"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully." ---Saginaw, MI, 29 September 2000
"I must confess. It did confuse some of the folks at the Crawford, Texas, coffee shop when I was traveling around the country with Theodore Kennedy." ---13 May 2002
Yes, I suppose it would since no one knows who Theodore Kennedy is. Do you mean Edward (Ted) Kennedy (Senior U.S. Senator from Massachusetts) by any chance, Mr. President?
"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." ---27 January 2000
See this link for some more fun times with Mr. Bush and his 'speechalist'.
"I also understand how tender the free enterprise system can be." ---9 July 2002
Is it kind and loving also?
Saturday, September 17, 2005
BUSHISM of the Day
"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." ---1 July 2000
Thursday, September 15, 2005
BUSHISM of the Day
"We need to counter the shock wave of the evildoer by having individual rate cuts accelerated and by thinking about tax rebates." ---4 October 2001
I had not really recognized how quickly Bush's administration was working to use Sept 11, 2001 to its political advantage until I read this quote. We can counter the evildoer by giving people tax rebates. Who needs to ask the nation for sacrifices in the face of danger when we can go about Republican business as usual and give the rich all of their (sweat-free) money back to them while placing a heavier tax burden on the middle class, and selling all of our debt to the one great nation-state that remains a military threat to this nation? Is it no wonder that the number of people living below the poverty line in the U.S. increased by nearly four million people last year? The policies of Reagan-Bush have proven once again that 'trickle-down' economics is a fallacy, and that all they do is decrease the size of the middle class. It is policies like these that Karl Marx had in mind that would lead to the elimination of the middle class and the eventual overthrow of the bourgeousie by the proletariat. Our world has never seen a truly Marxist state, but give Bush and his ilk enough time and we will.
I had not really recognized how quickly Bush's administration was working to use Sept 11, 2001 to its political advantage until I read this quote. We can counter the evildoer by giving people tax rebates. Who needs to ask the nation for sacrifices in the face of danger when we can go about Republican business as usual and give the rich all of their (sweat-free) money back to them while placing a heavier tax burden on the middle class, and selling all of our debt to the one great nation-state that remains a military threat to this nation? Is it no wonder that the number of people living below the poverty line in the U.S. increased by nearly four million people last year? The policies of Reagan-Bush have proven once again that 'trickle-down' economics is a fallacy, and that all they do is decrease the size of the middle class. It is policies like these that Karl Marx had in mind that would lead to the elimination of the middle class and the eventual overthrow of the bourgeousie by the proletariat. Our world has never seen a truly Marxist state, but give Bush and his ilk enough time and we will.
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
BUSHISM of the Day
"But the true threats to stability and peace are these nations that are not very transparent, that hide behind the -- that don't let people in to take a look and see what they're up to. They're very kind of authoritarian regimes. The true threat is whether or not one of these people decide, peak of anger, try to hold us hostage, ourselves; the Israelis, for example, to whom we'll defend, offer our defenses; the South Koreans." ---Media roundtable, Washington D.C., 13 March 2001
Okay, some commentary on this Bush quote: Mr. Bush claims that the true threats are regimes that hide their true intentions, that mask their true actions in the public sphere, that keep people in the dark about their policies. It takes one to know one, Mr. Bush! A government that tries to work behind close doors without full disclosure to its citizens can very well be a threat to peace and stability throughout the world. Under the Bush Doctrine, the United States is one of these countries.
I can't even comment on anything else from this quote because I don't really understand it. Anyone?
Okay, some commentary on this Bush quote: Mr. Bush claims that the true threats are regimes that hide their true intentions, that mask their true actions in the public sphere, that keep people in the dark about their policies. It takes one to know one, Mr. Bush! A government that tries to work behind close doors without full disclosure to its citizens can very well be a threat to peace and stability throughout the world. Under the Bush Doctrine, the United States is one of these countries.
I can't even comment on anything else from this quote because I don't really understand it. Anyone?
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
BUSHISM of the Day
"Let me put it to you this way, I am not a revengeful person." ---Time magazine, 25 December 2000
Monday, September 12, 2005
BUSHISM of the Day
"I admit it, I am not one of the great linguists." --To Tom Brokaw, Inside the Real West Wing, 23 January 2001
Friday, September 09, 2005
Quote of the Day
"To be poor in America was to be invisible, but not after this week, not after those images of the bedraggled masses at the Superdome, convention center and airport. No one can claim that the post-Reagan orthodoxy of low taxes and small government, which does wonders for the extremely rich, also inevitably does wonders for the extremely poor. What was that about a rising tide lifting all boats? What if you don't have a boat?"
- Eugene Robinson, columnist for The Washington Post
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