>GOOD GRIEF, CHIEF!
GEORGE BUSH MAY BE ONE OF THE few people whose extemporaneous utterances make those of Ronald Reagan sound cogent. Judge for yourself in this selection from Bushisms (Workman, $4.95), compiled by the editors of The New Republic:
•Please don't ask me to do that which I've just said I'm not going to do, because you're using up time; the meter is running through the sand on you, and I am now filibustering. News conference, April 20, 1989
•Fluency in English is something that I'm often not accused of. June 6, 1989
•We're enjoying sluggish times, and not enjoying them very much. Jan. 2, 1992
•I mean a child that doesn't have a parent to read to that child or that doesn't see that when the child is hurting to have a parent and help out or neither parent there enough to pick the kid up and dust him off and send him back into the game or whatever, that kid has a disadvantage. Jan. 3, 1992
•All I was doing was appealing for an endorsement, not suggesting you endorse it. A Governors' meeting, Feb. 3, 1992
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