"If you've got a chicken-plucking factory... You know what I'm talking about"

[ribonucleic]

Strange things sometimes come out of President Bush's mouth. "Polls just go poof." "Remember the rug?"

When Bush went to Ohio on Thursday to talk about terrorism, he ended up musing about marriage and chicken-plucking plants, the agony of death and his Oval Office rug, which resembles a sunburst.

About his legacy, Bush said historians are still assessing George Washington, the nation's first leader. "My attitude is, if they're still writing about (number) one, 43 doesn't need to worry about it."

On being married: "A good marriage is really good after serving together in Washington, D.C."

Maybe the president just felt like jabbering at the town hall-style event in Tipp City, Ohio. He began talking about terrorism and ended 90 minutes later after chattering about everything from life after the White House to Vietnam War and the brutal
Khmer Rouge regime.

Some highlights:

- "Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved — not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, `I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'"

- "The best thing about my family is my wife. She is a great first lady. I know that sounds not very objective, but that's how I feel. And she's also patient. Putting up with me requires a lot of patience."

- "There are jobs Americans aren't doing. ... If you've got a chicken factory, a chicken-plucking factory, or whatever you call them, you know what I'm talking about."

- "There are some similarities, of course" between Iraq and Vietnam. "Death is terrible."

- "I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times."

As he has before, Bush told the story about how his first presidential decision was to pick a rug for the Oval Office, a task he quickly cast to his wife. He told her to make sure the rug reflected optimism "because you can't make decisions unless you're optimistic that the decisions you make will lead to a better tomorrow."

Later, when he talked about his hope for succeeding in Iraq, Bush said, "Remember the rug?"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070419/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_musings

[24KT]

The rug is where he tried to sweep all the garbage. It must sound real crunchy when he walks on it?

[ribonucleic]

Can someone explain to me how this mental defective ever got compared to Winston Churchill ?

[Parker]

Bush is a perfect textbook example of Reverse-Darwinism .

I will copyright that remark.

[240 is Back]

My theory, and just a theory:

In the Q/A sessions, Bush's earpiece tells him what to say.  hearing the feed must be very rattling.  So he tries to ad-lib a bit of it.  Since the ad-libs are about topics he did not compose original thoughts on, they do not match and often appear bizarre and out-of-place.

Watch him speak - always chunks, always that intent 'listening' look on his face for 5 seconds after each question is asked, even if the question is quick and automatic response warranted.  Always speaks at the same tempo - whether it be about a rug, or about global imperialism for limited resources. that cadence comes from hearing 5 second intervals and repeating 5 second intervals.

He's a confident guy though, and will get brave and ad-lib.  Plus the guy feeding him has to respond immediately, so there will be flubs.

That's my guess. It's done to ensure he doesn't misspeak and does lead to some snafus as a result.

[Parker]

Shows you just how much he really knows about what is going on in the world.....