Results of May, 2003 Eric Alterman Contest:
Name That President
Name: Jim
Mohoney Name:
Rastus Name: Mike
Sinclair Name: Judy
Yo Name:
Domenick Acocella Name: Jon
Healy Name: Jon
Healy Name: Lee
Lagasse Name: Jo
Lynn Name: Vicki
Meagher Name: Dave
Anderson Name: Alvah
Allen Name: Tom
McGrath Name: Marc
OConnor Name: Vicki
Meagher Name: Jon
Healy 
Name: Ed Peters
Hometown: Arlington, TX
Comments:
NAME THIS PRESIDENT contest
My entry: George III
He actually is our third president named George, and he's as imperious and
perhaps as mad as his British namesake supposedly was.
Name: Royko
Hometown: Chicago
Comments:
Bush nicknames:
Incurious George
Furious George
Fuhrerous George
Warrin' Georgie
Snortin' George
Pushy Bush
Burning Bush
George of the Bungle
The Great Preemptor
Coalition George
Emporer Bush
Hometown: New Providence, NJ
Comments:
My suggestion for a presidential nickname is simple yet (I think) distills the
essence of our chief executive and his leadership to date: "Flubya".
Hometown: Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Comments:
Actually, the most appropriate name for Dubya seems to be the one doing the
rounds in Britain at the moment: the Stepford President.
Name: Jason Kirkpatrick
Hometown: Houston, TX
Comments:
I have two:
George "Dubius" Bush (Rather than "W" obviously)
Name: Pallavi Guniganti
Hometown: http://bertrandrussell.blogspot.com
Comments:
"Forged George."
His campaign, his selection, his fuzzy math on every budget and tax cut he's
proposed, his reasons for invading Iraq-- it's all been a forgery of a real
president.
None of it has been as straightforward as a lie. It's all been pretending to be
something it wasn't.
A hardcore conservative pretending to be a moderate; a 5-4 Supreme Court
decision pretending to be unbiased; tax cuts for the wealthy pretending to be a
boost to the economy that will benefit all Americans; preventive war pretending
to be pre-emptive war; a man who scorned liberal nation-building pretending to
be a humanitarian.
I nobly pass over the pretensions of a man who hid in the National Guard during
Vietnam, now a gung-ho militarist.
We can't forget that he's the son of a president who *did* have foreign policy
credentials, who *could* make the necessary tax decisions even if it cost him
politically and decry voodoo economics, who retained the vestiges of
fiscally-conservative-but-socially-progressive New England Republicanism before
the GOP's complete sell-out to the religious right.
And it's been a very good forgery at times, fooling millions of Americans who
would have been able to identify gross dishonesty but who couldn't see a
well-made, expensive fake.
Hometown: Kalamazoo, Michigan
Comments:
How about King George II or King George the Stupid? King Dumbya?
Emperor Dumbya-dork? Dumbya-tator (as in a modified dictator)?
Hometown: Exeter, PA
Comments:
Commader in Grief
Commander in Thief
Hometown: NYC
Comments:
RE: Names for George W. Bush
Professor,
I know many of these are just too foolish, but, in light of all that is going
on now -- I think Krugman's use of "Mr" as opposed to
"President" in front of "Bush" is a nice, subtle touch --
why attach any indication seriousness?
And, by the way, thanks for this task! Finally, something I can
contribute to -- even if I don't win.
A Brief List of Bush Names:
1. George of Afghanistan (or Iraq) --or, A. Spurious George
2. El Rey Jorge Bush --or, A. King George the Second
3. George the Confused, but Compassionate, Conservative
4. The Texas Switch Hitter
5. George "Ken Lay's Old Pal" Bush
6. Who me?
7. Monday, Texas. Tuesday Washington.
8. George "I'll Go It Alone" W. Bush
9. George of the Desert Wars Bush
10. George Take from the Poor and Give to the Rich Bush
11. George I Am from One of Three Thousand Three Hundred of the Richest
Families Bush
12. George Like His Daddy's but with a W Bush
13. George Subject and Verb Doesn't Have to Agree to Be Right Bush
14. Bush I Am a Man Bush
15. George Look Ma, No Brains! Bush -- taken from The Muppets Movie
16. George the Fearless One Bush
17. George Thanks Antonin and Co for the Job Bush
18. Bush II: Operation Saddam
19. Bush II: Because the First Time Was So Wrong
20. George the Real Pinnocchio Bush (a puppet, controlled by Rummy
and Cheney and Rovey?)
21. The AI (artifical intelligence in everything we do) President
22. George Wonderboy Bush
23. George the Divine Bush
24. George With God on My Side Bush
25. George The Controller of the Continent of Iraq Bush
26. George The Acting President Bush
27. George I'm Not a President but I Play One on TV Bush
28. George I Went to Yale and All I Got Was This Election Bush
29. George the Religious One Bush
Hometown: Westport, CT
Comments:
re: contest to name Bush
The Mumblin' Messiah
Rums'Boy or Rumbo (as in Rambo and Rumsfeld's boy)
President Rumbo
President Terminator
President Rambo
President Mini Me
Georgie Mini Me
Mr. Divine Intervention
George On High
Lord George On High
George 'Smirkin' and Smokin' Bush
Hometown: Westport, CT
Comments:
re: contest
Godly George
Godfearin' George
Lord George
King George
Ghengis George
Hometown: Avon, CT
Comments:
How about Nefarious George? Vainglorious George? Or since this war was marketed
so well, "Got War?" Bush, not to be confused with his father George
"Had War" Bush. Not so subtle nicknames, but this is a not so subtle
man we're talking here.
Hometown: Undisclosed Location (for security purposes)
Comments:
Names for Bush presidency:
"The Purloined Presidency"
"Bumbling Bush"
"The Great Fabricator"
"Snake Eyes George"
"The Puppet President"
"George of the Bungle"
"Dealing Dubya"
"The Dunder Years"
Hometown: Nashua, NH
Comments:
Contest entry: Callow George
Hometown: Chapel Hill, NC
Comments:
"Bad Luck" Bush
Hometown: Jacksonville, FL
Comments:
Eric, here are some possible Bush nicknames:
The Nonsequitir-in-Chief
Scalia's Bitch
Hometown: Lynchburg, Virginia
Comments:
Submissions for the New Altercation Contest:Name This President
1. The Divine One
2. Pants On Fire
Hometown: Chicago
Comments:
Bad News Bush
Hometown: Nashua, NH
Comments:
Name that President contest entry:
Reckless George
Hometown: Westport, CT
Comments:
re: Bush naming contest
The Son King George (or Son King Bush)
(a play on "sun king")
Name: Tim Rosenstein
Hometown: Los Angeles
Comments:
Wanted to make sure my last Bush entry got through, in case it was deleted.
Mendacious G.
Some more:
Junior G man.
Fibbin' George
A few suggestions:
Pretzel Boy
United Nations ? United Nations ? We don't need no stinking United Nations!
The Un-President
President Fear
Oblivious
King George the Dangerous
Name: Dean Opperman
Hometown: Santa Barbara
Comments:
President Cakewalk