{"id":1190,"date":"2008-11-09T12:20:46","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T11:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2008-11-09T12:20:46","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T11:20:46","slug":"americas-43rd-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=1190","title":{"rendered":"America’s 43rd president"},"content":{"rendered":"

The same week that Americans saw the election of their 44th president witnessed the release of the latest Oliver Stone movie – a bio-pic about Bush Jr, the 43rd president, titled simply “W.” [see my review here<\/a>].
\nAs the Bush presidency staggers to its much-welcomed end, I reproduce below some of the infamous Bushisms and a contemporary joke. You have to smile; otherwise you’d have to cry …<\/p>\n


\nSome words of wisdom you may have missed<\/b>
\n“The vast majority of our imports come from outside the country. ”
\n– George W. Bush
\n“If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.”
\n– George W. Bush
\n“One word sums up probably the responsibility of any Governor, and that one word is ‘ to be prepared ‘.”
\n– George W. Bush
\n“I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future. ”
\n– George W. Bush
\n” The future will be better tomorrow.”
\n– George W. Bush
\n” We’re going to have the best educated American people in the world.”
\n– George W. Bush
\n” I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.”
\n– George W. Bush
\n“We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.”
\n– George W. Bush
\n” Public speaking is very easy.”
\n– George W. Bush
\n“A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.”
\n– George W. Bush
\n“We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur. ”
\n– George W. Bush
\n“For NASA, space is still a high priority.”
\n– George W. Bush
\n“Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children. ”
\n– George W. Bush
\n“It isn’t pollution that’s harming the environment. It’s the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.”
\n– George W. Bush
\n” It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.”
\n– George W. Bush
\nOne sunny day in January 2009<\/b>
\nOne sunny day in January, 2009 an old man approached the White House from
\nAcross Pennsylvania Avenue, where he’d been sitting on a park bench. He
\nspoke to the U.S. Marine standing guard and said, ‘I would like to go in and
\nmeet with President Bush.’
\nThe Marine looked at the man and said, ‘Sir, Mr. Bush is no longer president
\nand no longer resides here.’
\nThe old man said, ‘Okay’, and walked away.
\nThe following day, the same man approached the White House and said to the
\nsame Marine, ‘I would like to go ! in and meet with President Bush.’
\nThe Marine again told the man, ‘Sir, as I said yesterday, Mr. Bush is no longer
\npresident and no longer resides here.’
\nThe man thanked him and, again, just walked away.
\nThe third day, the same man approached the White House and spoke to the
\nvery same U.S. Marine, saying ‘I would like to go in and meet with President
\nBush.’
\nThe Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked at the man and said,
\n‘Sir, this is the third day in a row you have been here asking to speak to Mr.
\nBush. I’ve told you already that Mr. Bush is no longer the president and no
\nlonger resides here. Don’t you understand?’
\nThe old man looked at the Marine and said, ‘Oh, I understand. I just love
\nhearing it.’
\nThe Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and said, ‘See you tomorrow, Sir.’
\n____________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The same week that Americans saw the election of their 44th president witnessed the release of the latest Oliver Stone movie – a bio-pic about Bush Jr, the 43rd president, titled simply “W.” [see my review here]. As the Bush presidency staggers to its much-welcomed end, I reproduce below some of the infamous Bushisms and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}