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i’ve got no idea what he’s trying to say here…
“Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to
enablers to keep the peace from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment.”
George W. Bush
January 14, 2001
Quoted in the New York Times
anybody know how to translatify this wordification?

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no president left behind
“I want it to be said that the Bush administration was a results-oriented
administration, because I believe the results of focusing our attention and
energy on teaching children to read and achieving an education system that’s
responsive to the child and to the parents, as opposed to mired in a system
that refuses to change will […]

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have you ever given somebody an answer they already knew?
WASHINGTON POST: Why do you think bin Laden has not been caught?
George W. Bush: Because he’s hiding.
January 14, 2005
Aboard Air Force One
yeah, me too.

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i’d be concerned if i thought he meant it…
“We don’t believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of
Americans.”
George W. Bush
September 6, 2000
From a speech delivered in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
but he’s just joking, right?

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grammar is the way i’m all about.
“Quotas are bad for America. It’s not the way America is all about.”
George W. Bush
October 18, 2000
Spoken in St. Louis, Missouri.

fair tax

with april 15th drawing near the folks at americans for fair taxation (fairtax.org) are gathering 100,000 names for a “pass the fairtax” petition to send a powerful message to congress this tax day.
i just signed the petition at www.changedc.org and would encourage you to do the same.
the fairtax petition makes a powerful statement to congress: […]

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did your verbs and your nouns have a little disagreement?
“There is madmen in the world, and there are terror.”
George W. Bush
February 14, 2000
Comment reported by the Associated Press.

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read this one carefully.
“Diseases … such as arthritis and osteoporosis can be less beea,
beea-dilitating.”
George W. Bush
March 21, 2001

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this quote has gotta make more sense in context. it’s just gotta.
“I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy,
but that could change.”
George W. Bush
May 22, 1998

steven colbert on rick warren

watch this video. it’s pretty cool. i originally saw it on tony’s church blog. i like the way rick warren describes fundamentalism…and i like steven colbert…because he’s hilarious…