In this final glorious week of the Bush presidency, I'm starting to get a bit sentimental. After all, who can forget when the lovable oaf coined the term "misunderestimated" (which he revived in his final press conference this week), when he proudly announced "Mission Accomplished" (only slightly prematurely), or when he fell off his Segway (which is, by design, virtually impossible)?He took "faux-Texan-cowboy-who-was-actually-a-Connecticut-born-college-cheerleader" to new heights and made it into such a marketable political brand that Americans were gullible enough to go for yet again after his first round of screw-ups should have taught them otherwise. (Again, in all fairness, John Kerry was a veritable bore.)
So to commemorate this final seven days of a true American dynasty, I shall pluck from my "Out of Office Countdown" calendar that I received from my grandmother last Christmas some of my favorite Bush memories. (Nobody knows you like your family, right?)
So turn on Sarah MacLachlan's "I Will Remember You" and grab a bag of pretzels, because without further ado, day one...
"The march to war hurt our economy. Laura reminded me a while ago that remember what was on the TV screens--she calls me, 'George W.' I call her, 'First Lady.' No, anyway--she said, we said, march to war on our TV screen."
-Bay Shore, NY, 3/11/04
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