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

To: Neocon who wrote (17051)	4/17/2000 3:52:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 769667

"Terribly" is a subjective assessment, I think we can agree. Olasky doesn't matter. Bush's calling him his "ethics advisor" does say something about Bush, though. Here's a remark Bush made, quoted in the NYT on Friday. The article was about his new accessibility to reporters, his style, etc: "Last week, he turned to a reporter who grew up in the arid expanse of Australia's most famous rural region with a mock suggestion. 'Outback woman!' he said. 'One of the things I'd like to do sometime is have dinner with you at the Outback steakhouse. That way, we'd have the Outback woman at the Outback steakhouse.'" He's a simple soul. Terribly simple. Was there a discussion here of Bush not commuting the execution of the woman who had become a born again Christian? I think there was, though I didn't follow it. I don't even recall her name. I did think of her, though, when someone referred to Bush as a "compassionate" Republican. I remember Bush making fun of her by making a mock-pleading face and in a highpitched voice, mimicking her, saying, "Oh please don't kill me!" or "Please let me live!", something like that. I know the compassion claim was justified by saying his compassion was for the victims. I wondered how the mocking mimicry of her pleas qualifies. Here's an email someone sent me. >The state of Texas, under the leadership of Governor George >W. Bush, is > ranked: > > 50th in spending for teachers' salaries > 49th in spending on the environment > 48th in per-capita funding for public health > 47th in delivery of social services > 42nd in child-support collections > 41st in per-capita spending on public education and ... > 5th in percentage of population living in poverty > 1st in air and water pollution > 1st in percentage of poor working parents without insurance > 1st in percentage of children without health insurance > 1st in executions (an average of 1 every 2 weeks for Bush's 5 years as > governor) > > Just think of what Bush could do for the country if he were president! (I haven't done any independent verification of the stats offered. I'd be interested (and reassured) to have any corrected.)