Bush: "Laura said, 'Why did you do that for?' "

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

In the week after the September 11 attacks, Bush was asked if he wanted bin Laden, the terrorist leader blamed for the attacks, dead.

"I want justice," Bush said. "And there's an old poster out West, that I recall, that said, 'Wanted, Dead or Alive."'

Recalling that remark, Bush told the reporters: "I can remember getting back to the White House, and Laura said, 'Why did you do that for?' I said, 'Well, it was just an expression that came out. I didn't rehearse it.'

"I don't know if you'd call it a regret, but it certainly is a lesson that a president must be mindful of, that the words that you sometimes say. ... I speak plainly sometimes, but you've got to be mindful of the consequences of the words. So put that down. I don't know if you'd call that a confession, a regret, something."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/14/bush.regrets.ap/index.html

[Skidmore]

1. I call that a PR stunt.

So put that down. I don't know if you'd call that a confession, a regret, something."

Someone told him "Bub, you need to look humble; they're starting to chew on you hiney."

[rfranklin]

2. Total bullshit!

Karl's writing sensitive dialogue for the Chimp.

Innoculating him for all the bullshit he's been spouting now that it's clear to everyone that he fucked up everything.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. I'm guessing that the "sensitive" crap comes from Karen Hughes, not Rove

That sneaky, oily "compassion" is what Hughes does best.

I think Rove would be in moral opposition to anything other than "kiss my ass."

[Guns Aximbo]

3. Remember you....

can't polish a turd.

[spunky]

12. Well you can, but your hands will get really stinky.

[Eric J in MN]

5. Bush's message: I'm not arrogant. I admit my one flaw.

My one flaw is that I'm TOO tough on terrrorists.


NOTE: Bush is a liar.

[SHRED]

6. "... I speak plainly sometimes..."

Yeah he does.
So that Joe MSM Sixpack won't get wise to the fact that bu$h is truly the real "elitist" pig.
The mangled sentences, he spews, perpetuate his "down-home" image myth.

[Union Thug]

9. YOu are dead on! They don't want to expose the elitists for who

they really are... republican/corporatists.

[opihimoimoi]

10. speaking plainly comes from being an alliterate.... the man is a fool for

not reading history among other things... Foreign Affairs would be too deep for him.

Oh well, Dummy Presidents say dummy things....

[janx]

16. Yeah, I have a tough time believing that he actually speaks that way

naturally. His parents don't. His brother doesn't.

?

[ET Awful]

7. Yeah, and Giuliani grabbed Kerrick by the arm and said . . .

"thank God George Bush is our president" too.

BULLSHIT!

[Eurobabe]

8. I doubt that was what Laura said - she at least speaks English

The Moron in Charge must have said, "why did you do that for?" WTF?

Sentence does not compute as usual. Go back and tell Yale and Harvard you want a refund jackass!

[janx]

13. Another thing that kills me is when he says something like:

"I feel like we ought to do this."

Now, you can say, "I feel like hell," or "I feel like an idiot," but there should be NOUN following what you feel like--not a verb phrase, for pete's sake.

And for some reason, this is growing more and more popular. I can't figure out why. :shrug:

Still another popular mistake comes from all kinds of journalists and talking heads, as well as politicians. This one is weird indeed. People currently feel a need to inject "IS" where it doesn't belong. An example of this that Chimp and many other use might be: "The reason is is terrorists are evil."

I think what these people mean to say is (;-)): "The reason is that terrorists are evil."

Where do these things come from? :shrug:

[NYC]

14. Is "why for" like wherefore?

"Why did you do that for?"

I have friends who speak English as a second language, and they are always pointing out Bush's grammar, and wondering WHY? (or possibly "why for")

[janx]

15. She speaks Texas English.

Actually, when she's speaking, you will notice an occasional grammatical "mistake"--but it's one of those regional peculiarities, usually. I doubt she would write the same way.

It's a bit like some people's using the term "anyways" instead of "anyway."

I don't think she'd say "Why did you do that for?" LOL!

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. Texas English?

In the 12 years that I have lived in Texas, I've never heard anyone use the Chimp's and Laura's particular brand of English.

[newscott]

11. Flip Flop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Robbien]

17. Just as the Iraqi rebels released a statement saying

""George W. Bush; you have asked us to 'bring it on'. And so help me, (we will) like you never expected. Do you have another challenge?," asked the narrator before the video showed explosions around a U.S. military Humvee vehicle."


Bush's sudden contrition is too coincidential a coincidence.

[MsAnthropy]

18. Proof again that money/power doesn't buy class

I can't look at her without seeing that video of her picking her nose alongside her husband at a baseball game.