Reply #44: OMG! How truly pathetic...too bad Kerry is probably too decent to [View All]

[shelley806]

respond in kind. The examples below are OLD! And every time Mr. Bush opens his mouth the list of Bushisms grows. He was NOT born with a silver tongue in his mouth! (Maybe a silver spoon)

Please help me update my list with remembered recent gaffes...Jon Stewart I need you now!

"It's your money. You paid for it."-LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000

"I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace."-Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 23, 2000

( On the Lewinsky scandal,) "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." Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000

"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet."-Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000

"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

"We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In order to make sure there's not this kind of federal cufflink." Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, Mar 30, 2000

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it." Reuters, May 5, 2000

"I think we agree, the past is over." On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000

"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis." Meet the Press, April 15, 2000

"There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be town hall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country." Larry King Live, Dec. 16, 1999

"Actually, I -this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm talking about -- when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all of us are talking about me." Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000

"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." Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000

"The fact that he relies on facts -- says things that are not factual -- are going to undermine his campaign." New York Times, March 4, 2000

"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature." Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000

"I understand small business growth. I was one." New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000

"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." To reporters in Florence, SC, Feb. 17, 2000

"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign." Hilton Head SC Feb 16, 2000

"How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?" Explaining the need for educational accountability, Beaufort, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000

"We ought to make the pie higher." South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000

"I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less I pontificate less, although it may be hard to tell it from this show. And I'm more interacting with people." Meet The Press, Feb 13, 2000

"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." Feb 18, 2001 For those who haven't yet noticed that he wasn't kidding,
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"I think we need not only to eliminate the toll booth to the middle class, I think we should knock down the toll booth." Nashua, N.H., as quoted by Gail Collins, New York Times Feb. 1, 2000.

"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case." Pella, Iowa, quote San Antonio Express News Jan. 30, 2000.

"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?" Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000.

"This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve." Speaking during Perseverance Month" at Fairgrounds Elementary School Nashua, N.H. As quoted in Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000.

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." Greater Nashua NH Chamber of Commerce Jan. 27, 2000.

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." At a South Carolina oyster roast, as quoted in the Financial Times, Jan. 14, 2000.

"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself." At a South Carolina oyster roast, as quoted in the Financial Times, Jan. 14, 2000.

"Keep good relations with the Grecians." Quoted in the Economist, June 12, 1999

"The important question is, How many hands have I shaked?" Answering a question about why he hasn't spent more time in New Hampshire, In the New York Times, Oct. 23, 1999

"More and more of our imports are coming from overseas". Washington Post October 1, 2000.

and lastly. . . "I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating." U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000.