[spacefreak]

This just may be my favorite Bush quote ("Go buy some nachos")

Bush dines with baseball execs

PHOENIX (AP) -- A day after making a surprise anti-steroids appeal, President Bush organized a casual dinner out at a Mexican restaurant with several baseball executives.

Bush was in town as part of a three-state swing to promote themes from his State of the Union address Tuesday night. In his public remarks in Ohio and Arizona on Wednesday, he didn't repeat his call for pro sports leagues to implement stringent policies against performance-enhancing drugs and for athletes to be good role models on anti-doping.

But he chose to end his day at the Teepee Mexican restaurant, located in a Phoenix neighborhood replete with strip malls and car dealerships. Bush dined with Arizona Diamondbacks owner Jerry Colangelo, manager Bob Brenley, general manager Joe Garagiola Jr., and Anaheim Angels owner Arte Moreno.

Bush, himself a former managing partner of the Texas Rangers, showed up for the brief, early dinner without the suit and tie he had worn all day and in a casual open-collared blue shirt. From his table, he chatted with the restaurant owner and a few patrons, and could be heard telling a gaggle of onlookers: ``Go buy some nachos.''

[BRussell]

Originally posted by spacefreak:
This just may be my favorite Bush quote. "Go buy some nachos."

I'm inclined to agree - that may be the smartest thing I've ever heard him say.

[davesimondotcom]

ummmmmmmmm....nachos.....aaaaaaaaaaaaa

</homer>

Of course you put too much hot sauce and peppers on them and they can turn into weapons of ass destruction...

[Lerkfish]

This is supposed to be an endearing anecdote?

I guess that's as close as you can get with the subject matter.

[eklipse]

Careful, a thread about favorite Bush quotes is just asking for trouble...

[itai195]

My GOD! Nachos is a culturally insensitive term. They prefer to be known as 'tortilla chips.'

[Millennium]

Originally posted by itai195:
My GOD! Nachos is a culturally insensitive term. They prefer to be known as 'tortilla chips.'

I thought tortilla chips were an ingredient in nachos, as opposed to actually being the nachos.

[itai195]

Originally posted by Millennium:
I thought tortilla chips were an ingredient in nachos, as opposed to actually being the nachos.

So you're saying that nachos shouldn't be afforded the same rights as ordinary tortilla chips just because they have some extra toppings?

Is this what so-called 'compassionate conservatism' is all about?

[thunderous_funker]

Is Bush callously suggesting that these restaurant patrons make slaves of people of latin heritage who are inconveniently named Ignacio?

[Millennium]

Originally posted by itai195:
So you're saying that nachos shouldn't be afforded the same rights as ordinary tortilla chips just because they have some extra toppings?

Of course I'm not advocating that. However, it is incorrect to refer to a nacho as a tortilla chip, in exactly the same manner that it is incorrect to refer to a baseball team as a pitcher.

It's a little thing known as "calling a spade a spade".

[itai195]

Originally posted by Millennium:
Of course I'm not advocating that. However, it is incorrect to refer to a nacho as a tortilla chip, in exactly the same manner that it is incorrect to refer to a baseball team as a pitcher.

It's a little thing known as "calling a spade a spade".

Nachos just want to be treated like everyone else. They don't want people to mistreat them just because they're a little cheesier than your typical tortilla chip. Only by adopting a topping-blind vocabulary can we hope to achieve snack food equality.

[Mithras]

On favorite Bush quotes:

I have to say, the complete transcription of the State of the Union gave me mine:

"weapons of mass destruction-related program activities"

[quandarry]

sounds pretty close to

"Let them eat cake!

[theolein]

"If they don't have bread, let them eat nachos"

[Millennium]

Originally posted by itai195:
Nachos just want to be treated like everyone else. They don't want people to mistreat them just because they're a little cheesier than your typical tortilla chip. Only by adopting a topping-blind vocabulary can we hope to achieve snack food equality.

But then it comes to the question: is a "nacho" something greater than the sum of its parts? Is it something different from the tortilla chip and cheese which comprise it? Are we certain that these foodstuffs have entered into a willing relationship, and if not, do we consider the best interests of the dish which has been created over the ingredients?

[Lerkfish]

Originally posted by quandarry:
sounds pretty close to

"Let them eat cake!

that was my impression, as well.

[schlumpf]

"Of course you put too much hot sauce and peppers on them and they can turn into weapons of ass destruction..."

Hehe

Reminds of a good Garfield Quote:

"Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It more like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today might burn your ass tomorrow"

reg.
Schlumpf

[schlumpf]

Oh...speaking of Bushisms

When remarking on the state of the education system, he said:

"There is one question we must ask ourselves: Is our children learning?"

I guess he answered his own question.

[thunderous_funker]

Originally posted by schlumpf:
...

Welcome to the forum my new little blue friend.

[zigzag]

Originally posted by davesimondotcom:
ummmmmmmmm....nachos.....aaaaaaaaaaaaa

</homer>

Of course you put too much hot sauce and peppers on them and they can turn into weapons of ass destruction...

I've eaten at The Teepee many times. It's the worst kind of Tex-Mex, the kind that's still sitting in your stomach three days later. If it'd been discovered in Iraq, even France would've applauded the invasion.

[NYCFarmboy]

I LOVE NACHOS..with hot cheese sauce..YUMMMMMMMMMMMMM