George Bush V. Real Presidents, A BuzzFlash Reader Commentary

[Scaramouche]

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/09/19_presidents.html

Here is my cherry-picked list!

What the American Presidents said...

1. George Washington (1789-97)

Washington: I cannot tell a lie.
Bush: I cannot spell lie.

5. James Monroe, 1817-25 (Democratic-Republican)

Monroe: Preparation for war is a constant stimulus to suspicion and ill will.
Bush: Let's give actual war a try.

6. John Quincy Adams, 1825-29 (Democratic-Republican)

Adams: Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
Bush: If votes are lost, we know which ones to find.

10. John Tyler, 1841-45 (Whig)

Tyler: I can never consent to being dictated to.
Bush: I have no problem with dictating.

16. Abraham Lincoln, 1861-65 (Republican)

Lincoln: Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Bush: I will not comment on that.

18. Ulysses Simpson Grant, 1869-77 (Republican)

Grant: It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
Bush: It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political ability.

21. Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-85 (Republican)

Arthur: Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.
Bush: Since I came here I have learned that George W. Bush is one man and the President of the United States is someone else.

25. William McKinley, 1897-1901 (Republican)

McKinley: Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories of peace, not those of war.
Bush: Remember what?

29. Warren Gamaliel Harding, 1921-23 (Republican)

Harding: I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
Bush: I don't know much about Patriotism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

34. Dwight David Eisenhower, 1953-61 (Republican)

Eisenhower: In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.
Bush: In the unwarranted councils of government, we must guard against liberal influence.

36. Lyndon Baines Johnson, 1963-69 (Democrat)

Johnson: Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination.
Bush: Iraq is not Viet Nam.

38. Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr , 1974-77 (Republican)

Ford: I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.
Ford: The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
Bush: Take those quotes off the White House site.

41. George Herbert Walker Bush, 1989-1993 (Republican)

Bush Sr.: Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
Bush Jr:: I never could understand what my father was trying to say to me.

42. William Jefferson Clinton, 1993- 2001(Democrat)

Clinton: If happens today, it will be better than if it happens tomorrow, because fewer people will die.
Bush: Hey, watch me hit this golf ball!

43. Albert Gore, 2001- (Democrat)

Gore: George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.
Bush: I can make the lights go out.

A BUZZFLASH READER SATIRE

[Mandate My Ass]

1. Great list

Someone worked hard on this. :thumbsup:

I also liked this one:

7. Andrew Jackson, 1829-37 (Democrat)

Jackson: Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

Bush: Give me some salt with those freedom fries.

[meow2u3]

2. They forgot these actual quotes from Lincoln and Smirk

Abe Lincoln: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, or all of the people some of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."

G. W. Bush: "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and these are the ones you have to concentrate on."

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