As we near the end of the current Presidential term...

[NorCalCoug]

Let us look back fondly on these gems of knowledge.

“I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can’t answer your question.”
--George W. Bush, October 4, 2000

“And so, in my State of the, my State of the Union, or State—my speech to the nation, whatever you want to call it, speech to the nation—I asked Americans to give 4,000 years—4,000 hours over the next—the rest of our life—of service to America.”
--Newsweek, April 22, 2002

“I think we agree, the past is over.”
--On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000

“The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.”
(His largest campaign contributor was the CEO of Enron)
--New York Times, January 14, 2001

“We need an energy bill that encourages consumption.”
--New Republic, October 7, 2002

“I know something about being a government. And you’ve got a good one.”
--Campaigning for Governor Mike Huckabee in Bentonville, Arkansas, November 4, 2002

“Do you have blacks, too?”
--Speaking to Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, New Republic, June 10, 2002. Condoleezza Rice quickly informed Bush that Brazil probably has more blacks than the United States.

“I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It’s pretty close to California. In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California.”
--Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000

“There’s no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I’ll never see it.”
--January 31, 2001

“We ought to make the pie higher.”
(now that’s something almost all of us can get behind!)
--South Carolina Republican presidential candidates debate, February 15, 2000 (and people STILL voted for him)

“You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.”
--February 21, 2001

“’There’s a huge trust. I see it all the time when people come up to me and say, ‘I don’t want you to let me down again.’”
--October 3, 2000

“One year ago today, the time for excuse making has come to an end.”
--January 8, 2003

“There ought to be limits to freedom.”
--Referring to a satirical anti-Bust web site, May 21, 1999

“I would have said yes to abortion if only it was right. I mean, yeah it’s right. Well, no, it’s not right. That’s why I said no to it.”
--February 14, 2000

“Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream.”
--October 18, 2000

“I did denounce it. I de—I denounced it. I denounced interracial dating. I denounced anti-Catholic bigacy…bigotry.”
--Referring to his Bob Jones University vist and the subsequent criticism, February 25, 2000

“That’s a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the first chapter of the 21st century.”
--On the Lewinsky scandal, October 24, 2000

“The reason we start a war is to fight a war, win a war, thereby causing no more war!”
--The first 2000 presidential candidates debate (and people STILL voted for him)

AND, OF COURSE, HE HIRED RUMSFELD
WHO CAN EVER FORGET THESE RUMSFELD JEWELS:

“Things will not be necessarily continuous. The fact that they are something other than perfectly continuous ought not to be characterized as a pause. There will be some things that people will see. There will be some things that people won’t see. And life goes on.”
--News Conference (typical response to pointed questions about the conflict in Iraq—otherwise known as “mission accomplished.”)

“As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
--February 12, 2002 Department of Defense briefing

“You’re going to be told lots of things. You get told things every day that don’t happen. It doesn’t seem to bother people, they don’t—it’s printed in the press. The world things all these things happen. They never happened. Everyone’s so eager to get the story before in fact the story’s there that the world is constantly being fed things that haven’t happened. All I can tell you is, it hasn’t happened. It’s going to happen.
--February 28, 2003 Department of Defense briefing


“After November I think I may actually be able to admit I’m an American to foreigners and not feel intensely embarrassed. Or was that ferners?”
--Gary June 18, 2008

[MOMO]

From a republican...

Good Riddance!! x 1 trillion.

[ND4SPD]

all those things would be great and funny and wonderful if he wasn't in a position of such power... the fact he is makes it rather scary!

I guess it gives hope to every American child though... even if you don't do well in school, get a DUI, can't speak the gooder english and fail at all your business dealings - you can still be president! (so long as you're born into an incredibly wealthy family, which, may or may not have ties to Nazis and the Bin Laden family)

[MOMO]

Originally Posted by ND4SPD

all those things would be great and funny and wonderful if he wasn't in a position of such power... the fact he is makes it rather scary!

I guess it gives hope to every American child though... even if you don't do well in school, get a DUI, can't speak the gooder english and fail at all your business dealings - you can still be president! (so long as you're born into an incredibly wealthy family, which, may or may not have ties to Nazis and the Bin Laden family)

Paris Hilton for president!