They Misunderestimated Me

George the Second, Paul Dodd digital print of George W. Bush announcing the war with Iraq, 2010. Tom Burke bought this work at Rochester Contemporary.
George the Second, Paul Dodd digital print of George W. Bush announcing the war with Iraq, 2010. Tom Burke bought this work at Rochester Contemporary.

Our new neighbor stopped by today and we showed her around our house. On the way out she said, “I don’t usually like to talk politics but I like your bumper sticker. If they would only give him a chance.” I had almost forgotten that we still have an Obama sicker on our car. I get a little agitated when I see a Bush/Cheney sticker and I’m sure our sticker annoys some people. We were pretty optimistic when we slapped it on there. I do miss the Bushisms. I can mangle a sentence as good as he can and maybe that’s why I like these so much.

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

“You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.”

“I heard somebody say, ‘Where’s Mandela?’ Well, Mandela’s dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas.”

“I want to thank the astronauts who are with us, the courageous spacial entrepreneurs who set such a wonderful example for the young of our country.”

“I can only speak to myself.”

“I understand small business growth. I was one.”

“That’s George Washington, the first president, of course. The interesting thing about him is that I read three — three or four books about him last year. Isn’t that interesting?

“My mom often used to say, ‘The trouble with W’ — although she didn’t put that to words.”

“I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be — hold hands.”

“It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber.”

“The illiteracy level of our children are appalling.”

“It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.”

“There’s no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.”

“I’m honoured to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein.”

“I hope you leave here and walk out and say, ‘What did he say?’”

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

“Give me — give my chance a plan to work.”

“More and more of our imports come from overseas.”

“I couldn’t imagine somebody like Osama bin Laden understanding the joy of Hanukah.”

“I hear there’s rumours on the internets.”

“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.”

“All I can tell you is when the governor calls, I answer his phone.”

“I remember meeting a mother of a child who was abducted by the North Koreans right here in the Oval Office.”

I’m looking forward to a good night’s sleep on the soil of a friend

“There’s no cave deep enough for America, or dark enough to hide.”

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.”

“I’m the decider, and I decide what is best.”

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