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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPlaying a bit part in his own obituary, . . . Please come CAPTION Numbnuts!!!
George W. ("What's a 'tat' anyway?" Bush is saying: "Listen, I don't know what all this uproar is about? Me getting $100,000 dollars to speak to wounded vets? . . . Hell, you guys and gals have my thanks and good wishes, that should be worth something. . . . Like about $5,000 apiece in good fortune to each and every one of you! . . . Hell, that means you owe me money! . . . And lots of it! . . . But I'll not demand it. . . . That's the kind of guy I am!"
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Above CAPTION based on W.'s speaker's fee (not to mention special jet, entourage, his wife's speaking fee the following year, etc.) covered in the following CNN story:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/09/politics/george-w-bush-100k-veterans-speech/
skip fox
(19,360 posts)just weren't that great. . . . They're highly overrated. . . . But that might be because they have never felt the power and pressures I have, they've never experienced the dignity of office I have, or ever had to do the deciding stuff I did. . . Heck, maybe you can't blame them."
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)underpants
(183,024 posts)It's all Obama's fault
underpants
(183,024 posts)to do it on an aircraft carrier .... in Dallas
underpants
(183,024 posts)I'm standing here in public just standing here speakin' it's like one them FREE SPEECH zones. Heehee. I came here on a plane thank you. Now it was toned down a bit cause I'm not the COMMANDER IN CHIEF anymore so it was just a regular plane not one of them Vikings I fly onto that battleship. I remember you do too probably when I was leaving being President they had that butler and some woman walk me and Laura out to that helicopter. I joked that they didn't need to do that and that I didn't take any of the silverware, the butler guy said "uh huh" he got it. Heehee. But it wasn't always dark like this nope y'all remember when I was President I used to make up nicknames for the guys in the press, the ladies too, they loved it. It was like they weren't nerdy writers in college but in a FRA TER NITY like I was, so I thought I'd do that for you all. Give you a feel for those great days in Murka when I was President. You there, I'll bet your buddies call you "Lefty" now, I will too. Your welcome. Oooh right behind you, looks like that guy had a bit too much coffee or something, I'll call you "Twitchy". And you ma'am, you've one of them PRAWstetics on your leg, nice one too, I'll call you "Eileen". Yeah your welcome. (off to the side) she gets it, laughing so hard she's cryin'.
Johonny
(20,959 posts)I can't vouch for the surrogates. For instance a surrogate might suggest John McCain has an illegitimate black baby. I never said that because I'm a classy guy. My hands are clean, but oh those classless surrogates. I don't know where they got that baby idea in 2000 or where John got that baby. I sure it probably was an honorable baby, but we might never know. The thing to remember is we can have a civil discussion in this country again. Just watch out for those surrogates. I'm not a surrogate.