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

To: E who wrote (73858)	11/14/2000 10:44:21 AM
From: microhoogle!	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 769667

E! I don't like long posts. This is how it should be split up into multiple posts. Here's a nice couple of Bush comments. 1988 vs 2000. Which is the true Bush?: "You fucking son of a bitch. I saw what you wrote. We're not going to forget this." (Bush to writer and editor Al Hunt, 1988.) "I'm running for a reason. I'm answering this question here and the answer is, you cannot lead America to a positive tomorrow with revenge on one's mind. Revenge is so incredibly negative." (Bush to the Washington Post, 2000.)

To: E who wrote (73858)	11/14/2000 11:06:11 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I have listened to him in various contexts. He does not make a gaffe every other sentence. He does not make a gaffe every ten sentences. He does not always make a gaffe in the course of an interview, and when he does, it is often a slight stumble, like a mispronunciation or mangled syntax. It is true, one can collect some egregious examples of mangling, but they are not common to his discourse. A lot of what you quote is trivial, a lack of agreement in number ("families is") or a reversal of terms ("wings take dream"), and are likely a result of tiredness. The few quotes available to you that might be viewed with alarm are generally poor expressions of an idea that is in itself sound. For example, in the comment about social security, he means that they don't want to allow privatization because they want to keep complete control over it, like it is a welfare program, not a pension plan. He probably left out a term like "welfare". In the residual cases, I detect a sign of exhaustion I have myself experienced, if more rarely: I start to say something, and I am so tired I forget what I intended to say. All of this is a consequence of campaigning, and not being terribly glib to begin with. It is less than nothing.......