Bush: "Childrens Do Learn"

3:41 pm EST September 26th, 2007 | News | 2 Comments

No surprise, but the President Of The United States is a farking idiot.

As a candidate, George W. Bush once asked, “Is our children learning?”

On Wednesday, he had an answer.

“Childrens do learn,” he said.

The setting was, yes, an education event where the president was taking credit for rising test scores and promoting congressional renewal of his signature education law. To create the right image, he summoned the city’s school chancellor, a principal, some teachers and 20 eager students from P.S. 76.

The visual worked fine. The oral? Not so much. For Bush, it was a classic malapropism, the sort of verbal miscue that occasionally bedevils him in public speaking and provides his critics easy fodder for ridicule.

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2 Responses to “Bush: "Childrens Do Learn"”

  1. bryan says:
    September 26, 2007 at 4:49 pm

    I’m sure it’s not a malapropism. If you said ” A player tore his cartridge” (when you meant ‘cartiledge’), THAT is a malapropism. Trust me, I’ve seen the (very funny) play.
    That said, the guy is a terrible speaker. Saying that Mandela was dead the other day was another howler.

  2. SpiderJ says:
    September 28, 2007 at 9:49 am

    I’m giving Bush the Mandela comment; I understood what he meant, and he’s not wrong in that anybody who could have stepped up to be a Nelson Mandela for Iraq has either been driven off, shunted into hiding, or killed by those whose power reigns in chaos and fear.

    I know that he’s probably mandated to make appearances, but otherwise I can’t understand how his handlers let him speak.