I Didn't Drive the Bus Into the Ditch

In the last debate, Obama responded to Hillary's claim that he has voted the same way she has on the Iraq war, since he entered the Senate. He said that he never supported the war, unlike Hillary, but that once the bus had been driven in the ditch, he had to vote to keep funding the troops. The exact line was,

Once we had driven the bus into the ditch, there were only so many ways we could get out. The question is, who's making the decision initially to drive the bus into the ditch?

That "I didn't drive the bus into a ditch" phrase is going to be one of the most memorable soundbites of this campaign. Steve said that someone at work used it yesterday, and everybody got it. It has endless applications -- global warming, the sub-prime interest rate fiasco, the bankrupcy of social security, the popularity of TMZ, the outing of Harry.

This is a good thing, because there are all sorts of other catchphrases that need to be retired, such as "talk to the hand" and all references to "f$cking Matt Damon".

Comments

[bj]

Oh, I hate the "talk to the hand" thing, too. Hate it hate it hate it. I also hated Not (used, as in I love mushrooms -NOT).

But, I like "I didn't drive the bus into the ditch" (I thought about it at Half Changed World when Elizabeth asked what we were going to do about the economy.

[landismom]

Can you throw the person who drove the bus into the ditch under the bus? Because that's another phrase I could live without hearing ever again.

Once, when my daughter was 3 (five years ago), she told someone at my office, "talk to the hand, 'cause you ain't got no man!"

I didn't even know she knew how to spell 'mortified.'

[Doug]

bj, yahbut Borat's Not joke is grrrreat ... where he waits and waits and waits and the guy has started talking again and he goes NOT. It's a good thing I'm blogging from the basement of an undisclosed location, cause I'm cracking up all over again.