Chimp to schoolkids: "You know who I am"? Kids to chimp: Blank stare

[rainbow4321]

His appearances are getting more and more pathetic each day. Go back to the ranch. Please. Now.


http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/022609dnmetpershing.328942a.html


The Bushes were scheduled to visit three classes but popped in on any room with an audience. Ducking in one room, Bush asked, "Hey, kids, do you know who I am?"

Gasps all around, then someone blurted, "George Washington!"

"That's right!" the visitor said. "George Washington Bush!"

In a dual-language class, Bush tried to introduce himself in Spanish. But it came off a little too twangy. He tried again. Blank looks. Even held up three fingers. You know, a "W." Still nothing.

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Idjit needs to fly to the Hague and visit the Palace of Peace..

And report there..

Hawkeye-X

[WhiteTara]

25. they'll know who he is. n/t

[XemaSab]

53. Idiot needs to go to Paris and visit the Place de la Revolution...

:hide:

[Why Syzygy]

2. More children torture. Nothing changes.

What a freeptard. GO AWAY already.

[Towlie]

3. He should have taken that hardware store greeter job.

[omega minimo]

4. My Pet Goofball? The Catapult Fairy? Cap'n Cheney's Talking Doll? That's it! The Hey Vern Guy!!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

38. they were about to throw My Pet goat at him

because they couldn't untie their shoes

[omega minimo]

46. ROFLOL

:spray: :bounce:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. He thought it was his class reunion.

[Ilsa]

6. These kids have wonderful parents. They don't want their kids

exposed to criminals.

Of course, they could use W as a role model: "Study hard son, so you won't turn out as stupid as George."

Maybe everyone is just trying to forget him. Go home, Dumbya.

[MisterP]

7. 1 months and he's already forgotten his own name n/t

[satya]

22. Okay, this one literally had me ROFLMAO. nt

[Ilsa]

8. "Do you know who I am?" What a fucking narcisist. nt

[DesertRat]

9. George Washington Bush?

:rofl:

[Enrique]

10. lol, a little snark from the reporter

"You can be president. Can you believe that?"

We do now.

:rofl:

[daninthemoon]

16. What if the "we do now" crack referred to Obama? The crackers in

dumbya's new neighborhood are his kind of people. I think we are reading the article with our own bias, but the article might be a positive thing in the minds of the paper and it's local readers.

[SmileyRose]

30. crackers?

unacceptable.

[MiniMe]

11. That is really sad. He just doesn't know what to do with himself.

[Wickerman]

12. Ya know, its kinda creepy when old men hang around elementary schools

And this in his "home" state... Wonder how he would do in Connecticut?

[tularetom]

13. How could they not know who he was? His name is sewn onto every

article of clothing he owns. Sounds to me like those kids were fucking with him and it appears that it worked.

[wickerwoman]

14. Reminds me of the classic moment in "Supersize Me"

when Spurlock shows a kindergartner a picture of Jesus and the kid thinks it's George W. Bush.

[gratuitous]

15. Pretty gutsy of the Dallas News

Finally deciding to get a little real on their most favoritest resident president now that he's no longer in a position to repay them.

[rainbow4321]

23. Surprised the DMN editorial people didn't go thru the article with a red pen

before it got published.

Notice chimp told the kid who said "why are you here" that he had "seen all the signs welcoming him home". Ok...the school's population is 80-90% non-white if you look up the school's demographics. Does he really expect us to believe that these are the families with "welcome back George and Laura Bush" signs in their yards (a previous DMN article talked about those signs being in the Bushes "neighborhood").

[pacalo]

17. Deja vu...

[daninthemoon]

18. Please don't hurt the children.

[Muttocracy]

24. I was thinking of that picture too - multiplied many times :)

[LuckyLib]

51. Great face on that girl! Reminds me of Woody Allen's as a little boy in the film

(Manhattan?) where he looks at an uncle and the voiceover says "What an asshole!"

[pacalo]

56. "Annie Hall". It was the scene where the uncle did a magic trick with a coin.

One of my favorite Woody Allen movies -- I saw it three times when it first came out. Diane Keaton is my alter ego. :)

[lumberjack_jeff]

19. You are a stranger. A strange inarticulate stranger. n/t

[rainbow4321]

21. No kidding....the school's demographics shows majority of kids are Hispanic

So basically, you have kids who know Spanish, probably trying to learn English, being talked to by a white old fart who tried to impress them by speaking his "Spanish"...and made a fool out of himself in the process.

School's demo:

http://www.schooldigger.com/go/TX/schools/1623001329/school.aspx

2007: 34 White
62 AA
285 Hispanic

2006 34 White
150 AA
483 Hispanic

[elizfeelinggreat]

45. stranger danger!

[DLnyc]

20. In America, anyone can be president

including, occasionally, a complete fucking moron.

[DinahMoeHum]

26. What, no pictures of W in that classroom while all this was going on??

I feel cheated.

:evilfrown:

[ConcernedCanuk]

27. AND - a Calgary crowd is going to pay him over half a million bucks to speak - TO SPEAK!!!

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.
.

I'm not sure if the audience is Canadian or not - but if they are

WE GOT US SOME FUCKED UP CANUKS!!!

[PretzelWarrior]

29. the original offer was $1 million to stand there and say nothing

but he negotiated them into a cool half a mil to let him speak for a few minutes. First question will be, "Do you know who I am?"

[Wednesdays]

31. Maybe they're all going to carry extra shoes with them

Heck, I'd pay more than half a million, if I could bring a shoe.

[Politicalboi]

43. I would bring

Shaq's shoe so I would be sure not to miss. LOL!

[BlooInBloo]

28. (facepalm) Just stop, georgie. Just. Stop.

[deminks]

32. Ha! All those years of pre-selected audiences

have left him an unknown among the general public. Should have paid to bring some troops in and order them to applaud.

[Politicalboi]

44. Or turn their guns

On the children till they clapped for Bush.

[fortyfeetunder]

33. To be a six year old

"You're the guy who reads My Pet Goat upside down!"

[Warren DeMontague]

34. Oh, my kid knows who he is.

He sees a picture in the paper of him, points, and goes "Doofus!!!"

[slampoet]

35. "My mom calls you 'The Big Joke'"

[trusty elf]

36. GWB

[BattyDem]

37. "You know who I am?"

I would have paid good money to hear one kid say, "Yeah, you're the loser who left a huge mess for President Obama to clean up!" :evilgrin:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

39. I guess they couldn't untie their shoes quick enough

[orleans]

40. why the fuck does the fuckhead still get secret service?

"But the Dallas school's most prominent visitors didn't have any kids in tow. Only Secret Service agents."

does bill clinton get secret service?

[DemBones DemBones]

50. Former presidents always get Secret Service protection

though I think Bush will only get it for ten years rather than for life. Or maybe the new rules will start with Obama, I'm not sure.

[orleans]

41. ...

"Considering that he seemed to have such a good time – and he says he hardly knows what to do with himself these days – I couldn't resist inviting him back for the Dad's Club Haunted House.

"Grinning, he said, "I'd make a good ghost."

ugh.

[orleans]

42. ... more ugh.

"Bush told the kids he came because of the signs that welcomed him, which made him feel good, and he wanted to say thanks. He then made some general observations, none more poignant than the first:

"You can be president. Can you believe that?"

"We do now.

[arcadian]

47. Oops, left some behind.

[Stephanie]

48. His Spanish is atrocious

He clearly learned just enough to order una cerveza, but he loves to pretend he speaks the language.

[Solly Mack]

49. That school couldn't possibly have any standards.

[rainbow4321]

57. How appropriate that he and the DISD superintendent hooked up there

Both responsible for massive job losses under their respective administrations, HUNDREDS of teachers on the super's watch...and both with huge deficits (DISD didn't balance their books correctly and, oops, "we have $84 million budget deficit"--so they layed off the teachers).
And neither, apparently, have a conscious...the super. had the nerve to show up at the job fair offered for the teachers he had just layed off. This within days of announcing that he would take off like $18,000 from his $379,000 annual salary (oooohhhh, thanks!). Many of whom were interviewed on the news that night all but saying "WTF is HE doing HERE???". Kinda like when chimp shows up to visit the injured soldiers at Walter Reed.

Peas in a pod.

[fascisthunter]

52. Bush: "I Signed Off on Interrogation of Children Your Age..."

[WI_DEM]

54. He's coming off as pretty pathetic.

[Sequoia]

55. Ha, ha....that's rich !!!

When he dies, I wonder if someone will make a wreath of baby shoes for his grave.

[lib2DaBone]

58. "I am the guy who crashed your economy and I am evil incarnate"...

[Laelth]

59. What a tool! n/t

:dem:

-Laelth