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- 01010110, on 11/17/2008, -19/+542I'm really surprised "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" didn't make this list.
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -7/+329"I believe that man and fish can Coexist peacefully." George W. Bush
"I know you're working hard to put food on your Family." George W. Bush
"Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." George W. Bush
"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." George W. Bush
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." George W. Bush - dongcha9, on 11/17/2008, -2/+310bad weather "is a little like rape. As long as it's inevitable, just relax and enjoy it." - Clayton Williams while running for Governor of Texas...he didn't win.
- jackelopeus, on 11/18/2008, -4/+1771. Richard M. Nixon - 1973
"I am not a crook."
On November 17, 1973, President Richard Nixon infamously denied any involvement in the Watergate scandal with his now timeless defense. Thing is, he was.
2. Bill Clinton - 1998
"I did not have sexual relations with that woman."
With those words, President Clinton didn't just dig himself a hole, he stole a backhoe, dug a really deep hole, drove the backhoe into the hole, wired the backhoe with explosives and blew it up. Strenuously denying his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky at a January press conference, Clinton was later impeached by the House of Representatives for lying about the matter under oath.
3. George H.W. Bush - 1988
"Read my lips: no new taxes."
That pledge was the centerpiece of Bush's acceptance address, written by speechwriter Peggy Noonan, for his party's nomination at the 1988 Republican National Convention. It was a strong, decisive, bold statement, and you don't need a history degree to see where this is going. As presidents sometimes must, Bush raised taxes. His words were used against him by then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton in a devastating attack ad during the 1992 presidential campaign.
4. John McCain - 2008
"The fundamentals of the economy are strong."
Senator McCain was probably trying to be reassuring, as Presidents ought to be in times of turmoil and stress. Yet, when investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy hours after he made this statement during the 2008 campaign, McCain looked shockingly out of touch. His opponent, Barack Obama, wasted no opportunity to repeat McCain's statement, a particularly effective attack as the economy went further and further south.
5. Jimmy Carter - 1976
"I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times."
The decision to do an interview with Playboy magazine was possibly not the best call of President Carter's tenure. Yet, it was all going pretty well until he started talking about the Bible and adultery. Now, Carter's not actually admitting anything shocking. Most men would probably say, "Yep, been there." But presidents rarely (and for good reason) venture into the land of "too much information": Ideally, they should exist on a higher plane than the rest of us. It was an uncomfortable moment for America.
6. Mark Foley - 1998
"It's vile. It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual addiction."
This quote is more ironic than a whole double-CD album of Alanis Morrissette songs. Republican Rep. Mark Foley, having uttered this gem at the height of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, was brought down by an addiction to sexually explicit text messages to male congressional pages. It's like rain on your wedding day.
7. Lyndon B. Johnson - 1964
"We still seek no wider war."
President Johnson announced to the nation after the Gulf of Tonkin incident in August, 1964 that the U.S. would not rise to the bait after what was considered a provocative attack from Hanoi. While the American government claimed that North Vietnamese warships had attacked U.S. vessels in the Gulf, it later turned out to be the opposite. The Vietnam escalation followed shortly thereafter.
8. Bill Clinton - 1998
"That depends on what the meaning of 'is' is."
The lowest point in President Clinton's public life, the Sept. 1998 release of the Ken Starr report also provided what might have been the lowest and most desperate of legal defenses: Clinton reached new depths of word-parsing during his videotaped August 17 testimony in front of a grand jury. Until then, America hadn't been sure there was more than one definition of "is." Just to be clear, there isn't.
9. Herbert Hoover - 1929
"The fundamental business of the country, that is, production and distribution of commodities, is on a sound and prosperous basis."
Thus declared President Hoover on Oct. 25, 1929. Sound familiar? Four days later, the stock market crashed, depression followed and Hoover became a joke. And yet all of this seemed to have been news to John McCain.
10. Richard Nixon - 1973
"You know, I always wondered about that taping equipment but I'm damn glad we have it, aren't you?"
President Nixon actually said this to Watergate co-conspirator H.R. Haldeman in April 1973, weeks before the U.S. Senate began its nationally televised hearings. Oh, Tricky Dick, you so crazy. - mwunsch, on 11/17/2008, -3/+106"I am the decider, and I decide"
- jenshik, on 11/18/2008, -3/+98Did that really need 10 pages? I spent more time waiting for each page to load than I did reading the article, and the printable version's worse.
- pintomp3, on 11/18/2008, -8/+92LOL, spaza is still at it.
- ileftfark, on 11/17/2008, -2/+79Actually both quotes are attributed to McCain.
- RadInfinitum, on 11/18/2008, -21/+93"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened' "
- Joe Biden - directedition, on 11/18/2008, -0/+71"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures where there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means there is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe."
-- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89 - Elranzer, on 11/18/2008, -4/+73It must be bliss to be absolutely insane.
- acmaurer, on 11/17/2008, -1/+58"oh tricky dick, you so crazy" - sadly my favorite one-liner was part of the last caption.
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -1/+58insert ads and 10 pages then maybe ill read this
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -0/+53He imagined being buried deep into some congressional pages.
- AdeleMor, on 11/17/2008, -0/+52ah mark foley. did you ever think you'd be buried deep in a political one liner slideshow?
- AncientWeird, on 11/18/2008, -0/+49his wife
/not kidding - SoloMalee, on 11/18/2008, -0/+47Freudian - yes
Classic Bush quote - certainly
True - quite probably
Thanks's for adding my personal favourite to the thread (Our enemies...)! - diggB, on 11/18/2008, -0/+46"As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It's Alaska."
- wardawg31, on 11/18/2008, -3/+46Stand up and let em see you Chuck!
-Joe Biden - ohnoerino, on 11/17/2008, -12/+55More like "Top 10 WTF political statements".
- Xtanto, on 11/18/2008, -0/+43I see Time can copypasta from wiki!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_cat ...
Go to US section to see them. - Inaktivist, on 11/18/2008, -0/+41I don't believe either of them were questions.
- theaceoffire, on 11/18/2008, -2/+43True. They had succeeded in selling us the war against the wrong people.
- inactive, on 11/18/2008, -1/+41Now watch this drive.
- nmezib, on 11/18/2008, -2/+42Needs more McCain
"Some people are saying some pretty bad things about Western Pennsylvanians.... and I couldn't agree with them more!..." During a rally in, guess where? Western Pennsylvania. - Aguyinachair, on 11/18/2008, -2/+39Everything is a little like rape, after a while, you just get used to it.
- wardawg31, on 11/18/2008, -5/+41"Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs." --Joe Biden
- heiroglyph, on 11/18/2008, -0/+36These were all from politicians.
- roctimo, on 11/18/2008, -0/+35Joe Biden is a gaffe machine.
- AltairMetamorf, on 11/18/2008, -9/+44No Bush?
- wardawg31, on 11/18/2008, -2/+36Actual quote,
In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7/11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking. - Vorin, on 11/17/2008, -29/+62no "hot bottled water to dehydrated babies?" -George W
no "At least I don’t plaster on the makeup like a trollop you *****?" - John McCain - inactive, on 11/18/2008, -0/+33McCain probably heard Hoover make it.
- Thinkerofthings, on 11/18/2008, -2/+35I know you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure that you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Richard Nixon - Treshnell, on 11/18/2008, -3/+35Too easy.
- commentposted, on 11/18/2008, -4/+36No Dan Quayle?
- liljay2k, on 11/18/2008, -0/+32‘Fool me once, shame on … shame on you. … Fool me, can’t get fooled again.’
- homercles337, on 11/18/2008, -1/+32Wow, i never would have guessed that Spaz is 48 years old. He acts like a ***** child. 12 or 13 would have been my guess.
- switchmullet, on 11/18/2008, -0/+31 The URL contained a malformed video ID.
- Elranzer, on 11/18/2008, -1/+31They only had room for 10. Not the entire known sentences Dubya has spoken between January 20, 2001 and January 19th, 2009.
- wardawg31, on 11/18/2008, -8/+38You need to speak Indian to visit a 7-Eleven around here.
-Joe Biden - Vorin, on 11/18/2008, -1/+31my mistake, sorry
- eco57, on 11/18/2008, -1/+30This is a fairly unimaginative list.
- nastri83, on 11/18/2008, -0/+29The Hoover and McCain quotes are too similar for my liking.
- Mujokan, on 11/18/2008, -1/+28I thought the official explanation was that the navy guys put that up on their own to say that their carrier's mission was accomplished, and the White House had nothing to do with it. Now I'm confused about which talking point to believe. :/
- jer21, on 11/18/2008, -4/+31"Ich bin ein Berliner"....and the crowd went *****' wild.
- drachemorder, on 11/18/2008, -5/+32Obama --- he sees dead people.
- theaceoffire, on 11/18/2008, -0/+26"Pour me another" - Samuel Adams.
- SwordofKahless, on 11/18/2008, -1/+27Urban Legend: "I am a jelly donut"
From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner
"The legend seems to stem from a play on words with Berliner, the name of a doughnut variant filled with jam or plum sauce that is thought to have originated in Berlin.
In fact, Kennedy's statement is both grammatically correct[3] and perfectly idiomatic, and cannot be misunderstood in context. The urban legend is not widely known within Germany, where Kennedy's speech is considered a landmark in the country's postwar history.[4] The indefinite article ein can be and often is omitted when speaking of an individual's profession or residence but is necessary when speaking in a figurative sense as Kennedy did. Since the president was not literally from Berlin but only declaring his solidarity with its citizens, "Ich bin Berliner" would not have been correct.[5]" - writer0213, on 11/18/2008, -1/+26This list could go on for quite a while.
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