Poor George. They are even mocking him in Texas, just to sell motorcycles.

[jobycom]

A motorcycle dealership in Temple, Texas--very near Fort Hood and Crawford--is now running a commercial with a fake Bush as the announcer. Starts off saying (paraphrasing here) "With gas prices so high... I mean, with gas prices perfectly normal, maybe you should buy a motorcycle. They get up to 30 miles per gallon. Even I know that's good. And people say I'm incontinent." A voice in the background says "That's incompetent, Mr. President." "That's what I said. I've just correctified the energy problem."

Temple is a mid-size town in the middle of Bush's home state. It's about 35 miles from Bush's ranch, 35 miles from Fort Hood (one of the largest military bases in the nation, and one that has sent many troops to Iraq). Two years ago this was inviolate Bush territory.

[crispini]

1. Ha. That's pretty funny.

During the primaries here (Dallas) one of the local car dealers, Kia maybe, was running an ad with an Obama impersonator... they were making fun of him in a sort of mild way, you know, "My fellow Americans, you need to get down to so-and-so motors and buy this car." I was kind of amused that they would be riffing off of Obama to sell cars.

[mainer]

2. wish I could see a video of that one. On YouTube yet?

It'd be a hit.

[jobycom]

9. It was on the radio here in Austin. I can't remember the dealer's name, even.

I'll see if I can find anything.

[SpiralHawk]

3. Commander AWOL Bush earned his ridicule the old-fashioned way

incompetence & corruption: the hallmarks of modern-day republiconism

[jobycom]

10. Don't forget incontinence. nt

[malaise]

4. Hilarious

I don't know if he's incontinent but he sure pisses me off.

[exothermic]

12. He don't know what the hell continent he's in half the time anyhoo...

:rofl:

[DCKit]

5. His "Home State" is Connecticut. n/t

TX stopped claiming him as a native son some time ago. Many Texans knew better from the get-go.

Regardless, anything that rubs the party faithful's noses in what they've wrought on the rest of the country can't be all bad.

[TahitiNut]

6. Texas should've thought about that before electing him Governor.

:shrug: Doesn't wash.

[newfie11]

7. They should have reelected Ann Richards!

[jobycom]

17. Interesting background on that. No one thought of him as Texan in the 80s.

When his Daddy ran for president in 88, polls showed that Texans didn't think of Daddy or Junior as particularly Texan. So they started a makeover. W did a media blitz of pictures of him in cowboy boots, never actually speaking to anyone. Back then he sounded New England, anyway--you can see this in a clip in Fahrenheit 9-11.

In 1989 he put together an investment group and "bought" the Texas Rangers. The media mocked him, seeing it as a ploy to make him more Texan. Then, when Richards became governor in 1991, she fought to bring more industry into Texas, especially the high tech industry, and the populations in the cities expanded quickly, and the newcomers only knew Junior through Daddy's name. By that time, Daddy was playing up his Texas background, and even announced that his library would be in Texas, to make him seem more legite.

So in 94, W announced he was going to run for governor, and all the old-timey Texans laughed at the little idiot, but a lot of the newcomers who had moved in over the previous five had no real background on him. All they knew is that his father had been president, he owned the Texas Rangers, and Ann Richards was friends with the wildly unpopular Bill Clinton. Most Texans had never even heard W speak, and most never heard him speak during two campaigns. I knew a lot of politically active Texans at the time who tuned in to W's announcement in Iowa that he was running for president because they wanted to hear his voice for the first time.

And a big part of his win were the newcomers who only knew Bush's daddy's name, and Bill Clinton's name, and didn't know anything else.

[zbdent]

8. Don't a lot of "red" Texans refer to itself as "The Republic of Texas"

as if it were a wholly different entity than the U.S.?

If so, let the Mexicans have it back ... blue "former" Texans will be welcomed in the United States of America ...

[jobycom]

18. It's a term of affection used by both parties.

It's also used as the name for a state militia, a motorcycle club, and a lot of other things.

[jobycom]

11. I'm not the type to pass my problems to someone else, so even though

I know he was born in Connecticut, lived there until he was four, and grew up largely around DC, I just feel uncomfortable blaming another state for him. :)

Especially poor Connecticut. Don't they already have to claim Lieberman, too? Seems like a lot to deal with for such a small state.

[ceile]

13. In Temple?!

:rofl: Oh, that's great!

[dsc]

14. motorcycles only get 30 mpg

that is kind of shocking. I would have figured at least 50 or more.

[CatWoman]

15. it's got to be more....

[jakem]

16. many do. i assume it is a harley dealership.

my yamaha roadstar (bigger than a harley engine) got 35-45mpg

other smaller bikes get much more.

[jobycom]

20. It wasn't Harley. Kawasaki or Yamaha, I forget. Probably Kawasaki, since

I used to ride a Yamaha, so I'd have remembered that.

I've got to listen for that commercial again, but I can't remember what station it was on. :( I was scanning at the time.

[jakem]

21. 30mpg is pretty terrible for a bike. dont know why they would say that-

[jobycom]

24. I probably misheard that. I thought it was low, too. nt

[jobycom]

19. I thought that when I heard the commercial, too. I could have heard wrong.

[Robb]

23. Yeah. I get 48 on the big bike

The big KTM gets 48, the little Kawasaki gets 78-82, depending.

Although, neither is tuned to wake the neighbors. :D

[La Lioness Priyanka]

26. depends on the bike. lisa's get much more

[emmadoggy]

27. We had Yamahas for several years and they

always got in the range of 50-60mpg if I remember correctly.

I was confused by the 30mpg statement also.

[KT2000]

22. Holy Cow

Ol' Stupid is a marketing tool - and funny!
A satellite company uses him on tv - the guy impersonating him mentions the French button on the remote - Pause' as in paws-ay!!

[jobycom]

25. I saw that one! "It's French for stop. Paw-say." nt