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Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either.
~ Gore Vidal (born: 1925-10-03 age: 84)
Texas: “the great sstate of Taxessess”Tariff barriers: “barriffs or terriers”
commensurate: “commiserate”
Handcuffs: “cuff links”
shuttle payload: “shuttle payroll”
Tactical nuclear weapons: “tacular weapons”
nuclear: “nukular”
terrorist: “terrst”
weapons of mass destruction: “weapons of mass production”
Viable: “vile”
regime: “region” (perhaps Bush’s speechwriter did not tell him what that big word meant, so he read it as a word he did know.)
hostage: “hostile”
arbitration: “aribtrary”
persevere: “preserve”
obfuscate: “obscufate”
Greeks: “Grecians”
Balkanize: “Vulcanize”
elaborating: “inebriating”
vociferously: “vigorously”
~ George W. Bush (born: 1946-07-06 age: 63)
Free societies are hopeful societies. And free societies will be allies against these hateful few who have no conscience, who kill at the whim of a hat. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.
~ George W. Bush (born: 1946-07-06 age: 63), 2004-09-17, 2004 Washington, D.C., explaining why he avoids hateful hats. He presumably includes India, USA, Britain and France in his list of not-free nations.
Columbia carried in its payroll classroom experiments from some of our students in America.
~ George W. Bush (born: 1946-07-06 age: 63)
Source: The Washington Post, With Edwards, White House Shows First-Strike Capability, Dana Milbank, 2003-02-11
I don’t want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own nukyular capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace.
~ George W. Bush (born: 1946-07-06 age: 63), 2000-10-23
If need be, we’ll just reduce unilaterally to a level commiserate with keeping a deterrence and keeping the peace.
~ George W. Bush (born: 1946-07-06 age: 63), 2002-03-13.
But in Afghanistan, we’ve shown, I believe, how to do it, in a way that’s commiserate with our values — that, on the one hand, we’re plenty tough, and we will be. We’ve got a military we’re going to use, if we need to, to defend freedom. But on the other hand, we delivered a lot of medicine and a lot of food.
~ George W. Bush (born: 1946-07-06 age: 63), 2002-04-24.
I wanna remind you all that I — in, in order — what — in order to fight and win the war it requires a expenditure of money — uhh, uhh — that is commiserate with keeping a promise to our troops to make sure that they’re well paid, well trained, well equipped.
~ George W. Bush (born: 1946-07-06 age: 63), 2003-12-15.
So as I told His Majesty [King Abdullah of Jordan], I said, we will — people will be brought to justice in a way commiserate with how our system works.
~ George W. Bush (born: 1946-07-06 age: 63), 2004-05-06
There was a good news story in Mississippi. I went down there and — it wasn’t because of me, it was because the doctors and the citizens understand the cost of a trial system gone array and they got themselves a law.
~ George W. Bush (born: 1946-07-06 age: 63)
Source: Federal Document Clearing House, President Calls for Medical Liability Reform, 2003-01-16
He meant awry.
The law I sign today directs new funds and new focus to the task of collecting vital intelligence on terrorist threats and on weapons of mass production.
~ George W. Bush (born: 1946-07-06 age: 63)
Source: Federal Document Clearing House, President Signs 911 Commission Bill, 2002-11-27
He meant to say “mass destruction”.
Corporate malfeance has had an effect on our economy and we need to do something about it.
~ George W. Bush (born: 1946-07-06 age: 63)
Source: FDCH Political Transcripts, George W. Bush Participates in Rally at Oakland County Airport, 2002-10-14
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