech.

[El Prez]

T. b. Liar may be able to speak in his own distorted fashion, but his accent makes him sound like a prissy dame at a girls school.

[Ploggers]

Hmmm... electing Presidents by their IQ. Lets think of intelligent guys who made the Whitehouse.

Nixon was very intelligent in a raw animal like cunning type of way. Except why the hell didn't he remember to turn off the tape recorder!
Clinton of course was bright but unfortunately little brain was much more powerful than big brain.
Bush 1 - I never made up my mind about him, except that he was bright enough not to go into Iraq and all that that has brought.
Bush 2 - the man is thick as shit! I apologise to our cousins but I would rather perform oral sex on a tramp than swap brains with George W.
LBJ - Nixon without the cunning
Kennedy - see Clinton
Carter. A decent guy but no gravitas. I can't remember if he could pass an IQ test or not.
Reagan - I actually like Reagan. OK he has a bad rep but he did a hell of a job.

Have I missed anyone recent?

[snyder]

T. b. Liar may be able to speak in his own distorted fashion, but his accent makes him sound like a prissy dame at a girls school.

He does sound quite fey, but George W. is so stupid they wouldn't let him into a monster truck rally. Have you ever seen him at a press conference? I'm telling you, after the last one I was literally sitting there holding my head in my hands wondering what the hell is this.

Nixon was very intelligent in a raw animal like cunning type of way

That's a fantastic way of putting it! I think that's why his political opponents never gave him credit for doing a lot of things that they favored. You always got the sense with Nixon that he was a cornered badger who did whatever he did solely for tactical advantage. I've never seen such an empty and scared soul on display.

Clinton of course was bright but unfortunately little brain was much more powerful than big brain.

Actually the real problem was the Monica saved the dress. Sheesh, think about that one for a while. She saves the dress? I wonder if she's planning on selling it to the Smithsonian.

I apologise to our cousins but I would rather perform oral sex on a tramp than swap brains with George W.

No apologies needed. My theory is that the Republicans decided that Ronald Reagan showed that you can install a head of cauliflower in the presidency without negative consequence, so just for grins they'd try out a fungus with a Texas accent.

[Tab]

Clinton and Blair where both lawyers so had been trained to deliver a speech. Now poor old Bush is like a fish out water when it comes down to public speaking. Now public speaking is a gift, and I don't know how many of you have had stand up in front and give a speech or a public address, but it is not the easist thing to do. The problem with Bush is he tries to string out the speech to make it sound good and then losses track of where he is and drops great clangers. Most of the great speech makers have kept their speeches short and sweet and to the point. Churchill and Linclon are prime examples.

[snyder]

I hear you on public speaking, Tab, and I agree to a large extent. I used to have to do it, and I can attest that it is hell. I was sent to training a couple times and one leader said that surveys show that the fear of public speaking is approximately the same as the fear of death. But you do get over it with practice, and George W. has had enough of it. I think he was governor of Texas for eight years, and he had to run for prez in '00. He wasn't shoved out onto the stage last week or anything.

Bush's father was a bad public speaker, too. Famous for malapropisms, mixed metaphors and verbless sentences, as I recall. Not only that, but under stress he would get really whiney (I think you Brits would say whingey?) But the old man was no dummy. He put together that Gulf War financial and diplomatic coalition, and I'll never forget seeing him on TV positioned so the soles of his shoes faced the camera, telling Saddam to scram from Kuwait or else. I remember thinking, holy cow this guy means business.

And who can do anything but admire him for contriving to vomit on the Japanese prime minister? An unknown story about Bush Sr. is when he went to a big funeral in Japan (Hirohito?) he was assigned a seat in the second row. He ignored the assignment and walked up to the conqueror's rightful seat in the front row. No dummy, he. Bush's kid talks tough. Bush's father talked softly, but when that man walked, well look at it this way: If you followed him on the beach you'd see a set of footprints with a furrow between them. Tough as steel, that man. I truly miss his presence now.

So I'm strongly inclined to think that it's a brainpower issue with the son. That would seem to be confirmed from the accounts of others who have interacted privately. George W. doesn't seem to have much upstairs, and I think it's a huge problem for all of us.

[Frank S.]

Calling GWB a functional retard is an insult to people who are actually 'mentally challenged'.
This is not to sound politically correct because I don't give two tosses about that.
But let's try and exercise a little restraint: I do not to have relatives which are so impaired, yet some such individuals can teach us 'regular' folk a thing or two about humanity.
Other than that, point well taken, carry on.

[snyder]

My apologies to the retarded, Frank. I have a couple of mentally challenged nephews and I would hate to have anyone likening them to George W. Bush.

[Spannerman]

Now public speaking is a gift, and I don't know how many of you have had stand up in front and give a speech or a public address, but it is not the easist thing to do.

Yes I have this experience it is somewhat trying at times, I have a two hour delivery to make in 4 weeks tonight, you make mental notes (no cue cards like GWB) if it goes wrong you have to laugh it off. I have done six live radio broadcasts one was to a BBC audience of 3 million but you are not talking to those people you are talking to the interviewer.

All the Presidents volunteered for their job knowing it would involve much public speaking, Tony Blair can give an excellent delivery without one 'er, someone said about burying their head in their hands at the embarrassment GWB caused in a speech, I even feel embarrassed for the guy sitting in my own living room. He appears to come across better when standing away from the rostrum and when he ad libs, but nothing was more embarrassing but to hear the late King George VI stutter his way through a speech, but of course there was not the media attention around in those days.

[Whitey]

How about Bush and Mike Tyson have the same intelligence level and speaking ability.
"And there I wuz, world champion boxer, but now people see me as a big black rapist."
Mike Tyson

Actually other than the lisp, he talks better.
Bush and Porky Pig? BdddddBdddd Dat's all fowks!

[Peds]

re Ploggers "Have I missed anyone recent?"

Good old Gerry Ford... less than a genius

[Frank S.]

My apologies to the retarded, Frank. I have a couple of mentally challenged nephews and I would hate to have anyone likening them to George W. Bush.

No sweat. But as I said before, Bush is someone whose shortcomings generated a number of websites and books (on his 'bushisms'). I fully expect the term 'bushism' to get into the dictionary before long...
But one aspect of his personality which bothers me most is his 'nastiness' with reporters or even members of his cabinet.
He hasn't outgrowned being a bully... Fact, I think he hasn't grown at all, 'arrested development' and all...

[Peds]

Is what I've read about Bush using cocaine true?

[Whitey]

Cocaine? Yeah I heard that as well. All them rich boys love dope. He coud sure afford it.

[snyder]

I don't know if it's true. Word is that this is why he didn't take the physical that caused him to be grounded as a pilot. But it could be drummed up by political opponents, much like the Clinton-haters for a while said that ol' Bill had a nose like a vacuum cleaner. Who knows, maybe someday they'll come up with a way to test your handkerchief for everything you've sniffed since you were born. Until then, we're all just guessing.