Many Times our President has had a Few Problems with English:
Bushisms
"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?" —George W. Bush
"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we get an objective analysis."—CNBC,
April 15, 2000
"She is a member of a labor union at one point."—Announcing his nomination of Linda Chavez
as secretary of labor. Austin, Texas, Jan. 2, 2001
Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to
know it."
I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together." —Bartlett,
Tenn., Aug. 18, 2000
"We ought to make the pie higher."—South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000
"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"—Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
"You
teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.''—Townsend, Tenn., Feb. 21, 2001
Vocab Problems
"Keep good relations with the Grecians."—Quoted in the Economist, June 12, 1999
(Greeks)
I
am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well."—Washington, D.C., Jan.
29, 2001”
(successors)
"It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then." —George W. Bush, reflecting in 1994
about growing up in Midland, Texas
(enthralling, inebriating means to make drunk)
"I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they
are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure."—Interview with the Associated Press, Jan. 18, 2001
(succeed
with success?)
"Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person."— Interview with Time magazine
in the Dec. 25, 2000, issue.
(vengeful person)
The great thing about America is everybody should vote."—Austin, Texas, Dec. 8, 2000.
(everybody can vote)
"They misunderestimated me."—Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
(Underestimated me)
Well,
I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness."--CNN online chat, Aug. 30, 2000
(trustworthiness-
refers to being able to believe what one says)
I understand small business growth. I was one."—New
York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000
(president bush was a growth?)
