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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In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 8:56am
do we love Kerry? I personally don't know enough about him, although I tend to think that if he can hold a book the right way up that would be an improvement on Bush. Obviously I know nothing about your internal politics, taxes, schools etc. But I'm surprised at how many posts I've read supporting Bush, since he took your country (and mine, to a certain extent) to war on grounds that have been proved to be completely false. There are no WMDs and there is no evidence that there ever were any WMDs. What there is, of course, is oil. Lots and lots of oil.

I have no intention of voting Blair back in because of that. Can you forgive Bush for it?

PS What's a repuke?

baby siggy
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In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 9:27am
Puke is American slang for barfing or throwing up, thus the Repukes for those of us that are totally aware of Bush's lies and deceit.

Your are correct, no Weapons of Mass Destruction, and ALSO no connection found between Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Ladin...yet, this president stood in front of the whole nation, no, the whole world and lied to get us into a war that would allow him to avenge his Dad.

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In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 9:31am
ah, you've hit on an interesting topic there - the son completing his father's war. I'm really interested to hear from Americans who voted for Bush about how they feel on this. Can you forgive him?
baby siggy
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In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 9:58am
Donna
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Tue, 08-31-2004 - 10:35am

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In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 10:38am

Repuke is a childish term for a Republican, and I really wish it, along with other insulting words for the names of the parties, would not be used.

Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board

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In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 10:40am
I am sure the mothers and fathers, husbands and wives, children and lovers of those almost 1,000 Dead American soldiers can never forgive him. Not to mention the now over 6600 American Soldiers that have been MAIMED in this war.
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In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 10:41am
TOUCHE
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In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 10:51am
I'm not Renee, and you really need to stop being so insulting to other members.

Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board

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In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 11:10am


Investigations by both our country and yours have proved that neither Bush nor Blair was lying, so IMO there is nothing to forgive. We know Saddam did have WMDs, there was some faulty intelligence on what he had now no question, and that situation needs to be rectified. The world is a much safer and better place without Saddam Hussein and his millions of dollars funding terrorism, and WMD capability which he would gladly pass along to terroist organizations.



A juvenile derogatory name for half the people in the United States.