Product Description

Judge for yourself. Here are over 100 memorable misstatements by our syntactically challenged president, collected, annotated, and introduced by Slate magazine's Jacob Weisberg.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #357008 in Books
• Published on: 2001-01-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

About the Author
Jacob Weisberg is chief political correspondent for Slate magazine, and co-editor of Bushisms (1992), a collection of misstatements by President George Bush. He is also a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. He lives in New York City.

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From George W. Bushisms

CONVICTION

"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question."

-- Reynoldsburg, Ohio, October 4, 2000

TRUST

"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, Massachusetts, October 3, 2000

"Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness."

-- CNN online chat, August 30, 2000

MR. BUSH'S NEIGHBORHOOD

"We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like

to be liked yourself."

-- Financial Times, January 14, 2000

TIME

"The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some of

their own money."

-- Westminster, California, September 13, 2000

FAITH

"Our priorities is our faith."

-- Greensboro, North Carolina, October 10, 2000

"We have practically banished religious values and religious institutions from the public square and constructed a 'discountfort zone' for even discussing our faith in public settings."

-- Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 9, 2000

FAMILY

"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream."

-- La Crosse, Wisconsin, October 18, 2000

ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY WON'T HOLD STILL

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."

-- Nashua, New Hampshire, January 27, 2000

GIST FOR THE MILL

"I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists."

-- Newsweek, February 28, 2000

Copyright © 2001 by Jacob Weisberg

Customer Reviews

Hilarious, yet depressing account of a man who actually became President
This book is both incredibly funny yet extremely saddening and scary. The statements are so absurd that you have to laugh yet the reality that this man is President of the United States and the most powerful person in the world is grounds for being afraid. I read through it in one sitting, as I continued to be astonished at the appearance of ignorance. As journalist Eugene Robinson said when discussing the charges that Senator Barack Obama is elitist. "I have no problem with having a smart person be President, we tried having an average guy and that didn't work very well." From the contents of this book, average looks like praise.

Bush with his foot in his mouth
All I can say is if you are a follower of "W" and his policies, don't read this book. It portrays Bush is somewhat stupid and, certainly, semi-literate.

Nobody Could Dream This Stuff Up
This book could not have been dreamed up as a work of fiction unless...well, it just couldn't have been! I have owned this book for quite a while, and pull it out whenever I need a reality check on what is happening in Washington DC. The quotes are amazing, and what is even more amazing is that someone who speaks so poorly could have ever been elected as President of the US.

There may also be a little bit of sad commentary here, as this reflects on the Bush Family tradition of not reading. It also is somewhat of a commentary on the "excellent schools" that Bush went to. How could they let someone with such poor grammar graduate?

Need a laugh...get this book...unless your a diehard W supporter!