ATTENTION DU: Vote Now For DU Preference! What To Call Bush!

[IAMREALITY]

Poll question: ATTENTION DU: Vote Now For DU Preference! What To Call Bush!

This is in respect to senseandsensibility. I think she brings up a great point and interesting question in his thread. But let's hear it DU, what shall we moving forward prefer to call Bush in the 2004 Election And Discussion Forum?

[TheFarseer]

1. I usually call him bush

note the intentionally lower case "t" or bu$h if I'm talking about something to do with money.

editted because I can't speel

[formernaderite]

28. me too....mainly because....

...I can't remember all the comical nicknames. Heck, I even misread posts that use the asterisk, forgetting momentarily what the * stands for.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

62. governor bush. nt

[Democrat Dragon]

2. I'd say we call him something like...

Bushiter, Busholini, Bushirohito, Bushalin, Busholeon, Bushigula, Bushero, Bushander....

[fshrink]

3. The more the merrier.

I have a thing for "the idiot", but I enjoy any other suggestion. Anything but "President" will do.

[3days]

4. how about sh**head?

[Carni]

47. This is what I typically call him in real life

You can hear it all day long in my home on any given day.

[senseandsensibility]

5. Thanks!

I'm a she actually, but I'm flattered that you put it into poll format! Viva la *!

[IAMREALITY]

6. Oops hehe, My Bad. It has been taken care of.

:)

[Griffy]

7. FOCUS people.. this isnt a game

You never know whos reading this, be smarter than that...

[IAMREALITY]

9. What In The Worllllllllllld Are You Talking About

:shrug:

[txindy]

32. You're either confused or lost

This has been going on long before you came here. You're the one who needs to focus on the culture of a place where you decide to post.

[Carni]

48. Who cares who's reading!

What? Is it against the law to call Bush names? What do I care who sees it? Where am I, the old Soviet Union?

[tinfoil_beret]

8. Are write-ins allowed?

I vote for Resident-Reject *.

[IAMREALITY]

10. You would vote for the first one

We can still put ANY other adjectives in front of or after the choice, as the choice merely takes the place of Bush. So if you would call him now Resident-Reject Bush, you would then call him Resident-Reject *. :)

[tinfoil_beret]

12. But we didn't "elect" him. :P

[IAMREALITY]

13. Corrected LOL My Ass Is Up Too Late LOL Nitey Nite!

[Lugnut]

11. Actually

I prefer Shithead but * is a DU tradtion.

[bunny planet]

14. My personal favorite, His Fraudulency.

[PATRICK]

38. The Anti-President

to grace him with his proper updated cosmic title.

[Duncan]

42. HA! love it.

[Bill Bored]

15. I like Shrub because you can call his supporters Reshrublicans!

In this way, it's possible to distinguish between the honest members of his party and the pure scumbags.

[seito]

18. lol!!!

:toast:

[bywho4who]

16. Inmate# ooooo666

After he goes to da big-house:toast:

[noclonyofthechimp]

34. I like his fed ID #

[OneBlueSky]

17. Berzelius Windrip . . .

after the fascist president in Sinclair Lewis' 1938 novel "It Can't Happen Here" . . . Windrip's policies turned the country into a totalitarian state . . . much like what's happening today . . .

Berzelius Windrip . . .

yeah, I like it! . . .

[seito]

19. I like the variety for casual posts

But we should use * for all official correspondence.

[vpigrad]

20. Bushie (ntxt)

[PapaJoe]

21. Post Turtle

Down in Austin, the good folks refer to George W. as the Post Turtle.
As the story goes, you are walking down a country road and you spy a turtle balanced on top of a fence post. You know three things right away, One, the turtle did not get up there by himself, Two he has absolutely no "bidness" up there and Three, he can not get down without some help. So help the Post Turtle.

[Xenus Sister]

22. Thief-In-Chief *

I haven't seen that other thread referred to in the OP so I don't know what point senseandsensibility made, but really, I'll call him whatever I feel like calling him at any such time I refer to him, which, I hope, is as little as possible.

I also like pResident Evil. And Idiot Boy.

[SaveAmerica]

23. I chose *, paper trail you know, make sure my vote counted n/t

[ailsagirl]

24. No choice for "Dub?" I find that to show the proper disrespect

I hold for him.

[imenja]

25. Slurs are juvenile

How about discussing objections to particular policies rather than simply using derogatory names? Calling someone names says more about the speaker/ author than the individual who is the target of the insult. There are plenty of substantive issues with which to critique Bush and others on the right. Using our minds to develop thoughtful critiques will do far more to advance progressive politics.
If people want to be satirical, at least be intelligent and funny about it (like Jon Stewart, for example).

[Berserker]

26. Call me what you want

Some of my favs.

pResident
Bunker Boy
Boy King
Supreme Leader
The Smirk
Dubya the mighty warrior president
The Chimp
Chimpy McFlightsuit
Bunnypants
Dimson

[momzno1]

27. I like Faux

the faux president

[IAMREALITY]

54. How About

Nope. We'll continue to just do whatever the hell we want, but thanks anyway.

:hi:

[imenja]

59. I know

I was expecting too much but I thought It'd give it a shot anyway. The lowest common denominator wins, as always. Left or Right, Americans are essentially the same.

[IAMREALITY]

65. Well There Are Always Exceptions

Such as this case, when the Highest common denominator won out, as I usually do.

:hi:

[marions ghost]

29. more is more

I like the different names people come up with.

The brevity of * is fine

I like B**H (takes the US out)

Post Turtle!!:7

Could be some good ones with Receiver Man idea

Gotta laugh...these times are too surreal

[txindy]

30. I don't know who came up with the name, but I have a personal favorite

Chimpy McFlightsuit. ;)

When I post, though, it's usually * or Junior. He neither needs nor deserves anything more.

[noclonyofthechimp]

33. good one!

[noclonyofthechimp]

31. Let's call him "Chimp" As you can see, I already do!

[Her Blondness]

35. Ask not at whom the chimp smirks . . .

[seshers]

36. Bushwinkle

"Hey rocky. Watch me pull an election outta my hat."

[tinanator]

37. mein fuhrer

get to the point already.

[neversaynever]

39. America's Dumbest Criminal (ADC) n/t

[kedrys]

40. Our nickname for * around the house is

Boner. George Carlin has a great riff in the mid-90s about the Gulf War, *'s dad and the name "Bush" being soft, as in describing something close to the genitals without being the genitals. "But if this man's name had been George Boner, we would have gone into Baghdad and blown everybody away!" (paraphrasing slightly)

[Wiley50]

41. I like to call them Smirk and Snarl

But would prefer to call them up on treason and war criminal charges.

Wiley

[Sideways]

43. MonkeyNuts

[SmokingJacket]

44. I'm a little uncomfortable with namecalling.

Though I certainly enjoy it when others do it.

;)

[thanatonautos]

45. I call him shrub, sometimes, Bush mostly, * is fine with me too

It all depends how I'm feeling. I think it
should probably be left up to the individual.

[unpossibles]

46. my personal favorite that I use

is Bullsh - a cross between between Bush and Bullsh*t

I also was inspired by SNL for "The Great Unificator"

finally, to anyone who reads Transmetropolitan, I like "The Smiler"

[breadbox]

49. 6 6 4

The neighbor of the beast....

[merh]

50. I will continue to call him the weed or weed

or weed that would be king!

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

51. "Boozing Deserter"

[floridadem30]

52. congrats on a 1000 posts

[Mandate My Ass]

53. "Mr." Bush instead of President Bush

Sometimes the subtle ones have the most impact, especially when you're talking about someone who doesn't do nuance.

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[Ysabel]

57. not enough options...

i'll call the fucker any fucking thing i feel like calling the fucker any given fucking moment i fucking feel like it...

[IAMREALITY]

58. Yay For You

:eyes:

[mdb]

60. I've called him a number of those names but just call him Bush now.

I do however when referring to the Presidency ALWAYS spell it this way pResidency.

[Straight Shooter]

61. Little Boots

Caligula's nickname, because bush parallels Caligula in so many ways, it's amazing. It also makes fun of bush's habit of wearing shit-kickin' cowboy boots, like he thinks it makes him a real cowboy.

On becoming Emperor, Caligula performed a spectacular stunt. He ordered a temporary floating bridge to be built using ships as pontoons, stretching for over two miles from the resort of Baiae to the neighboring port of Puteoli. He then proceeded to ride his horse across, wearing the breastplate of Alexander the Great. This act was in defiance of an astrologer's prediction that he had "no more chance of becoming Emperor than of riding a horse across the Gulf of Baiae".

Does this or does this not remind you of bush prancing about on the aircraft carrier?

More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caligula

[Matariki]

64. speaking of boots

I saw a billboard in PA that I couldn't believe wasn't parody

It read 'Boots - or Flip Flops - Bush/Cheney 2004'

unreal.

[Matariki]

63. I think 'BASTARD' is appropriate

For his illegitimacy.

Bastard Bush. or just 'the bastard'.

[Neoma]

66. Call him Whistle ass

[Chimpanzee]

67. I like Dumbass or 'the Presidunce'

[Smirking_Chimp]

68. smirking_chimp

[Cheswick2.0]

69. obnoxious asshole