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I have always loved :"To many OBGY's can't practice their love with women."
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Jodi, that may be my favorite Bush-ism, too. Either that or "Teach a child to read and....(long pause)...he can pass a literacy test."
I think Bush takes some hard knocks from you lefties. But even I have to say he ain't exactly Ronald Reagan or Barack Obama in the public speaking department. Someone once famously said his father was "born with a silver foot in his mouth," and W certainly has inherited that trait.
Speaking of saying dumb things, I heard another recent gaffe from Joe Biden. In an interview with Katie Couric, he said, "When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.' "
Two things wrong with that statement: 1. The stock market crashed in 1929 - four years before FDR became president; and 2. Television hadn't been invented in 1929!
Now, I don't think this is a big deal. I can't imagine how tough it would be to have every word you say videotaped, broadcast worldwide and scrutinized for the tiniest error. Obviously, he was speaking off the cuff and made a mistake. No big deal - it happens to everyone. Doesn't mean Biden isn't a smart guy, because clearly he is.
But if Sarah Palin makes the same mistake, I guarantee you that folks in the media would be playing this up as a big deal and saying, "See? She doesn't even know when the Great Depression started! She's too dumb to be vice-president!"
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