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List of nicknames used by George W. Bush

American president George W. Bush is famous for using nicknames to refer to members of his White House staff, politicians and reporters. Among these include:

Family

• Poppy - George H. W. Bush
• Bushie, Slappy - Laura Bush

Personal

• Kenny Boy - Kenneth Lay

Staff

• Boy Genius (positive), Turd Blossom (negative) - Karl Rove, Senior Advisor
• Big O (current), Pablo (former) - Paul O'Neill, Secretary of the Treasury
• High Prophet, Hurricane Karen - Karen Hughes, Special Advisor; Director of Communications under Texas Governor George W. Bush
• Big Country - Joe Allbaugh, FEMA director
• Tree Man - Unnamed forest service official

Politicians

• Pablo - Paul Wellstone
• Big George - George Miller, Democratic Congressman, California
• Freddy Boy - Fred Upton, Republican Congressman, Michigan
• Pootie-Poot - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
• Dino (short for Dinosaur) - Jean Chrétien, former Prime Minister of Canada

Reporters

• The Cobra - Maureen Dowd
• Little Stretch - David Gregory
• Stretch - Dick Kyle, Bloomberg News
• Big O - Bill O'Reilly
• Super Stretch - Bill Sammon, Washington Times

Satire

Bush's nicknaming proclivity has attracted a variety of satire, including a and the infamous Doonesbury where "Condi" is admonished with the phrase "Careful, Brown Sugar".