Bush to Filipino president: Filipinos make great kitchen staff

In all fairness, Bush was commenting about the Chef of the White House, a Filipina-American who rose thru the line cook staff, a favorite of the First Lady, who could have had her pick of any star Chef in the country.

What's really funny is that Bush could make a compliment sound like an insult because he couldn't think of the word chef on the fly! As in, I love the Grecians!

Damn, in some twisted way, there are things about him I'm gonna miss, like embarassing himself during a State Dinner. Bwahahahaha....

......embarassing himself during a State Dinner.

He didn't embarrass himself ..............

he embarrassed the American people!

I was wondering if the writers for Comedy Central were now working at the White House.

Normally you need to take someones words a little out of context or use paraphrasing to make a President look ridiculous. In this case the jokes come ready as is.

He's done this type of thing enough to have an entire web service devoted to it.

He is a natural....

I was wondering if the writers for Comedy Central were now working at the White House.

Man, are American comedy writers gonna miss the Chimpster when he finally, finally, leaves office.

I think we can suffer less comedy for less Constitution death-by-cannonball-and-fireworks.

I think there is a website that has all of his "Bushisms" the famous "fool me never fool me again" and the like. I found it through the whackyourboss.com which by the way is a fun/sick and twisted way to kill your boss over and over again. Deals more with workers in cubicles but it can relate to more.

Hetep and Respect Gocards, good anger management, funny, tnx. Glad I no longer have a boss.

I've known plenty of Ivy League alumni who were bright and humane. Although being born to privilege apparently didn't do much for Bush as a whole person, he strikes me more as an example of the dim end of Texan culture. No disrespect to Texans in general, all of us have an unfortunate side to our subculture.

He's a Connecticut blueblood, the whole Texas thing is a fiction. He's a braindamaged loon, coddled by minders and used accordingly.

Texas has it's own problems along with a deserving reputation for well armed civility. George ain't no Texan, he's a pretender, his dad was a pretender, his dad was a pretender and the family have been war profiteers for generations.

Good point, Winsome. He certainly does a lot to fashion himself as a Texan and a gool ol' boy of the worst kind, but I don't want to get into speculation about which region should assume responsibility. He's his own piece of work.

"bush is an obtuse ivy league frat boy, .......... they live in a world so far removed from the common, every day, run of the mill american, they have no idea .... how we live....."

That is a ridulous narrow minded viewpoint, that makes you look no more intelligent than Bush.

but if nominating an african-american for president can happen, and quite possibly win, why not a someone from this mass of people; someone like....me, hahahahahah

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You have a problem with African Americans?

I thought the Dems were nominating a U.S. Senator from Illinois.

.......Someone like you!? I'd rather have Bush.

I'm not too fond of Redneck Racist.

('smatter ...the caps key on your board broken? ... or don't they teach rednecks how to capitalize.)

Jesse Jackson: "You are why I hate white people"

XD Thanks for a morning laugh, Mars.

Hopefully he won't make any trips to Africa, where he might thank them for cotton.......

I agreee. Bush is an insensitive, racist and stupid moron, but at least he wasn't lying.

Where's the satire tag for the last two comments?

Please say you forgot the satire tag.

Craig, this is the 21st Century and we are way past the point where being appreciative of a given ethnicity's tendency to produce people with certain skills can be construed as anything but an insult.

Perhaps, we are past that point. The real question is whether it is forward or backward movement. Don't get me wrong, true racism is disgusting. That being said, we as a people seem to have lost the ability to laugh at ourselves that used to be common.

Don't be quipping that racism, slavery, etc. was common too, because that's clearly taking my point out of context.

As for this comment? Well, not his best moment to be sure, but it also seems to me that it was not intended as a slur or insult. I don't like him as a President, but for different reasons than most of the knee-jerk, hysterical crowd.

I don't think the comments here Wollombi are meant to paint Bush as a deliberate racist rather I think they point up the fact that the man is simply not very bright.

Thats what happens when people vote for someone who they'd "rather have a beer with" to run the country...

Bush seems like a bore to have a beer with. Then again, so does Kerry.

My favorite hypothetical of the '04 election was:

"If you were broken down on the side of the road, which candidate would be more likely to stop and help you?"

And George W Bush got the most votes because Kerry was an "elitist" which just goes to show how well Bush's supporters know the Bush family history and their proud tradition of being die-hard elitists. Not only would Bush not stop to help you, if he did he'd just mess up your car because he's probably never changed a tire in his life..... I would bet that no Bush has.

Not only would he not help change the tire, he would argue that there is no need to, and nothing is wrong with it. It's only one out of four and It's only flat on one side! The Neo-cons will even give you a pretty and well thought out list, with cute little bullet points and pictures with neat little circles on it and arrows, on big charts, then the will have thier experts come in and talk about the science, behind the wheel, and claim that those who point out the one tire as using bad science.

Perhaps he'd invade the Department of Transportation for having the street you got a flat on in the first place.

Probably, but it would be the wrong street, and take 8 years, claiming that we have to stay because they love us.

I'm ethnic German and I think I'd make a great dictator.

There will be a dictator opening in the US soon, I think they are taking applications now, do you have a graduate degree in Dictatoring? It is probably a minimum qualification, having "Bush" as a surname helps a lot too.

Not "Dictator" just "Dick"

Tappy McWidestance: Your name alone gets my vote every-time. You from Idaho?

We get the leaders we deserve. (Now I said it.)

There is no mention of haveing Leaders, in the American Constitution. Not one word. So no, you got what you asked for.

There is no mention of having "Intelligence" in the Constitution either.

I guess the framers just assumed the people would have the intelligence to elect intelligent leaders.

They were wrong.

The American people today, think they have the inteligence to elect intelligent leaders.

George Bush is the result of that theory.

Every one needs to join Newsvine ...you "Get Smarter Here".

All you have to do is hit the 'track' button at the bottom of the page. ;)

Well there you have it. Thanks.

Thanx rbrazys, You just taught me something. Never too late for an ole dog to learn new trix.

How so? This is the same insensitive, combat-dodging, war pig, POTUS that said this after visiting with wounded veterans from the Amputee Care Center of Brooke Army Medical Center:

"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."

San Antonio, TX
01/01/2006

in combat with a cedar.

That's a tree. He was in combat with a tree.

SteveHouse, Exactly my point, he was in combat with a tree and got a scratch :(... He said this, with his little 'I'm so funny' smirk on his face, immediately after visiting AMPUTEES that lost limbs in real combat, which he purposely avoided while in the Air National Guard or whatever branch he pretended to be in.

Making this latest incident not so unbelievable as Ramon Lo suggests.

The Shrub does battle with The Cedar.

At least he didn't give her a back rub.

Whoever designated him the smirking chimp was a master of understatement and droll humor. The tragedy is that it is all too true. Even the elites in this country must sometimes be appalled.

Even the elites in this country must sometimes be appalled.

Only when he does something that causes them to lose a few million....

Even the elites in this country must sometimes be appalled.

If he'd only shut up and do what he's told...........

Wait, you feel anger, amazement, dumbfoundedness over a compliment? In what world is head chef at the White House a low prestige job?

I agree with your sentiment ytmnd, the point is that even compliments from this man sound like he's making jokes in poor taste.

But that's not news, he's never been much of a word-smith, and when he does say something that sounds enlightened and intelligent, you do a double-take.

Wait, you feel anger, amazement, dumbfoundedness over a compliment?

You don't get it ytmnd

In the first place, you don't open an interview with a head of state with conversation about the "kitchen help".

In the second place , if you read the article and clicked the link revealing the entire transcript of the conversation, you would realize that he made a fool of himself (and us) just with what he said and the way he said it.

As I said in my post 1.9 of this thread;

Any High School Class President could have conducted a more intelligent interview!

Interesting piece of research.

How does it relate to this discussion?

Not many men of so little talent are given the opportunity to accomplish so much...and waste it.

He really needs to be held up as an example of what must never again vote into office.

luckydog--that's a great quote--I may borrow that sometime. Fortunately, the countdown is on, and he'll be gone soon.

Feel free Chum. As soon as I typed it, it sort of felt right. I often wondered if some of the truly quotable people like Einstein actually sat down and deliberately set out to write memorable quotations?

Not many men of so little talent are given the opportunity to accomplish so much...and waste it.

At last the line I've been looking for to print on the George W. Bush bobblehead.
thanks luckydog!

Glad to help YIA!

LC3 got it right

He really needs to be held up as an example of what must never again vote into office.

If our country is to survive as a representative democratic republic we need to have Bush remain famous or rather infamous "as the worst president EVER" as a lesson to future politicians and voters. "Scared straight" I call it and no obviously that is not an original.

Or we could just elect Stephen Colbert and have a comedian-politician...

Bush is too arrogant to think 1. he's not funny or 2. it matter what other people think

I'm up for electing colbert

I'd vote Colbert, Lewis Black, or Bill Maher. Anyone but George "the cable guy" Bush.

Can we just stop trying to be witty

I think I can say without fear of contraception that you are right Newdraper. Let's leave humor to the professionals...

Agreed. But to attribute the dignity and identity of an entire nation?

Please, look at the whole picture.

The entire interview was a disaster!

Calling a Chef a '"cook" (even a "good" Cook) is and insult to any chef, let alone the Head Chef at the White House.

And, if he meant it as joke ....... you don't tell jokes when your sitting down to discuss a disaster such as the Filipinos have just suffered.

And, you don't open a conversation with a Head of State by discussing the "kitchen help".

He's an idiot.

I buy it!

Cheney, I would buy.

I can deal with evil ....

it's stupidity I have a problem with.

Sell brush souvenirs from his ranch on ebay. Don't laugh ya'all know you will be lining up to buy.

"I wonder what he plans to do after he ships back to Texas"

I heard that, if he is acquitted of the "War Crimes" charges, he plans to give public speaking lessons.

Dear Tbone,
Hope you enjoy your stay in Guantanimo.
GWB

Good one! Did Laura help you with that?

Heh, heh, heh. We got a special room waiting for you T-bone or should I say Osama's number 3 man in America? It's where we keep our 'problemo' guests so they can get a little xtra speshul spa treatment.