[Newspoetry] Fwd: Fw: FW: The Complete Bushisms (as in George Jr.)

[Dirk Stratton]

read'em and weep . . .

--dirk


>
>The Complete Bushisms
>  Updated weekly.
>
>  (From Slate)
>
>  Compiled by Jacob Weisberg
>  Posted Friday, March 10, 2000, at 10:30 a.m. PT
>
>  "It's evolutionary, going from governor to president, and this is a
>  significant step, to be able to vote for yourself on the ballot, and
>I'll
>  be able to do so next fall, I hope."
>  In an interview with the Associated Press, March 8, 2000 (Thanks to
>Joshua
>  Micah Marshall)
>
>  "It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in
>nature.''
>  Los Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000
>
>  "I don't have to accept their tenants. I was trying to convince those
>  college students to accept my tenants. And I reject any labeling me
>  because I happened to go to the university."
>  Today, Feb. 23, 2000
>
>  "I understand small business growth. I was one."
>  New York Daily News, Feb. 19, 2000
>
>  "The senator has got to understand if he's going to have--he can't have
>
>it
>  both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road."
>  To reporters in Florence, S.C., Feb. 17, 2000
>
>  "Really proud of it. A great campaign. And I'm really pleased with the
>  organization and the thousands of South Carolinians that worked on my
>  behalf. And I'm very gracious and humbled."
>  To Cokie Roberts, This Week, Feb. 20, 2000
>
>  "I don't want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I on the
>bus
>  16 hours a day, shaking thousands of hands, giving hundreds of
>speeches,
>  getting pillared in the press and cartoons and still staying on message
>
>to
>  win?"
>  Newsweek, Feb. 28, 2000
>
>  "I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it
>  occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists."
>  ibid.
>
>  "If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and
>  principles, come and join this campaign."
>  Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000
>
>  "How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply
>  suckles kids through?"
>  Explaining the need for educational accountability in Beaufort, S.C.,
>Feb.
>  16, 2000
>
>  "We ought to make the pie higher."
>  South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 2000
>
>  "I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to attract
>  votes and to lead people toward a better tomorrow somehow I get
>subscribed
>  to some--some doctrine gets subscribed to me."
>  Meet The Press, Feb. 13, 2000
>
>  "I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less
>  I pontificate less, although it may be hard to tell it from this show.
>And
>  I'm more interacting with people."
>  ibid
>
>  "I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle
>class,
>  I think we should knock down the tollbooth."
>  Nashua, N.H., as quoted by Gail Collins in the New York Times, Feb. 1,
>  2000
>
>  "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
>
>  "Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"
>  Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
>
>  "This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you
>do
>  when you run for president. You gotta preserve."
>  Speaking during "Perseverance Month" at Fairgrounds Elementary School
>in
>  Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
>
>  "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."
>  Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000
>
>  "What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they
>  basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate,
>quotas,
>I
>  think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what
>everybody
>  else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.''
>  Quoted by Molly Ivins, the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000
>(Thanks
>  to Toni L. Gould.)
>
>  "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly
>who
>  they were," he said. "It was us vs. them, and it was clear who them
>was.
>  Today, we are not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there."
>  Iowa Western Community College, Jan 21, 2000
>
>  "The administration I'll bring is a group of men and women who are
>focused
>  on what's best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women,
>  women who will see service to our country as a great privilege and who
>  will not stain the house."
>  Des Moines Register debate, Iowa, Jan. 15, 2000
>
>  "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and
>uncertainty
>  and potential mential losses."
>  At a South Carolina oyster roast, as quoted in the Financial Times,
>Jan.
>  14, 2000
>
>  "We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like
>you
>  like to be liked yourself."
>  ibid.
>
>  "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
>  Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
>
>  "Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure."
>  ibid.
>
>  "There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be
>  town-hall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country."
>  Larry King Live, Dec. 16, 1999
>
>  "I read the newspaper."
>  In answer to a question about his reading habits, New Hampshire
>Republican
>  Debate, Dec. 2, 1999
>
>  "I think it's important for those of us in a position of responsibility
>
>to
>  be firm in sharing our experiences, to understand that the babies out
>of
>  wedlock is a very difficult chore for mom and baby alike. ... I believe
>
>we
>  ought to say there is a different alternative than the culture that is
>  proposed by people like Miss Wolf in society. ... And, you know,
>  hopefully, condoms will work, but it hasn't worked."
>  Meet the Press, Nov. 21, 1999
>
>  "The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts
>
>of
>  the country. Within months, I knew many of them."
>  From A Charge To Keep, by George W. Bush, published November 1999
>
>  "It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his
>  party's nomination to start speculating about vice presidents."
>  Keene, N.H., Oct. 22, 1999, quoted in the New Republic, Nov. 15, 1999
>
>  "The important question is, How many hands have I shaked?"
>  Answering a question about why he hasn't spent more time in New
>Hampshire,
>  in the New York Times, Oct. 23, 1999
>
>  "I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time
>debating
>  it. Maybe we did, but I don't remember."
>  On discussions of the Vietnam War when he was an undergraduate at Yale,
>  Washington Post, July 27, 1999
>
>  "The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from
>  your foreign minister, who came to Texas."
>  To a Slovak journalist as quoted by Knight Ridder News Service, June
>22,
>  1999. Bush's meeting was with Janez Drnovsek, the prime minister of
>  Slovenia.
>
>  "If the East Timorians decide to revolt, I'm sure I'll have a
>statement."
>  Quoted by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, June 16, 1999
>
>  "Keep good relations with the Grecians."
>  Quoted in the Economist, June 12, 1999
>
>  "Kosovians can move back in."
>  CNN Inside Politics, April 9, 1999
>
>  "It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then."
>  From a 1994 interview, as quoted in First Son, by Bill Minutaglio
>