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Dr Ron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-04-06 12:53 PM
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Taking Bush's Botched Comments Literally To Prove His Plans to Harm America
From Liberal Values: George Bush's Plans to Harm America
http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=546

Conservatives are so quick to claim their misinterpretation of Kerry's statement last week is the correct one, and ignore the fact that Kerry was making a joke about George Bush, not the troops. By this standard we should be able to take comments from George Bush literally and assume they represent exactly what Bush believes. Here's some examples:

George Bush admits to be working to harm our country and people:

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
—At signing of defense appropriations bill, August 5, 2004

George Bush wanted to disarm America if Saddam didn't disarm:

"I was proud the other day when both Republicans and Democrats stood with me in the Rose Garden to announce their support for a clear statement of purpose: you disarm, or we will."—Speaking about Saddam Hussein, Manchester, N.H., Oct. 5, 2002

George Bush's energy policy:

"We need an energy bill that encourages consumption."—Trenton, N.J., Sept. 23, 2002

Under George Bush there will never be peace in the Middle East:

"My administration has been calling upon all the leaders in the—in the Middle East to do everything they can to stop the violence, to tell the different parties involved that peace will never happen."—Crawford, Texas, Aug, 13, 2001

At least there's the possibility of peace somewhere:

"I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully."—Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000

There's no separation of church and state to George Bush:

"I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding the important bridge between church and state."—Question and answer session with the press, Jan. 29, 2001

George Bush thinks the executive branch is the judiciary:

"The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law."—Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000

But who says Bush doesn't learn new things--such as to execute legislators:

"I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the legislative branch. I assured all four of these leaders that I know the difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them."—Washington, D.C., Dec. 18, 2000

More at Liberal Values:
http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=546
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mrdmk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-04-06 01:00 PM
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1. I am sorry but I have to fully agree with you! n/t
:patriot:
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K8-EEE Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-04-06 01:06 PM
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2. K&R!! Bush "Misspeaks" Every F-in' Time He Goes Off Script
And they consider it cute & folksy speechifyin' and go, oh you know what he meant...! SICK OF THE DOUBLE STANDARD!
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Strelnikov_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-04-06 01:07 PM
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3. Couldn't Agree More K&R
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Richard Steele Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-04-06 01:09 PM
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4. Even FOXnews occasionally tells us his real agenda:
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-04-06 01:13 PM
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5. With or without meth?
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Merry Pason Donating Member (16 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-04-06 01:14 PM
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6. I agree, if you list all these, they WEREN'T misspeaks
I don't have the exact quotes, but there's
* the one about OB-GYNs practicing their love of women,
* It would be easier if this were a dictatorship, and he (*) were the dictator

I have believed all along that ALL of *'s "misspeaks" were not that at all, but instead were subtle conditioning statements to get where * and his cabal wanted to get us to be.

Peoples said he was not bright, misspoke, etc. I NEVER believed it. If we could continue a list of all his supposed guffaws, I think we'd see a pattern of conditioning and what he said he MEANT as demonstrated (interesting comment: I misspelled demonstated and it suggested "demon stated", is there some higher power at work here?) by his actions.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-04-06 03:19 PM
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9. Hahah... I love this post. demon stated....heh
Edited on Sat Nov-04-06 03:24 PM by blm
Kerry dropped a pronoun and told the truth. You dropped an r - and told the truth.
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Dr Ron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-04-06 02:05 PM
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7. If you like, please Digg this
My original post on Liberal Values is getting some hits from Digg, but will only continue to do so if it receives a significant number of votes.

Voting this to favorites here is appreciated, but votes on Digg would help more in terms of getting this seen by others beyond DU readers. If you use Digg please give it a vote. If you go to my post at Liberal Values and click on comments there is an icon which allows you to go to Digg and many other similar sites.
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Danascot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-04-06 03:17 PM
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8. "We need an energy bill that encourages consumption."
I always accepted this statement at face value. It never occurred to me until now that might have been a mis-statement - that the word in the script might have been conservation.

Then again I've also lost the ability to detect satire. Bu*shco/Puke reality so often goes beyond anything plausable that I can't tell anymore.
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Dr Ron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-04-06 03:20 PM
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10. It is hard to tell sometimes
There's also the fact that what he wants and would say publically is two different things.

Bush, or at least his handlers, would never intentionally say they want more energy consumption. However, Bush's cronies certainly benefit from increased consumption. I think this may be a case of Bush messing up a line but saying what he really thinks.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-04-06 03:39 PM
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11. K+R
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