"My Fellow Americans: I Am Not An Idiot-I Don't Believe in P-U Polls

[kpete]

Bush initially resisted making changes, but in a surprise move, it has been announced he's bringing in a new speechwriter, the retired Rudolph Drecksau, famous for writing Nixon's "I am not a crook" speech.

:sarcasm:

"My fellow Americans. I am not an idiot. I am not incompetent. I am not stupid. I don't believe in polls, but if I did, apparently 48% of you on this Pew poll think I'm incompetent, an idiot or stupid. Harriet Miers calls the Pew poll the P-U poll, and I agree with her.

I have a greeting card here from Harriet, it has a little flower arrangement with sparkles on it, and inside the card she says that I was the best governor ever. And she has also said publicly that I am the smartest person she knows. And she knows a lot of people. The secret committee that chose to run me for president also thinks I am very smart.

Let me tell you some other things I'm not. I am not insulated. Isolated. I talk to lots of people, I hear lots of outside opinions. Karen Hughes tells me things, Condi Rice, she's very popular, she tells me things. Sometimes Dick and I speak; he speaks in such a low register that is hard for the human ear to hear, but I get the gist.

What else can I tell you? I am an optimistic. I look on the bright side.

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more laughs at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-durang/bush-gets-new-speechwrite_b_17466.html

[wake.up.america]

1. You should tell everyone what "Drecksau" means, in case they don't know

[rfranklin]

2. And shortly thereafter Nixon left the WH in disgrace...

I like the parallels.

[Flying Dream Blues]

3. What's sad is that it really sounds like the kind of cr*ap

he'd say. Gotta love all those *-friendly short sentences.