Bush Names the Animals

[Thurston Howell IV]

W likes to give nicknames to almost everyone he knows. He's fairly compulsive about it, and he uses them even when people object to them -- Bush seems to think it's funny.

"Sen. Ben Nelson finally has succeeded in getting President Bush to stop calling him by the nickname 'Nellie.'

Bush had been referring to the Nebraska Democrat as 'Nellie' since 2001.

Nelson disliked the nickname and had asked the president to stop using it. But Bush heeded Nelson's request to scrap his moniker, and at the recent White House Christmas party, the president referred to Nelson as 'Benny.'

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/14/senator.name.ap/index.html


Nellie is so grateful that the President finally stops shitting on him after 3 years. Twinkle, twinkle -- a Hallmark moment.

Here's a partial list of some of the nicknames that Bush has for his closest friends and advisors. No doubt additional ones will be coming out once more people leave his administration in the next few weeks:

PERSON: NICKNAME
Laura Bush: Teach, Pooh Bear, Pookie

The Bush Twins: Gin and Tonic

Barbara Bush: The Nutcracker

George H W Bush: The Old Spook

Dick Cheney: Beelzebub, BSD (from “Big Swinging Dick”)

Condoleeza Rice: Brown Sugar, Minute Maid

Colin Powell: Mr Pottery Barn, B-1

George Tenet: MJ (short for Michael Jordan)

Complete list at:
http://bushmisunderestimated.blogspot.com/2005/01/bush-names-animals.html

Anyone got some others?

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. Brown Sugar?

Am I over reacting here, or is that a bit offensive to a black woman?

I am not even going there on Minute Maid :eyes:

[Thurston Howell IV]

2. Some of them were intended to have a whiff of offensiveness about them

One of the things the article mentioned was how Bush purposely used an offensive nickname with a senator for 3 years, which I found to be pretty amazing. The post has satirical intent, and it is possible that some may find that it "crosses the line." Always a danger with satire. The real target is Bush.

[ET Awful]

3. It's from Doonsbury

[Thurston Howell IV]

4. Hadn't seen the Doonsbury

but "Stretcher" for Clarke is good. I had originally included "Judas" for Clarke, but it got edited out.

[thecorster]

6. how about this one

I call Cheney "Big Dick." I guess there's a lot of ways to read into that... lol

[thecorster]

5. Self-Deleted

[Vinca]

7. If Bush is so fond of nicknames he won't mind if I refer to him as

"The #1 ASSHOLE."

[Canuckistanian]

8. "Nutcracker"????

That's what he calls his own mother??? Get this man some psychoanalysis, fast!