Gaffs Quotes
Bush was a poor orator with a very limited command of the English language although he was quite bright and well educated. He was speaking to an audience which was very concerned about the survival of fish stocks in the Midwestern rivers and lakes and others who fished for a living or sport. Limiting fishing rights hurt the latter group and not doing so further diminished the fish stocks which were already in peril from over fishing and other factors. Bush wanted to say that there were opportunities for humans to fish and the fish stocks to thrive if there could be compromises. But the phrase that came from his mouth missed the mark and produced another gaff in his collection.
This statement was like many of the Yogi Berra quotations, with few understanding the point Bush was trying to make.
This is an example of a totally absurd intellectual position that the dynamics of a modern political campaign into which candidate can by pushed. In his primary campaign for the nomination, Romney had been castigated by other Republicans for changing his political positions to suite the conservative wing of the party. He was labeled a “flip-flopper with no consistent views principles. In this quotation, he had distanced himself from a campaign plan created by a rich Republican that would attack President Obama for the fact that before the Presidency, he had attended a church with a radical pastor. The plan was to tie Obama to the radical views of the pastor, despite the fact that Obama himself had castigated the views of the pastor. A reporter tried to remind Romney that months before, he had appeared on a TV show and himself said that Obama was not a good President because he had attended the church of the radical pastor. The reporter specifically asked Romney if he still stood by what he had said on the radio in the light of his current position which was the opposite, Romney had changed his mind. However, even though he could not remember what he had even said, and fearful that he would be again accused of being a flip-flopper, he felt it was necessary for him to tell the reporter and the public that whatever he had said, he stood by it. There are few fields or situations where any intelligent human being would take the position that whatever he/she had said in the past, was still their current view. However politics is often the exception and this quotation illustrates that.
This quotation illustrates what a misogynist Limbaugh was. An Italian “study” claimed that there was a difference in penis size. The study was never replicated and the results are very doubtful. However, the notion that the cause and responsibility for male sexual size shrinkage is feminism is so physiologically absurd that his irrationality over gender issues becomes clear.
He meant to say “repository” and not “suppository”. The latter is a capsule of medicine that is placed inside the rectum.
While this probably was a slip of the tongue, President Bush and governor Perry both had civil right and individual had rights as a lower priority than a individual responsibility, strong growth economy or the military. There were many who really believed that the two men really thought excessive personal reedom a problem that people and the government must be protected from, like freedom for a woman to choose an abortion. For Perry in particular many thought that if this was a slip of the tounge, it was likely a Freudian slip as it what he really wants.
Bush was a poor orator with a very limited command of the English language although he was quite bright and well educated. This is another of his classic gaffs.
She was lampooning George W. Bush who had made some recent gaffs.
He thought that he was sending the e-mail to one of his staff but he sent it to a listserv by mistake. From there, it spread throughout his district and when he ran for Re-election in what had been a very safe seat, he lost by a 3 to 1 margin.
This tautology almost always brought applause. With the right cadence of delivery, it sounds like the Congressman was actually saying something important or profound. It sounded positive and in political oratory that has always been a successful strategy.
Bush was not a stupid man although he seemed so at times. He was anti-intellectual, had little intellectual curiosity and read little. However his speaking oratory skills were not very strong, although he was very affable and effective with small groups. This was one of his many gaffs.
Romney was trying to explain that the Supreme Court had recently ruled that for purposes of placing limits on campaign donations, corporations were entitled to the same rights of free speech and contributing money as people. The candidate chose this statement to express that view. However, the way Romney phrased it made many people suspect that perhaps, because of his lifetime corporate activity, he really thought that there were no differences between corporations and people. This suspicion reinforced a public feeling that Romney was much more corporately oriented than he was people oriented, and that hurt Romney with many voters.
At the time McCarthy made this statement he was suffering from an advanced state of alcoholism. He was censured. See {619921}.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
This quote illustrates how ignorant some members of Congress are about basic science and human reproduction. There is absolutely no physiology whereby the trauma of rape can cause a contraceptive effect. Akin was in the midst of a Senate race, and his opponents and the press pilloried him for his ignorance. The previous year there were about 32,000 pregnancies resulting from rape in the United S tates. Worse for Akin, his use of “legitimate rape” got him into trouble with the voters also. His implication that there were some rapes that were NOT legitimate infuriated many voters. He lost the election in a state where the Republicans were predicted to win.
A TV journalist in an interview asked the Treasurer, "When did your government lose its grip on reality?"
