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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Ish who wrote (29334)8/14/2000 7:15:08 PM
From: DMaA  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
He takes credit for what might happen in the future.

That is literally what he is saying with this Bridge to the 21 Century B.S.

Mark Helprin on the genesis of the absurd phrase:

On a personal note, in Dole's acceptance speech, he said "Let me be a bridge to those things." I don't know if I am quoting myself exactly here, but he was speaking about the virtues of a virtuous time in history--what Tom Brokaw has called the greatest generation in history--and he asked that we allow him to be the living bridge to those times. The president then took that and said, "Why build a bridge to the past, let me be the bridge to the future." What this was, was a gambit based upon a deliberate misinterpretation of what had been said, and the idea of a bridge to the future is, in my view, offensive because we don't know what the future will be, so that that bridge is like those highway overpasses that aren't finished and end in mid-air. They are dangerous, because when you drive off them, you crash.

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