Topic: Great Moments...
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Sat 01/17/09 08:54 AM
Edited by Lynann on Sat 01/17/09 08:58 AM
in Presidential Speeches from the Letterman show.

For your viewing pleasure via Utube some of our soon to be former President Bush finest moments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxkpm7bH7j4&eurl=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/16/letterman-presents-final_n_158705.html

For an added grin one of my favorite Bushism

You all know about those OBGYN's unable to practice their...

haha Just watch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OF48IghIN7c

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Sat 01/17/09 09:55 AM
President's best gags

“In my sentences I go where no man has gone before.”

March, 2001
Dinner speech in Washington

“You can fool some people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.”

March 2001
At a gala dinner in Washington

“To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you too may one day be President of the United States.”

May, 2001
To graduates at Yale University, Connecticut

“When I take action, I’m not going to fire a two million dollar missile at a ten dollar empty tent and hit a camel in the butt.”

After the 9/11 attack in 2001
Private talk with senators

“Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger – which in Texas is called walking.”

September, 2004
Addressing the Republican National Convention

“People sometimes have to correct my English. I knew I had a problem when Arnold Schwarzenegger started doing it.”

September 2004
Addressing the Republican National Convention

“I frankly felt like the reception we received on the way in from the airport was very warm and hospitable. I want to thank the Canadian people who came out to wave – with all five fingers – for their hospitality.”=

November, 2004
On first official visit to Canada

(To BBC political editor Nick Robinson, sweltering in the heat at Bush’s Camp David base)

GWB: “Next time you should cover your bald head.”

NR: “I didn’t know you cared.”

GWB: “I don’t.”

July, 2007

“I had to face some very difficult spending decisions and I’ve had to conduct sensitive diplomacy. That’s called planning a wedding.”

March, 2008
Speech to the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce before daughter Jenna married business student Henry Hager

“All I can report is it was a size ten.”

December, 2008
After Iraqi reporter Muntadar al-Zeidi hurled a pair of shoes at him during a press briefing

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Sat 01/17/09 10:05 AM
all good humour is rooted in truth..the ability to laugh at yourself...is priceless...:smile: ...some of these quips had me laughin'...he's a funny guy...

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Sat 01/17/09 10:35 AM
For whatever else he did good or bad he was one of the worst public speakers I've ever seen. Makes you wonder how he got elected in the first place

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Sat 01/17/09 10:36 AM

For whatever else he did good or bad he was one of the worst public speakers I've ever seen. Makes you wonder how he got elected in the first place


in politics...nice always beats mean...I think most people saw him as a nice guy...