Just when you thought Bu$h couldn't get any dumber

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - "Can you imagine if my name had been Mungo Bush?" the president joked Friday when a British reporter asked him to autograph a book for his son, Mungo. Bush seemed amused by the name.

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That prompted Bush to tell a tale about meeting a Texan when he was at a sheep farm in Scotland back in the 1950s.

"I worked there as a 14-year-old kid," Bush said. "I went from Texas to Scotland to work on a sheep farm. I'm riding a bike. ... A big tour bus stops. They got off and a woman with a Texas accent (said): 'Look at the little Scottish boy!'

"I kept my mouth shut," Bush said.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20050219/D88BCJD00.html

[Straight Shooter]

1. People with a last name like "bush" shouldn't make fun of names

:eyes:

BTW, I like the name Mungo. It's got a certain spark to it.

[Lefta Dissenter]

2. truly,

People with the first name "Asshole" shouldn't make fun of names.

What an embarrassment.

[LeaderlessResistance]

4. George Bush's Failed Intellect

"Debt is the beginning of slavery." ~ "Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity." Victor Hugo Le Miserable

Bankruptcy Looms On The Horizon

America has reached a consumer debt catastrophe, an all time high the Federal Reserve says has reached $2 trillion. The average American has 2.7 bank credit cards, 3.8 retail credit cards and 1.1 debit cards stuffed into their pocketbooks, according to CardWeb.com.

On them is an average $8,000 in debt. Visa and MasterCard couldn't be giddier.

Take a $5,000 credit-card balance, with an average 16 percent interest rate. Make only minimum payments each month. It will take 28.5 years to pay off. By the time you do, that $5,000 will have ballooned to $12,100 ~ including $7,100 in interest.

Read more:

http://www.indystar.com/articles/9/186509-5159-223.html

[spanone]

3. Geez, doesn't every 14 yr. old kid get a chance to go to Scotland.

Of course he's just a regular good-old boy from Texas.

[signmike]

10. "...to work on a sheep farm" ?

did daddy B hustle him off to perhaps hide him for a while ?

[oasis]

13. Bush's never done any hard work. He's going for the "common touch"

perception by inserting that little story into the conversation.

[signmike]

15. Understood - but was he in Scotland at the time? and why, really?

[asjr]

5. That is one of the only times he has kept his

mouth shut. A friend told me about a bumper sticker she saw heading to Nashville--"There is dirt under every Bush." I like that one.

[necso]

6. A telling story.

(And yeah, what an idiot.)

"I kept my mouth shut" = "Let them believe a lie". (A "misconception" left uncorrected has the same effects as a lie -- without any of the risk of being exposed as a liar. -- "People misunderstood." -- "I never said that.")

Clearly a man who has understood the power of the lie (and the uncorrected misconception -- incidental -- or induced) from an early age. Misleading people also clearly gives him a good deal of pleasure.

Smirk is a most appropriate name.

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

7. still bad at math, too

Either AP or Pretzelhead flunked arithmetic in this tale (my bet, of course, is on the latter).

Bush, born 7/6/46, was only 13 at the end of the 1950s.

[Stop_the_War]

8. what a dumbass

[Gin]

9. what if his name was.............. Dick Bush....that would be fitting....

g

[deminflorida]

12. Harry Bush would be be better....

;-)

[signmike]

11. Personally I think Mungo Bean would be a trifle funnier

[thecorster]

14. nothing like offending a mother over the name

she chose for her child. what a compassionate conservative!

[Disturbed]

16. The Silverspoon Sociopath is in touch with people.

A woman tells him that she has a metally challenged child and is working three jobs. His response: "Fantastic."