"Donal" wrote in message ...
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Claim: President George W. Bush proclaimed, "The problem with the
French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur."
Status: False.

http://www.snopes.com/quotes/bush.htm


Ohhhh, goody! I got me a little fishie!

Yeah, a shark.


Did Bush say "These people don't have tanks. They don't have ships. They
hide in caves. They send suiciders out."

Robert Fisk: "For Mr bin Laden's men are not the hopeless suiciders
that the Palestinians produce from their foetid refugee camps."

Robert Fisk: "...note how carefully the ruthless Palestinian war
against Israeli colonisation of the West Bank is being strapped to
America's ever weirder "war on terror" – and yet more aircraft
suiciders."


Or this - "I was proud the other day when both Republicans and Democrats
stood with me in the Rose Garden to announce their support for a clear
statement of purpose: you disarm, or we will."

Or this - "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."

Or perhaps this - "I promise you I will listen to what has been said here,
even though I wasn't here."


Or even(stupid Bush supporters will have to read this a few times) "Over 75
percent of white Americans own their home, and less than 50 percent of
Hispanos and African Americans don't own their home. And that's a gap,
that's a homeownership gap. And we've got to do something about it."


And to demonstrate that he is a good man at heart -"There's nothing more
deep than recognizing Israel's right to exist. That's the most deep thought
of all. ... I can't think of anything more deep than that right."

Hey, John. If it walks like a duck, and it talks like a duck - Shoot it!.


Bush is an idiot. He looks like an idiot, he sounds like an idiot, and he
attacks innocent countries like an idiot who is in charge of the mightiest
military machine on Earth. He uses Words of Mass Deception(WMD) to convince
his intellectually challenged voters that they should support the slaughter
of hundreds of American lives in a far off country. When the WMD are
discredited, only the real idiots are left. And there you are! A true
simpleton who feels that he is being patriotic, while at the same time,
demonstrating that the ignorant Redneck is alive and well in the good ole US
of A.

Malapropisms and speaking with a less than perfect diction is not
symbolic of a lack of intelligence anymore than say, stuttering. If it
were, then people like Aristotle, Charles Darwin, and Isaac Newton
would all be considered dullards for stuttering.

Perhaps those who think George W. Bush an "idiot" are those who have
an ease with the written or spoken word, such as commentators or news
anchors. However, if we are to judge the intelligence of someone by
their ability in an area outside their own field, shouldn't we judge
commentators on their knowledge of high energy physics? Shouldn't we
also judge the intelligence of television newsmen by their ability to
comprehend chaos theory?

Of course, we don't judge newscasters by their ability to understand
chaos theory, or commentators by their knowledge of the strong and
weak atomic forces. To measure their ability using such a yardstick
would be unfair and unenlightening. Yet that is exactly how George
Bush's intelligence is measured.

If we examine George Bush's record as a politician, it is pretty
obvious that he is not dumb at all. Ann Richards was widely favored
over Bush, but lost. Bush wasn't expected to be reelected, but he was
the first Governor in the state of Texas to be reelected in the
state's history. In the presidential race Bush defeated a popular war
hero in the primary, and a member of an incumbent administration
during a time of economic growth.

After winning a very close election, Bush managed to implement most of
his domestic agenda right up until September 11. There is also a
strong possibility of the Republican party picking up seats in a
midterm election, something that typically does not happen to the
party of a sitting president. Again, this is not something that an
"idiot" could possibly hope to accomplish.

Many people have thought of Bush as dumb. Ann Richards thought he was
dumb. So did John McCain, and Al Gore. Tom Daschle thought he was
dumb, until Bush managed to get a tax cut in over his opposition. So,
no, Bush is not dumb, and those who have underestimated his
intelligence have paid a price for thinking that he is a buffoon.

"If liberals were prevented from ever again calling Republicans dumb,
they would be robbed of half their arguments. To be sure, they would
still have "racist," "fascist," "homophobe," "ugly," and a few other
highly nuanced arguments in the quiver. But the loss of "dumb" would
nearly cripple them." -- Ann Coulter, P. 121

"This is how six-year-olds argue: They call everything "stupid." The
left's primary argument is the angry reaction of a helpless child
deprived of the ability to mount logical counterarguments. Someday we
will turn to the New York Times editorial page and find the Newspaper
of Record denouncing President Bush for being a 'penis-head.'" -- Ann
Coulter, P. 121

"'Stupid' means one thing: "threatening to the interests of the
Democratic Party." The more Conservative the Republican, the more
vicious and hysterical the attacks on his intelligence will be." --
Ann Coulter, P. 125







Regards


Donal
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