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Economics/Wall Street got drunk

Can someone please explain the inclusion of the "Wall Street got drunk" quote on this page? It isn't readily apparent how it qualifies as a spoonerism, malapropism, etc. It just appears to be a candid assessment aided by an apt metaphor. Robert K S (talk) 22:19, 5 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

It's him saying "How long will it (Wall Street) sober up" when he probably intended to say "How long will it be until Wall Street sobers up" or something to that degree. --Angeljon121 (talk) 14:06, 18 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What is the [sic] after "TV" referring to? I cannot seem to find any grammatical mistake there. 85.24.223.146 (talk) 04:04, 25 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

French word for entrepreneur

I don't believe Bush ever said this. This link to this quote, http://www.newstatesman.com/200212160048, is a newspaper which is quoting a website which seems to now be defunct. See http://www.snopes.com/quotes/bush.asp — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.13.31.236 (talk) 17:14, 7 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

See, free nations are peaceful nations

I don't see how this qualifies. One can agree or disagree with the merits of the statement, but how does this qualify as any form of "Bushism," as defined in this article? Dikteren (talk) 22:42, 6 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Someone had vandalized the quote and removed the part that makes it odd. I restored the full version. --109.158.214.140 (talk) 22:37, 25 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Actual statistics

Has someone ever compiled actual statistics of Bushims? Or compared them to similar gaffs from Clinton or Obama? If so, they belong in this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.215.75.149 (talk) 21:11, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

John P. Briggs Statement

I removed the John P. Briggs statement as it doesn't appear to add anything productive to the article. It's mostly a partisan rant of nonsense. There's still a lot of work needed to make this article less biased. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.215.75.149 (talk) 21:17, 12 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Inconsistent and probably wrong definition of 'Bushism'

At the top of the page it says two times that the article is about statements by George W. Bush, while in the Discussion section it says "Bushisms, particularly those of George W. Bush". This doesn't make much sense and is probably due to the fact that the term was used before G.W. Bush became a public figure, inspired by statements from G.H.W. Bush. MAKreler (talk) 23:45, 18 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

  The reason may also be the fact that many of the published "Bushisms" have been found to be misattributions of the verbal faux pas of a large number of politicians and public speakers. Commonly mispronounced words like "nucular", have also been called "Bushisms", but have been used by other Presidents as well. Merennulli (talk) 16:41, 17 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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	At the top of the page it says two times that the article is about statements by George W. Bush, while in the Discussion section it says "Bushisms, particularly those of George W. Bush". This doesn't make much sense and is probably due to the fact that the term was used before G.W. Bush became a public figure, inspired by statements from G.H.W. Bush. [[User:MAKreler\|MAKreler]] ([[User talk:MAKreler\|talk]]) 23:45, 18 June 2014 (UTC)		At the top of the page it says two times that the article is about statements by George W. Bush, while in the Discussion section it says "Bushisms, particularly those of George W. Bush". This doesn't make much sense and is probably due to the fact that the term was used before G.W. Bush became a public figure, inspired by statements from G.H.W. Bush. [[User:MAKreler\|MAKreler]] ([[User talk:MAKreler\|talk]]) 23:45, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

			The reason may also be the fact that many of the published "Bushisms" have been found to be misattributions of the verbal faux pas of a large number of politicians and public speakers. Commonly mispronounced words like "nucular", have also been called "Bushisms", but have been used by other Presidents as well. [[User:Merennulli\|Merennulli]] ([[User talk:Merennulli\|talk]]) 16:41, 17 September 2014 (UTC)