http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/121/51.0.html nothing like saying we're right and you're wrong so change your ways
Thank God he changed that horrible culture of partisan bickering and wasteful government spending in Washington DC.
Full quote in context: "At home, the job of a president is to help cultures change. The culture needs to be changed. I call it, so people can understand what I'm talking about, changing the culture from one that says, "If it feels good, do it, and if you've got a problem, blame somebody else," to a culture in which each of us understands we're responsible for the decisions we make in life. I call it the responsibility era. … I said that when I was governor of Texas. As a matter of fact, I've been saying that ever since I got into politics. This is one of the reasons I got into politics in the first place. Governments cannot change culture alone. I want you to know I understand that. But I can be a voice of cultural change." Why do libs hate responsibility?
Given the recent track record of the Bush administration, I'd say that the Republicans hate responsibility with the heat and intensity of a thousand burning suns.
Why would anybody be skeptical of terrorists? They announce they want to kill you and then they try to hill you. What's there to be skepitcal about- that they don't really want to kill you?
Hey George, how about changing this culture? http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/03/opinion/03FRIE.html "Surely the most chilling aspect of the latest terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia against foreigners at the Khobar oil center was in reports from the scene about how the Saudi militants tried to kill or capture only the non-Muslims, and let Muslims and Arabs go. The Associated Press quoted a Lebanese woman, Orora Naoufal, who was taken hostage in her apartment, as saying that the gunmen released her when they learned of her nationality. They told her they were interested in harming only "infidels" and Westerners. Now where would the terrorists have learned such intolerance and discrimination? Answer: in the Saudi public school system and religious curriculum."
Maybe of their avowed objectives? Such as bin Laden wanting the US out of the middle east, the end of the Saudi royals, ending Israel, etc. Or of Palestinians who just want to go back to the 1967 borders? Why do gutless liberals believe that BS and use that as a launching pad in the quest for root causes? Why do gutless liberals always have complicated, long-term solutions to these problems which invariably include doing, in the short term, exactly what our enemies want us to do?
I see. You prefer a simple, short-term strategy in which we defy our enemies immediately, but give them what they want in the long-term.
Bin Laden's martyrdom has been indefinitely deferred, by order of Lieutenant GW Bush (ret.)(AWOL). YB, I guess you don't quite get how the full, in-context quote is actually much worse than out of context. Being lectured on personal responsibility by George W. Bush is like being lectured on punctuation by e.e. cummings.
Didn't Bush already change the culture that Americans come to know since i don't know when? For example, the principle that the accused are innocent until proven guilty and that everyone in this country has the right to a fair trial. These dear ideals of this country have already changed under the pretext of fighting terrorism in case you haven't realized. There's no exception even for american citizens. Let's see if the Supreme Court would overrule that culture of Bushism.
You see, this is the first in the series of Dub's "Do As I Say, Not As I Do or Said In The Past" lecture series. Here's a partial schedule Week 1 - Responsibility Week 2 - Pulling Yourself Up By Your Bootstrap Week 3 - Importance of Education Week 4 - Playing By The Rules Week 5 - Fulfilling Your Duty To Your Country Week 6 - Not Telling Lies Week 7 - Drug Use Has Consequences Week 8 - Consitution: It's Damn Near Sacred Week 9 - Keeping Government Small
Dear Mr. Bush and the Republican Party, Please, PLEASE, PLEASE make the 2004 election about kulturkampf. We particularly enjoyed it in 1992. Love, The Democratic Party