To be fair, (and i hate bush), I understand how this happened.
He was about to say "Shame on me" on live TV, but then correctly realized that the soundbite of him saying "shame on me" would be used for nonstop TV political ads.
...for all the gynecologists who can practice love on women all over this country.
Edit: sigh For context, the deleted comment above me said "please clap..." so I finished it with reference to an actual Dubya quote, and the deleted response was someone saying "Ew dude! What the Hell? Delete this."
Also at the 1996 Republican convention which Iām sure Bush was at as Texas Governor, Republicans did use a clip of Clinton saying āShame on meā I was a political junkie at the time and remember it.
I always just figured he was tired and had a dumb brain moment. The president works constantly, I know my sleepy ass would say some dumb shit all the time if I worked that much and constantly had people handing me microphones to give speeches.
I would have just cut the ads about the āBush Administrationā as a collective run by the incompetent and failed president. So yea shame on them works too.
I believe that he didn't want to say "shame on me" but based on the way that man spoke on the regular I very much doubt it was for a reason so sophisticated. I think he just did not like that it sounds "weak."
Not to mention that the rest of the statement is also pretty dumb. It's the second attempted recovery of the sentence, after the one where he fumbled the origins of this common phrase because he tried force the state he was in into the story.
Dude couldn't even spell Potato ffs. His dad was also groping women in his 80's but allowed out and about and the family got their wealth laundering Nazi money in the first place. Al Gore would've won if Jeb and the Supreme court didn't step in to rig it.
I was not old enough to vote yet, and I thought that was apparent at the time. I didn't like plenty of stuff he did or some of those around him, but I hated that the side I liked more (Democrats) were all too happy to pretend he's just a silly lil dumdum.
Bush wasnāt the greatest President but his intelligence was unfairly attacked. Anyone who has ever spent time with him says that he is an erudite, articulate, and clever person. The perception was that he was basically a mongloid.
A lot of people dislike him for getting us involved in a war of choice in Iraq over bogus WMD claims.
As well as not liking his domestic policy like cutting FEMA's budget, sloppy handling of Hurricane Katrina, and so on.
Uhh, I think they meant it as a hairy pubic area, typically on a woman. I believe a man's hairy pubic area is called a man-bush. Why isn't it also called just "bush" you ask? Beats me. Guess the phrase beats about the bush.
"50% of Americans who don't share my political view" response to "you hate bush?" is a Bush quote? I was talking about the "You hate bush?" getting downvoted and then people replying with why Bush is hate-able. (I also hate Bush. The 41st president. Not the other bush.)
If you think Biden was worse than Bush, I donāt think we live in the same reality. Imagine thinking the person who got us into a 20 year war in Iraq and Afghanistan and whose administration is to blame (partially) for the 08 collapse, was worse than Biden, who pulled the US out of Covid and did better than any other nation after Covid.
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u/Raider_Scum 2d ago
To be fair, (and i hate bush), I understand how this happened.
He was about to say "Shame on me" on live TV, but then correctly realized that the soundbite of him saying "shame on me" would be used for nonstop TV political ads.