Bushisms

Sorry, I can't get enough of Bushisms- but here is a pick of top 25 in Slate by someone who does not like President Bush, but knows enough to give praise where praise is due. Jacob Wiesberg writes,

"I find the Bush who flails with words, unlike the Bush who flails with policy, to be an endearing character....Through his willful, improvisational, and incompetent use of language, he tempers (very slightly) his willful, improvisational, and incompetent use of government. You can't, in the end, despise someone who regrets that, because of the rising cost of malpractice insurance, "[t]oo many OB/GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across the country."

And in a fair appraisal, he writes,

"Being able to laugh at yourself is a rare quality in a leader. It's one thing George W. Bush can do that Bill Clinton couldn't."

And why is that?

"It helps his case that Bush, like Yogi Berra, is in on the joke. This was clear from the first White House correspondents' dinner, in March 2001, when the new president read from the first collection of Bushisms, which he described as like Mao's "little red book," only not in Chinese."

Hard to believe that the man who wrote this also wrote a book called The Bush Tragedy 

These are my top three quotes:

"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."—Washington, D.C., Aug. 5, 2004

"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.' "—Boston, Oct. 3, 2000

 "I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."—Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008

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