Dumbarse Politician Said WHAT??

[StormInateacup]

OK this is a thread where we can put all the really dumbarsed thing any political figure from anywhere in the world says or has said (historicsl anecdotes welcome...try not to spam it up with to0o much Bush 0K he's an easy target I know, but he's no bloody orphan.....)

I'll start:

Recent Highlights of the Dumbarsed Politician Said What?? Olympics included:


1: Mitt Romney said he didn't go to Vietnam because he was "too important". To a live audience, full of Vietnam Viets - at the California Primaries.

You know...all those insignificant people who could get shot at for the red white and blue.

He was a big hit with his audience...and from the sounds of the guy who told him to get fucked - very nearly a big hit on Mittens's jaw.

www.project.nsearch.com/profiles/blogs/mitt-romney-i-was-too-important-to-go-to-vietnam

2:A Missouri Senate Nominee, Todd Akin says "Legitimate rape doesn't result in Pregnancy", so no need for abortions after rape then. Legitimate raope - as opposed to all the illegitimate kind huh?? Women's bodies "shut down"....any sperm which finds its way to a womb must have had an invitation....

If you're up the stick, then by the time they apprehend the assailant - we all know you're a lying slag!!

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/19/republican-todd-akin-rape-pregnancy?newsfeed=true

3: The Speaker of The House in Australian Federal Parliament, Peter Slipper, asked his male assistant to shower with the door open while in a hotel room with Mr Slipper. He also enquired if the young man liked "twinks or bears" (Gay slang for age/body types in a partner) and regularly sent the young man kisses at the end of text messages about Parliamentary business.


The young man complained and is seeking damages.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133074/Australian-government-gay-sex-scandal-claims-Parliamentary-Speaker-62-employed-young-male-adviser-pursue-relationship.html


And from the annals of history. Ronald Reagan once famously said after a visit to Latin America:

"Well, I learned a lot....I went down to Latin America to find out from them and learn their views. You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries"


And just one from George Bush, when announcing his sustainability policies for the fisheries industry:

"I believe it is possible for human beings and fish to co-exist peacefully."

[kelly]

Good goddess, did Romney really say that?



Here's a couple, but none can top yours:

''I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office.''
George W. Bush

''See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.''
George W. Bush

"I have opinions of my own --strong opinions-- but I don't always agree with them."
George W. Bush



"I was under medication when I made the decision to burn the tapes" Richard Nixon

[The Mad Hatter]

"Let them eat cake."

[Deleted]

''I think that gay marriage should be between a man and a woman.''
—California Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneger


''I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.''
—Dan Quayle

[Random Panther]

''When the president does it,it's not illegal''

Richard Nixon.

[kelly]

Aug 21, 2012 4:14:36 GMT -5 StormInateacup said:

OK this is a thread where we can put all the really dumbarsed thing any political figure from anywhere in the world says or has said (historicsl anecdotes welcome...try not to spam it up with to0o much Bush 0K he's an easy target I know, but he's no bloody orphan.....)

I'll start:

Recent Highlights of the Dumbarsed Politician Said What?? Olympics included:


1: Mitt Romney said he didn't go to Vietnam because he was "too important". To a live audience, full of Vietnam Viets - at the California Primaries.

You know...all those insignificant people who could get shot at for the red white and blue.

He was a big hit with his audience...and from the sounds of the guy who told him to get fucked - very nearly a big hit on Mittens's jaw.

www.project.nsearch.com/profiles/blogs/mitt-romney-i-was-too-important-to-go-to-vietnam

2:A Missouri Senate Nominee, Todd Akin says "Legitimate rape doesn't result in Pregnancy", so no need for abortions after rape then. Legitimate raope - as opposed to all the illegitimate kind huh?? Women's bodies "shut down"....any sperm which finds its way to a womb must have had an invitation....

If you're up the stick, then by the time they apprehend the assailant - we all know you're a lying slag!!

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/19/republican-todd-akin-rape-pregnancy?newsfeed=true

3: The Speaker of The House in Australian Federal Parliament, Peter Slipper, asked his male assistant to shower with the door open while in a hotel room with Mr Slipper. He also enquired if the young man liked "twinks or bears" (Gay slang for age/body types in a partner) and regularly sent the young man kisses at the end of text messages about Parliamentary business.


The young man complained and is seeking damages.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133074/Australian-government-gay-sex-scandal-claims-Parliamentary-Speaker-62-employed-young-male-adviser-pursue-relationship.html


And from the annals of history. Ronald Reagan once famously said after a visit to Latin America:

"Well, I learned a lot....I went down to Latin America to find out from them and learn their views. You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries"


And just one from George Bush, when announcing his sustainability policies for the fisheries industry:

"I believe it is possible for human beings and fish to co-exist peacefully."

Mind if I borrow this link for some other social network???

[The Mad Hatter]

In 1988, Stephen Freind, a state representative in Pennsylvania, defended his no-exceptions anti-abortion stance — as Akin was doing Sunday — by claiming that it was virtually impossible for a woman who is raped to become pregnant.

“The odds are one in millions and millions and millions,” Freind said in a debate in March of that year. “And there is a physical reason for that.”

Freind said that women possess a “certain secretion” that kills sperm.

“Rape, obviously, is a traumatic experience. When that traumatic experience is undergone, a woman secretes a certain secretion, which has a tendency to kill sperm.”

Freind promised to provide scientific documentation of his theory and told a cheering crowd later that month, “If you’re expecting me to back off, the answer is no.”

[User]

To be fair, Akin was only speaking from experience. None of the boys he's ever raped has gotten pregnant from it.

[StormInateacup]

Aug 21, 2012 14:15:04 GMT -5 kelly said:

Aug 21, 2012 4:14:36 GMT -5 StormInateacup said:

OK this is a thread where we can put all the really dumbarsed thing any political figure from anywhere in the world says or has said (historicsl anecdotes welcome...try not to spam it up with to0o much Bush 0K he's an easy target I know, but he's no bloody orphan.....)

I'll start:

Recent Highlights of the Dumbarsed Politician Said What?? Olympics included:


1: Mitt Romney said he didn't go to Vietnam because he was "too important". To a live audience, full of Vietnam Viets - at the California Primaries.

You know...all those insignificant people who could get shot at for the red white and blue.

He was a big hit with his audience...and from the sounds of the guy who told him to get fucked - very nearly a big hit on Mittens's jaw.

www.project.nsearch.com/profiles/blogs/mitt-romney-i-was-too-important-to-go-to-vietnam

2:A Missouri Senate Nominee, Todd Akin says "Legitimate rape doesn't result in Pregnancy", so no need for abortions after rape then. Legitimate raope - as opposed to all the illegitimate kind huh?? Women's bodies "shut down"....any sperm which finds its way to a womb must have had an invitation....

If you're up the stick, then by the time they apprehend the assailant - we all know you're a lying slag!!

www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/19/republican-todd-akin-rape-pregnancy?newsfeed=true

3: The Speaker of The House in Australian Federal Parliament, Peter Slipper, asked his male assistant to shower with the door open while in a hotel room with Mr Slipper. He also enquired if the young man liked "twinks or bears" (Gay slang for age/body types in a partner) and regularly sent the young man kisses at the end of text messages about Parliamentary business.


The young man complained and is seeking damages.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2133074/Australian-government-gay-sex-scandal-claims-Parliamentary-Speaker-62-employed-young-male-adviser-pursue-relationship.html


And from the annals of history. Ronald Reagan once famously said after a visit to Latin America:

"Well, I learned a lot....I went down to Latin America to find out from them and learn their views. You'd be surprised. They're all individual countries"


And just one from George Bush, when announcing his sustainability policies for the fisheries industry:

"I believe it is possible for human beings and fish to co-exist peacefully."

Mind if I borrow this link for some other social network???

Borrow away sweety.

[Random Panther]

"But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies." --Sarah Palin,after being asked how she would handle the current hostilities between the two Koreas,interview on Glenn Beck's radio show,Nov. 24,2010.

[StormInateacup]

Aug 21, 2012 16:27:12 GMT -5 Random Panther said:

"But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies." --Sarah Palin,after being asked how she would handle the current hostilities between the two Koreas,interview on Glenn Beck's radio show,Nov. 24,2010.

Damn she was right. She'd have done just fine on foreign policy - North Korea, South Korea - all them Asians look alike anyways.

Her evil Fundie twin Michelle Bachmann's not good with geography either:



"Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too"

-Rep. Michele Bachmann, getting her John Waynes mixed up during an interview after launching her presidential campaign in Waterloo, Iowa, where she grew up. The beloved movie star John Wayne was born in Winterset, Iowa, three hours away. The John Wayne that Waterloo was home to is John Wayne Gacy, a notorious serial killer. (June 2011)

[Deleted]

Aug 21, 2012 15:34:41 GMT -5 User said:

To be fair, Akin was only speaking from experience. None of the boys he's ever raped has gotten pregnant from it.

I love you User!!! Strictly for your warped as fuck humor!!!

[StormInateacup]

Yeah User has a pithy turn of phrase...he needs to log on more often.


Now Dan Quayle is hard to beat. He had some classic non sequituers. It's hard to choose, it really is.

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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
Dan Quayle

Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
Dan Quayle


El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
Dan Quayle

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can't do that. It's gone, gone forever.
Dan Quayle

For NASA, space is still a high priority.
Dan Quayle


Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.
Dan Quayle

I am not part of the problem. I am a Republican.
Dan Quayle

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle



I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.
Dan Quayle

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.
Dan Quayle


I have a very good family. I'm very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It's one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.
Dan Quayle

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.
Dan Quayle


I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.
Dan Quayle

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
Dan Quayle

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My favorite Quayle comment....... "I invented the internet"

[Sita]

I thought the internet was Gore?