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—Austin, Texas, Jan. 8, 2001
"I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them."
—Washington, D.C., Dec. 18, 2000
"Dick Cheney and I do not want this nation to be in a recession. We want anybody who can find work to be able to find work."
—60 Minutes II, Dec. 5, 2000
"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law."
—Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000
"They misunderestimated me."
—Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
"A surplus means there'll be money left over. Otherwise, it wouldn't be called a surplus."
-- Kalamazoo, MI 10/27/2000
"If you don't stand for anything, you don't stand for anything!"
Gov. George W. Bush said to a packed rally at Bellevue Community College on Tuesday night. 11/02/2000
"I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question."
—In response to a question about whether he wished he could take back any of his answers in the first debate. Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2000
While speaking about KIPP Academy in Houston, Texas during the debate last night, would-be president Bush said:
"It's a school full of so-called at-risk children. It's how we, unfortunately, label certain children. It means basically they can't learn. ... It's one of the best schools in Houston."
"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, it's probably in Tennessee --that says, fool me once, shame on ... shame on you. Fool me ... You can't get fooled again."
- G.W. Bush quoted by the Baltimore Sun - Oct 6, 2002
"Do you have blacks too?"
- Bush ignorantly asked Brazil's President Fernando Henrique
''I had no idea we had so many weapons, ...what do we need them for?''
George W. Bush, stunned when told the extent of the U.S. nuclear arsenal, Newsweek, June 25, 2001
"It's amazing I won. I was running against peace, prosperity, and incumbency."
— George W. Bush, June 14, 2001. Speaking to Swedish Prime Minister Goran Perrson, unaware that a live television camera was still rolling.
"The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case."
-Pella, Iowa, as quoted by the San Antonio Express-News, Jan. 30, 2000

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"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law."
—Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000
Does he not understand the United States Government? Is everyone okay with that?
It would appear that as long as he promises tax cuts people are ok with just about anything.
dablacksox
Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
Check the Link for all of his double talk. I have less use for a slick double talker than I have worries about a man who is not an eloquent public speaker.
http://www.nojohnkerry.org/kerryhtml/flipflops.htm
Personally, I have the most problems with soneone who gets 1,000 servicemen and thousands of Iraqis killed based on doubletalk.
But, YMMV.
dablacksox
Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
http://icasualties.org/oif/
And since our government figures it's not even worth counting the number of Iraqis killed, here's a site that tracks that.
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/bodycount.htm
It's definately got a political agenda, but since no one else considers the Iraqis to be worth worrying about, it will have to do.
Assuming you want to sort out the double talk that poured out of Washington a year and a half ago, that is.
dablacksox
Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/bodycount.htm >
You'll notice that a large number of these civilian casualties are caused by terrorist acts, not by the US military...
I don't recall anyone claiming that they WERE caused by the US military.
I DO recall our Washington politicians claiming that we were going into Iraq to "eliminate the terrorist threat" or whatever the doubletalk-du-jour is. So it would seem that these COULD be laid at the feet of the doubletalkers in Washington who have created another breeding ground for terrorists in Iraq.
But, don't let me interupt-let's hear some more right wing claims about what Kerry did or didn't do 30 years ago. Sorry to derail the conversation with reality.
dablacksox
Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
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