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George Dubya, in his own words...

"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

"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes." - Meet the Press, April 15, 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 bands?" - Newsweek, Feb. 28, 2000

"It is not up to the president to decide right from wrong." - First debate with Gore, Oct. 3, 2000 (Thanks to Tomm Looney)

"People walk up to me all the time and say, 'Don't let us down again!' " - Closing remarks during first debate with Gore, Oct. 3, 2000. (Tomm Looney)

"I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family." - Greater Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce, Jan. 27, 2000

"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.)

"I think we agree, the past is over." - On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000

"Keep good relations with the Grecians." - Quoted in the Economist, June 12,1999

"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

GOV. BUSH: " ... 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

Bush: "First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's diez e seis de Septiembre, and ..." Matthews: "What's that in English?" Bush: "Fifteenth of September." (Diez e seis de Septiembre = Sept. 16!!!) Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000 (Thanks to numerous Leaders.)

"Unfairly but truthfully, our party has been tagged as being against things. Anti-immigrant, for example. Andwe'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.)

"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

"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.)

"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 15, 2000

"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

-- Anonymous, December 30, 2000

Answers

Much ado about nothing.

A feller named Dwight D. Eisenhower regularly butchered the English language in such a fashion as to make George W. Bush look like Shakespeare --

But no one seems to remember that. Even the media hacks old enough to remember that say nothing. They must be more interested in a "story" than in truthful comparisons. (Imagine that.)

But it's true.

DDE was a pretty good President, notwithstanding. A damn good general. Played a huge part in saving the free world during World War II. But his English-speech-making abilities weren't so great.

SO WHAT.

-- Anonymous, December 30, 2000

DDE was a pretty good President, notwithstanding. A damn good general. Played a huge part in saving the free world during World War II. But his English-speech-making abilities weren't so great.

Harry S. Truman was a better president. If it weren't for George S. Patton DDE wouldn't have been president. DDE was too political to be a good general. He should have sent Monty packing and let Patton kick the Ruskies ass after WW2.

-- Anonymous, December 30, 2000

Have to agree with you there, Uncle B.

Appreciate your humor, having looked around a bit more.

"Give em hell Harry!"

My Mom's favorite President. She went thru all that, and I sure respect her judgment.

-- Anonymous, December 30, 2000

At least none of the Bush brothers have the potential to go oversees and relieve themselves on any national shrines or walls, a la Billy Carter. Bush, himself, will probably not be endangering any of the female interns.

On the other hand, the head cook had probably better keep the alcohol firmly under lock and key.

-- Anonymous, December 30, 2000

And for the record:

George S. Patton Robert E. Lee Alexander the Great

(greatest generals in all of history, in no particular order)

-- Anonymous, December 30, 2000

Here are a few more, quoted by Molly Ivins:

"Tear down the terriers and bariffs."

"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"

"Families is where wings take dream."

-- Anonymous, December 30, 2000

Patton's Speach to the 3rd Army on the eve of D-Day

The Speech Somewhere in England June 5th, 1944

"Be seated."

Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.

You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight. When you, here, every one of you, were kids, you all admired the champion marble player, the fastest runner, the toughest boxer, the big league ball players, and the All-American football players. Americans love a winner. Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American.

You are not all going to die. Only two percent of you right here today would die in a major battle. Death must not be feared. Death, in time, comes to all men. Yes, every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some men get over their fright in a minute under fire. For some, it takes an hour. For some, it takes days. But a real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best and it removes all that is base. Americans pride themselves on being He Men and they ARE He Men. Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are, and probably more so. They are not supermen.

All through your Army careers, you men have bitched about what you call "chicken shit drilling." That, like everything else in this Army, has a definite purpose. That purpose is alertness. Alertness must be bred into every soldier. I don't give a fuck for a man who's not always on his toes. You men are veterans or you wouldn't be here. You are ready for what's to come. A man must be alert at all times if he expects to stay alive. If you're not alert, sometime, a German son- of-an-asshole-bitch is going to sneak up behind you and beat you to death with a sockful of shit! There are four hundred neatly marked graves somewhere in Sicily, all because one man went to sleep on the job. But they are German graves, because we caught the bastard asleep before they did.

An Army is a team. It lives, sleeps, eats, and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse shit. The bilious bastards who write that kind of stuff for the Saturday Evening Post don't know any more about real fighting under fire than they know about fucking! We have the finest food, the finest equipment, the best spirit, and the best men in the world. Why, by God, I actually pity those poor sons- of-bitches we're going up against. By God, I do.

My men don't surrender, and I don't want to hear of any soldier under my command being captured unless he has been hit. Even if you are hit, you can still fight back. That's not just bull shit either. The kind of man that I want in my command is just like the lieutenant in Libya, who, with a Luger against his chest, jerked off his helmet, swept the gun aside with one hand, and busted the hell out of the Kraut with his helmet. Then he jumped on the gun and went out and killed another German before they knew what the hell was coming off. And, all of that time, this man had a bullet through a lung. There was a real man!

All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters, either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain. What if every truck driver suddenly decided that he didn't like the whine of those shells overhead, turned yellow, and jumped headlong into a ditch? The cowardly bastard could say, 'Hell, they won't miss me, just one man in thousands.' But, what if every man thought that way? Where in the hell would we be now? What would our country, our loved ones, our homes, even the world, be like? No, Goddamnit, Americans don't think like that. Every man does his job. Every man serves the whole. Every department, every unit, is important in the vast scheme of this war. The ordnance men are needed to supply the guns and machinery of war to keep us rolling. The Quartermaster is needed to bring up food and clothes because where we are going there isn't a hell of a lot to steal. Every last man on K.P. has a job to do, even the one who heats our water to keep us from getting the 'G.I. Shits.'

Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men. One of the bravest men that I ever saw was a fellow on top of a telegraph pole in the midst of a furious fire fight in Tunisia. I stopped and asked what the hell he was doing up there at a time like that. He answered, 'Fixing the wire, Sir.' I asked, 'Isn't that a little unhealthy right about now?' He answered, 'Yes Sir, but the Goddamned wire has to be fixed.' I asked, 'Don't those planes strafing the road bother you?' And he answered, 'No, Sir, but you sure as hell do!' Now, there was a real man. A real soldier. There was a man who devoted all he had to his duty, no matter how seemingly insignificant his duty might appear at the time, no matter how great the odds.

And you should have seen those trucks on the rode to Tunisia. Those drivers were magnificent. All day and all night they rolled over those son-of-a-bitching roads, never stopping, never faltering from their course, with shells bursting all around them all of the time. We got through on good old American guts.

Many of those men drove for over forty consecutive hours. These men weren't combat men, but they were soldiers with a job to do. They did it, and in one hell of a way they did it. They were part of a team. Without team effort, without them, the fight would have been lost. All of the links in the chain pulled together and the chain became unbreakable.

Don't forget, you men don't know that I'm here. No mention of that fact is to be made in any letters. The world is not supposed to know what the hell happened to me. I'm not supposed to be commanding this Army. I'm not even supposed to be here in England. Let the first bastards to find out be the Goddamned Germans. Someday I want to see them raise up on their piss-soaked hind legs and howl, 'Jesus Christ, it's the Goddamned Third Army again and that son-of-a-fucking-bitch Patton.' We want to get the hell over there." The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess, the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too. Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit.

Sure, we want to go home. We want this war over with. The quickest way to get it over with is to go get the bastards who started it. The quicker they are whipped, the quicker we can go home. The shortest way home is through Berlin and Tokyo. And when we get to Berlin, I am personally going to shoot that paper hanging son-of-a-bitch Hitler. Just like I'd shoot a snake!

When a man is lying in a shell hole, if he just stays there all day, a German will get to him eventually. The hell with that idea. The hell with taking it. My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either. We'll win this war, but we'll win it only by fighting and by showing the Germans that we've got more guts than they have; or ever will have. We're not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we're going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun cock suckers by the bushel-fucking-basket.

War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts. When shells are hitting all around you and you wipe the dirt off your face and realize that instead of dirt it's the blood and guts of what once was your best friend beside you, you'll know what to do!

I don't want to get any messages saying, 'I am holding my position.' We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like shit through a tin horn!

From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our people too hard. I don't give a good Goddamn about such complaints. I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood. The harder WE push, the more Germans we will kill. The more Germans we kill, the fewer of our men will be killed. Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that.

There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you WON'T have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, 'Well, your Granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana.' No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, 'Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son-of-a- Goddamned-Bitch named Georgie Patton!'

"That is all."

-- Anonymous, December 30, 2000

Well, GW doesn't scare me all that much.

Some of his supporters are scaring the bejabbers out of me. Want a few quotes?

Nov. 21 NewsMax commentary by Paul Craig Roberts "The court’s only reason for its overreach is to help Al Gore steal the election. If the U.S. media actually constituted a media instead of the Propaganda Ministry of the Democratic Party, the Florida court would not dare to be so brazen" -- "Once Bush assumes the office to which he has been elected, Republicans must turn their attention to dismantling the Democratic Party’s Propaganda Ministry that masquerades as a news media. The most obvious solution is nationalization."

This dude just proposed the govt taking over all national media, for the purpose of totally silencing all political rhetoric he doesn't like, and stopping all news he doesn't like. And conservatives wonder why the word NAZI keeps coming up.

Walter Williams, Dec. 6, WorldNetDaily commentary: "... if the election were to be decided by who won the greatest number of the nation's 3,142 counties, Bush would have bested Gore by at least 2,500 counties. ... The Bush counties are: more conservative and respectful of traditional values, pro-life and more religious, and they have less social pathology such as high crime, illegitimacy and deviancy. Counties won by Gore tend to be just the opposite. By no means do Americans who voted for Bush enthusiastically and unequivocally support the values expressed in our Declaration of Independence and Constitution, but they are not nearly as parasitic, interventionist and contemptuous of the principles of liberty as Gore supporters."

Anyone who does not recognize that as a pile of stinking bullshit, needs to get their brain cleansed of rhetorical poison.

And then here is a lovely from the Free Congress Foundation, By Paul M. Weyrich October 30, 2000

"Much is written about the eligible voters who don't bother to show up at the polls. Considering what is at stake, thank God they don't come. It is already bad enough that so many uneducated, ill-informed and, when it comes to the candidates, just plain stupid, voters are going to be in that booth November 7th. We don't need any more of them, thank you."

Kindly note that this was written BEFORE the election. There is now an underlying and recurrent theme in conservative punditry (CONPUNS?) that blasts off constantly about how "stupid and uneducated voters should stay home", or "we need to keep the idiots from voting".

Funny how those idiots are always the ones who disagree with the pundit, isn't it?

No, GW doesn't bother me. But his supporters are scaring the crap out of me.

-- Anonymous, December 31, 2000

Well-said, Paul. (And I think "con-puns" should immediately be put into the lexicon.)

-- Anonymous, December 31, 2000

I agree that the extremists at the fringes of either party are to be worried about. Calling the kettle black and ignoring the pot tends to undermine the point.

-- Anonymous, December 31, 2000

Paul, that WAS well-said.

But now speak of Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Wexler and Deutsch, Paul Begala and the others who've said some pretty outrageous things on Gore's behalf .. .. .

(The moral of this story is, each party has wierdoes, wackos and extremists in it.)

-- Anonymous, January 01, 2001

Maybe Paul has nothing to be worried about.

-- Anonymous, January 01, 2001

-- Anonymous, January 02, 2001

No, GW doesn't bother me. But his supporters are scaring the crap out of me. Well Paul, you can dig the fruitcakes out of any party, whether Rep or Dems. And thats just what you've done here with the fearful (fearmongering?;) selected articles and quotes you provide! Hey, take off the tin foil hat, most of Bushes supporters are everday people. Or better yet, take a cruise on the left and count even more fruitcakes...;)

-- Anonymous, January 03, 2001

"most of Bushes supporters are everday people."

Yep. And that's what's so scary -- even after the wool has been pulled from everyone's eyes, you people are either so ignorant or so greedy that you refuse to acknowledge that the GOP broke the law.

We'll see you in World Court ... and on Inaugeration Day, you and all the other "everyday traitors" to democracy.

-- Anonymous, January 04, 2001

What really gets me, and worries me, is that most people either don't understand - or don't care - that we just witnessed an American coup. And most of THOSE people expect the rest of us to "heal and move on." Or, "Get over it." It makes me physically ill to contemplate the total disregard people have for their freedom. Well, I guess when Il Shrubya starts driving this country six feet under people will start waking up. I remember during impeachment (which I never lost my anger over) discussing how it would take a recession or a depression for people to start caring again. I think a lot of people are saying this now. Of course I don't want the economy to tank (unlike King George II and his puppet masters), but it's become abundantly clear - in my opinion - that people are just too comfortable and complacent to give a damn about the things like women's rights, civil rights, human rights, poverty, healthcare, religious freedom, the environment, or the Constitution. The prevailing ethic is, "What's in it for me right now?"

-- Anonymous, January 04, 2001

I agree Mike and Cyn,

It is amazing how many humans will sell out their own race for a proposed tax cut. In selling out they lose all of vestiges of humanity they once had.

We will perhaps never again have a free election, once Il Bush stacks the court with other aliens. We truly will be a third world nation. Yet most Americans are more concerned with who wins Survivor II.

-- Anonymous, January 04, 2001

Jym:

It is amazing how many humans will sell out their own race

Their own race????

Was that from somewhere in Idaho?

Z

-- Anonymous, January 04, 2001

"It is amazing how many humans will sell out their own race"

Is that opposed to the animal kingdom where they just eat each other.

-- Anonymous, January 04, 2001