Bush, again, his own word enemy

New York Daily News ^ | August 6, 2004 | Thomas M. DeFrank

[presidio9]

WASHINGTON - President Bush tripped over his tongue again yesterday, inadvertently suggesting that he and his administration are plotting new ways to harm America. At a White House ceremony where he signed the $417 billion defense spending bill for the 2005 fiscal year, Bush uttered another of his celebrated malapropisms.

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we," he said. "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

Bush's latest verbal bobble was reminiscent of a similar gaffe made by former President Jimmy Carter on Nov. 1, 1980, three days before he lost his reelection bid to Ronald Reagan.

Speaking to supporters in Fort Worth, Tex., Carter reminded the audience: "The world has suffered the last four years since I've been President."

[LibFreeUSA]

A big "SO WHAT?"

[silverleaf]

BFD

[Copernicus]

Letterman broadcast the videotape last night.

[ClearCase_guy]

This was covered yesterday. At first blush, it does sound like Bush bobbled. But if you think about what he said, makes perfect sense. Certainly his audience understood, since they did not react at all.

Journalists just haven't seen a Bush blunder in a long time, so they are finding ones that aren't there.

[sonofatpatcher2]

So what? I flib a line now and then myself.

[bertmerc1]

We know it's no big deal but the main stream press will make hay of it and refer to him as being stupid. Nothing new though.

[Mike Bates]

Not everyone can be as eloquent as Kerry, who claimed that children in Harlem are disproportionately affected by "hair pollution." Mustof been thinkin' of Jumpin' Johnny Edwards.

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[Puppage]

I rather have an honest man as President who misspeaks from time to time, than a CONVICTED LIAR.

[Sacajaweau]

It's not like anyone didn't know what he meant.

Puleez, compare this with the Kerry ditty on what he would have done on 9-11, the same day he sat speechless for 40 minutes until he was ordered "BY THE BUSH PEOPLE" to evacuate.

[sergeantdave]

No president will ever top the lunatic zen-like utterances of Clinton. My favorite (paraphrased): "We were alone, but you're never really alone."

[wmichgrad]

I CAN'T BELIVE THAT THIS IS ....ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.

[Steel Wolf]

Aw, jeez, not this again. Are they going to dust off Reagan's 'Facts are stupid things' gaffe, too? They have to ding Republicans on this since no Democrat has ever slipped up while speaking. They're all much smarter, more educated, and more eloquent.

I know this for a fact because I've never heard the media cover a Democratic slip of the tongue. Thus, it seems clear that Democrats don't make mistakes. Ever.

[RightthinkinAmerican]

Reminds me of a mocking third-grader: "he said _____, ha ha ha , he meant to say, _____ but he said _____ "

[mvpel]

How is that a bobble? The 9/11 Commission said that the attacks resulted in part from a "failure of imagination," failure to concieve of all the ways in which the terrorists could strike at us.

Now, per the recommendation of the Commission, the president has a team of people thinking up new and better ways to harm the United States, so that we can do something about it before the terrorists can.

[RightthinkinAmerican]

This fact needs to make it into a Bush speech today! Bush has come out swinging, and they really aren't prepared for the fight that I saw in him Saturday in Cambridge. He is being uncharacteristically scrappy.

[TNCMAXQ]

They never stop thinking about ways to harm us. And neither do we--stop thinking about the ways THEY are trying to harm us! Makes perfect sense to me.

[Wiser now]

Aren't the liberals the ones who are always, and I mean always, saying we need to think like the terrorists in order to stop them?
What then is wrong with this? Isn't this what they have been screaming for?

[fml]

"I stand by all the misstatements that I've made."
- John F. Kerry

[RightthinkinAmerican]

If you hate Bush, and are LOOKING for fault, it's a bobble. Otherwise, it's just a clumsily worded sentence.