January 2, 2003
a microcosmPosted by Bryan
a trivial, but appropriate example of why I equate the liberal left to a five-year old who resorts to arguing with strategies such as "I know you are, but what am I?" and using terms such as "doody head" and "stoopid."
BTW, I was pointed to this from the Online Wall Street Journal, which is one of my favorite daily readings in my inbox.
CNN says (via Reuters): 'Bushisms' make university's banned list -- SAULT STE. MARIE, Michigan (Reuters) -- Overused cliches, wordy redundancies and hyperbolic phrases -- including "make no mistake about it" from President Bush -- were declared banished Wednesday by the university overseers of an annual list of banned words.
Other favored utterances of President Bush -- sometimes called "Bushisms" -- such as "material breach," "weapons of mass destruction," and "homeland security," were the tired targets of the New Year's Day list compiled by the public relations staff at Lake Superior State University.
The actual list , as the WSJ points out, doesn't make any Bush references to these statements. So, any attribution of the "coining of the phrases"to president Bush is pure editorializing. Furthermore after looking for some etymology, I was unable to find any link between the President and this term.
The leftist strategy is simple:
Repeat the mantra -- "Bush is stoopid."
Print, exagerrate, or conjure anything that will reinforce this mantra.
Then, disavow any bias whatsoever.
lather.
rinse.
repeat.
slather.
dispense.
repeat.
counterpoint: "During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet." - Al Gore Read more about this (my favorite statement: "Yeah, and I invented the spellchecker" - fellow inventor Dan Quayle on hearing that Al Gore invented the Internet. )
relevant statements discovered:
"Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latter deserve. To such mistakes we owe the numerous and frivolous tribe of insect-mongers, shell-mongers, and pursuers and driers of butterflies, etc. The strong mind distinguishes, not only between the useful and the useless, but likewise between the useful and the curious. " -- Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773), British statesman, man of letters. letter, Dec. 6, 1748, Letters Written by the Late Right Honourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl, Earl of Chesterfield, to his Son, Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl, Esq, 5th ed., vol. II, p. 112, London (1774).
"There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake." -- Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington (1769–1852) the closest thing to the actual 'bushism' only about 200 years too early
Wait! This just in...
"Let us make no mistake about it, this propagation was never one of her laws, nothing she ever demanded of us, but at the very most something she tolerated; I have told you so. Why! what difference would it make to her were the race of men entirely to be extinguished upon earth, annihilated! she laughs at our pride when we persuade ourselves all would be over and done with were this misfortune to occur! "
ATTRIBUTION: Marquis de Sade (1740–1814), French author. Dolmancé, in “Dialogue the Fifth,” Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795). Describing Nature’s laws; real name is comte Donatian-Alphonse-François de Sade. 
and now you know.