Top Bushisms in the Category of: Misnaming & Reversing

As President Bush might have said, if you don't concentrate, you run the risk of not focusing on what you're saying. Here's the President, at his out-of-focus scariest.
 
1. "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, Aug. 5, 2004 [AUDIO]
2. "The woman who knew that I had dyslexia - I never interviewed her." - George W. Bush, responding to a magazine article claiming he suffered from dyslexia, Orange, CA, Sept. 15, 2000 (This is one of my all-time favorite Bushisms. He may not have dyslexia, but he's got something.)
3. "Let me put it to you bluntly. In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life." - George W. Bush, Annandale, Va, Aug. 9, 2004
4. "The ambassador and the general were briefing me on the - the vast majority of Iraqis want to live in a peaceful, free world. And we will find these people and we will bring them to justice." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, Oct. 27, 2003
5. "The Iraqi regime is a threat to any American and to threats who are friends of America." - George W. Bush, Fort Hood, TX, Jan. 3, 2003 [AUDIO]
6. "It's hard to be successful if you don't make something somebody doesn't want to buy." - George W. Bush, Arlington, VA, Mar. 9, 2004
7. "We're still being challenged in Iraq and the reason why is a free Iraq will be a major defeat in the cause of freedom." - George W. Bush, Charlotte, N.C., April 5, 2004
8. "This very week in 1989, there were protests in East Berlin and in Leipzig. By the end of that year, every communist dictatorship in Central America had collapsed." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, Nov. 6, 2003
9. "First, we would not accept a treaty that would not have been ratified, nor a treaty that I thought made sense for the country." - George W. Bush on the Kyoto accord in an interview with the Washington Post, Apr. 24, 2001
10. "And, most importantly, Alma Powell, secretary of Colin Powell, is with us." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, Jan. 30, 2003
11. "My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the - in the Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that peace will never happen." - George W. Bush, Crawford, TX, Aug, 13, 2001
12. "If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow." - George W. Bush, Rochester, New York, Jan. 17, 2000
13. "If we get rid of the double taxation of dividends, it means that one of the good investment vehicles for a child who is young today will be a dividend paying stock." - George W. Bush, Alexandria, VA, Feb. 12, 2003. (As opposed to a child who is old today?)
14. "[W]hether they be Christian, Jew, or Muslim, or Hindu, people have heard the universal call to love a neighbor just like they'd like to be called themselves." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, October 8, 2003
15. "It's the Afghan national army that went into Najaf and did the work there." - George W. Bush, referring to Iraqi troops during a joint press conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, Washington, DC, Sept. 23, 2004
  16. "The truth of the matter is, if you listen carefully, Saddam would still be in power if he [John Kerry] were the President of the United States, and the world would be a lot better off." - George W. Bush, Second Presidential Debate, St. Louis, MO, Oct. 8, 2004 [AUDIO]  
  17. "I repeat, personal accounts do not permanently fix the solution." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, March 16, 2005 [AUDIO]  
  18. "I think younger workers-first of all, younger workers have been promised benefits the government-promises that have been promised, benefits that we can't keep. That's just the way it is." - George W. Bush, Washington, DC, May 4, 2005  

 

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