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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Fangorn who wrote (13117)2/29/2000 3:31:00 PM
From: nihil  Respond to of 769667
 
Sorry, but GWB won't return my calls. So until he clears himself I'll just conclude that he is a reticent coke head.



To: Fangorn who wrote (13117)2/29/2000 3:47:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
Personally, I like W's own words on the subject. From Maureen Dowd, NYT, 8/22/99

By the time he got to Fairlawn, Ohio, on Friday he was still deep in Clintonspeak. "I think parents, particularly baby-boomer parents, ought to say to children, 'Do not use drugs,' " Mr. Bush said. "I think we owe the children that responsibility to share our wisdom. I worry about a society that sends a different message. One of the interesting questions facing baby boomers is, 'Have we grown up?' "

He was pressed by The Times's Adam Clymer: "And if a child asks a baby-boomer parent, 'Well, did you?' "

He replied: "I think the baby-boomer parent ought to say, 'I've learned from mistakes I may or may not have made. . . .


You may interpret those quotes as you wish. I interpret them as entertainment, myself.