>List-Unsubscribe: >Sender: >To: >X-Original-Message-ID: <36a401bf6bd1$c7926420$9acf69cf@pacbell.net> >From: "Peter McWilliams" >Subject: Bush's hair lip >Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 01:58:52 -0800 >X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 >X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > > > > >The following article was published in the Calgary Herald, Saturday, >January 29, 2000: > >Tangled tongue trips up Bush >By Ron Hutcheson >Knight Ridder Newspapers >Nashua, N.H. > >When Texas Gov. George W. Bush hits the campaign trail, you can read >his lips, but you can't always figure out what he's saying. >Like his father before him, the Republican presidential candidate has a >way of mangling his meaning, especially when he's tired. The syntax >gremlin struck again this week as Bush campaigned in New Hampshire >before Tuesday's primary. >At a breakfast meeting with the Nashua Chamber of Commerce, Bush >illustrated his brand of compassionate conservatism by urging his >listeners to put themselves in the role of a single mother "working hard >to put food on your family." >Then he was off to nearby Fairgrounds Elementary School to showcase his >call for character education. Students performed skits about >perseverance, the school's character trait of the month. The students >talked about determination; Bush seemed to thinking about fixing up old >buildings. >This is preservation month. I appreciate preservation, " he said when >it was his turn to speak "It's what you do when you run for president >- you gotta preserve." >Apparently realizing his mistake, the governor recovered by telling a >story about his cat, which overcame homelessness by making his way on to >the grounds of the governor's mansion >"And guess where that cat was when I left, when I left to come up here >to campaign. That cat was laid out right on my pillow," he said. "That >called perseverance.". >It was hardly the first time Bush got tangled in his own words. In >recent days, he inadvertently described himself as the first lady of >Texas, declared he would "rely on reliances" in foreign policy and said >government should embrace faith-based charities with opal arms." >Instead of knocking down tariffs and trade barriers - the usual target >of his free-trade rhetoric - Bush said he intends to eliminate >"terriers". >When asked about the Time Warner-America Online merger, the candidate >took an unexpected detour on the information superhighway. The key >question in considering the merger, Bush said, is "will the highways to >the Internet become more few?" > > >================================================================ > >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: