George W. Bush makes fun of his own grammar(Bushisms)

my pleasure and honor to introduce the President of the United States George W Bush thank you all very much Ballu thank you very much Laura and I are thrilled to be here I appreciate the members of the press I think you serve a very useful purpose especially tonight as you know we're studying safe levels for arsenic in drinking water to base our decision on sound science the scientists told us we needed to test the water glasses about 3000 people thank you for participating it's good to see so many members of the Congress here my fellow Texan Tom DeLay is here at the head table who asked me little earlier if Tom ever smiled I said I don't know I've only known him nine years Senator Lieberman is here as we all know we all know Joe is a Orthodox Jew so he does no work from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday this is so impressed me I myself I'm thinking of converting so I don't have nothing to do from sundown Saturday to sundown Friday most of you probably didn't know that I have a new book out some guy put together a collection of my wit and wisdom or as he calls it my accidental wit and wisdom but I'm kind of proud that my words are already in book form so like other authors I thought I'd read from it tonight it's like the thoughts of Chairman Mao only with laughs and not in Chinese here's one from the book and I actually said this I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully now that makes you stop and think anyone can give you a coherent sentence with something like this tation to an entirely new dimension here's another I understand small business growth I was one you know I love great literature Ashley said this in New Hampshire I appreciate preservation it's what you do when you run for president you got to preserve I don't have the slightest idea what I was saying or how about this one more and more of our imports come from overseas now most people would say in speaking of the economy we ought to make the pie bigger I however am on record saying we ought to make the pie higher it is a very complicated economic point I was making there but believe me what this country needs is taller pie and how about this for foreign policy vision when I was coming up it was a dangerous world and we knew exactly who they were it was us versus them and it was clear who them was today we're not so sure who they are but we know they're there john ashcroft by the way attributes the way I talked to my religious fervor in fact the first time we met he thought I was talking in tongues then there is my most famous statement rarely is the question asked is our children learning let us analyze that sentence for a moment if you're a stickler you probably think the singular verb is should have been the plural R but if you read it closely you'll see I'm using the intransitive plural subjunctive tense so the word is are correct finally let's see you worst miss out there diagram this sentence I said this may sound a little West Texan to you but what I'm talking about when I'm talking about myself and when he's talking about myself all of us are talking about me now ladies and gentlemen you have to admit in my sentences I go where no man has gone before but in closing but in closing the way I see it is I am a boon to the English language I've coined new words like misunderstanding and Hispanic Lee I've expanded the definition of words themselves using vulcanize when I met polarize Grecians when I met Greeks narrating when I met exhilarating and instead of barriers in tariffs I said terriers and Barriss and you know what life goes on my wife and my daughters still love me our military still protects our shores Americans still get up and go to work people still go out and have fun as we're doing tonight I don't think it's healthy to take yourself too seriously but what I do take seriously is my responsibility as president to all the American people into the office I hold and that is what I came tonight to tell you thank you for inviting me and thank you for your hospitality thank you very much mr. president for being with us and for those remarks

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Keywords: President Of The United States (Government Office Or Title), George W. Bush (US President), Fun, Radio Television Correspondents Dinner, Funny, Lol, Politics (TV Genre), grammar

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Length: 9min 15sec (555 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 13 2015