IJMC - More Election Bull

Hmm, I cannot remember if the next post will be about the election as 
well or if I move on to something else. All I know is I got a dig on Bill 
Gates coming up...I wonder if Mr. Gates ever receives any of these little 
post'n'blurbs or not? Ahh, well, I will probably never know...      -dave







If you can't make up your mind about the election. Read from the following
list of actual quotes and ask yourself if you want a president this smart! 
Vote Shrub! 

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"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."
Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000

"It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it."
Reuters, May 5, 2000

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

"Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometime
until we get an objective analysis." 
Meet the Press, April 15, 2000

"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." 
Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2000

"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
cufflink." 
Fritsche Middle School, Milwaukee, March 30, 2000

"The fact that he relies on facts -- says things that are not factual -
are going to undermine his campaign." 
New YorkTimes, March 4, 2000

"It is not Reaganesque to support a tax plan that is Clinton in nature."
Los Angeles, 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

"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, Beaufort, S.C., Feb.
16, 2000

"We ought to make the pie higher."
South Carolina Republican Debate, Feb. 15, 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."
Meet The Press, Feb. 13, 2000

"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, 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 in 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

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty
and potential mental 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."
At a South Carolina oyster roast, as quoted in the Financial Times,
Jan.14, 2000

"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000

"There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be
townhall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country."
Larry King Live, Dec. 16, 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

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

and lastly...

"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