Why does bush say things like "childrens do learn" and "is our children learning"?

Question

It's not a one time event, it's happened 10s of thousands of times.

Clinton never had a bushism. Why is that?

Answer 1

He's from Texas.
If Clinton said them, they would be Clintonisms not Bushisms.

Honestly I think that he just trips over his tongue, he's not stupid, he just is not a great speaker. Lets put any of you that knock him in front of a mic as often and see how you fare.

Answer 2

The honest truth is he is not a great orator. It tends to happen when he goes off script. This is not a bash at him, it is just a reality. For a man who has two or three public events a day, you would figures winging it is not the greatest idea.

Answer 3

Because Laura still hasn't finished teaching him good Grammar yet... Like alot of Women, she made the mistake of thinking she could CHANGE George's poor speaking habits once they got married... But after 2 dozen years of trying to teach George how NOT to talk like a 7th Grader- he's STILL not ready for Junior High English ! Poor lady... :)

Answer 4

I prefer Bushisms to blatant lies, pompousness and bad taste.

"You can't say you love your country and hate your government." - Bill Clinton, 1995 (After the OKC bombing)

President Clinton was interviewed on January 21, 1998 by Jim Lehrer on his alleged affair with a Whitehouse intern and subsequent alleged subornation of her perjury. Clinton said, "I'm just trying to suppress my natural impulses and get back to work."

"A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military." - Bill Clinton, 1969 (Letter to the National Guard)

The other thing we have to do is to take seriously the role in this problem of...older men who prey on underage women...There are consequences to decisions and...one way or the other, people always wind up being held accountable." Bill Clinton, June 13, 1996

I think the country could be spared a lot of agony and the government could worry about inflation and a lot of other problems if [Nixon would] go on and resign."

"[There is] no question that an admission of making false statements to government officials and interfering with the FBI and the CIA is an impeachable offense."
Arkansas Gazette 8 August 1974

"No one wants to get this (Lewinsky) matter behind us more than I do, except maybe all the rest of the American people," Bill Clinton, July 31, 1998 during his remarks on the economy in the rose garden.

"You know the one thing that's wrong with this country? Everyone gets a chance to have their fair say."
President William Clinton addressing the people of Philadelphia, May 28, 1993 in the Courtyard, City Hall, Philadelphia, PA.

"[I]t depends on how you define "alone" ... there were a lot of times when we were alone, but I never really thought we were." and "It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is." - excerpts from Bill Clinton's grand jury testimony

"I can tell you that the decisions we made, we made because we thought they were in the interests of the American people,"--Bill Clinton, on being asked why he signed waivers, against the Pentagon's protest, to sell Loral missile guidance systems technology to Communist China, enabling China for the first time to launch nuclear weapons.
(May 18, 1998 edition of the Washington Times, front page)

"...with barely 700 days left in the 20th century..."
President Clinton during his State of the Union address, January 27, 1998

Bill Clinton, January 27, 1992, speaking about the allegations that he had a 12 year affair with Gennifer Flowers..."They've been exposed as the trash they are"
Arkansas Gazette

January 1998, Bill Clinton admits under oath in the Paula Jones deposition that he had an affair with Gennifer Flowers

"The last time I checked, the Constitution said, 'of the people, by the people and for the people.' That's what the Declaration of Independence says."
President Bill Clinton, campaigning October 17, 1996. From a campaign speech given in California. Quoted in Investor's Business Daily October 25, 1996

"I am the only President in who knew something about agriculture when I got there." (Bill Clinton, Washington Post, 4/26/95)

"I'm sure I spent more time in Texas than anybody else who had run for President recently." (Bill Clinton in Longview, Texas, U.S. Newswire, 9/27/96)

"You know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That's a good-looking mummy!"---Bill Clinton

"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans to legitimately own handguns and rifles"
March 1, 1993, Remarks by the President In Discussion With National Service Volunteers, Learning Center New Brunswick, New Jersey

"It has not worked. No one can say it has worked, so I decided we're either going to do what we said we're going to do with the U.N., or we're going to do something else."
A Bill Clinton quote in Washington Post on the U.N. operation in Bosnia.

"African-Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do."
President Clinton on Black Entertainment Television, November 2, 1994

In the first debate Clinton told us:

"And the deficit has come down for four years in a row for the first time since before the Civl War. I meant to say since before World War II. But maybe it should be since before the Civil War."

When I was a younger man and had a life," stated Clinton, "I owned an El Camino pickup in the '70s. It was a real sort of Southern deal. I had Astroturf in the back. You don't want to know why, but I did."

There are a lot of very brilliant people who believe that the nation-state is fast becoming a relic of the past,"
- President Clinton, New York Times, November 25, 1997

Mr. Clinton made a "joke" during a White House Press meeting during the weekend of May 1, 1999. He assured the group that although Al Gore attended the Kentucky Derby, he did not sire the winning horse. Everyone laughed (??) This is the president of the United States, making jokes about the VP having sex with a horse? Source: AP wire. May 2, 1999

Answer 5

10's of thousands? Talk about an exaggeration.

Anyways what matters is the fact that he stands his ground and sticks to what he believes him. He isn't a good public speaker and he would be the first to admit it, so making mistakes like that every now and then are expected when one is under that kind of pressure. And a lot of you people have no idea what kind of pressure he is under.

Clinton had his own problems, and so will the next president because people aren't perfect. But I support Bush, and Im glad hes our president and not the people on here that make stupid ignorant comments when they couldn't handle more than a week in his shoes.

Answer 6

I have always been of the suspicion that Bush may be dyslesic, as these are the kinds of errors they make (my wife is one, so I have lots of evidence)

Answer 7

Bush never learned anything as a child ! So he is looking for company !

Answer 8

Because he got "ejacated." Harvard Business School profs must cringe every time lil Georgy gives a speech. It's simply pitiful and embarrassing.

Answer 9

Oh, every time our poor president speaks I simply shudder.

He does fine with the pre-prepared speeches, but then when he actually has to answer questions from the press (us), he seems to dissolve into a gelatinous goo of "ums" and "uhhs" and other rather embarrassing displays of micro-intelligence.

Sigh.

It's almost over.

Answer 10

1. Cocaine burns holes in the brain.
2. He is possessed by a poor speaking demon.
3. He is still five.
4. He is just one of the guys.....one of the guys who have poor grammar.
5. He was left behind as a child.