Bush accidentally gave out the wrong number Tuesday.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Harried homeowners seeking mortgage relief from a new Bush administration hotline Thursday had to contend with a bit of temporary misdirection from the president himself.
As he announced his plan to ease the mortgage crisis for consumers, President Bush accidentally gave out the wrong phone number for the new “Hope Now Hotline” set up by his administration.
Anyone who dialed 1-800-995-HOPE did not reach the mortgage hotline but instead contacted the Freedom Christian Academy — a Texas-based group that provides Christian education home schooling material.
The White House press office quickly put out a correction moments after the President’s remarks. After dialing the correct number, 1-888-995-HOPE, CNN was connected to a “counselor” within three minutes.
minutes.http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/
The chimp is beyond embarrassing at this point.
2007-12-06 10:11:27 · 20 answers · asked by spillmind 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Salsa Shark:
This is not his first or last 'slip-up'.
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushisms.htm
the man is an utter and complete mental midget.
2007-12-06 10:29:32 · update #1
i may be a jacka** but at least i'm not some unqualified idiot.
2007-12-06 17:37:59 · update #2
http://i.l.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/12/06/t1home.bushnumber1.ap.jpg
2007-12-06 20:26:53 · update #3
Gerald R Ford, for a couple reasons, including:
Pardoning the criminal Richard M. Nixon,
Fighting inflation by ordering millions of "WIN (Whip Inflation Now)" buttons... from China, which (seriously) had to be recalled for containing lead paint (funny how NOTHING changes when Republicans are in charge).
Not being able to walk down a set of stairs and set policy at the same time.
Helping the Warren Commission decide Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone assassin in the JFK assassination.
2007-12-06 10:42:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The same way anyone becomes President; by acting on behalf of those that back you financialy. These are the people who control large sums of money on a global scale. It does not matter that the President is popular or not as the power behind the presidency have many more candidates waiting in the wings. Look up Project for a new American century, written by Radical neo-conservatives. In short Bush is a puppet easily controlled.
2016-04-07 22:20:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have had some real duds like Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce and a few others but this one takes the cake. The more he does the more assured he is of being rated the worst President for many generations to come and even worse than any up to now. Yes he is beyond embarrassing. People I know in Europe wonder how such a fool could have been elected. They thought we had better sense than that and can't wait until he's out of office.
2007-12-06 10:18:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
Public speaking is not his strong point, that's for sure. Of course, we have no way of knowing what all the presidents before recordings existed spoke like. We don't get the "um"s and "er"s and goofs in the transcriptions of their speeches. For all we know, Lincoln may have said "Forty-seven years ago," but history recorded what he had written down on the envelope.
Why the thumbs downs? The question was about his intelligibility, not his intelligence. All I did was point out that we can't really be sure about how intelligible earlier presidents were.
2007-12-06 10:18:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
YES, Jimmy Carter!!
2007-12-06 10:34:54 · answer #5 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Honestly, why are you bothing keeping track anymore?
I've moved on to the Bush Countdown clock.
http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/blbushclock.htm
2007-12-06 10:27:06 · answer #6 · answered by Alex G 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
No, he stands alone on that one. He murders the King's English and gets away with it. He will go down in history as "ONE OF A KIND."
2007-12-06 10:28:05 · answer #7 · answered by daisyfay 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes. You arrrrre brilliant.
Bush personally put out the wrong number.
(Don't like yourself very much, eh little kid?)
No president was dumber and Hated America more than Jimmy Carter.
Even sleazeball Clinton, the "boy president", was more intelligent than Carter.
I'm amazed of how many Elitists answered your question, and how perfectly they speak.
It must be wonderful to be a Hate America Democrat on Welfare.
Oh Nice!!!!!
2007-12-06 10:23:37 · answer #8 · answered by dinamuk 4 · 2⤊ 6⤋
Ford was similar in mannerisms- that's why Chevy Chase had such a great career mocking him.
Anyone who says Clinton didn't understand your question- which figures. Clinton was always intelligible- even if you didn't like what he had to say.
2007-12-06 10:19:10 · answer #9 · answered by Not so looney afterall 5 · 4⤊ 3⤋
The GOP has set the bar so low for Bush that it was last seen approaching the center of the Earth.
2007-12-06 10:17:23 · answer #10 · answered by Chi Guy 5 · 7⤊ 4⤋