Bushisms
Monday, May 05, 2008 Filed in: Media
As children we were often told that in the United
States anyone could become president. George W. Bush
is living proof.
Since Bush's election in 2000, the country has been witness to a new form of comedy. Bushisms.
You know what they are. You've heard them. You've laughed.
Bushisms are any of a number of peculiar words, phrases, pronunciations, malapropisms, semantic or linguistic errors and gaffes that have occurred in the public speaking of United States President George W. Bush and, before that, of his father George H. W. Bush.
For example, "But Iraq has—have got people there that are willing to kill, and they're hard-nosed killers. And we will work with the Iraqis to secure their future."
If I wrote something like that in a high school or college paper it would be littered with red marks from my instructor.
Another one goes like this: "I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it." That's pretty much true about anyone.
Regardless of your political affiliation, it's difficult to deny that President Bush is a perfect example of mind over matter. If you don't mind him being that way, then it doesn't matter.
Need more? "You know, when you give a man more money in his pocket—in this case, a woman more money in her pocket to expand a business, it—they build new buildings. And when somebody builds a new building somebody has got to come and build the building. And when the building expanded it prevented additional opportunities for people to work."
You can't make up this stuff, yet someone in an important position in the federal government is capable of making it up every day.
Wait. There's more.
"Iraq is a very important part of securing the homeland, and it's a very important part of helping change the Middle East into a part of the world that will not serve as a threat to the civilized world, to people like—or to the developed world, to people like—in the United States."
If my college argumentation and debate instructor was dead, and could read Bushisms, he'd roll over in his grave. So to speak.
Since Bush's election in 2000, the country has been witness to a new form of comedy. Bushisms.
You know what they are. You've heard them. You've laughed.
Bushisms are any of a number of peculiar words, phrases, pronunciations, malapropisms, semantic or linguistic errors and gaffes that have occurred in the public speaking of United States President George W. Bush and, before that, of his father George H. W. Bush.
For example, "But Iraq has—have got people there that are willing to kill, and they're hard-nosed killers. And we will work with the Iraqis to secure their future."
If I wrote something like that in a high school or college paper it would be littered with red marks from my instructor.
Another one goes like this: "I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it." That's pretty much true about anyone.
Regardless of your political affiliation, it's difficult to deny that President Bush is a perfect example of mind over matter. If you don't mind him being that way, then it doesn't matter.
Need more? "You know, when you give a man more money in his pocket—in this case, a woman more money in her pocket to expand a business, it—they build new buildings. And when somebody builds a new building somebody has got to come and build the building. And when the building expanded it prevented additional opportunities for people to work."
You can't make up this stuff, yet someone in an important position in the federal government is capable of making it up every day.
Wait. There's more.
"Iraq is a very important part of securing the homeland, and it's a very important part of helping change the Middle East into a part of the world that will not serve as a threat to the civilized world, to people like—or to the developed world, to people like—in the United States."
If my college argumentation and debate instructor was dead, and could read Bushisms, he'd roll over in his grave. So to speak.
