If George Bush were an adjective

Many a word has been used to describe George W. Bush. The most apt? “Honest,” said 31 of 751 respondents in a survey by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press. But then came “incompetent” (26 votes) and “arrogant” (24), followed by array of lower-scoring labels spanning “integrity” and “weasel.” Overall, Pew judged the word choices to be 40 derogatory and 36 percent favorable. Say this for our 43rd president: He’s unlikely to be remembered as unremarkable.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

57 Comments

  1. Nathan
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 12:53 am | Permalink

    If Rhonda were to be remembered as an adjective…

    (I will be nice and not list any of mine)

  2. Anon
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 5:15 am | Permalink

    The only nice description I can come up with is “on the way out.”

  3. dan newland
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 5:28 am | Permalink

    Heck he would have made a good democrat – or whatever he was told to be. Really, he’s probably a pretty nice guy, but people like Cheney and Rove and big corporations like Halliburton are EVIL. Just my opinion, I might be wrong. :)

  4. Kelly
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 5:55 am | Permalink

    “Flip-flopper” on the question of terminating anyone found to have been “involved” in the outing of Valerie Plame is appropriate.

  5. Emily
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 6:37 am | Permalink

    Well, I’ve always thought of the Shrub as an Alfred E. Newman type.

  6. Hammer
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 9:28 am | Permalink

    One of my favorites is “Lame” as in “Lame Duck”. (I won’t go into the ones that start with “F”)

  7. brown
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 10:46 am | Permalink

    I’ve always liked “box of rocks”. “Dishonest” is fairly accurate, but doesn’t cover everything.

  8. patriot
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 11:06 am | Permalink

    Because pain is such an easy thing to forget, this president will not be remembered by anyone within a few short years.

  9. Jimmy Bisoni
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 11:06 am | Permalink

    Re-elected is one of my personal faves.

  10. brown
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 11:47 am | Permalink

    You have to be elected before you can be re-elected. The supreme court stopped the Florida recount that gave the 2000 election to Bush. “Elected” in 2000 is a bit of a misleading term.

  11. dan newland
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 1:36 pm | Permalink

    Amen brown. How soon we do forget. eh? Talk about abuse of power !

  12. Snidely Whiplash
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 3:07 pm | Permalink

    How about “Missunderestimated”?

  13. Snidely Whiplash
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 3:08 pm | Permalink

    Or how about “Idiot”. I hear there’s a village in Texas that’s missing one.

  14. Snidely Whiplash
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 3:11 pm | Permalink

    Here’s one I really like.

    Former President,or Former president who resigned in disgrace.

  15. Ed Friedemann
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 3:26 pm | Permalink

    You gotta be kidding.

  16. Snidely Whiplash
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 3:28 pm | Permalink

    Ed, look at my face. Do I look like I’m kidding?

  17. Ed Friedemann
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 3:32 pm | Permalink

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  18. Ed Friedemann
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 3:35 pm | Permalink

    Not you Snidely Whiplash, I was refering to Ronda being kidding.

  19. Snidely Whiplash
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 3:45 pm | Permalink

    Oh….ok.

  20. Tara C
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 4:17 pm | Permalink

    How about “Babelicious”? Hoooo-eeey, I’d love to see the Pres in a speedo! Rawr!

    No really, I actually like “misunderestimated”. That would be my pick.

  21. Ed Friedemann
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 5:26 pm | Permalink

    Daft.

  22. Joe Williams
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 6:31 pm | Permalink

    Puppet?

  23. Ed Friedemann
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 6:34 pm | Permalink

    Daft Puppet.

  24. Ed Friedemann
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 10:57 pm | Permalink

    Doofus?

  25. J R
    Posted July 24, 2005 at 11:53 pm | Permalink

    An adjective that descibes Bush? Hmmmm how about WRONG. Definitive in many ways of the shrub I think.

  26. CF
    Posted July 25, 2005 at 9:08 am | Permalink

    I’m partial to ‘miscreant,’ which the OED defines as ‘depraved, villainous, base.’

    So, for example, one could say, ‘is there any depth to which this miscreant Administration will not stoop, in the course of misrepresenting its actions and covering up its corruption?’

    Has a nice ring to it, I think.

  27. Antares
    Posted July 25, 2005 at 4:10 pm | Permalink

    “Bush” should become a verb meaning “tell a despicable lie.”

    Don’t “Bush” me, man.

    Don’t listen to him, he’s a “Bush-er.”

    I was “Bushed” before, I’m not going to get “Bushed” again.

  28. Snidely Whiplash
    Posted July 25, 2005 at 4:31 pm | Permalink

    I think “Chimpy” works.

  29. Nola
    Posted July 25, 2005 at 9:19 pm | Permalink

    Is being Bushed rather like being amBushed? Fits, don’t you think?

  30. brown
    Posted July 25, 2005 at 10:36 pm | Permalink

    “Bushwhacked!”

  31. J R
    Posted July 25, 2005 at 11:19 pm | Permalink

    Given the scope of the damage he has caused, I suggest we use his name in place of the other four letter word.

    Hey! That’s pretty good too! Bush; the other four letter word. I like where Antares is going.Back to my original thought; Bush YOU!Oh Bush! Damn this Bush’in heat! What the Bush? I drank last night and got Bushed up. Don’t Bush with me!

  32. NoJoCo
    Posted July 26, 2005 at 7:52 am | Permalink

    How about “childish” – As in, “This blog is childish.” Thanks Rhonda, keep up the mediocre work.

  33. Nola
    Posted July 26, 2005 at 1:53 pm | Permalink

    Shrub is giving Alfred E. Newman a bad name. And if you aren’t earning over $500,000. a year, you, my friends, have been “Bushwhacked”.

  34. Snidely Whiplash
    Posted July 26, 2005 at 4:03 pm | Permalink

    Has anybody considered “Despot”?

  35. Snidely Whiplash
    Posted July 26, 2005 at 4:04 pm | Permalink

    How about “tin-pot Dictator”?

  36. Ed Friedemann
    Posted July 26, 2005 at 9:04 pm | Permalink

    H0W ABOUT: Sharon must think he’s “Budda” with Bush on his knees in front of him. Surely it couldn’t be “that other thing,” or could it?……OH….MAN…SICK

  37. Snidely Whiplash
    Posted July 26, 2005 at 9:49 pm | Permalink

    Damn Ed, now you got me sick, LOL!

  38. Ed Friedemann
    Posted July 27, 2005 at 10:51 am | Permalink

    Well, What’s good enough for Iraqi “Detainees” is even better for Bushy-boy. Americans really hate Bush, that’s why he won’t read me! A taste of his own medicine?

    Man, can I flush-out those Zionists or what? I love to hear them squeal and squeal they will at my new column. Wait for IT.

  39. Ed Friedemann
    Posted July 28, 2005 at 11:16 am | Permalink

    Because I am the greatest thing that ever happened to journalism, I get to name Bush: ” OLE YELLOWCAKE ”

    Hammer, as my trusted assistant, explain to the multitude what that stands for. Please.

  40. Hammer
    Posted July 28, 2005 at 2:40 pm | Permalink

    “Hammer, as my trusted assistant, explain to the multitude what that stands for. Please”

    Ed, either you’ve lost your f**king mind, or someone is using your name.

  41. Ed Friedemann
    Posted July 28, 2005 at 5:17 pm | Permalink

    Hammer, That’s a play on ole “yellowstain” { Capt. Quege {spl} Can’t think of the movie, but Bogart was looking for stolen strawberries. Best, Ed

  42. Hammer
    Posted July 28, 2005 at 5:27 pm | Permalink

    That’s not the point. I’m not anybody’s “assistant”.

  43. Ed Friedemann
    Posted July 28, 2005 at 6:04 pm | Permalink

    Hammer, Of course you’re not my “assistant.” Lighten-up. The written word doesn’t carry the humor very well, but you can help it out. Example: Aw yes, dear “ole Yellowcake” was our hero until we found him under Clinton’s desk helping “Monica.”

    Chocolate layered YELLOWCAKE has long been known to be “radio active” and is the main ingredient in a ” Bushy-Bomb.”

  44. Damoon
    Posted July 29, 2005 at 9:42 pm | Permalink

    I could be wrong, Ed, but wasn’t it the “The Cain Mutiny”?

  45. Ed Friedemann
    Posted July 30, 2005 at 8:34 pm | Permalink

    Damoon, As my trusted “researcher” you are right. “The Cain Muinity” is correct. Now please do not bitch about being my “researcher.”

    { grumbling staffers }

  46. Maezeppa
    Posted March 27, 2006 at 9:48 pm | Permalink

    “Sociopathic”.

  47. Ian Santiago
    Posted March 27, 2006 at 9:55 pm | Permalink

    TRAITOROUS!!!!!

    Viva La Raza Blanco!!

  48. J R
    Posted March 27, 2006 at 9:56 pm | Permalink

    Hey a blast from the past! I’ll play. WORST

  49. J R
    Posted March 27, 2006 at 10:03 pm | Permalink

    An adjective for bush? Embarrassing

  50. seattle
    Posted April 6, 2006 at 1:43 pm | Permalink

    heres one : bushy

  51. Ben Huie
    Posted April 6, 2006 at 1:50 pm | Permalink

    Pathological liar

  52. J R
    Posted April 6, 2006 at 1:53 pm | Permalink

    I think bush should become it’s OWN adjective. The Germans have a word “gemutlich” it doesn’t have a clear meaning. It just conveys a sense of happy wonderfulness. “bush” would convey the opposite……the abject depths of misery and evil

  53. Rage
    Posted April 6, 2006 at 1:56 pm | Permalink

    “Boy king.”

  54. CrusaderX
    Posted April 6, 2006 at 1:56 pm | Permalink

    oil whore

  55. ksfarmgrrl
    Posted April 6, 2006 at 2:02 pm | Permalink

    bed wetter

  56. Ed Friedemann
    Posted April 6, 2006 at 2:23 pm | Permalink

    “The Chosen One”

  57. Ed Friedemann
    Posted April 6, 2006 at 2:28 pm | Permalink

    Who pasted me?