BUSH SPEAKS

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BUSH SPEAKS
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Sat, 08-28-2004 - 2:41pm
"I would have to ask the questioner. I haven't had a chance to ask the questioners the question they've been questioning. On the other hand, I firmly believe she'll be a fine secretary of labor. And I've got confidence in Linda Chavez. She is a—she'll bring an interesting perspective to the Labor Department."

—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







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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Registered: 03-31-2003
In reply to: dablacksox
Sat, 08-28-2004 - 9:36pm
This is the quote that bothers me the most:

"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?

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Registered: 11-11-1999
In reply to: dablacksox
Sat, 08-28-2004 - 9:48pm
"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.

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Registered: 08-24-2004
In reply to: dablacksox
Sat, 08-28-2004 - 10:08pm
And John Kerry SAID and then SAID...................

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

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-11-1999
In reply to: dablacksox
Sat, 08-28-2004 - 10:12pm
"I have less use for a slick double talker than I have worries about a man who is not an eloquent public speaker. "

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.

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Registered: 11-11-1999
In reply to: dablacksox
Sat, 08-28-2004 - 10:32pm
BTW-if you want to keep track of the legacy of the slick doubletalker sitting in the White House, here's a site that cronicles the number of coalition casualties. That would be 972 Americans killed and 6500 wounded. And that's not counting the rest of the coalition.

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.

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Registered: 02-23-2004
In reply to: dablacksox
Sun, 08-29-2004 - 1:43am

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...

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-11-1999
In reply to: dablacksox
Sun, 08-29-2004 - 2:53am
"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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Registered: 08-31-2004
In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 8:42am
hey board. reading this from southern England, it occurs to me to ask if any of you are aware of how Bush is regarded in Europe generally, and particularly here in the UK, since our PM went to war with him.
baby siggy
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Registered: 08-24-2004
In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 8:49am
Sure do. I have posted on two different British Message Boards and quickly learned that you Brits seem to hate Bush. So do you love Kerry?
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Registered: 08-21-2004
In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 8:50am
I have my suspicions here, but this American would truly appreciate you enlightening the blind and foolish mass of repukes that seem too infest this board in their steadfast march forward toward election day, intent and content in electing a man that is hell bent on destroying the fabric of the American Middle Class.

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