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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 06:08 PM
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Can anyone remember a quotation by Bush early in his first term
when he said words to the effect that historians would have to find new terms to describe what Bushco was/is doing. It was a response to a question re his legacy. I remember being shocked but forgot to save it.
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grannie4peace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 06:12 PM
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1. he is so stupid
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 06:12 PM
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2. LOL
That's not it. :rofl:
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 06:16 PM
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3. Sorry but I do remember his complaining that if congress didn't do things his way, he was going back
to Crawford.

In hindsight, our country would have been better off except that Cheney would have moved up to Prez.
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 06:18 PM
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4. expectation detonation
:nuke:
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 06:24 PM
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5. This site has a long list of stupid Boosh quotes...
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 06:47 PM
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6. Thanks - I'll check but it wasn't funny
It was an ominous warning.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 06:48 PM
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7. Did it have to do with creating reality? n/t
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 06:49 PM
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8. BIngo
Edited on Sat Sep-20-08 06:52 PM by malaise
yes, but it was not the Ron Suskind quote. It was Bush himself.

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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 06:52 PM
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9. As you know, I'm a reality expert ...
... I saved that quote on the "Reality" page on the Truthiness Encyclopedia (here) if you ever want to look for it again:

According to journalist Ron Suskind, an Unnamed Senior Adviser to George W. Bush told him:

...that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."

--http://www.cs.umass.edu/~immerman/play/opinion05/WithoutADoubt.html">New York Times via University of Massachusetts Amherst
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 06:54 PM
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10. It wasn't the Suskind quote
Bush himself said something similar.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 07:08 PM
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12. I don't think Suskind said any of that, he was quoting a Bush aid. n/t
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Fuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 06:55 PM
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11. Fuck that's nuts that our leaders would think like that
Sounds like a Rove thing.
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 07:08 PM
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13. Originally, it was attributed to him, but they've backed off from that. n/t
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-20-08 07:25 PM
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14. Now I don't know which quote you're talking about! n/t
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 05:19 AM
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15. Was it this?
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 05:33 AM
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16. "The Budget? It has a lotta big numbers in it...."
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-21-08 05:35 AM
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17. Sorry, but I tried to pay as little attention to him as possible.
He makes such a good comic character, it's a damn shame he is (was) really president.

mark
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