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hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 04:12 PM Oct 2015

Chimpy now enjoying status as "the smarter Bush."

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/george-w-bush-enjoying-new-status-as-smarter-bush?intcid=mod-most-popular

After years of being subjected to unfair ridicule, former President George W. Bush is now enjoying his newfound status as the smarter of the two Bush brothers to have achieved elected office.

Speaking to reporters at his home in Dallas, Bush said he was deriving “quiet satisfaction” from a new poll showing that ninety-one per cent of the American people now consider him the smarter Bush.

“I know that no one’s saying I’m a genius,” he said, modestly. “But I look pretty good when I’m graded on a curve.”

Yes, it's Borowitz.
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Chimpy now enjoying status as "the smarter Bush." (Original Post) hifiguy Oct 2015 OP
lol... SummerSnow Oct 2015 #1
Aren't there other brothers? brush Oct 2015 #4
Psst... Spitfire of ATJ Oct 2015 #21
is our bush's learning? snooper2 Oct 2015 #2
I'd say something about it being hard to put food on your Bush... DisgustipatedinCA Oct 2015 #5
What's even more scary is that he's the smartest of the last 3 governors in TX. hobbit709 Oct 2015 #3
It will not surprise me in the near future tabasco Oct 2015 #14
Yay! vlakitti Oct 2015 #22
Heaven help us. NV Whino Oct 2015 #6
That's damning with ryan_cats Oct 2015 #7
Here's the jaw-dropper - now that Jeb is using Shrub on the campaign trail, bullwinkle428 Oct 2015 #8
He has a "far superior command of the English language". pacalo Oct 2015 #9
Whodda thunk that gene pool could have gotten even shallower? merrily Oct 2015 #10
He is still dumb as a rock for allowing Cheney do what he did. darkangel218 Oct 2015 #11
This is Andy Borowitz. hifiguy Oct 2015 #12
I noticed. darkangel218 Oct 2015 #13
Smartest of the Bush brothers is like saying tabasco Oct 2015 #15
Or being the finest hockey player hifiguy Oct 2015 #16
You will be amazed how much smarter Jebthro will ''become'' between now and January. Octafish Oct 2015 #17
.. Liberal_in_LA Oct 2015 #18
Kevin McCarthy must have gone to the George W. Bush School of Public Speaking. Vinca Oct 2015 #19
Attended the RNC "How to talkin' real good" course. n/t sarge43 Oct 2015 #20
Bush's finest hour hifiguy Oct 2015 #24
Neil and Marvin Thespian2 Oct 2015 #23
I love good satire Gothmog Oct 2015 #25

brush

(53,475 posts)
4. Aren't there other brothers?
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 04:19 PM
Oct 2015

The savings and loans crook and another ne'er-do-well?

Nobody talks about them, as if they aren't to ever be mentioned.

 

DisgustipatedinCA

(12,530 posts)
5. I'd say something about it being hard to put food on your Bush...
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 04:23 PM
Oct 2015

...but I think that's an established Internet fetish already.

 

tabasco

(22,974 posts)
14. It will not surprise me in the near future
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 05:13 PM
Oct 2015

when a bag of rotten potatoes is elected governor of a state.

Palin, Bush, Perry, Walker, Schwarzenegger, LePage. Don't get me started on some of the imbeciles in Congress. It's enough to make a person lose faith in democracy.

bullwinkle428

(20,627 posts)
8. Here's the jaw-dropper - now that Jeb is using Shrub on the campaign trail,
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 04:46 PM
Oct 2015

you KNOW there are going to be attendees just swooning over W, and saying things like "Why can't we have HIM back in the White House!"

pacalo

(24,721 posts)
9. He has a "far superior command of the English language".
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 04:58 PM
Oct 2015

“When I was President, I got a lot of grief from people who didn’t think my English was too good,” he said. “I think now they’re realizing it could have been worser.”

merrily

(45,251 posts)
10. Whodda thunk that gene pool could have gotten even shallower?
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 05:00 PM
Oct 2015

No wonder Barbs didn't want him to run.

And to think: charter schools are his thing.

 

tabasco

(22,974 posts)
15. Smartest of the Bush brothers is like saying
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 05:15 PM
Oct 2015

the softest of the ball peen hammers in the tool box.

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
17. You will be amazed how much smarter Jebthro will ''become'' between now and January.
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 05:20 PM
Oct 2015

It doesn't matter if a poll says he's got 4-percent. That's enough for a plausible deniability.

Vinca

(50,170 posts)
19. Kevin McCarthy must have gone to the George W. Bush School of Public Speaking.
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 05:35 PM
Oct 2015

"Our children is learnin'."

Thespian2

(2,741 posts)
23. Neil and Marvin
Tue Oct 6, 2015, 07:15 PM
Oct 2015

Neil is the giant brain that helped Silverado collapse and drain millions of dollars from unsuspecting people...Savings and Loan scandal...
Neil is involved with digital programs for schools...purchased by his brother JEBthro when he was fucking over the Florida school systems...
Marvin's business is mainly helping corporations send jobs away from America and putting their money in off-shore accounts...


All members of America's largest crime family...

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