4/8/2003: Protest gets painful

juju · 04-12-2003, 10:00 PM

I guess you're right. I've always ridiculed people who said the president is a moron, because obviously you don't get to that position without some skills. Now here I am doing it!

I've made a cursory effort to try to nail down a respectable source for the two Bush quotes in question. I just want to see it on a site that somebody's little brother couldn't have done up. Like a major news site, or something well-known.

The source for the last quote, The New American, is actually given. But it was still hard to find, because they transposed two of the words, therefore slightly changing the wording. This initially made a google search turn up nothing, but I did eventually find it here.

But I still have yet to find a trusted source for the second-to-last quote. It's the most incriminating one. The one that makes him look most like an idiot. The last quote could have just been taken out of context, but the second-to-last one is pretty damned clear. Anyway, the second-to-last quote is cited everywhere on the net. A google for "bush "bin laden" "not our priority"" turns up 145 hits. But no major news sites show up in the first four pages.

Did he actually say this, or did someone just say he said it and it caught on?

04-12-2003, 10:00 PM	#11
juju no one of consequence Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Arkansas Posts: 2,839	I guess you're right. I've always ridiculed people who said the president is a moron, because obviously you don't get to that position without some skills. Now here I am doing it! I've made a cursory effort to try to nail down a respectable source for the two Bush quotes in question. I just want to see it on a site that somebody's little brother couldn't have done up. Like a major news site, or something well-known. The source for the last quote, The New American, is actually given. But it was still hard to find, because they transposed two of the words, therefore slightly changing the wording. This initially made a google search turn up nothing, but I did eventually find it here. But I still have yet to find a trusted source for the second-to-last quote. It's the most incriminating one. The one that makes him look most like an idiot. The last quote could have just been taken out of context, but the second-to-last one is pretty damned clear. Anyway, the second-to-last quote is cited everywhere on the net. A google for "bush "bin laden" "not our priority"" turns up 145 hits. But no major news sites show up in the first four pages. Did he actually say this, or did someone just say he said it and it caught on? Last edited by juju; 04-12-2003 at 10:08 PM.

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