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

To: greenspirit who wrote (260221)	6/1/2002 12:22:14 AM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Cummings: Let me try to make this simple for you: Point 1: You contend that posting the Chelsea article was NOT bashing. Nonsense. The headline stated: "New photos show Chelsea in drunken stupor again." Yet, when I tried to link to the photos, uh ... I didn't see any. (Could you provide a link to these photos, please?) An argument built simply on a newsmax.com headline is most weak. Most weak. Point 2: When paraphrasing JLA, you said: "I posted an article which described Chelsea Clinton drinking too much and the hypocrisy of the liberal mainstream press for not reporting it since they jumped all over the Bush girls only a few months ago. JLA then responded he felt sorry for Chelsea for having such screwed up parents and hoped the press would leave her alone. I agreed with his assessment." What you conveniently OMITTED of your summary was the fact that more than one of you opined that Chelsea has a "drinking problem." Says who? A Newsmax.com headline? Some sleazy London tabloid? An assortment of unnamed hearsay evidence? Saying someone has a "drinking problem" is a serious charge. Do the Bush twins have a "drinking problem"? I have seen no hard evidence of such. If they are guilty of anything, it is sophomoric behavior. Does Chelsea have a "drinking problem"? I have seen no evidence of such. If there is a germ of truth to the story you quoted, she is guilty of nothing more than sophomoric behavior. When you have something solid that shows that Chelsea has a drinking problem, post it. In the meantime, you owe an apology to the board for slandering a fine young woman. Remember: One girl graduated from Stanford and is now studying at Oxford. It's a pity her last name ain't Bush.

To: greenspirit who wrote (260221)	6/1/2002 3:21:17 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (6) \| Respond to of 769667

LEADERSHIP, PERSONIFIED: The Selected One Spacketh: "You've heard Al Gore say he invented the internet. Well, if he was so smart, why do all the addresses begin with "W"?" --10-28-00 Headline News - Mimi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nov. 2, 2000, SEATTLE -- "If you don't stand for anything, you don't standfor anything!" Gov. George W. Bush said to a packed rally at Bellevue Community College on Tuesday night. --Thanks, Michael. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "They said this issue wouldn't resignate with the People. They've been proved wrong, it does resignate." ("resonate"?!) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I believe a military of high morale is conducive to keeping the peace..." not the worst but... "...when we find a senior who has to choose between food and medicine-that's not our vision of America." Am I missing something? Aren't the two parts of this statement disconnected? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A surplus means there'll be money left over. Otherwise, it wouldn't be called a surplus." -- Kalamazoo, MI 10/27/2000 - Jack -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If we are going to save a generation of young people, our children must know they will face bad consequences for criminal behavior. Sadly, too many youths are not getting that message. Our juvenile justice system must say to our children: We love you, but we are going to hold you accountable for your actions. --Bush campaign literature. (Mr. Dubya: should you be held accountable for your youthful indiscretions when you were a 30 year old "child"?!) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm not going to talk about what I did as a child. What I am going to talk about -- and I am going to say this consistently -- [is that] it is irrelevant what I did 20 to 30 years ago. What's relevant is that I have learned from any mistakes I made. I do not want to send signals to anybody that what Gov. Bush did 30 years ago is cool to try." --Gov. Bush in an interview with WMUR-TV in New Hampshire, when asked if he had used "drugs, marijuana, cocaine" -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defense system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace." —Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 23, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream." —LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If I'm the president, we're going to have emergency-room care, we're going to have gag orders." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Drug therapies are replacing a lot of medicines as we used to know it." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It's one thing about insurance, that's a Washington term." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is—I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Quotas are bad for America. It's not the way America is all about." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If affirmative action means what I just described, what I'm for, then I'm for it." —St. Louis, Mo., October 18, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Our priorities is our faith." —Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling, which is illiterate children." —Second presidential debate, Oct. 11, 2000 (Thanks to Leonard Williams.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It's going to require numerous IRA agents." —On Gore's tax plan, Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I think if you know what you believe, it makes it a lot easier to answer questions. I can't answer your question." —In response to a question about whether he wished he could take back any of his answers in the first debate. Reynoldsburg, Ohio, Oct. 4, 2000 (Thanks to Peter Feld.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I would have my secretary of treasury be in touch with the financial centers, not only here but at home." —Boston, Oct. 3, 2000 (Thanks to M. Bateman.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While speaking about KIPP Academy in Houston, Texas during the debate last night, would-be president Bush said: "It's a school full of so-called at-risk children. It's how we, unfortunately, label certain children. It means basically they can't learn. ... It's one of the best schools in Houston." So he thinks that "at-risk" means "can't learn?" And that one of the best schools in Houston is filled with students that can't learn? What an idiot. (Thanks Derek Brandon) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... I've been talking to Vicente Fox, the new president of Mexico... I know him... to have gas and oil sent to U.S.... so we'll not depend on foreign oil... -- on the first Presidential debate, 10/03/2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." —Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy." —Redwood, Calif., Sept. 27, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "One of the common denominators I have found is that expectations rise above that which is expected." --Los Angeles, Sept. 27, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "...more and more of our imports are coming from overseas." -- On NPR's Morning Edition (9/26) - (Thanks Paul ...) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Larry King: "What do people misunderstand about you most" George Walker Bush: "That I'm running on my dad's name... (!?!) I'm proud of my dad... I reconciled my love for my dad a long time ago" -- What the heck is he talking about? (Thanks Dave...) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Well, that's going to be up to the pundits and the people to make up their mind. I'll tell you what is a president for him, for example, talking about my record in the state of Texas. I mean, he's willing to say anything in order to convince people that I haven't had a good record in Texas." --MSNBC, Sept. 20, 2000 (Thanks to Gregory H. Monberg.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am aperson who recognizes the fallacy of humans...," apparently meaning fallibility." --from "Bush courts women in cozy 'Oprah' visit" by William Goldshclag printed in the New York City edition of the Daily News, September 20, 2000, page 5 (Thanks Michael...) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness."-- The Edge With Paula Zahn, Sept. 18, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The woman who knew that I had dyslexia--I never interviewed her." --Orange, Calif., Sept. 15, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The best way to relieve families from time is to let them keep some of their own money." —Westminster, Calif., Sept.13, 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "They have miscalculated me as a leader." —Ibid. *************************************************** Crumblings, Is this what you are trying to support? You must have a screw loose. bushisms.com