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Dubbing Dubya
Handing out nicknames to pols and journalists is one of the one endearing trait of our feckless leader. But the names we've heard about aren't the ones used in private.
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skreed.com
 F THERE IS ONE CULTURAL CONTRIBUTION to result from the advent of the Bush administration over these last two glorious years, it may be the proliferation of fun and clever nicknames flying back and forth across the nation's capital.
Naturally perhaps, it is the President (or Resident) himself that has garnered more terms of endearment from the media, particularly the independent media, than anyone else. Among the more ubiquitous of them... Smirk, Shrub, Bush Lite, Boy George, Chimp in Chief, Incurious George (see sidebar), and Commander in Thief.
 It is a well publicized fact that George W. has a penchant for bestowing special names on certain significant personalities both within the beltway and beyond. For example, Kenneth Lay was called "Kenny Boy", Rep. Barney Frank is "Saber Tooth", former President Bush is "41", Defense Sec. Donald Rumsfeld is known as "Rummy", Karl Rove is the "Boy Genius", Barbara Bush = "No. 1", just to name a few. To be christened in this way by the world's most powerful man is understandably considered an honor of sorts.
It is a lesser known fact is that there is a rather extensive alternate list of nicknames used privately within the walls of the oval office. Skreed managed to obtain a copy of this list (with thanks to www.whitehouse.org) and reprints it here.
Laura Bush = "Pickles"
Jeb Bush = "Gator"
Dick Cheney = "Mr. Cheney, Sir"
Bill Clinton = "Fat Chick Fucker"
Hilly Clinton = "Senator Carpetbaggermuncher"
Ann Coulter = "Gash Limbaugh"
Tom Daschle = "Asshole"
David Duke = "Brother Sheets"
Ari Fleischer = "Cue Ball"
Barney Frank = "Froot Loop"
Dick Gephardt = "Lady-brows"
(NOTE: When together, Gephardt and Frank are known as "Blondie and Fagwood")
Ruth Bader Ginsberg = "Lezzie the 4-Eyes"
Al Gore = "Mr. Poopy-Pants-Loser-Dickhead-Sucker"
Billy Graham = "Grandpa Moses"
Katherine Harris = "Avon Lady"
Dennis Hastert = "Penis Hastahurt"
Charlton Heston = "Grandpa Ramrod"
Karen Hughes = "Butch"
Ted Kennedy = "Life Guard"
Henry Kissinger = "Jewboy Classic"
Kenneth Lay = formerly "Kenny Boy," but now "That guy everyone's yapping about"
Joe Lieberman = "Jewboy 2000"
Rush Limbaugh = "Phen Phen"
Trent Lott = "Dippity-Do"
Mary Matalin = "Houdini"
Ralph Nader = "Jackpot"
Peggy Noonan = "Shakespeare"
Oliver North = "Colonel Mum's-the-Word"
Sandra Day O'Connor = "Sister C-Cup"
Colin Powell = "Boy"
Dan Quayle = "Professor"
Ronald Reagan = "Forget-Me-Not"
William Rehnquist = "Leader of the Pack"
Ralph Reed = "Kid Klinefelter"
Condi Rice = "Tar Baby"
Karl Rove = "Mr. President"
Donald Rumsfeld = "Duke Nukem"
Antonin Scalia = "Pitbull the Dago"
David Souter = "Daddy's Little Traitor"
Jimmy Swaggart = "Motel 6"
Clarence Thomas = "Long Dong Slivva"
Oprah Winfrey = "Chocosaurus"
And on the international list:
Bertie Ahern = "Potato McDrunky"
Kofi Annan = "Buckwheat"
Yasir Arafat = "Picnic Basket Head"
Tony Blair = "Sissy Pants"
Silvio Berlusconi = "Garlicko"
Jacques Chirac = "Froggy le Poodle"
Jean Chretien = "Governor 51"
Kim Dae-jung = "Dog Breath"
Pablo Escobar = "Candy Man"
Vicente Fox = "Frito Bandito"
Tarja Halonen = "Who?"
Saddam Hussein = "Plan B"
Hamid Karzai = "Pinocchio"
Ayatollah Khamenei = "Ass-a-hola Cockamamie"
Junichiro Koizumi = "Chopstix"
Aleksander Kwasniewski = "Kaiser Kielbasa"
Hosni Mubarak = "Pharaoh Hos-Mu"
Pervez Musharraf = "The Pervertster"
Pope John Paul II = "Hunchy the Popo"
Vladimir Putin = "Pooty Poot"
Muammar al-Qadhafi = "Momo al-Labia"
Prince Abdullah Saud = "Your Royal Highness Price Abdullah Saud, Sir"
Gerhard Schroeder = "Herr Gestapo"
Ariel Sharon = "Gefilte Fuck"
Jiang Zemin = "Jiang the Chicken Wiang"
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