As a Pisces, I relate swimmingly to this one aqueous comment. As a radical, I relate
reminiscently and hotheadedly to a pro-choice march I participated in, early 90's - a
favorite chant was "get out of my bush, George." As a wannabe mail artist, I have
already voted, by mail. As an afterthought, I should have used fake stamps on my
ballot and a few favorite rubber stamps; namely, "repetitiously redundant" and "lack
of charisma can be fatal."
As a final comment which has nothing to do with any of the above, I have just about
completed my yearly piece for the local museum "miniature" show incorporating
somebody's photo of Duchamp's bicycle wheel, a second overlay of an unknown tramp
artist's wire bicycle wheel, and Ben Vautier's certificate of authenticity overlaid
overall. I am proud to say everything is appropriated.
Ben Vautier for President. Now, THAT could be interesting.
Bests,
PK
John Blower wrote:
> I have a terrible feeling that Gore has thrown away what should have been an
>unassailable lead.
>
> Here's a selection of Dubya's pronouncements.
>
> God help us...
>
> >>>>
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> George Bush in his own mouth:
>
> "They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some
>kind of federal program."—St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
>
> "They said, 'You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate with the people.'
>And I said, you know something? Whether it resignates or not doesn't matter to me,
>because I stand for doing what's the right thing, and what the right thing is hearing
>the voices of people who work."—Portland, Ore., Oct. 31, 2000
>
> "Anyway, after we go out and work our hearts out, after you go out and help us
>turn out the vote, after we've convinced the good Americans to vote, and while
>they're at it, pull that old George W. lever, if I'm the one, when I put my hand on
>the Bible, when I put my hand on the Bible, that day when they swear us in, when I
>put my hand on the Bible, I will swear to not—to uphold the laws of the
>land."—Toledo, Ohio, Oct. 27, 2000
>
> "It's your money. You paid for it."—LaCrosse, Wis., Oct. 18, 2000
>
> "That's a chapter, the last chapter of the 20th, 20th, the 21st century that
>most of us would rather forget. The last chapter of the 20th century. This is the
>first chapter of the 21st century. "—On the Lewinsky scandal, Arlington Heights,
>Ill., Oct. 24, 2000
>
> "It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's
>not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark
>dungeons of the Internet."—Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000
>
> "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.)
>
> "I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."—Saginaw, Mich., Sept.
>29, 2000 (My favorite...)
>
> "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
>
> "It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our
>imports come from overseas."—Beaverton, Ore., Sep. 25, 2000
>
> "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 a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans."—Oprah, Sept. 19, 2000
>
> "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.
>
> "I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our
>views on prescription drugs."—Orlando, Fla., Sept. 12, 2000
>
> "This is what I'm good at. I like meeting people, my fellow citizens, I like
>interfacing with them."—Outside Pittsburgh, Sept. 8, 2000
>
> "That's Washington. That's the place where you find people getting ready to
>jump out of the foxholes before the first shot is fired."—Westland, Mich., Sept. 8,
>2000
>
> "Listen, Al Gore is a very tough opponent. He is the incumbent. He
> represents the incumbency. And a challenger is somebody who generally
> comes from the pack and wins, if you're going to win. And that's where
> I'm coming from."—Detroit, Sept. 7, 2000 (Thanks to Michael Butler, Houston,
>Texas.)
>
> "We'll let our friends be the peacekeepers and the great country called America
>will be the pacemakers."—Houston, Texas, Sept. 6, 2000
>
> "We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of
>Americans."—Scranton, Pa., Sept. 6, 2000
>
> "I regret that a private comment I made to the vice presidential candidate made
>it through the public airways."—Allentown, Pa., Sept. 5, 2000.
>
> "The point is, this is a way to help inoculate me about what has come and is
>coming."--on his anti-Gore ad, in an interview with the New York Times, Sept. 2, 2000
>
> "As governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I
>have met those standards."--CNN online chat, Aug. 30, 2000
>
> "Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's
>trustworthiness."--Ibid.
>
> "I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm
>ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes."—Des Moines, Iowa, Aug.
>21, 2000
>
> ''This campaign not only hears the voices of the entrepreneurs and the farmers
>and the entrepreneurs, we hear the voices of those struggling to get ahead."—Ibid.
>
> "We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold
>our allies hostile.''—Ibid.
>
> "I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings
>people together."—Bartlett, Tenn., Aug. 18, 2000 (Thanks to Tarja Black.)
>
> "I think he needs to stand up and say if he thought the president were wrong on
>policy and issues, he ought to say where."—Interview with the Associated Press, Aug.
>11, 2000 (Thanks to Ryan Rhodes.)
>
> "I want you to know that farmers are not going to be secondary thoughts to a
>Bush administration. They will be in the forethought of our thinking."—Salinas,
>Calif., Aug. 10, 2000 (Thanks to Kris Sester.)
>
> "And if he continues that, I'm going to tell the nation what I think about him
>as a human being and a person."—President George H.W. Bush, on the Today show, Aug.
>1, 2000
>
> "You might want to comment on that, Honorable."--To New Jersey's secretary of
>state, the Hon. DeForest Soaries Jr., as quoted by Dana Milbank in the Washington
>Post, July 155, 2000
>
> "This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand
>the emotionality of death penalty cases."--Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 23, 2000
>(Thanks to Johnny Green.)
>
> "States should have the right to enact reasonable laws and restrictions
>particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could
>live."—Cleveland, June 29, 2000 (Thanks to Douglas Basford.)
>
> "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, July 1, 2000 (Thanks to M.
>Bateman.)
>
> "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."—In Wayne, Mich., as quoted by
>Katharine Q. Seelye in the New York Times, June 28, 2000
>
> "The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have
>been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do
>not believe we've put a guilty ... I mean innocent person to death in the state of
>Texas." All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000 (Thanks to Andy Nouraee.)
>
> "I'm gonna talk about the ideal world, Chris. I've read—I understand reality.
>If you're asking me as the president, would I understand reality, I do."—On abortion,
>Hardball, MSNBC; May 31, 2000
>
> "There's not going to be enough people in the system to take advantage of
>people like me."—On the coming Social Security crisis; Wilton, Conn.; June 9, 2000
>(Thanks to Andy Mais.)
>
> "I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is
>underestimating."—U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000 (Thanks to Alfred Stanley,
>Austin, Texas.)
>
> Bush: "First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's
>dieciséis de Septiembre, and ..."
> Matthews: "What's that in English?"
> Bush: "Fifteenth of September." (Dieciséis de Septiembre = Sept. 16)
> —Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000 (Thanks to numerous readers.)
>
> "Actually, I—this may sound a little West Texan to you, but I like it. When I'm
>talking about—when I'm talking about myself, and when he's talking about myself, all
>of us are talking about me."—Ibid.
>
> "This is a world that is much more uncertain than the past. In the past we were
>certain, we were certain it was us versus the Russians in the past. We were certain,
>and therefore we had huge nuclear arsenals aimed at each other to keep the peace.
>That's what we were certain of. .. You see, even though it's an uncertain world,
>we're certain of some things. We're certain that even though the 'evil empire' may
>have passed, evil still remains. We're certain there are people that can't stand what
>America stands for. ... We're certain there are madmen in this world, and there's
>terror, and there's missiles and I'm certain of this, too: I'm certain to maintain
>the peace, we better have a military of high morale, and I'm certain that under this
>administration, morale in the military is dangerously low."—Albuquerque, N.M., the
>Washington Post, May 31, 2000
>
> "He 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."—On Rudy
>Giuliani, The Edge With Paula Zahn, May 18, 2000 (Thanks to Peter Goldman.)
>
> "The fact that he relies on facts—says things that are not factual—are going to
>undermine his campaign."—New York Times, March 4, 2000 (Thanks to Garry Trudeau.)
>
> "I think we agree, the past is over."—On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas
>Morning News, May 10, 2000
>
> "It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."--Reuters, May 5, 2000
>(Thanks to Allison Fansler.)
>
> GOV. BUSH: Because the picture on the newspaper. It just seems so un-American
>to me, the picture of the guy storming the house with a scared little boy there. I
>talked to my little brother, Jeb—I haven't told this to many people. But he's the
>governor of—I shouldn't call him my little brother--my brother, Jeb, the great
>governor of Texas.
> JIM LEHRER: Florida.
> GOV. BUSH: Florida. The state of the Florida.—The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer,
>April 27, 2000
>
> "I hope we get to the bottom of the answer. It's what I'm interested to
>know."—On what happened in negotiations between the Justice Department and Elián
>González's Miami relatives, as quoted by the Associated Press, April 26, 2000 (Thanks
>to Saul Selzer.)
>
> "Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we
>get an objective analysis."—Meet the Press, April 15, 2000
>
> "You subscribe politics to it. I subscribe freedom to it."—Responding to a
>question about whether he and Al Gore were making the Elián González case a political
>issue. In Palm Beach, Fla., as quoted by the Associated Press, April 6, 2000 (Thanks
>to Helen Kennedy.)
>
> "I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California.
>In more ways than Washington, D.C., is close to California."—In Los Angeles as quoted
>by the Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000
>
> "Reading is the basics for all learning."—Announcing his "Reading First"
>initiative in Reston, Va., March 28, 2000 (Thanks to Carl LaRocca.)
>
> "We want our teachers to be trained so they can meet the obligations, their
>obligations as teachers. We want them to know how to teach the science of reading. In
>order to make sure there's not this kind of federal—federal cufflink."—At Fritsche
>Middle School, Milwaukee, March 30, 2000
>
> "Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative
>ads."—Fund-raising letter from George W. Bush, quoted in the Washington Post, March
>24, 2000
>
> "I've got a reason for running. I talk about a larger goal, which is to call
>upon the best of America. It's part of the renewal. It's reform and renewal. Part of
>the renewal is a set of high standards and to remind people that the greatness of
>America really does depend on neighbors helping neighbors and children finding
>mentors. I worry. I'm very worried about, you know, the kid who just wonders whether
>America is meant for him. I really worry about that. And uh, so, 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.
>And so to answer your question, I'm going to win because people sense my heart, know
>my sense of optimism and know where I want to lead the country. And I tease people by
>saying, 'A leader, you can't say, follow me the world is going to be worse.' I'm an
>optimistic person. I'm an inherently content person. I've got a great
> sense of where I want to lead and I'm comfortable with why I'm running. And,
>you know, the call on that speech was, beware. This is going to be a tough
>campaign."—Interview with the Washington Post, March 23, 2000
>
> "People make suggestions on what to say all the time. I'll give you an example;
>I don't read what's handed to me. People say, 'Here, here's your speech, or here's an
>idea for a speech.' They're changed. Trust me."—Interview with the New York Times,
>March 15, 2000
>
> "It's evolutionary, going from governor to president, and this is a significant
>step, to be able to vote for yourself on the ballot, and I'll be able to do so next
>fall, I hope."—In an interview with the Associated Press, March 8, 2000 (Thanks to
>Joshua Micah Marshall.)
>
> "It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature.''—Los
>Angeles, Feb. 23, 2000
>
> "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, Feb. 23, 2000
>
> "I understand small business growth. I was one."—New York Daily News, Feb. 19,
>2000
>
> "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., Feb. 17, 2000
>
> "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, Feb. 20, 2000
>
> "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, 2000
>
> "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.
>
> "If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles,
>come and join this campaign."—Hilton Head, S.C., Feb. 16, 2000
>
> "How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles
>kids through?"—Explaining the need for educational accountability in Beaufort, S.C.,
>Feb. 16, 2000
>
> "We ought to make the pie higher."—South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15,
>2000
>
> "I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to attract votes
>and to lead people toward a better tomorrow somehow I get subscribed to some—some
>doctrine gets subscribed to me."—Meet The Press, Feb. 13, 2000
>
> "I've changed my style somewhat, as you know. I'm less—I pontificate less,
>although it may be hard to tell it from this show. And I'm more interacting with
>people."—ibid
>
> "I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I
>think we should knock down the tollbooth."—Nashua, N.H., as quoted by Gail Collins in
>the New York Times, Feb. 1, 2000
>
> "The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my
>case."—Pella, Iowa, as quoted by the San Antonio Express-News, Jan. 30, 2000
>
> "Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"—Concord, N.H., Jan. 29,
>2000
>
> "This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when
>you run for president. You gotta preserve."—Speaking during "Perseverance Month" at
>Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times,
>Jan. 28, 2000
>
> "I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family."—Greater Nashua,
>N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000
>
> "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.''—Quoted by Molly Ivins, the San
>Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000 (Thanks to Toni L. Gould.)
>
> "When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world, and you knew exactly who they
>were," he said. "It was us vs. them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we are not
>so sure who the they are, but we know they're there."—Iowa Western Community College,
>Jan 21, 2000
>
> "The administration I'll bring is a group of men and women who are focused on
>what's best for America, honest men and women, decent men and women, women who will
>see service to our country as a great privilege and who will not stain the
>house."—Des Moines Register debate, Iowa, Jan. 15, 2000
>
> "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and
>potential mential losses."—At a South Carolina oyster roast, as quoted in the
>Financial Times, Jan. 14, 2000
>
> "We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like
>to be liked yourself."—ibid.
>
> "Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"—Florence, S.C., Jan.
>11, 2000
>
> "Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure."—ibid.
>
> "There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be
>town-hall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country."—Larry King
>Live, Dec. 16, 1999
>
> "I read the newspaper."—In answer to a question about his reading habits, New
>Hampshire Republican Debate, Dec. 2, 1999
>
> "I think it's important for those of us in a position of responsibility to be
>firm in sharing our experiences, to understand that the babies out of wedlock is a
>very difficult chore for mom and baby alike. ... I believe we ought to say there is a
>different alternative than the culture that is proposed by people like Miss Wolf in
>society. .. And, you know, hopefully, condoms will work, but it hasn't worked."—Meet
>the Press, Nov. 21, 1999
>
> "The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the
>country. Within months, I knew many of them."—From A Charge To Keep, by George W.
>Bush, published November 1999
>
> "It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's
>nomination to start speculating about vice presidents."—Keene, N.H., Oct. 22, 1999,
>quoted in the New Republic, Nov. 15, 1999
>
> "The important question is, How many hands have I shaked?"—Answering a question
>about why he hasn't spent more time in New Hampshire, in the New York Times, Oct. 23,
>1999
>
> "I don't remember debates. I don't think we spent a lot of time debating it.
>Maybe we did, but I don't remember."—On discussions of the Vietnam War when he was an
>undergraduate at Yale, Washington Post, July 27, 1999
>
> "The only thing I know about Slovakia is what I learned first-hand from your
>foreign minister, who came to Texas."—To a Slovak journalist as quoted by Knight
>Ridder News Service, June 22, 1999. Bush's meeting was with Janez Drnovsek, the prime
>minister of Slovenia.
>
> "If the East Timorians decide to revolt, I'm sure I'll have a
>statement."—Quoted by Maureen Dowd in the New York Times, June 16, 1999
>
> "Keep good relations with the Grecians."—Quoted in the Economist, June 12, 1999
>
> "Kosovians can move back in."—CNN Inside Politics, April 9, 1999
>
> "It was just inebriating what Midland was all about then."—From a 1994
>interview, as quoted in First Son, by Bill Minutaglio
>
> <<<<
>
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>
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