George Bush now speaking to Senior Citizen group. I can hear Will Rogers talking.

TV | Uncle George

[Uncle George]

I am old enough to remember Will Rogers and this President is the closest to his personality of any political figure I have witnessed. Their ability to communicate with the common citizen is a gift few are ever endowed with. We are blessed to have this President in these explosive times.

[Miss Marple]

I saw him, too. That is an excellent point. I only know Will Rogers from film clips, but I think you have hit the nail on the head.

He has a gift for explaining complicated issues in terms the average person can understand.

[Uncle George]

Excellent website on Will Rogers. www.willrogers.org/

[ValerieUSA]

You can find Will Rogers in Fort Worth, Texas these days... Will and me, 1999

[deport]

I am old enough to remember Will Rogers and this President is the closest to his personality of any political figure I have witnessed. Their ability to communicate with the common citizen is a gift few are ever endowed with.

Thanks... but we have others that are called the greatest communicators that have to have people to come behind them and explain what they said or meant. One of the main challenges of communicating is getting it down to the lowest denominator to which the common person can understand or comprehend. I agree few can do it on a routine basis.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

You can also find Will Rogers at Texas Tech University.... a beautiful statue.....

Cobby,TexasNative - keep quiet about the legend..... lol!

[COB1]

"Cobby,TexasNative - keep quiet about the legend..... lol!"

Shucks......okay!!
I'll just say that the last time I passed TT old Will was still on his horse, so the last graduating class of girls must have enjoyed themselves sexually at least once.
See, I didn't tell the legend!!

And I'll say that that Uncle George is exactly right, and I've thought that myself.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

cobby, I just knew I could count on you to be subtle..... lol.....that should be your next FR name, Mr. Subtle... lol

[TexasNative2000]

Let's just say I did my best to uphold ALL of the traditions of our fine University . . . . . .

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Atta boy! lol

[Uncle George]

Will's famous sayings are as true today as they were 70 years ago; "We all elect a President, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring em to make good" Does this sound current?

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Absolutely..... sounds like a lot on FR who think the President was supposed to snap his fingers and make changes happen immediately.....

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

My favorite Will Rogers quote of all:

"Buy land, they're not making it anymore"

[Snow Bunny]

Thank you Uncle George.

[Cagey]

Buy land, they're not making it any more.

I'd have to say that's my favorite too. Will was quite a guy and would have been a great FReeper, although some of his threads may have been yanked for being too humourous.

[Rebelbase]

I found these Will Rogers quotes, thought it appropriate ot post them:

"I never met a man I didn't like"

• "My ancestors didn't come over in the Mayflower--they met the boat."
• "My father was one eighth Cherokee and my mother one fourth Cherokee, which I figure makes me about an eight cigar-store Injun."
  

  --Will Rogers, who had Cherokee Indian in his veins

• "It was the luckiest thing that ever happened to me. Betty is to blame for it all. Whatever I am or have accomplished, I owe to Betty. I ain't got no sense. My wife made me what I am. In other words--local girl makes good in the city--makes good man."
• "I'm not a real movie star. I still got the same wife I started out with nearly twenty-eight years ago."

  --Will Rogers about his marriage
  
  

• "...Will can't help being funny no matter where he happens to be. His humor isn't the artificial kind that you can put on and take off like a coat. He's just himself. He's always himself. He doesn't try to be funny. He just is."

  --Will Rogers' wife, Betty

• "The way to judge a good comedy is by how long it will last and have people talk about it. Now Congress had turned out some that have lived for years and people are still laughing about them."
• "The only real diplomacy ever performed by a diplomat is in deceiving their own people after their dumbness has got them into a war."
• "The best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter--he's got to just know."
• "The Lord so constituted everybody that no matter what color you are you require the same amount of nourishment"
• "Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else."
• "There is only one thing that can kill the movies, and that is education."
• "If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics."
• "Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite."
• "Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth."
• "The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has."
• "Everyone is ignorant only on different subjects."
• "Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments."
• "You shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone."
• "I have a scheme for stopping war. It's this--no nation is allowed to enter a war till they have paid for the last one."
• "Asking Europe to disarm is like asking a man in Chicago to give up his life insurance."
• "If all politicians fished instead of spoke publicly, we would be at peace with the world."
• "The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them."
• "An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too."
• "Civilization has taught us to eat with a fork, but even now if nobody is around we use our fingers."
• "Politics is the best show in America. I love animals and I love politicians and I love to watch both of 'em play either back home in their native state or after they have been captured and sent to the zoo or to Washington."
• "All Wrigley had was an idea. He was the first man to discover that American jaws must wag. So why not give them something to wag against?"
• "If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone, 'America died from a delusion that she has moral leadership.' "
• "Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save."
• "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
• "The only way to solve the traffic problems of the country is to pass a law that only paid-for cars are allowed to use the highways. That would make traffic so scarce we could use the boulevards for children's playgrounds."
• "The budget is a mythical bean bag. Congress votes mythical bean into it, and then tries to reach in and pull real beans out."

[Alamo-Girl]

Sigh ... I don't know why so many people think any president is king.