{"id":432,"date":"2005-12-20T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-20T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=432"},"modified":"2005-12-20T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-20T19:58:00","slug":"how-about-a-dubya-doll-for-the-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=432","title":{"rendered":"How About A Dubya Doll for the Holidays?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange County Register has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/ocregister\/life\/homepage\/article_904009.php\" target=\"_blank\">a wonderful article<\/a> on some of the George W. Bush dolls available for the holidays:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tekkytoys.com\/pages_june2005\/tt_popup_83204.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Pull My Finger President<\/a> from TekkyToys. Pinch his finger and he lets out a loud TOOT and shakes, while following up his &#8216;command performance&#8217; with anyone of 7 funny phrases AND he also plays a hilarious patriotic &#8216;tooting&#8217; song. More specifically, according to the OCR, he makes flatulence sounds and shakes with seven utterances, plus a gassy rendition of &#8220;Stars and Stripes Forever.&#8221; Sample line: &#8220;Hey, Saddam, here&#8217;s a weapon of mass destruction (sound effect here).&#8221;\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.odysseytoys.com\/ecommerce\/control\/product\/~category_id=10071\/~product_id=1912\" target=\"_blank\">George W. Bush Posable Figure<\/a> by Odyssey Toys. The OCR article notes that he comes with tiny plaque with a quote from his post-Sept. 11 presidential address: &#8220;We will not tire; we will not falter; we will not fail.&#8221; His little clothes are kind of rumpled, but his head turns, and arms and legs bend so you can make him look presidential or like a ninja. I wonder if we can pose him bending over.\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toypresidents.com\/view_product_noflash.asp?pid=1\" target=\"_blank\">George W. Bush Action Figure<\/a> by Toy Presidents. This one talks: Push his lapel pin and hear one of 25 phrases. Sample quote: &#8220;I&#8217;m glad to be in the midst of patriots.&#8221; His fitted outfit includes presidential boots and red, white and blue boxers. It includes a biographical pamphlet with 12 rare photos. I wonder if he&#8217;s listened to the quote from one of his toy colleagues, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toypresident.com\/view_product_noflash.asp?pid=8\" target=\"_blank\">George Washington<\/a>: Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty.\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toyvault.com\/PresidentialPlush\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">George Bush Chibi Plush<\/a> by ToyVault. Ten inches tall, he holds a U.S. flag and sports a heart-shaped red, white and blue badge on his chest. He includes a tag with &#8220;some of our favorite quotes from George W. Bush,&#8221; but of the nine goofy quotes, according to the OCR article, only three can be traced to Bush. The others were spoken by Dan Quayle, and then there&#8217;s the &#8220;I don&#8217;t like broccoli&#8221; quote from George H.W. Bush, president No. 41. Note that this is also the company that makes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toyvault.com\/cthulhu\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">plushy Cthulhu dolls<\/a>, as well as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toyvault.com\/montypython\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Monty Python Voice Abuse Keychain<\/a>.<\/ul>\n<p>Now, where did I put my wishlist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange County Register has a wonderful article on some of the George W. Bush dolls available for the holidays: The Pull My Finger President from TekkyToys. Pinch his finger and he lets out a loud TOOT and shakes, while following up his &#8216;command performance&#8217; with anyone of 7 funny phrases AND he also plays <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=432\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-lj-xfer","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}