I'm glad you admitted that not being able to string coherent sentences together amounts to being brainless....
c.horn...you should have KNOWN this was going to bite you in the ass....I'm shocked at your lack of foresight.
Just a few Bush quotes...
7/1... "Unfairly but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against things. Anti-immigrant, for example. And we're not a party of anti-immigrants. Quite the opposite. We're a party that welcomes people." --Cleveland, Ohio
6/28..."The fundamental question is, 'Will I be a successful president when it comes to foreign policy?' I will be, but until I'm the president, it's going to be hard for me to verify that I think I'll be more effective." --Wayne, Michigan, reported by Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, June 28, 2000.
6/10... "If you’re asking me whether or not as to the innocence or guilt or if people have had adequate access to the courts in Texas, I believe they have." --Response to an AP Reporter
5/18..."[Rudy Giuliani] has certainly earned a reputation as a fantastic mayor because the results speak for themselves. I mean, New York's a safer place for him to be." --The Edge With Paula Zahn
5/14... "The fact that he relies on facts--says things that are not factual--are going to undermine his campaign." --New York Times
5/10...""I think we agree, the past is over."—-On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News.
5/5..."It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."--In answer to the charge that, as Texas governor, he did not make up a state budget, Reuters.
4/26..."I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to know." --On Elian negotiations, AP.
3/2... "I've got a record, a record that is conservative and a record that is compassionated." --NYT Debate Transcript
2/23..."It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature." (Los Angeles)--Slate, 2/29
2/25... "After he had failed a reporter's pop quiz last fall about foreign leaders, including the name of the Indian prime minister, Mr. Bush winced today when a moderator mentioned the words "pop quiz." Jokingly, Mr. Bush dared the moderator to ask him the name of the Indian president. "Do you know who the president of India is?" the moderator asked obligingly. "Vajpayee," Mr. Bush said, grinning and looking pleased with himself. But Atal Behari Vajpayee is the prime minister of India; the president is K. R. Narayanan." --New York Times, 2/26
2/23... "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
2/23...It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature." (Los Angeles)--Slate, 2/29
2/20..."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 edition)
"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.
2/20..."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)
2/17..."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. (Slate)
2/16/00... "If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign." --Hilton Head, S.C. (Slate)
2/15/00... "Bush mispronounced the words "tactical," "nuclear," and Lugar" (as in Sen. Dick) in the course of a single sentence. A few moments later, he mangled "admirably" beyond recognition, and left viewers wondering how many syllables the word "strategic" has. (Two, three or four, by Bush's count.) At another point, he declared that as Americans, "we ought to make the pie higher." Huh?"--Tucker Carlson
2/14/00..."There is madmen in the world, and there are terror." (AP)
For parents bothered by the amount of profanity and violence on TV, he recommended a simple solution: "Put the 'off' button on." (AP)
2/7/00 (circa)...Bush recalled his time as a Texas oil man and how the experience shaped his views in support of entrepreneurs. "I understand small business growth.I was one." (AP)
1/30/00..."This is preservation month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You've got to preserve." Presidential candidate George W. Bush, praising students at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H., for their "theme of the month," which was actually perseverance. (Newsweek)
1/19/00..."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." (Molly Ivins) |
