Dumbya: "You know how the rich is..."

[MrBenchley]

pResident fuckwit displays his keen grasp of economics and the plight of the middle class....

"He (the next President) said he's only going to raise the tax on the so-called rich. But you know how the rich is, they've got accountants. That means you pay. That means your small business pays. It means the farmers and ranchers pay. That's the wrong medicine for this economy, and we're not going to let him prescribe it."

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040731/nysa015_1.html

So vote for Bush because otherwise the accountants of the rich will terrorize ranchers and farmers? If Kerry makes the rich pay taxes, accountants will go on a killing spree? Or will it be the rich who are going to rob small businesses if they have to pay their fair share? If you use an accountant, you're rich? The right medicine for the economy is to get rid of accountants?

The more you think about this, the less it makes sense. But that's what happens when you put an overmedicated idiot near a public address system.

[LittleApple81]

1. I thought it was a typo!!! the rich IS???? and he wants no child left

behind??? English left bush behind a long time ago!!!

[SammyWinstonJack]

6. Is our children learning?

That's our bush*!

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

10. Yep, that's what the official White House transcript says

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/07/20040731-2.html

[Kipepeo]

20. Bush has a rich record

on education:

"I said, 'No, we're not going to take your Goals 2000 money. There are too many strings. I can't cite you the strings. I was just told that there are to many strings.' And so I said no." - (Bush, recounting his answer to an officer from the Clinton administration to send a package of education funds to Texas, CSPAN, 1/25/99)

"Higher education is not my priority." - (San-Antonio Express News, 3/22/98)

"Laura and I sometimes don't realize how bright our children is until we get an objective analysis." - (Meet the Press, 4/15/00)

"Reading is the basics for all learning." - (Reston, Virginia, 3/28/00)

"How do you know if you don't measure up if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?" - (Hilton Head, South Carolina, 2/16/00)

"Governor Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure." - (Speaking of himself in the third person, Florence, South Carolina, 1/11/00)

"Rarely is the question asked, 'Is our children learning?'" - (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1/11/00)

These were all compiled by Paul Begala in "Is our Children Learning": http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0743214781/103-2155129-5256631?v=glance

[MrBenchley]

26. Soemtimes you can tell what it is he's trying to say....

This statement makes no sense in any way....

[ClintonTyree]

2. That makes...............

no sense whatsoever. You're correct, we shouldn't expect anything else form him. I think it's time to adjust his meds again, he's coming unglued.

[MrBenchley]

28. What's hilarious

is that I think what he's trying to do here is pose as a populist attacking the rich...like THAT's going to fool anybody.

[Cheneys_former_heart]

3. He's trying to be "folksy" in his Andover/Harvard Grad way

So if he uses incorrect grammar like a hillbilly, they think he's just like them.

[MrBenchley]

29. And the "logic" or whatever the fuck it is!

Yes,friends, if Kerry tries to tax the rich they might be able to evade it, so vote for me because I won't even try to tax rich people....

[Sugarbleus]

4. LMAO!!! Thanks for trying to interpret this....lol

accountants will go on a killing spree?

Ahhh, dreaming of a leader who can actually THINK, let alone talk. lol

[cally]

5. The actual quote is so much worse than I paraphrased

Why anyone votes for him is beyond explanation.

[MrBenchley]

30. Appalling, isn't it?

Yep...no doubt rich people are going to screw working people unless we vote for pResident Halliburton, I mean Enron, no, what's his name again?

[Bluebear]

46. "The ranchers and farmers pays!"

That is the unscrubbed excerpt from his little speech.

[cosmicvortex20]

7. I really wish for a flat rate national sales tax...

we could put an end to a lot of this class warfare going on, not to mention save a ton of money simplying the system.

[Protected]

13. Then the Bill Gates and Warren Buffetts of the nation

would be even better off.

[DieboldMustDie]

24. Then all of America could be just like Texas...

where the poorest people pay, proportional to their incomes, more than twice as much in taxes as the rich do. :crazy:

[MrBenchley]

31. What a terrible idea...

in every way...

[Art_from_Ark]

48. Sales taxes are regressive

meaning that they have the greatest impact on the people with the lowest incomes.

[newyawker99]

52. Hi cosmicvortex20!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. The rich are different from you and me.....

WAAAY different.

[MrBenchley]

32. Not even close to "as good as" in any way...

but different...

[Jade Fox]

9. The so-called rich? What are they, a myth?

I don't think defending the rich against taxes is going to work too well.

[DieboldMustDie]

27. He also refers to them in the third person...

like he's not one of them.

[MrBenchley]

34. Diud you catch that Tom Ridge is thinking about qutting...

because he can't muddle along on just $175,700 a year? And that some staffer told the press this week that if poor people couldn't find a job they should take a prozac and tough it out?

[Algorem]

11. Heard him say that on cbs evening news tonight,could barely believe it .

Anyone that believes this conman clown...

[NightTrain]

12. Just remember--the filthy rich: your first line of defense!

:eyes:

[MrBenchley]

35. Kenny-boy was all that stood between me and an accountant...

it was chilling...

[leesa]

14. Damn rights that's how the rich is...they never pay their share of taxes

Thanks for pointing that out to us.

[MO_Dem]

17. That would make an excellent

MoveOn ad--a deep voice says "George Bush says the rich don't pay their fair share of taxes", then show a clip of Bush saying "you know how the rich is, they've got accountants".

(Bet he didn't have to learn that bit of wisdom from Unca Dick, either)

[kentuck]

22. Does that mean he agrees with Kerry's idea about closing loopholes?

Or would that be a "flip-flop"?

[MO_Dem]

39. Aw, shucks,

don't try to confuse him with complicated questions like that. Ya know, he's just a simple-minded, er, uh, ah, simple man.

[MichiganVote]

15. This must be addressed for Kerry to triumph

"THE PRESIDENT: Senator Kerry tried to explain his vote this way: I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it. (Laughter.) End quote. (Laughter.) Now, he's offering different explanations. At one time he said he was proud that he and his running mate voted against the funding for the troops. And then he said: The whole thing is a complicated matter. (Laughter.) There's nothing complicated about supporting our troops in combat. (Applause.)

In one paragraph he is able to (wrongly) but effectively portray Kerry as an intellectual and ineffective, callous "politician" while identifying himself with the audience.

Better get on it Kerry. The mantra is repeated in every town he visits.

[yardwork]

16. Good lord

this man is an incredible embarrassment.

[MrBenchley]

36. Anybody remember Arthur Andersen, the accountants?

And then at the end he mentions "prescribe"...and goodness knows he handled THAT prescription issue so well, too....

[markses]

18. I saw him say that on the CBS Evening News

It was the most bizarre and incoherent statement I've heard in quite some time - but then again, I usually turn Bushy off after thre words.

"The rich have accountants."

If I'm not mistaken, that should be the Kerry campaign slogan. What an asshat Bush is.

[renegade000]

19. ummm....forgive me

but...what the hell does that mean?

[Tight_rope]

38. Any attempt to rationalize Bush could freeze the brain permanently!

Sorry...only republicans can understand the "Bush Ideology".:crazy:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

42. Shrubya was trying, in his own DELIGHTFUL and CHARMING way,

to make the point that if Kerry tried to increase the tax burden on the wealthy, this would essentially result in more taxes on the middle class, because those rascals, the wealthy (1,000 dollar bills falling out of his jacket) hire their devious accountants and don't pay taxes, so the burden will wind up being on Joe Farmer and Small Biz owner.

It's mind boggling in so many ways.

First of all, he is trying to pass a statement like this off as a justification of his economic policy!

Secondly, it says something about his base, and himself, since, last I checked, they were all pretty rich.

If I don't see a Kerry campaign ad featuring this I will be sorely pissed.

Jon Stewart/Daily Show, where are you?

[renegade000]

45. yes

i saw that either it was a typical bush mis-saying, or it implied that rich people schemed their way out of taxes...which is, as you said, a pretty outrageous thing to say for him. so i was...quite confused...

bush trying to be populist while insulting his base....what a thought.

[kentuck]

21. That's how the dumb is....

They can lie and get away with it because they don't know what the hell they is talking about because they sound so sincere that other peoples believe he are telling the truth also...

[calimary]

23. "...you know how the rich IS"?

?...you know how the rich IS"?

Oh.

My.

God.

They talk about the dumbing-down of America. No wonder THAT got into the Oval Office.

[Tight_rope]

25. WTF! ..........BUSH IS USING BAD ENGLISH AGAIN!...I can't stand it!

Bush: "But you know how the rich is, they've got accountants."

Translation: But you know how the rich are, they hire accountants.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

49. He also said "It's the farmers that pays." And a few others like that.

Folksy is one thing. Pure unadulterated dumbass is another.

[Tight_rope]

33. "The problems that exist in the world today......

cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." -Albert Einstein

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

37. Is that an actual transcript of his speech?

Read the audience commentaries:

"BOO!"

"He's a flip-flopper!" (A single audience member)

"Aww!" (In response to *'s comment that Laura isn't there)

This is without a doubt the most scripted presidency I have ever witnessed. For an administration and a political party that seems to decry Hollywood, they are definitely mired in cheap theatrics.

[MrBenchley]

41. Unbelievable, isn't it?

[Tight_rope]

40. "As people do better, they start voting like Republicans...unless

they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.” - Karl Rove (Karl Rove: George W. Bush's chief strategist. Consultant to U.S. Senators Phil Gramm, Kay Bailey Hutchison and many other right-wing politicians.)

[Pithlet]

43. They know that they're assholes

and they get a big kick out of it. How nauseating.

[walldude]

44. Now that is hilarious

[Zen Democrat]

47. Wanna watch the video of this? Here's the link

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/07/25/politics/main631657.shtml

On right side, scroll down to "Video" -- President Bush spends most of his campaign day (yada yada).

You can watch and hear him in all his moronic glory. I especially love the part where he says he spent time today talking to some workers. Says they are worried about their jobs. They are concerned. Bush says "So am I." Ha ha ha.

[Disturbed]

50. He tellin' the truth.

The rich do got accountants that figger out how to get them from payin' taxes. Ok, then. Why give 'em any tax breaks then? Doh! ;)

HOw 'bout thos Corps that don't pay any taxes and lobby for welfare that the Middle Class tax payers foot the bill for? Anybody in Congress gonna do somethin' 'bout that? Hmmmm?

[TaleWgnDg]

51. hahahahahahahahaha . . .

"when you put an overmedicated idiot near a public address system.
" . . .

:dem: