Transcript
Goody. It’s online.
Pres. GEORGE W. BUSH: I asked Congress to join me and pass what I called the faith-based initiative, which would help change the culture of Washington and the behavior of bureaucracies. They’ve stalled. So I just signed an executive order.
This is a common theme in the Bush administration. Recall his reasoning for finally relenting on allowing the Congress the right to rubber-stamp an Iraq War Resolution (paraphrasing from memory): this is an opportunity for Congress to… show ther support. Watch this sometimes crude, sometimes smooth linguistic trickery.
BUSH: We are here in the middle hour of our grief. Americans do not yet have the distance of history, but our responsibility to history is already clear: to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil.
Batman has been around since 1938. He has yet to accomplish the riddening of evil.
We will rid the world of the evildoers. We’ve never seen this kind of evil before. But the evildoers have never seen the American people in action before, either, and they’re about to find out. Thank you all very much.
… Never seen this kind of evil before? Really?
And, in the end, who found what out?
This idea of America is the hope of all mankind. That hope drew millions to this harbor. That hope still lights our way. And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness will not overcome it.
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During the debate, the moderator asked the candidates what political philosopher or thinker they most identified with. Steve Forbes answered John Locke. Alan Keyes named the Founding Fathers.
[December, 1999]
MODERATOR: Governor Bush, a philosopher/thinker. And why.
Gov. GEORGE W. BUSH (R), Texas: Christ, because he changed my heart.
MODERATOR: I think the viewer would like to know more on how he’s changed your heart.
The Moderator should have cut him off and gone to the next candidate…
Gov. GEORGE W. BUSH: Well, if they don’t know, it’s going to be hard to explain. When you turn your heart and life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as a savior, it changes your heart and changes your life. And that’s what happened to me.