From CNN - “Bush Pokes Fun at Himself at Dinner”
Bush put on a slide show, calling it the “White House Election-Year Album” at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association 60th annual dinner, showing himself and his staff in some decidedly unflattering poses.
There was Bush looking under furniture in a fruitless, frustrating search. “Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere,” he said.
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Campaigning in Florida, April 12, 2004:
“All through the spring of 2001, Dick Clarke was asking to see me about something urgent. I said, ‘Call me old-fashioned, but I only want to see Dick Clarke on New Years Eve!’ Thank you! So when he came to see me on September 12th, I remember saying, ‘Whoa, Dick! Didn’t you used to just drop a ball?!’ Get it? Drop a ball…”
To the troops, Iraq, May 4, 2004:
“Maybe you guys misheard me: I said they had ‘weapons of ass destruction.’ And it’s your ass! Hahaha! Thank you…”
To Future Farmers of America, May 25, 2004
Some people are saying, ‘When Clinton Lied, Nobody Died.’ That’s pretty clever. But I say, ‘When Bush Feigned, No Dresses Got Stained!’ Whoa! Folks!”
To the Young President’s Association, June 17, 2004
“So I heard today that more people than ever are living below the poverty line. Well, I have some advice for those folks: Move north! Thank you, you’re very kind…”
To an Illinois Rotary Club meeting, July 4, 2004:
“…so I said to the war widow, ‘What casket? I thought YOU had it!’ No, seriously, you know I made that up - I don’t go to soldiers’ funerals. Those people are touch-y, lemme tellya. They’re like a Frenchman’s pantry - no cash and plenty of whine. Thank you! Drive safe, and remember to tip your waitress…”





11 comments
Bob
March 25, 2004 at 5:38 pm
1“Thank you very much! I’ll be here ’til November…”
tim
March 25, 2004 at 5:51 pm
2Too bad they didn’t invite the 9/11 victims’ families to the Correspondents’ Dinner. I’m sure they would have loved it. And they were in town and everything!
Murray
March 25, 2004 at 8:17 pm
3Oh the W guy just cracks me up. Everything he says is straight from the theater of the absurd.
Mary
March 26, 2004 at 9:49 am
4“Take my war. Please!” bah dah bumm.
BettieWheelie
March 26, 2004 at 10:40 am
5“Funny thing happened to me on the way to the National Guard/Oval Office/ spiderhole…”
tess
March 26, 2004 at 8:53 pm
6“how do i know that those nigerian documents were fake? i forged them!”
Don
March 26, 2004 at 11:53 pm
7When I found out the true basis of this posting it helped bring home once again (for the umptyumpth time) exactly what the true nature of this nation’s “leadership” really amounts to.
Do you laugh to keep from crying?
Or … ?
With all of their imperfections, can you even imagine James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, ALexander Hamilton, et al behaving the way the “leadership” does in these times?
And, unfortunately, where can you really find an alternative who isn’t cut out of the same basic cloth?
Don
March 26, 2004 at 11:55 pm
8BTW, Adam,
Around here it’s “PLEDGE WEEK”.
I’ll be catching you on the www. as soon as the postings are available.
Kip W
March 27, 2004 at 10:45 am
9I think he meant to say, “…and remember to tip my waitress.”
Murray
March 28, 2004 at 7:03 pm
10Some of the columnists have actually taken offensive at Bush’s joke, given that that about 2 Americans a day are paying for that little oversight with their lives.
Gees, some people just have no sense of humor.
J.W.Y. Latt
March 30, 2004 at 6:36 pm
11I posted something very much along the same lines, on March 25th. I probably erred on the side of overkill because I was so stunned that I couldn’t let it go.