Okay, if we gotta talk politics, how about the lighter side. (see below my
questions)
Is grammar different in West Texas? And does literal quoting seem different
somehow from this stuff on TV? (I've not seen either major candidate on TV
so I can't say for myself yet.) Anyway, are these quotes (pasted below)
legit? (or some of them?)
And do we see something different here in, say, the democratization of
propaganda through new media? Now it's not just parties putting on mass
smear campaigns -- it's also the average person who can start one! You can
make a pol you don't like look like even more of an idiot with a little
email forwarded properly. [please note that by propaganda, I am not meaning
anything pejorative -- I happen to enjoy seeing GWB made to look like an
idiot. but by propaganda, I mean just biased and partisan materials. every
party in an election spreads propaganda.]
Or is this more of the same mockery and whining that we get face to face in
political discussions all the time? ie. this email seems aimed at
Bush-haters and maybe fence-sitters, rather than at converting Repubs...
then again, a lot of propaganda is aimed at fence-sitters, right?
I wonder if anyone else is interested in discussing the possibility of a
change, however small, in the implementation of electoral systems when the
Net gets involved, beyond the simple (and currently I think unfeasible,
because possibly insecure) idea of people just voting online.
Gord
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>Subject: W at his best
> >
> > George Bush in Black and White
> > >
> > "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 York Times, 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.
> >
> > "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; 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; 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; quoted in the New York Times, Oct. 23, 1999
> >
> > "Keep good relations with the Grecians."
> > --Quoted in the Economist, June 12, 1999
> >
> > "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
