President Goober W, "fixing to sit down with the President of France"

[Botany]

The man grew up wealthy, went to prep schools, and then to the Ivy League (Yale & Harvard)
and yet he speaks about " fixing sit down." :dunce:

The man is just an embarrassment.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070811-1.html

Q Are you surprised the President of France vacations in America?

PRESIDENT BUSH: We're pleased he's here. Of course he makes the choice he makes. If people were asking me where I think they ought to vacation, it would be right here in America -- where I'll be vacationing, as you know. Monday, starting in Crawford.

Q Could you imagine you, or you, sir, as President, vacationing in a foreign country?

PRESIDENT BUSH: Of course I could.

Q Really?

PRESIDENT BUSH: Yes, there's some spectacular spots around the world that would be --

FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH: We've done it.

PRESIDENT BUSH: -- great places to relax. But as you know, Mark, I'm a fellow -- I'm a Texan, I like my place down there. I like to go down there as much as I can. It's where I can relax. It's also -- the job follows you wherever you go, you're always President. And so here we are at my Mother and Dad's house, enjoying a beautiful Maine day, fixing to sit down with the President of France. We're going to have a heart-to-heart talk. We'll be talking about a lot of key issues.

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Gotta get after those "key issues" on his three week vacation. :grr:

[kenny blankenship]

1. Some spectacular spots around the world - and I'm fixin' ta sit down with el Presidente de France

and ask him the BIG QUESTION:
WHERE is the place in France where the nekkid ladies dance?

You reporter fellas can just eat yer hearts out 'cos y'ain't invited.

[Vinca]

2. Want to bet the President of France will be counting the minutes

before he can get out of that place. "Fixin' to sit down." The polar opposite of Jacqueline Kennedy in Paris. What a total embarrassment.

[Botany]

4. Thanx for your post .... Jackie on the Seine

[Sal Minella]

20. And her classy sister Lee behind her. Gives my heart a pang.

[Vinca]

22. What a beautiful photo - and she was wearing gloves! nt

[emilyg]

23. Always a Lady.

[Lisa]

3. Junior doesn't understand French, and his dad never learned plurals?

11:47 A.M. EDT

PRESIDENT BUSH: You all having a good time here?

Q Thank you, it's great.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Particularly thinking about you, Mark.

Q Yes, sir.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Mark, let me ask you, looking forward to going down to Crawford?

Q You bet, can't wait.

PRESIDENT BUSH: Good, well, that will be Monday.

Q Mr. President, what do you expect about France --

PRESIDENT BUSH: I expect to be with a friend. I'm looking forward to having him with my family. The best way we can do things -- best way we send a good signal to President Sarkozy is invite here at the family house. I've got a lot of my brothers around, my sister, my daughters. He's going to figure out what --

FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH: Youngest grandchild made these signs.

MRS. BUSH: Did you see the signs the grandchildren made?

FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH: Le signe.

PRESIDENT BUSH: What language are you speaking? (Laughter.)

FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH: Is that "sign" -- signe?

[partylessinOhio]

5. Oh, so now * has changed this "informal" visit sitting down with the entire

Bush clan eating hamburgers to an official state visit?

He's nutz!

Jacques Chirac would never have fallen for this crap!

[AtomicKitten]

6. Gump does France.

[DesertRat]

7. Ever notice that none of his brothers or sister talk like that?

I know he's a dolt, but I swear he exaggerates that "folkiness". He knows that's what a lot of the voters liked about him in the first place. He's a regular guy, one you'd like to have a beer with. Not one of 'em snobby, intellectual types who use big words like that stiff Al Gore or John Kerry.

:puke:

[Lisa]

17. he is playing a role, and thinks he can get away with two things at once ...

1) win over part of the population by sounding like his version of an ignorant country yokel
2) simultaneously make fun of those people

The trouble is, George W. is a really bad actor -- no natural talent, and not willing to work hard enough to learn how to present a believable character. Forget him ever trying to play a complex, nuanced role -- it probably hasn't even dawned on him that people living in rural areas have often attended college, know about financial investments and educational policy, have travelled to other countries before, and even "swill white wine", as Bush says (he associates the latter with East Coast intellectuals).

It's one thing for a politician to make an effort to be friendly, open, and accessible. But when his or her idea of "folksiness" involves putting on a phony accent and acting like the worst kind of caricature -- that's disrepectful and condescending.

[Lobster Martini]

8. And share a carafe of vouvray while sitting around the ceeeeement pond...

Sometimes the bucket of scorn gets too heavy to lift...note that the in addition to the inane quotes, the header on the press release is misspelled...can't the President afford a proofreader?

[Botany]

15. This?

President Bush Welcome French President Sarkozy to Walker's Point.

Gonna have some

[cspanlovr]

9. He's a phony Texan AND a phony president.

[orleans]

10. KILL ME NOW

"We're going to give him a hamburger or hot dog, his choice," said President Bush as he awaited Sarkozy's arrival at Walker's Point, the 11-acre, century-old family compound owned by the Mr. Bush's parents.

"If he'd like some baked beans we've got that, as well," he said of Sarkozy.

"Native Maine corn," chimed in Laura Bush.

The first couple performed a duet of all-American picnic fare.

"Corn on the cob, real fresh this time of year," said the President

"Salad, fresh tomatoes," said Mrs. Bush.

And don't forget dessert.

"If he feels like it, he can have him a piece of blueberry pie – fresh blueberries up here in Maine," boasted the President.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/11/notebook/main3158819.shtml

HAVE HIM? HAVE HIM? THE FUCKING PRESIDENT OF AMERICA AND THIS ASSHOLE SAYS: "HE CAN HAVE HIM"???


george: i've done and got yur halloween costoom picked out fur ya:

[PA Democrat]

13. Good Lord, I thought this was a parody, and then I saw the link.

I'll bet Sarkozy speaks better English than Bush.

[orleans]

24. pretty sad and disgraceful, isn't it? n/t

[Lisa]

18. yeah, Dubya -- if you're going to brag to a foreign leader, especially the French President

... about American FOOD ... at least show some of that "humble" and "self-deprecating" persona you promised in 2000!

I've never claimed to have a background in diplomacy, but it's evident even to me that the supposedly-charming Bush would have sounded a lot less ridiculous if he'd downplayed the fare, instead of going on about hamburgers and hot dogs as if they were the highlight of the day. (I hate to think of Bush pimping out the potato salad ...)

[DesertRat]

11. Will they be serving burgers and freedom fries? n/t

[Deja Q]

12. Wasn't the air force pondering the offshoring of some defense jobs to France?

:shrug:

It was posted on DU the other day...

[Patsy Stone]

14. At least it's in Kennebunkport

Imagine having him schlep all the way out to that damn dust bowl to make him clear brush before he gets the hamburger or hot dog of his choice.

Such an embarrassment.

[Botany]

16. Did I ever tell you that you are my Fav?

Read the press release .... link @ O.P.. Tons of gobberisms and stupid statements.

I just sent Steph this gem. Well @ least Daddy Bush did not blow chunks on Sarkozy.

Gonna have him some pie two.

[Patsy Stone]

27. Never disappointed.

Q Mr. President, aren't you disappointed that --

PRESIDENT BUSH: Never disappointed, always upbeat. Feeling good, feeling optimistic about life. Thank you. Thank you. Disappointed about what?

Q About Mrs. Sarkozy not coming?

PRESIDENT BUSH: Of course we are. She's a very dynamic woman. She is -- we were looking forward to seeing her, as well as the children. And so we're disappointed she's sick, but we understand. That happens sometimes in life.

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Oh, except yeah, now that you reminded him, he's disappointed. Oy vey.

This repetative thing seems a little Rain Man like, too: "We've got to go eat a hamburger. We've got to go eat a hamburger."

Definitely Wapner. Gotta watch Wapner.

[Botany]

29. Mrs. Sarkozy had an eye problem ....

..... she couldn't see eating with W.

bush language seems to be in phrases w/ some cowboy bob of the wild west rodeo
tossed in too. he seems to ramble on hoping that some phrase catches latches on to
whatever is the topic.

but I am never disappointed in my Fav EDV .... I hope you all ain't fixing to tell the others.

[WolverineDG]

33. I wonder if if asked Pres. Sarkozy

where he could get the best French fries in Paris. ;)

dg

[PA Democrat]

19. Mrs. Sarkozy canceled because she is sick.

I'd get sick too if I could avoid having to spend time with that family.

[Aristus]

21. I say "fixin'", but then I was fucking BORN in Texas.

Dubyah is such an embarrassment. :blush:

[bluedog]

25. “I can barely speak English.”..per bush LOL

**********this article is funny as all heck....what a bunch of idiots those bushs are

"We’re going to give him a hamburger or a hot dog, his choice,” Mr. Bush said as he waited for Mr. Sarkozy to arrive. He was flanked by the first lady, Laura Bush, and his parents. Looking on were members of the extended Bush clan, including grandchildren who had made welcome signs — “Bienvenue Monsieur Le President” — with pictures of lobsters.

Mr. Bush went on with the menu, occasionally interrupted by his wife: “He’s got some baked beans,” Mr. Bush said. “If he likes baked beans he can have that as well.” (“Native Maine corn,” Mrs. Bush interjected.) “There’s corn on the cob, real fresh this time of year,” he continued. (“Salad, fresh tomatoes,” the first lady added.) “If he feels like it, he can have him a piece of blueberry pie, fresh blueberries up here in Maine.”

snip


Mr. Bush, for his part, was careful not to portray himself as too much of a Francophile.

“No I can’t,” the president said, asked by a journalist if he could say something in French. “I can barely speak English."


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/us/12bush.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Botany]

26. God help me I even miss Reagan

At least he looked the part.

he can have him a piece of blueberry pie ....

:banghead:

[nealmhughes]

28. "Fixing to" is a definite Southernism, an idiom marker, like "reckon" and "right" as an adj.,

as in "Rt. Rev." or "Rt. Hon." in titles.

For example, one could say, "I reckoned it was fixing to rain, so I ran right fast to the house from the barn."

http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:BDlsnn9MYxAJ:www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl%3Fdate%3D19960801+fixing+to&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us&client=opera


I am told that people who move to the South first pick up "y'all" and then "reckon" and then "fixing to" pretty quickly, but it didn't take me long to learn to stand "on line" in NYC!

[Greylyn58]

30. You are so right Botany

The Shrub is an extreme embarrassment. I can't wait to see the end of his reign.

What a slub! I'm a southerner born and bread, unlike the wanna-be mush-mouth, and I can converse better than him.

[hisownpetard]

31. Read below, for the only honest statement Bush has made in 6 1/2 years.

snip

“No I can’t,” the president said, asked by a journalist if he could say something in French. “I can barely speak English."


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/us/12bush.html?_r=1&o...

[Berry Cool]

32. This is all such a complete folksy put-on

designed to make him sound like your typical folksy Texas host. :puke:

[Eurobabe]

34. Abolish that stupid phrase from the English language? FIXIN

I HATE THAT lame-ass phrase!!! :nuke: :nuke: :mad: :mad:

And while your at it, abolish that asshat of a pResident?

[symbolman]

35. Steve Martin said it best

in his role in that fabulous gem of a movie "The Jerk"

"Waiter! There are SNAILS on her PLATE! Look Away Honey! You'd think that in a fancy restaurant like this you could keep the smails OFF THE FOOD.. Now take it away and bring us those grilled cheese sandwiches like we wanted in the first place.."

I'd take Martin for President ANY DAY of the Week over Bush.. even forgive him for that awful film, "The Pink Panther", probably the worst hommage in history..

Maybe he could "Put a Live Chicken" in Bush's Underwear :)