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So he's smart now
I know where this is currently so no need to cry about it. I thought I'd make one that was a little more eye appealing and shareable.
Subsound
It would have been nice if he learned that while in office or before
CoriNighswander75
Good guy... Bush? what is this new trend?
JudgeRhymehold
Well now a days, Next to Hillary and trump, most politicians seem like good guys
CripPick
"Now watch this drive" *hits golf ball* - Bush
thea1997
"Is our children learning"
AtLeastWereNotDetroit
Can the font get any worse?
ExpectedDickbuttGotDickbutt
wow, GWB has hired much better speech writers
imyourrealdad
Kudos to the guy that wrote that for him.
Stackinandpackin
Actually a pretty good speech he gave at the memorial.
Panda4hire
I never thought I'd upvote W, but damn.
PrivateSectorSexPenguin
I wonder who wrote that for him
BrianBoyko
W was not fit for the task which had been given to him, but he could not see that until it was too late, and was surrounded by his users.
Davoneous
"Except Muslims. They're all still terrorists. I'm George W. Buuuuuuuuuuuuuuush!"
lurkerconvert
How many fucking times is this quote going to show up on imgur?!?!
Begotten
i still believe GW is a good person who wanted to be the president he campaigned as, but was turned into a scapegoat for dark interests
Highbard
Dubua's speech writers hit the nail on the head, though Dubya did manage to say it without sticking both his feet in his mouth (for once).
norrinraddsboard
You guys do know this was more than likely written by someone else...right?
MiLK42
so a script writer read a fortune cookie........ bfd.
supermariosunshine
Where are the WMDs? Did you like, judge other groups by their worst examples or something? Did you start a war based on best intentions? Hm?
FelixG
He made that decision based on what the best intelligence we had at the time, its really easy for kids to complain with 20/20 hindsight.
getyourfruitoffmeyoudamndirtygrapes
too bad he didn't live by this philosophy with iraq and afghanistan
kiddub
You know, if he'd followed this advice 10 years ago...
kiddub
Yikes! 15 years ago!
FlappinBurgers
Feeling old yet?
kiddub
Yes. RATM's debut is almost 25 years old. Being 25 years old is a decade ago. Bizarre.
Pablotheshark
I'm pretty sure nobody wrote that for him.
Nccoffee
I mean he did start two wars and leave the country basically on fire, but he did try his best.
chroniclunacy
G1ngerBoy
Umm clinton kinda started it with desert storm not bush
ResoluteDuck
Clinton definitely did some crap that contributed/led to the recession but it wasn't Desert Storm.
thegrimtrigger
Oh dear.
WhosJoe
!? Bush 41 was in office during desert storm. Clinton contribution to the modern disaster is forcing lenders into sub prime loans
magmin
Black lies matter is a racist hate group, the real truth behind them is coming out
snerzDersnerz
FOOL ME ONCE, CAN'T GET FOOLED AGAIN!
SLAYEROFSQUIRRELLS
Strategery....
OlMuskyTheMartian
Fool me once...shame on...shame on youuu... *Leans in. Look of panic.* You fool me you can't get fooled again.
LemonFanta
heh heh heh
superheavydeathmetal
The first time I saw that I cried with laughter. I could see it going downhill but it ended worse than I could have imagined.
BartimaeusTheFat
I feel like he realized partway through that he couldn't be recorded saying "shame on me." The media would have a field day with that.
BartimaeusTheFat
"...so 9/11 was a" "shame on me."
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XgoldendawnX
No need to specify Fam
samosas
You know, for the folks that aren't hip to it.
HappyEngineer
YEEEAAAAAHH http://67.media.tumblr.com/59f71e8b29a4669e5e2878a6062a8a73/tumblr_mgqoz0ZLxT1qb0ydso1_250.gif
WhellerNG
http://cow.org/csi/
NightMan41
"Fool me one time shame on you, fool me two times can't put the blame on you..."
Bergerskur
Fool me twice*
TechnicalDrift
Alright I've seen this like 4 times now. The quote was originally "We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions" and 1/2
LemonFanta
"Da roof, da roof, da roof is on fire" -Dick Cheney
SlowboatToShortbus
"Bang, bang. He shot me down." - Harry Whittington
TechnicalDrift
Bush isn't the first to say it. Not to say he wasn't wrong in this case, but damn people, it was fucking Stephen M.R. Covey. 2/2
FajitaPrinceofAllMexicans
It's because the timing if a major political figure, in a relevant situation.
bwchronos
No, this is a very well known bias called the fundamental attribution error. Covey has never had a single original thought.
TechnicalDrift
I saw that while digging around, but I was looking for names. How old is the saying, exactly?
bwchronos
It's not a saying as much as a description of a correspondence bias. The first clinical study on the subject I'm aware of was in the 60s.
beatlegs
This has been posted multiple times already, WE GET IT
ShoulderTheWheel
This font gave me cancer
bicycleracer
AKA the Fundamental Attribution Error! I often think the world would be a much betterplace if more people knew basic Social Psychology.
LitteralyHitler
Alright. Bush didn't do 9/11 :)
Andrzejsan
I would say 5/7
GandalfsLawyer
cook123
;)
Ryykur
Good guy LitteralyHitler
Septagrim
He's a fucking WHITE MALE!
Beb0p
No. An evil clock is good at least twice a day..or something like that..
InitWho
Somebody give this man an upvote
exosquadwasmyfavoriteshowwheniwasachild
Ron Paul, n-word.
FajitaPrinceofAllMexicans
Let's not get too crazy!
tarataqa
...alone
Solomon031
ooooblackbetty
https://media.giphy.com/media/2sIjcqrk1ICTC/giphy.gif
deinfavorit
Of course he did, but with the best intentions.
Xathraphor
Ha! Like we are supposed to believe LitteralyHitler! You probably helped with it!
NPCommentator
Cheney did.
SwisssSwisss
He was aiming for a quail
GandalfsLawyer
Abecx
Cheney did 9/11. Shotgun blast melt steel beams.
IFUCKEVERYTHING
*@NPCommentator found with mysterious shotgun wound to the face*
NPCommentator
I don't mean to be an alarmist but a black van has been sitting outside my house for the past six hours.
IFUCKEVERYTHING
Lol you dead
NPCommentator
Haha comE on guys Like cheney has the Pull to order a hit. i'M surE i'll be fine.
Raventhief
Wow, that might be the only quote I've ever read of his that I agree with wholeheartedly. Weird.
ncbaseball
Not an original quote
SomethingAwesomer
Bush was actually really good at distinguishing between terrorists and Muslims as a whole. The media never was, but Bush tried at least.
Walatalalaw
The world is a strange place when we start quoting GWB for tolerance
KevinGong
Remember us disliking him for incompetence rather than intolerance but whatevs
NeverWithoutMyMoleskinePocketNotebook
Dubya actually said a few pretty poignant things over the years
BrianBoyko
Even his idiotic statements, like "putting food on your family" were malapropisms, not hate-speech, like we have today with Mein Drumpf.
guilelessgull
he took it from Mr Covey: http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/147819-we-judge-ourselves-by-our-intentions-and-others-by-their
Raventhief
Good to know. Not quite the same, but same idea.
iPretend
It's pretty important to the liberal narrative to make him evil just like Obama needs to be evil for the conservatives.
ThisIsGod
I dont think Bush was ever labeled as evil, wildly incompetent, yea, but evil? Hitler? AntiChrist? No, thats reserved for Obama.
sirsecern
people were demanding he be charged as a war criminal.
ThisIsGod
Yea, but that wasnt the theme of his presidency, it was incompetence where as Obama opponents are hardlining the evil.
JebBushsBush
I've seen both be labeled as both evil and incompetent. We could have literal Jesus running the US and there'd still be complaints.
ThisIsGod
I meant more mainstream; Bush was seen as incompetent whereas Obama is just Hitler who kills old people and then takes away their guns.
ThisIsGod
To be fair, he was a bit of a socialist
Wodenifferous
I mean he literally started a war for his ego. The only narrative needed is the truth.
Wodenifferous
Other than that, yanno, standard Republican president, not a cackling villain. But holy shit the man started a war. That weighs against him.
iPretend
He had a nation begging for blood so he gave it to them.
Wodenifferous
The Afghanistan war made sense - there was actually some connection to 9/11 there, since it's where Osama was. Going to war in Iraq was a
ExileonDaytonStreet
Is it odd that I miss the calm, steady, nuanced leadership of GWB compared to whatever the fuck we're getting in 6 months?
FaithAlone
NO. Never. I would take two terms of Clinton over a week of W. Bush. He was calm and steady alright but nuanced? No, not at all.
itscolor
What about starting two wars of choice says calm and steady?
LetsTrythisImgurThingout
Calm and steady, sure. HE wasn't exactly nuanced.
ExileonDaytonStreet
Bear in mind it's in comparison to Trump.
TGWeaver
The rosiest of goggles.
Kierbear2g
fucking right?
GeorgeGeef
I think it's odd that you'd use the words "calm", "steady" and "nuanced" to describe the Bush administration.
Kierbear2g
I have to imagine OP wasn't all that old. I remember GWB's presidency. Those words don't fit.
RagingEnglishMajor
You are the first person I've ever heard say nuanced in reference to GWB.
ExileonDaytonStreet
Look at what we have coming in Jan 2017. Desperate times, what can I say?
Panda4hire
He and Obama both actually acted like presidents, not children like the two candidates we have now.
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Pengarr
White House Correspondents' Dinner has been lighthearted since it started in the 1920s. Presidents have been in on the joking since Ford.
WhimsicalCalamari
oh my god you actually thought that was real
IAmDrBanner
You do understand that he is unlikely to have just done that on the spot, right? It is all practiced and schedules. They knew the mic was
IAmDrBanner
going to drop. It was planned. You idiot.
B0ULLIE
Did you get fooled by the Obama union address video? Lol
SirBricksAlot
He did it at the White House Correspondence Dinner didn't he?
SirBricksAlot
Although I believe the White House Correspondence Dinner is for that sort of joking.
BobbyNewportJr
I'm not particularly sure you know what any of those words mean.
G1ngerBoy
I miss him even in comparison to what we have now
ExileonDaytonStreet
I really don't think history will agree with that assessment.
bedsound
Ahh yes, the United States in 2008/2009, he truly left it in a good place
UnpopularOpinionPuffinPersonified
You can't possibly blame the president for the recession back then. If anything the democratic congress had more blame with the economy.
IAmDrBanner
No, but to be fair, he can be clamed for the absurd expenses in a pointless invasion and the absolute chaos that was caused by it.
Koravel34
I completely disagree. Hindsight is always 20/20 but we thought they had WMDs. Congress voted yes on the war. A lot of dems voted yes too.
IAmDrBanner
I am not saying there was no reason for what he did, but regardless, the outcome is negative and someone is to blame for it. I am not saying
bedsound
His administration regulated the finance industry the buck ultimately stopped with him
IreallyMGur
De-regulated
bedsound
Either way his people were in charge and they clearly didn't see it coming. In fact they encouraged banks to make more loans
TheJudgeHasItBackwards
Not sure nuanced is the correct word, even in comparison to Trumpleton.
ziggurath
Wow.
Pabloblibli
2 degrees from Yale and Harvard, could fly a jet, elected twice for Governor and President, but all you hear is how dumb he is.
ExileonDaytonStreet
His mumbling metaphors did work against him.
Pabloblibli
And the bias of the media, the new networks, late night shows, comedians...
Wodenifferous
But let's be real here, when you come from a very wealthy political dynasty, none of that requires intelligence, so it's not any sort of
Wodenifferous
evidence that he wasn't exactly the illiterate, coke-addled idiot he seemed to be at all times.
Ace78
You don't get to be a pilot cause your daddy said.... You have to earn that shit....
Wodenifferous
So he's an illiterate coked-up idiot with one skill. Well, OK, two skills. He can start wars based on lies and never be tried for it.
spenczar
That was a deliberate plan. Made him much more electable. People who know him say he's super smart.
GolFoehammer
I met him once and he seemed to be one of the most down to earth people I've ever met.
ncbaseball
Who?
Wodenifferous
So lying us into a war of choice wasnt just him being Cheney's patsy? That's... not actually a good thing.
Pabloblibli
How many Democrats in congress voted for the war? look it up.
Wodenifferous
Mmm. Yeah, people who believe lies are just as guilty as the people who lie. I'd forgotten about that WAIT NO
LemonFanta
Plus he's a brilliant painter!
FreaknikSaveUs
Now, don't get me wrong when I say this, but so was Hitler.
FreaknikSaveUs
However I'm NOT comparing GWB to Hitler
LemonFanta
Hahaha GODWIN strikes again.
LetTheWholeWorldBurn
At least he said what he thought instead of what someone wrote in a speech for him. I miss his presidency too. It wasn't that bad with him.
tallbo
Its amazing how hindsight is you know?
speakhands
How do you know he wrote that speech?
LetTheWholeWorldBurn
He's had interviews where he would say something dim witted, and I'm sure he's had equally embarrassing speeches which sound like his words.
grandfaloon
All this from the same media that ignore gross malfeasance. GWB had his moments like we all do.
rubbarz
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, can't get fooled again.
TheNipplerCrippler
Dude has a genius IQ. Not many people know that
Pabloblibli
Thank you! Most people just parrot what the liberal media tells them. Ignorant people are "useful idiots"
TheNipplerCrippler
I wasn't calling him a genius though. He may have the IQ but that test in of itself is flawed. Genius IQ does not automatically make you one
whistlebuzz
Big difference between intelligent and articulate. And politics is perception.
ocegur
Well he did make the biggest US mistake since Vietnam.
Pabloblibli
Not by himself, congress voted on that, including several democrats. Look it up!
ocegur
Sure but he supported the fake proofs.