10 Dumbest Things Bush Ever Said

[Dems Will Win]

10. "Rarely is the questioned asked: Is our children learning?" --Florence, South Carolina, Jan. 11, 2000

9. "As yesterday's positive report card shows, childrens do learn when standards are high and results are measured." --on the No Child Left Behind Act, Washington, D.C., Sept. 26, 2007 (Watch video clip)

8. "If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator." --Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000 (Listen to audio clip)

7. "I'm the decider, and I decide what is best. And what's best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the Secretary of Defense." --Washington, D.C.
April 18, 2006 (Read more; listen to audio clip; watch video clip)

6. "There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on --shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again." --Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002 (Watch video clip)

5. "Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." --Poplar Bluff, Mo., Sept. 6, 2004 (Watch video clip)

4. "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 (Watch video clip)

3. "You work three jobs? ... Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." --to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005 (Listen to audio clip)

2. "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." --to FEMA director Michael Brown, who resigned 10 days later amid criticism over his handling of the Hurricane Katrina debacle, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005 (Listen to audio clip; watch video clip)

1. "My answer is bring them on." --on Iraqi insurgents attacking U.S. forces, Washington, D.C., July 3, 2003

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/bushquotes/a/dumbbushquotes_3.htm

[annabanana]

1. Dumb? You bet!. . . Dumbest?

When I have time to complete the equivalent of a doctoral thesis I'll let you know. The catalogue of incredibly dumb things this guy has uttered could fill a room at the Library of Congress.. In fact, it probably does.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

2. didn't you forget a couple of zeros? nt

[Benhurst]

3. So many dumb remarks, so little time.

What an assclown.

[Whisp]

4. freeance peeance is still boggling me...

talk about wilted word salad. ugh.

[shenmue]

19. Yeah. *No one* knows where he was going on that.

:shrug:

What does that even mean?

[mahina]

5. I remember hearing the fool things he would say and laughing.

Surely, surely, nobody would vote for such a moron.

Tragedy and comedy, two sides of the same sad coin.

[lpbk2713]

6. Which explains why he seldom appears in public without his black box.

His handlers must have the toughest job in DC.

[emilyg]

7. I have a little book of his sayings..

When I'm depressed read it and start laughing. See - he's good for something.

[tomg]

8. Awww, I thought we got to vote or at least.

categorize. They are all so cosmically insane, but each has its own peculiar slant on absurdity.

Greatest consequences: No 1
Absolutely accurate: No 4
The American Myth vs. The Compassionate Conservative: 5

Any help here?

[book_worm]

9. My gosh! how can you limit it to ten!

[Initech]

10. Wow. Bush is one beer short of a full keg.

[KewlKat]

11. Here's another one

"You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test." -Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001

[KewlKat]

12. Or this one.......very revealing

"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." --interview with CBS News' Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006

[KewlKat]

13. Another....I just can't stop. He says so many stupid things.

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." --Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000

[KewlKat]

14. Yeah......right.

"My plan reduces the national debt, and fast. So fast, in fact, that economists worry that we're going to run out of debt to retire." --radio address, Feb. 24, 2001

[Dems Will Win]

15. How about when asked about the lady who wrote in Vanity Fair that he was dyslexic:

"No I'm not. I never interviewed her." (That's my personal favorite)

[K Gardner]

20. I was there when he said that..

I remember groaning and banging my head. It was the first of a litany..

Please keep posting all you remember ! Laughing is a good thing :-)

[eppur_se_muova]

23. Welcome to DU! nt

:hi:

[Al Federfer]

16. "So help me God."

[Ilsa]

21. I prayed for deliverance the first time I heard him say that phrase. nt

[kdmorris]

17. I almost wrecked the day I heard this on the radio

More and more of our imports are coming from overseas.

Hence the definition of import.

[shenmue]

18. Only ten?

How unfair! :(

[rAVES]

27. Don't worry, theres an Encyclopedia being published. 330 chapters alphabetized

[JustAnotherGen]

22. How about: Simply Scary?

"See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." Greece Athena Highschool, Greece (it's a suburb of Rochester NY) NY in May of 2005.

Funny thing is, the ABC affiliate played it a few times, so did R-News. I literally dropped a glass of wine on the floor when I caught it on the news that night.

His 'stupidity' masks his pure evil.

[OneBlueSky]

24. "The Constitution is just a god-damned piece of paper" . . . should be #1 . . . n/t

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[Didereaux]

25. For that one alone, the death penalty seems somehow ...inadequate!

[Perry Logan]

26. Of course, this is nothing compared to the 10 stupidest things he ever DID. nt