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: 02-23-2004
In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 11:12am


Actually most of our military families support the president.

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

I don't know what American investigations have proved re what Bush knew or what he didn't. Over here it's been admitted that the evidence was incredibly flimsy, and nowhere near as solid as we were let to believe. Ergo, we were lied to. And Tony Blair has stood up and said as much, but with the comment that it doesn't really matter because he had good intentions so that makes it all ok.

How do we know Saddam had WMDs? He was a dictator and so quite possibly was planning it, but THERE IS NO PROOF! and there never has been. Listen to the UN, they had a very good reason for objecting to the war.

baby siggy
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Registered: 08-21-2004
In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 11:36am
LEts see, I have used tongue in cheek humor and facts to make my point, have ignored some very serious personal assaults on my person from certain of your Republican members, and yet I am the one being insulting. Curious here, as a CL where was such a stern and public warning when Steph last night viciously attacked me against Ivillage rules...you do not agree with my views, neither does she. Yet, I have been very careful in not attacking the person, but instead attacking their ideas their follies. Is pointing out a persons mistruths attacking?
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Registered: 08-21-2004
In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 11:39am
Sure they do....that is why the father torched the military van in Florida when they showed up to tell him his son had been killed in Iraq. That is why the Vietnam Vet who buried his son spoke up against the war at his sons gravesite, and had actually opposed his son enlisting. That is why the pentagon is quietly admitting they are having serious problems filling enlistment quotas, it is why so many soldiers forcibly had their enlistments EXTENDED.
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Registered: 02-23-2004
In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 11:39am


Thosuands of gassed Kurds would disagree with you I'm afraid. I'm well aware what France, Germany and Russia's reasons were-the billions they were making helping Saddam line his pockets with a program intended to help starving Iraqi children. In case you don't recall resolution 1441, all of these countries agreed that Saddam was a threat to the world with WMD's, flimsy evidence or not.

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Registered: 02-23-2004
In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 11:41am


I didn't say every last one, I said most. The simple fact is, the majority of our military supports President Bush.

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In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 11:50am

I make use of the "Report a Violation" link no matter who it comes from.

Miffy - Co-CL For The Politics Today Board

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Registered: 08-21-2004
In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 12:14pm
In reality, the support of those IN IRAQ is crumbling, but our news media is not giving much air time to that bit of news.
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Registered: 08-21-2004
In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 12:26pm
A very real reality of communications in a heated debate, is that the rhetoric on both sides reflects what is being thrown from the other. My posts are confrontational at times, and my style at times is deliberately targeted to be thought provoking and attacking as the case warrants it.

A perfect example that I am sure you can find plenty of examples of in one of the thread revolves around the pro-life verse pro-choice debate that too often interupts and finds its way into almost every topic thread. The pro-lifers have a habit of attempting to paint those of us on the side of pro-choice as murders right out of the starting gate. I find this offensive, rude, attacking and totally uncalled for, but have noticed that they rarely are reported for such flagrant abuse of the Ivillage rules. Furthermore, when you attempt to debate them on the merits of the issue they totally ignore your arguments and move right along with their vivid and oft time erroneous discriptions of bodies being torn apart. So, as a debater, you are left with little choice but to use lampooning and humorous tongue-in-cheek descriptions of the steriotypes they themselves are perpetuating through their own actions and words to speak to everyone else, since it is painfully obvious they themselves are not listening.

As for violating the rules...unfortunately, too often a violation is purely subjection, and the decision depends far too often on the political or moral positions of the person making the decision...some days, it can even be based purely on the mood of the one that happens to be assigned the task of reviewing the posts...in this current case Pat whom I do not know, nor have I had dealings with. Because of this subjective interpretation of the rules of Ivillage, often times you run into a situation where a poster has not actually violated the rules, but is locked out anyways to assure the comfort of other posters who views more properly reflect those of the investigating person...tell me, is this fair?

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In reply to: dablacksox
Tue, 08-31-2004 - 12:29pm
lianne-as a Brit I'm sure you will appreciate this quote by what is obviously a very famous "cowardly, left-wing, communistic" fellow Brit.

"We are paying 8 millions a year for the privilege of living on an ungrateful volcano, out of which we are in no circumstances to get anything worth having.

I hate Iraq. I wish we had never gone there."---Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill, roughly 1924.

dablacksox


Cynic: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.---Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.