O.K., I know this Whitehouse.Org is a Satire site, but are most of these "Bush Nicknames" Real?

[Up2Late]

<http://www.whitehouse.org/kids/nicknames.asp>

It's been a while since I've visited White House .Org, but I have heard people use a bunch of these pResidential Nick-names here, so how may of these do you think are Really Real!?!?

Hey, if nothing else, most are pretty funny.

WARNING: Some of these are NOT at all Funny, and are down right rude or gross.

Laura Bush
First Lady
"Pickles"

Karl Rove
Political Adviser
"Turd Blossom"

Michael Brown
Disaster Expert
"Brownie""
"Sh*t Stain"

[Connie_Corleone]

1. Turd Blossom and Pickles are real

Bush calls them that. Shit Stain might be made up.

[rateyes]

3. I didn't know that Bush called Laura "Pickles"....

I knew WE did, here at DU. But, if it originated with *, then that is pretty damned disturbing. "Pickles" was the nickname given by "Buddy" on the Dick Van Dyke show years ago for his wife who was "never seen or heard" on the sitcom itself.

Is Bush, then, "naming his wife" (an action which is an expression of exerting "dominion" over someone...controlling someone...biblically speaking, I guess that's why the story has Adam naming the animals)...after someone not seen and heard to tell her to remain in the background...that she should not be seen or heard?....that she is there only to "support him" as "king of his castle?"

To think that we have someone as POTUS who exerts control over his staff by giving them demeaning "names" is beyond disturbing. And, unlsess the "controlled" break free and stand up to the "controller" then whatever he says is "law," and Dubya being the intellectually impaired person he is...to be a control freak on top of it....that's scary.

[skypilot]

2. Isn't that Bea Arthur's photo...

...where Karen Hughes's should be?

[Up2Late]

5. Yeah, looks like it is!

That's funny.

Here's a few other that are pretty good:

Harriet Miers
Presidential Counsel
"Dirty Harry"

Paul Wolfowitz
President of World Bank
"Big Bad"

Trent Lott
U.S. Senator (MS)
"Dippity-do"

Scooter Libby
White House Staffer (Ret.)
"Fall Guy"

[Rageneau]

4. It was BartCop who first called Laura "Pickles."

Just like it was he him who coined the term "media whores' and who-knows-how-many others.

[Up2Late]

6. kick n/t

:kick: