La derrota republicana en las elecciones legislativas dio un nuevo impulso a cientos de sitios Web que se ocupan de los furcios del mandatario.
Los bloopers de Bush, cada día más populares en la Web.
El presidente norteamericano , George W. Bush, no atraviesa su mejor momento. Tras la derrota en las elecciones legislativas de medio término, realizadas el 7 de noviembre, las burlas arrecian y se multiplican. Y el texano, por su parte, no hacer más que ofrecer flancos para ser atacado.
Neologismos, oraciones mal redactadas, contradicciones y frases sin sentido aparente integran el elenco de bushismos, tal como fueron bautizados en la Red.
The Complete Bushisms
«No doubt in my mind, with your help, Dave Lamberti will be the next United States congressman.» —Speaking at a campaign rally for Jeff Lamberti, Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 26, 2006.
«You know, when I campaigned here in 2000, I said, I want to be a war President. No President wants to be a war President, but I am one.»—Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 26, 2006
«This morning my administration released the budget numbers for fiscal 2006. These budget numbers are not just estimates; these are the actual results for the fiscal year that ended February the 30th.»—Referring to the fiscal year that ended on Sept. 30, Washington, D.C., Oct. 11, 2006.
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 0:41.
«One has a stronger hand when there’s more people playing your same cards.»—Washington, D.C., Oct. 11, 2006
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 44:54.
«You’re one of the outstanding leaders in a very important part of the world. I want to thank you for strategizing our discussions.»—Meeting with the prime minister of Malaysia, New York, Sept. 18, 2006
«The goals of this country is to enhance prosperity and peace.»—Speaking at the White House Conference on Global Literacy, New York, Sept. 18, 2006
Click here to see a video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 5:27.
«You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror.»—Interview with CBS News, Washington D.C., Sept. 6, 2006
Click here to see a video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 4:48.
«And I suspect that what you’ll see, Toby, is there will be a momentum, momentum will be gathered. Houses will begat jobs, jobs will begat houses.» —Speaking with reporters along the Gulf Coast, Gulfport, Miss., Aug. 28, 2006
«And the question is, are we going to be facile enough to change with—will we be nimble enough; will we be able to deal with the circumstances on the ground? And the answer is, yes, we will.»—Washington, D.C., July 25, 2006
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 17:44.
«One thing is clear, is relations between America and Russia are good, and they’re important that they be good.»—Strelna, Russia, July 15, 2006
«We shouldn’t fear a world that is more interacted.»—Washington, D.C., June 27, 2006.
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 1:21.
«I’ve reminded the prime minister—the American people, Mr. Prime Minister, over the past months that it was not always a given that the United States and America would have a close relationship.»—Washington, D.C., June 29, 2006
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 0:36.
«I tell people, let’s don’t fear the future, let’s shape it.»—Omaha, Neb., June 7, 2006
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 8:58.
«I think—tide turning—see, as I remember—I was raised in the desert, but tides kind of—it’s easy to see a tide turn—did I say those words?»—Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006
Click here to see a video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 39:16.
President Bush: Peter. Are you going to ask that question with shades on?
Peter Wallsten of the Los Angeles Times: I can take them off.
Bush: I’m interested in the shade look, seriously.
Wallsten: All right, I’ll keep it, then.
Bush: For the viewers, there’s no sun.
Wallsten: I guess it depends on your perspective.
Bush: Touché.
—Exchange with legally blind reporter Peter Wallsten, to whom Bush later apologized, Washington, D.C., June 14, 2006
Click here to see a video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 50:16.
«I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.»—Washington, D.C., May 4, 2006
«If people want to get to know me better, they’ve got to know my parents and the values my parents instilled in me, and the fact that I was raised in West Texas, in the middle of the desert, a long way away from anywhere, hardly. There’s a certain set of values you learn in that experience.»—Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006
«You never know what your history is going to be like until long after you’re gone.»—Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006
«The point now is how do we work together to achieve important goals. And one such goal is a democracy in Germany.»—Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006
«Finally, the desk, where we’ll have our picture taken in front of—is nine other Presidents used it. This was given to us by Queen Victoria in the 1870s, I think it was. President Roosevelt put the door in so people would not know he was in a wheelchair. John Kennedy put his head out the door.»—Showing German newspaper reporter Kai Diekmann the Oval Office, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006
«That’s called, ‘A Charge To Keep,’ based upon a religious hymn. The hymn talks about serving God. The president’s job is never to promote a religion.»—Showing German newspaper reporter Kai Diekmann the Oval Office, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006
«That’s George Washington, the first president, of course. The interesting thing about him is that I read three—three or four books about him last year. Isn’t that interesting?»—Showing German newspaper reporter Kai Diekmann the Oval Office, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006
«I can look you in the eye and tell you I feel I’ve tried to solve the problem diplomatically to the max, and would have committed troops both in Afghanistan and Iraq knowing what I know today.»—Irvine, Calif., April 24, 2006
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 30:41.
«I aim to be a competitive nation.»—San Jose, Calif., April 21, 2006
«I’m the decider, and I decide what is best. And what’s best is for Don Rumsfeld to remain as the secretary of defense.»—Washington, D.C., April 18, 2006
«I strongly believe what we’re doing is the right thing. If I didn’t believe it—I’m going to repeat what I said before—I’d pull the troops out, nor if I believed we could win, I would pull the troops out.»—Charlotte, N.C., April 6, 2006
Clich here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 1:07:53
«If the Iranians were to have a nuclear weapon they could proliferate.»—Washington D.C., March 21, 2006
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 9:29.
«No question that the enemy has tried to spread sectarian violence. They use violence as a tool to do that.»—Washington, D.C., March 22, 2006
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 6:36.
«And so I’m for medical liability at the federal level.»—Discussing his support of medical liability reform, Washington, D.C., March 10, 2006
«After the bombing, most Iraqis saw what the perpetuators of this attack were trying to do.»—(On the bombing of the Golden Mosque of Samarra in Iraq) March 13, 2006, Washington, D.C.
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 7:39.
«I think it’s really important for this great state of baseball to reach out to people of all walks of life to make sure that the sport is inclusive. The best way to do it is to convince little kids how to—the beauty of playing baseball.»—Washington, D.C., Feb. 13, 2006
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 8:31.
«And I want those who are questioning it to step up and explain why all of a sudden a Middle Eastern company is held to a different standard than a Great British company.»—Defending a plan to allow a company from the United Arab Emirates to manage ports in the United States, aboard Air Force One, Feb. 21, 2006
«I like my buddies from west Texas. I liked them when I was young, I liked them then I was middle-age, I liked them before I was president, and I like them during president, and I like them after president.»—Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 1, 2006
«He was a state sponsor of terror. In other words, the government had declared, you are a state sponsor of terror.»—On Saddam Hussein, Manhattan, Kan., Jan. 23, 2006
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 29:43.
«I’ll be glad to talk about ranching, but I haven’t seen the movie. I’ve heard about it. I hope you go—you know—I hope you go back to the ranch and the farm is what I’m about to say.»—Explaining that he hasn’t yet seen Brokeback Mountain, Manhattan, Kan., Jan. 23, 2006
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 1:36:52.
«You took an oath to defend our flag and our freedom, and you kept that oath underseas and under fire.»—Addressing war veterans, Washington, D.C., Jan. 10, 2006
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 4:08.
«As you can possibly see, I have an injury myself—not here at the hospital, but in combat with a cedar. I eventually won. The cedar gave me a little scratch.»—After visiting with wounded veterans from the Amputee Care Center of Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, Jan. 1, 2006
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 0:47.
«If you found somebody that had information about an attack on America, you’d want to know as best as we can to find out what the facts are.»—Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 12, 2005
«I think we are welcomed. But it was not a peaceful welcome.»—Philadelphia, Dec. 12, 2005, on the reception of American forces in Iraq
«I mean, I read the newspaper. I mean, I can tell you what the headlines are. I must confess, if I think the story is, like, not a fair appraisal, I’ll move on. But I know what the story’s about.» —Philadelphia, Dec. 12, 2005
«[I]t’s a myth to think I don’t know what’s going on. It’s a myth to think that I’m not aware that there’s opinions that don’t agree with mine, because I’m fully aware of that.»—Philadelphia, Dec. 12, 2005
«I mean, there was a serious international effort to say to Saddam Hussein, you’re a threat. And the 9/11 attacks extenuated that threat, as far as I—concerned.»—Philadelphia, Dec. 12, 2005
Click here to see a video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 50:17
«Those who enter the country illegally violate the law.»
—Tucson, Ariz., Nov. 28, 2005
«We got the best workforce in America—in the world.»
—Washington, D.C., Dec. 2, 2005
«As a matter of fact, I know relations between our governments is good.»—On U.S.-South Korean relations, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2005
«Let me be very clear about this. Steroids ought to be banned from baseball.»—Washington, D.C., Oct. 4, 2005
Click here to see a video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 50:09.
«Bin Laden says his own role is to tell Muslims, quote, ‘what is good for them and what is not.’ «—Washington, D.C., Oct. 6, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 15:40.
«I think it’s important to bring somebody from outside the system, the judicial system, somebody that hasn’t been on the bench and, therefore, there’s not a lot of opinions for people to look at.» —On the nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, Washington, D.C., October 4, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 48:08.
«We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job. That’s what I’m telling you.»—Gulfport, Miss., Sept. 20, 2005.
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 7:43.
«Listen, I want to thank leaders of the—in the faith—faith-based and community-based community for being here.»—Washington, D.C., Sept. 6, 2005.
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism begins the clip.
«If it were to rain a lot, there is concern from the Army Corps of Engineers that the levees might break. And so, therefore, we’re cautious about encouraging people to return at this moment of history.»—Washington, D.C., Sept. 19, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 5:02.
«My thoughts are, we’re going to get somebody who knows what they’re talking about when it comes to rebuilding cities.»—On how the rebuilding of New Orleans might commence, Biloxi, Miss., Sept. 2, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 5:29.
«And Brownie, you’re doing a heck of a job.»—To FEMA director Mike Brown who resigned 10 days later amid criticism over his job performance.—Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 4:05.
«Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott’s house—he’s lost his entire house—there’s going to be a fantastic house. And I’m looking forward to sitting on the porch.» —Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 2:26.
«I can’t wait to join you in the joy of welcoming neighbors back into neighborhoods, and small businesses up and running, and cutting those ribbons that somebody is creating new jobs.»—Poplarville, Miss., Sept. 5, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 2:44.
«So please give cash money to organizations that are directly involved in helping save lives—save the life who had been affected by Hurricane Katrina.»—Washington D.C., Sept. 6, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 1:07.
«The best place for the facts to be done is by somebody who’s spending time investigating it.»—Expressing hope that the probe into how CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity was leaked will yield answers, Washington D.C., July 18, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 10:23.
«I’m looking forward to a good night’s sleep on the soil of a friend.»—On the prospect of visiting Denmark, Washington D.C., June 29, 2005
«I was going to say he’s a piece of work, but that might not translate too well. Is that all right, if I call you a ‘piece of work’?»—To Jean-Claude Juncker, prime minister of Luxembourg, Washington, D.C., June 20, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 17:30.
«You see, not only did the attacks help accelerate a recession, the attacks reminded us that we are at war.»—Washington, D.C., June 8, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 3:19.
«We’re spending money on clean coal technology. Do you realize we’ve got 250 million years of coal?»—Washington, D.C., June 8, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 16:28.
«I think younger workers—first of all, younger workers have been promised benefits the government—promises that have been promised, benefits that we can’t keep. That’s just the way it is.»—Washington, D.C., May 4, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 11:08.
«We got people working all their life at hard work, contributing by payroll taxes into a Social Security system.»—Washington, D.C., May 13, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 32:34.
«See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.»—Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005
«It means your own money would grow better than that which the government can make it grow. And that’s important.»—on what private accounts could do for Social Security funds, Falls Church, Va., April 29, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 12:20.
«But Iraq has—have got people there that are willing to kill, and they’re hard-nosed killers. And we will work with the Iraqis to secure their future.» —Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 21:57.
«Well, we’ve made the decision to defeat the terrorists abroad so we don’t have to face them here at home. And when you engage the terrorists abroad, it causes activity and action.»—Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 21:30.
«He understands the need for a timely write of the constitution.» —on Prime Minister Iyad Allawi of Iraq, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 14:10.
«We expect the states to show us whether or not we’re achieving simple objectives—like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.»—on federal education requirements, Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 51:40.
«It’s in our country’s interests to find those who would do harm to us and get them out of harm’s way.»—Washington, D.C., April 28, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 46:40.
«Part of the facts is understanding we have a problem, and part of the facts is what you’re going to do about it.»—Kirtland, Ohio, April 15, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 19:07.
«We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge.» —Washington, D.C., April 20, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 19:30.
«We look forward to analyzing and working with legislation that will make—it would hope—put a free press’s mind at ease that you’re not being denied information you shouldn’t see.»
—Washington, D.C., April 14, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 31:58.
«I understand there’s a suspicion that we—we’re too security-conscience.»—Washington D.C., April 14, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 30:28.
«I’m going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issue. I guess, it’s the Mother in me.» —Washington D.C., April 14, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 7:30.
«I want to thank you for the importance that you’ve shown for education and literacy.»
—Washington, D.C., April 13, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 4:22.
«If they pre-decease or die early, there’s an asset base to be able to pass on to a loved one.»—On Social Security money stored in private accounts, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, March 30, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 18:44.
«I repeat, personal accounts do not permanently fix the solution.»—Washington, D.C., March 16, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 24:11.
«In terms of timetables, as quickly as possible—whatever that means.»—On the president’s time frame for shoring up Social Security, Washington D.C., March 16, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 24:25.
«In this job you’ve got a lot on your plate on a regular basis; you don’t have much time to sit around and wander, lonely, in the Oval Office, kind of asking different portraits, ‘How do you think my standing will be?’ «—Washington, D.C., March 16, 2005
Click here to see video of Bush’s comments. The Bushism is at 34:52.
una colección de bushismos actualizada periódicamente por el periodista Jacob Weisberg. Frases como “Laura y yo a veces no nos damos cuenta de cuán brillantes son nuestros hijos hasta que no recibimos los análisis objetivos”, “El pasado se terminó» o “ Es claramente un presupuesto: está lleno de números”; y palabras como «reaganista», «suicidadores» o «dessubestimado», entre otros cientos de vocablos y expresiones fallidas que Weisberg compiló desde 1994 hasta la fecha.
Otros seguramente disfrutarán también del poema “ Haz crecer la torta ”, compuesto solamente por citas del presidente norteamericano.
En Internet no le dejan pasar una a Bush y si alguien se toma el trabajo de buscar las palabras “miserable failure” (fracasado miserable) en Google, el buscador lo llevará directamente a la página oficial de la presidencia de los Estados Unidos.
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No es casual que el presidente Juárez Celman haya imaginado a fines del siglo XIX el edificio del Correo con la monumentalidad de un palacio francés plantado frente al centro del poder político. Como un faro de las comunicaciones planetarias, el Correo, inaugurado en 1928 por M.T. de Alvear, despertaba la ilusión de conectar el país remoto con el resto del mundo.
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