Self-deprecation is worth its weight in smoldering phoenix-ashes and baby unicorn tears.
or; more Bushisms for popcorn-like consumption.
Published on March 14, 2008 By SanChonino In US Domestic

Okay, I need something besides Spain stories on my 'blag', or I'm gonna lose all my referrals.  (Thanks to those that continue to come around and read those - wait until you read my next entry, about what happened last night at the Dixieland concert. )

So I bring you new Bushisms, for enjoyment of all.  Well, for the enjoyment of me.

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"In all due respect, I'm not so sure it's credible to quote leading news organizations about - well, never mind."

--Third presidential debate, Tempe, Arizona, 2004

"I suspect that had my dad not been president, he'd be asking the same questions: How'd your meeting go with so-and-so? . . . How did you feel when you stood up in front of the people for the State of the Union Address - state of the budget address, whatever you call it."

--Washington Post, March 9, 2001

"In this job you've got a lot on your plate on a regular basis; you don't have much time to sit around and wander, lonely, in the Oval Office, kind of asking different portraits, 'How do you think my standing will be?'"

--Washington, D.C., March 2005

"After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetrators of this attack were trying to do."

--Washington, D.C., March 2006

"They didn't think we were a nation that could conceivably sacrifice for something greater than our self; that we were soft, that we were so self-absorbed and so materialistic that we wouldn't defend anything we believed in.  My, were they wrong.  They just were reading the wrong magazine or watching the wrong Springer show."

--Washington, D.C., March 12, 2002

"There's nothing more deep than recognizing Israel's right to exist.  That's the most deep thought of all. [...] I can't think of anything more deep than that right."

--Washington, D.C., March 13, 2002

"And so I'm for medical liability at the federal level."

--Washington, D.C., March 10, 2006

"The march to war hurt the economy.  Laura reminded me a while ago that remember what was on the TV screens - she calls me, 'George W.' - 'George W.'  I call her, 'First Lady.'  No, anyway - she said, we said, march to war on our TV screen."

--Bay Shore, New York, March 11, 2004

 

Only 312 days left, kiddos.


Comments
on Mar 14, 2008
on Mar 15, 2008

 


Yay for this article sucking and no-one caring!

on Mar 15, 2008
"In this job you've got a lot on your plate on a regular basis; you don't have much time to sit around and wander, lonely, in the Oval Office, kind of asking different portraits, 'How do you think my standing will be?'"


Hmmm. Why does he even bring that up? Not "much time"? Does that mean there is some time for it? Just a little teeny bit? That's almost scary.

Do the portraits answer back? Does George Washington sound like his mom? Does he ever see the ghost of George Washington late at night and ask, "Mom? Is that you?"


"They didn't think we were a nation that could conceivably sacrifice for something greater than our self; that we were soft, that we were so self-absorbed and so materialistic that we wouldn't defend anything we believed in. My, were they wrong. They just were reading the wrong magazine or watching the wrong Springer show."


Or asking the wrong portraits.

on Mar 15, 2008
On the home front, seems the annually Catholic Neapolitans are celebrating the coming of Palm Sunday with marching bands and fire works. What a wacky world.


Isn't it, though? Same thing is happening over in perennially Catholic Tarragona, too . . .

Fun times. I'm thinking I want to crash mass.
on Mar 15, 2008
I was invited to attend Easter Mass at the Vatican.


I would so crash that. For sure I'm crashing it here in Tarragona, even if I have to skip out on my own church for a week. I'm sure the Lord will forgive me - isn't that what he does anyway?