by Peachtree Pam » Tue Jul 19, 2005 9:16 am
<br>Here it is with some unusually dumb quotes by Sr. You see where Jr gets his stupidity from.<br><br><br>Timeline<br><br>12 Jun 1924 George Herbert Walker Bush born, Milton MA. <br><br>2 Sep 1944 During a raid on the Pacific island of ChiChi Jima, the bomber flown by Navy pilot George HW Bush is struck by antiaircraft fire. Bush ditches the plane in the Pacific and is the only person to survive the crash.<br><br>1948 Initiated into Skull and Bones.<br> <br>1963 George Bush is unanimously elected chairman of the Harris County Republican Party. <br><br>1966 George Bush is elected Congressman from the 7th District (in Houston). <br><br>1971 George Bush is appointed Ambassador to the United Nations. <br><br>1973 George Bush is appointed Chairman of the Republican National Committee. <br><br>25 Oct 1974 George Bush is sent to China as Chief of the U.S. Liaison Office.<br> <br>2 Nov 1975 President Gerald Ford fires CIA Director William Colby and replaces him with George HW Bush.<br> <br>30 Jan 1976 George Bush begins a 12-month stint as Director of Central Intelligence. He later describes the situation in a 1999 ceremony at CIA headquarters: "I walked in here 24 years ago untutored in the arts of intelligence." <br><br>30 Jun 1981 Vice President George HW Bush tells Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos: "We love your adherence to democratic principle, and to the democratic processes." <br><br>9 Feb 1982 Vice President George HW Bush disclaims ever having used the term "voodoo economics" to refer to candidate Reagan's budget plan and defies "anybody to find it." Shortly thereafter, NBC News airs footage of candidate Bush saying exactly that at Carnegie-Mellon University on April 10, 1980. <br><br>4 Oct 1984 Vice President George HW Bush, on why he considers himself a Texan: "I'm legally and every other way -- emotionally -- entitled to be what I want to be; and that's what I want to be, and that's what I am." <br><br>11 Oct 1984 Vice President George HW Bush: "Almost every place you can point, contrary to Mr. Mondale's -- I gotta be careful here -- but contrary of how he goes around just saying everything bad, if somebody sees a silver lining he finds a big black cloud out there. I mean: right on, whine on, harvest moon!" <br><br>27 Oct 1984 Vice President George HW Bush: "Let me assure you of one thing: the United States under this administration will never -- never -- let terrorism or fear of terrorism determine its foreign policy." <br><br>2 Nov 1984 Vice President George HW Bush: "Under this President's strong and principled leadership, America is back with pride, patriotism, and prosperity. We're number one, and there's a lot of idiots who don't know that." <br><br>28 Jan 1987 Appearing on Good Morning America, Vice President George HW Bush justifies the clandestine weapons shipments to Iran: "On the surface, selling arms to a country that sponsors terrorism, of course, clearly, you'd have to argue it's wrong, but it's the exception sometimes that proves the rule." <br><br>1 Jun 1987 After being booed at an AIDS conference, Vice President George HW Bush wonders aloud in front of a live mic: "Who was that? Some gay group out there?" <br><br>28 Sep 1987 Vice President George HW Bush, during a tour of Auschwitz: "Boy, they were big on crematoriums, weren't they?" <br><br>25 Jan 1988 During a live television appearance, Vice President George HW Bush whines petulantly to CBS news anchor Dan Rather about his Iran-Contra questions: "It's not fair to judge my whole career by a rehash on Iran. How would you like it if I judged your career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York? Would you like that?" <br><br>25 Apr 1988 Vice President George HW Bush: "High tech is potent, precise, and in the end, unbeatable. The truth is, it reminds a lot of people the way I pitch horseshoes. Would you believe some of the people? Would you believe our dog? Look, I want to give the high-five symbol to high tech." <br><br>5 May 1988 Vice President George HW Bush tells the students of East Los Angeles' Garfield High School: "You don't have to go to college to be a success [...] We need the people who run the offices, the people who do the hard physical work of our society." It was apparently unclear to Bush that 70% of the school's seniors go on to college. Garfield High calculus teacher Jaime Escalante was the subject of the hit Hollywood film Stand and Deliver, which had been in theaters for two months. <br><br>2 Aug 1988 George Bush: "I will never apologize for the United States, ever. I don't care what the facts are."<br> <br>18 Aug 1988 During his acceptance speech at the Republican national convention, George HW Bush issues a prophecy: "The Congress will push me to raise taxes and I'll say no. And they'll push, and I'll say no, and they'll push again. And I'll say to them: 'Read my lips -- no new taxes.'" In the end, things don't quite work out that way. <br><br>27 Aug 1988 George Bush: "I don't know that atheists should be considered citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God." <br> <br>7 Sep 1988 George Bush: "Today, you remember -- I wonder how many Americans remember -- today is Pearl Harbor Day. Forty-seven years ago to this very day we were hit and hit hard at Pearl Harbor. [...] Did I say September 7th? Sorry about that. December 7th." <br><br>25 Sep 1988 During one of the Presidential debates, Vice President George HW Bush paints his opponent, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, as practically un-American: "He said, 'I am a card-carrying member of the ACLU.' That was what he said. He is out there, on out of the mainstream." <br><br>Mar 1989 The Los Angeles Times reports: "The delivery of Millie's first litter -- five females and a male -- brought a tear to the eyes of the First Lady and the President, Mrs. Bush said." <br><br>7 Mar 1989 George Bush: "I say the same thing I say to a person whose family was maimed by a pistol or an explosive charge or whatever else it might be: a fire -- this is bad." <br><br>13 Apr 1989 George Bush describing his wife: "I'm delighted that Barbara Bush is with me today, and I -- she got a good, clean bill of health yesterday from Walter Reed Hospital, I might add -- and then, but I'm taking another look at our doctor. He told her it's OK to kiss the dog -- I mean -- no -- it's OK to kiss your husband, but don't kiss the dog. So I don't know exactly what that means." <br><br>20 Apr 1989 Asked about the Iran-Contra scandal, George Bush admonishes the reporter: "Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're burning up time. The meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering." <br><br>6 Jul 1989 Emphasizing that he has no interest in meddling in Hungarian internal affairs, President George HW Bush explains: "It would be inappropriate for the President of the United States to try to fine-tune for the people of Hungary how they ought to eat -- how the cow ought to eat the cabbage, as we say in the United States." <br><br>5 Sep 1989 During a televised speech from the Oval Office, President George HW Bush holds up a bag of crack cocaine purchased across the street at Lafayette Park. Three weeks later, a DEA official admits to The Washington Post that crack dealers don't actually hang out in Lafayette Park, so they purposely lured one to the spot. "We had to manipulate him to get him down there. It wasn't easy." Reportedly, the seller's first question was: "Where the fuck is the White House?" <br><br>9 Nov 1990 In the biggest mistake of his Presidency, George HW Bush reneges on his "Read my lips -- no new taxes" pledge as he signs into law House Resolution 5835, otherwise known as the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990. It is the single largest tax increase in history, including $137 billion in new income taxes. <br><br>4 Dec 1990 George Bush: "I know what I've told you I'm going to say, I'm going to say. And what else I say, well, I'll take some time to figure that all out." <br><br>12 May 1991 George Bush, exhibiting signs that he is in dire need of relaxation: "I've got to run now and relax. The doctor told me to relax. The doctor told me to relax. The doctor told me. He was the one. He said, 'Relax.'" <br><br>8 Jan 1992 President George HW Bush vomits in the lap of Japanese Prime Minister Miyazawa Kiichi, and then faints during a state function in Tokyo. The incident spawns the Japanese slang verb bushusuru (literally, "Bushing it") to refer to puking.<br> <br>15 Jan 1992 George HW Bush doing his Evita Peron impression: "You cannot be President of the United States if you don't have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in time of trial and the Civil War and all that stuff. You can't be. So don't feel sorry for -- don't cry for me, Argentina." <br><br>4 Mar 1992 George HW Bush: "Somebody asked me, what's it take to win? I said to them, I can't remember, what does it take to win the Superbowl? Or maybe Steinbrenner, my friend George, will tell us what it takes for the Yanks to win... one run. But I went over to the Strawberry Festival this morning, and ate a piece of shortcake over there -- able to enjoy it right away, and once I completed it, it didn't have to be approved by Congress -- I just went ahead and ate it." <br><br>25 Oct 1992 During a speech at Texas Southern University, Jesse Jackson declares: "Bush knew in detail about Irangate and Iraqgate. He says he was not in the loop. Well, he's right. He was not in the loop, he's in the soup -- and we're going to turn up the heat." <br><br>24 Dec 1992 President George HW Bush pardons six Iran-Contra principals: Weinberger, Abrams, Clarridge, Fiers, George and McFarlane. <br><br>20 Dec 1993 Knighted by Queen Elizabeth II: Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath. <br><br>31 Jul 1996 For a fee, former President George HW Bush delivers a speech at the Inaugural World Convention of the Family Federation for World Peace -- a group sponsored by Sun Myung Moon.<br> <br>26 Apr 1999 Former President George HW Bush: "I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the names of our [intelligence] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious of traitors." <br><br>He is one certified scumbag.<br> <p></p><i></i>