posted on January 12, 2001 11:55:57 AM new
""...a more literate country and a hopefuller country." George W. Bush, 11 January, 2001 The final words of George Dubya Bush (and I do emphasize the "Dub" after leaving his edjicashun conference. He also stated that his edjicashun bill is "the first thing I want to get out of Congress". (This does not exclude getting out of Congress all those Democrats who have nothing better to do than to make W's existence as miserable as possible.) Today's Bushism is of course a classic statement, for he raises the fact of his own illiteracy through a powerfully ironic utterance, and all in a single magic breath. Remember, he is OUR President. Enjoy.
I think we're all pleased that El Dub wants to become the edjicatshun president, as he is most surely now the Poster Child for its necessity. How the Administrators at Yale must cringe at his every ututterance. Do they really plan to memorialize his campus birth house? Perhaps instead they might convert it into a museum of Language Misuse or, better, make it a condom distribution center. Perhaps others like him can be halted at the source. Tonight I stand even more astounded than when he made his last imbecilic utterance. Each incident brings me closer to the brink of screaming. What? I have no idea. He's not in the White House yet and still he's managed to create International Embarrassment. It's a wonder we're not bombed out of pure language retaliation. To our friends in all the other...countries, we truly are sorry. It's really quite out of our control.... Perhaps in another hundred years, should we still have a planet, a historian might stumble upon today's Bushism on a more modern internet. In the record of the time it may be written, "Never were so many deceived by so few and led completely astray by a single one.""
posted on January 12, 2001 12:04:00 PM new
George did a lot of stumping here in TX purporting to have education as one of his great accomplishments. Like most pols though, he didn't mention that the real start of eduction reform in TX was with Mark White as governor, and then followed through by Ann Richards. I guess it goes with the rights of succession.
On the other hand, just listen to him. Dubya as the education president seems like a very strong paradox.
posted on January 12, 2001 01:10:21 PM new
haha, it must be irksome to realize he couldn't even pull it off with his own kid...
You know, this whole thing -- Bush, jr's. presidency -- reminds me of the movie, Being There, and the behind-the-scenes powers that wanted to put an idiot (Chauncy Gardener) in the White House.
(My ultra-paranoid thought for the day -- and yes, I *am* entitled to one -- is:
Someone will shoot Dubya; Cheney will have a heart attack and die upon learning he's president and Colin Powell will take office, without having had to endure the glare of media scrutiny nor a gruelling two years of campaigning -- two things he's said would keep him from ever running for president. You see? It's all been a plot to get Powell in office... )
posted on January 12, 2001 02:03:04 PM new
Plsmith, ROFLMAO.
Loved "Being There". The only glaring error is that Peter Sellers was very intelligent, even as Chauncy. I thought the best line throughout the movie was "I like to watch"
Unfortunately, that's exactly what Dub will do. Watch. As his advisor's run the country.
after leaving his edjicashun conference. He also stated that his edjicashun bill is "the first thing I want to get out of Congress". (This does not exclude getting out of Congress all those Democrats who have nothing better to do than to make W's existence as miserable as possible.) Today's Bushism is of course a classic statement, for he raises the fact of his own illiteracy through a powerfully ironic utterance, and all in a single magic breath. Remember, he is OUR President. Enjoy.
