"Cut and Run" Bush: "I’ve never really resorted to name-calling. "

[BurtWorm]

"I would hope in my last two years I can — and, by the way, I’ve never really resorted to name-calling. And I’m not trying to say, well, you know, I’m innocent and everybody else is guilty. That’s not what I’m trying to say. But I understand that it’s one thing to disagree with a person, but it’s another thing to have to resort to kind of shameless name- calling. And I really don’t think it’s fitting for the president to drag the presidency into that kind of a mudslinging.

"On the other hand, it’s important for the president defends what he believes, you know, in a way that brings honor to the office. But Washington’s a lot — it’s just too — it’s too political in many ways."

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/02/bush-tone/

:wtf:

Anyone want to play?

[soothsayer]

1. I wonder if Pooty Poot and Turd Blossom and Stretch would

beg to differ? He's nothing but a frat boy name calling punk

[KansDem]

10. Haven't you heard? That's "nicknaming" That's all part of his "charm offensive"

You remember the "Bush 'charm offensive?'" Cokie Reports talked about it on NPR during Campaign 2000.

She reported that Bush will do well in DC because he'll use his ol' "charm offensive." And giving nicknames was part of it...

[emulatorloo]

2. LOL -- he leaves it to Karl, McCain, Limbag, Dick, and now Laura

He is always "above the fray" while his henchmen do the dirty work.

[XNASA]

3. He knows the House will no longer he Republican after Tuesday.

That's what I read into this.

[kentuck]

4. Calling someone a "cut and runner" is like calling them a "coward" !

No! he would never resort to name-calling - And from a coward!

[JuniperLea]

5. And we all know how much honor he's brought to the office!

:puke:

[Greeby]

6. He didn't say that

Tell me he didn't say that :nuke:

[grytpype]

8. He never makes a damn bit of sense.

Just trying to figure out what he is saying is enough to make your head explode.

[Straight Shooter]

7. We need a smilie whose head swivels around like Linda Blair in The Exorcist.

Because I gotta tell you, when he comes out with these whoppers, sometimes I feel like my head has spun clockwise 3 times at 60 miles per hour.

"We were never really about stay the course ..."
"I've never really resorted to name-calling ..."

Maybe we should look for phrases with the words "never really" in them. In other words, he's saying they did, but not really. Sort of like being pregnant, but not really being pregnant.

[Hamlette]

9. "A vote for democrats is a vote for terrorists to win"????

no, he's not into name calling...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/opinion/02thu1.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

in case you missed this great NYTimes editorial.

[July]

11. Exhibit A: "major league asshole."

Who's got B, C, D, and E?

[applegrove]

12. His Surrogates name call. Either George is in charge or not. Pick one

of these.

[BurtWorm]

13. From his speech in Georgia on Tuesday: "Washington Democrat"

"We don't want Washington Democrats running the House of Representatives."

"Obviously, there are big differences between how Republicans think and Washington Democrats think."

"Recently, the top Democrat leader in the House made this observation."

"That may not sound like a lot to Washington Democrats, but it sounds like a lot to me and Mac Collins, and we're going to keep your taxes low."

"Now I want you to -- when you're out rounding up the vote, and people say, well, there's no difference between them, or they're saying, well, maybe I feel comfortable with the Washington Democrats, I want you to remind them about these three votes we just recently had. There's a clear pattern. When it came time to renew the Patriot Act, more than 75 percent of the members -- Democrat members in the House of Representatives voted, no."


Bush may not always use real down and dirty names--in public, at least. But he's a shameless user of Luntz-tested names.

[Lisa]

14. "You f***ing son of a bitch. I saw what you wrote. We're not going to forget this. "

George Walker Bush (he who came out against "shameless name-calling"), to Wall Street Journal columnist Al Hunt, in a restaurant in Dallas, Texas, in front of Hunt's wife Judy Woodruff and their four-year-old son, Apr. 9, 1986.

http://www.dubyaspeak.com/puredubya.phtml?year=2001


And a more detailed description here:

http://www.consortiumnews.com/1999/100599a1.html