I figure its time to resurrect this thread, so here goes.
The following is a transcript of a speech Bush gave in Piqua, OH that wasn't covered by the conservative media.
I was watching a new News Network, known as Truth Communications. It’s owned by Rupert Murdoch (the same guy who owns Fox News), and I was fairly surprised to see a the report about a speech the President gave in Piqua, Ohio, that wasn’t covered by the conservative media. Hmmm... Read the transcript of the speech, and you will see why I was surprised.
My Fellow Americans, we are in a most distressing time. But it is only distressing for me. It is distressing because Michael Moore has pointed out what I have been trying to keep from you for years: that I have tried to rule America with the politics of fear and rage, and have tried to make you believe that anyone who criticizes me deserves to be arrested. I see now that I cannot keep up this illusion, so I am contemplating dropping out of the Presidential race in 2004 and endorsing John Kerry, the man who will beat me either way in November.
It is also distressing that there is evidence to impeach me on counts of abuse of power and recklessly endangering human lives. It is distressing that people are beginning to understand how I came to be president, and distressing to me that I won't be able to pull the same trick come November, should I continue to run.
It distresses me that our "wartime" economy is only doing as well as it was before I came into office. I take that back. It distresses me that our "wartime" economy is doing worse than before I took office. You see, I have not created one net job. But I guess that could be attributed to my policy of giving tax breaks to companies that ship jobs to India. The unemployment rate is at 5.6%, but thankfully that doesn't count the people who are unemployed and not receiving unemployment and it doesn't count the people who are underemployed. And I have no practical program to help ease the employment crisis that is gripping America. John Kerry does, though. Maybe I'll steal his.
However, it doesn't distress me that a quarter of the war dead can be directly blamed on me. That's because I, in my stupidity, didn't anticipate the resistance we would encounter in Iraq. Because of my shortsightedness, strong enough armor wasn't sent with the troops to Iraq, and as a result, over 250 soldiers are dead with their blood on my hands.
It distresses me that The Media Fund sees through my healthcare plan. It is distressing to see their commercial attacking my healthcare plan, and even more distressing to know every thing that commercial says is true. But hey, what can you expect? I had to stop Medicare from screwing over my pharmaceutical buddies. It doesn't distress me that elderly and disabled Americans are losing out everyday on their right to affordable healthcare coverage. After all, what are a few dying Americans compared to the amount of bucks I put in the already-fat pockets of my corporate contributors.
It distresses me that people are seeing the effects of my energy policy, which has done nothing except to further harm the environment in which we live and line the fat pockets of my contributors. Gotta love 'em.
Pollution doesn't distress me, because pollution isn't a problem. "It's the impurities in our and water that are the problem." (Actually said by GWB.)
I will continue to mislead Americans into thinking that the economy is strong, when in fact we are about to have the first President to lose Jobs since Hoover. I will be the worst economic president in 75 years.... Even worse than Reagan and my ole dad, if that is possible.
My father set a record in 1992 for having the largest federal deficit in US History. He subsequently lost the 1992 election to the greatest president of the latter half of the 20th century: Bill Clinton. But anyway. Here is my new campaign slogan: Lucifer couldn't get a deficit that low. Hey! Let's elect his son!
This economy is recovering, and it is as strong as it has ever been. We have an unemployment rate 1.5% higher than when I entered office, and almost 3 million more Americans are without jobs. More than 1 million jobs have been outsourced, due to a tax incentive I created for my CEO buddies.
My tax policy has created relief for my CEO buddies, but no one else. The bottom 60% of wage earners in America, for example, including the poor, lower middle and middle classes, receive only 8.5% of the tax relief. And because of my tax program, states have had to cut back on programs due to a loss of federal funding. Some of these programs include Education, as well as state patrol officers. But hey? What is public safety compared to corporate profits?
And who is made to pick up the deficit? The rich? No... I made sure that the rich wouldn't feel that pinch by giving them an average tax cut of almost 90,000 dollars. No... it is the middle class and below that feel that pinch, because they are forced to raise sales taxes and other state taxes to make up for the loss of federal funding. So whatever the lower classes get from the federal government is almost immediately taken by the state government to make up for budget shortfalls.
So, my fellow Americans, consider that I have created more problems for working America, and have done it all for my corporate buddies who donate millions and millions of dollars to the Republican Party and my '04 Presidential campaign. Consider that there will be 35 million more Americans affected by the Alternative Minimum Tax, which I failed to address in my tax policies. Consider I have sacrificed public safety for the tax cuts I had to give to my corporate buddies so they could contribute more to my campaign. Consider that job-based health insurance costs rose by 14% in 2003 alone. Consider that bankruptcies have gone up 10% since I took office in 2001. Consider that almost 10 times as many people have died in terror-related incidents than did during the Clinton Administration.
After you consider that, I respectfully ask for your vote in 2004. God Bless The People of the United States of America. (or should it be, God Save The People of The United States of America?)
G'night!
And this was on a station owned by Rupert Murdoch. Maybe he was feeling guilty about his War On Journalism, and felt as if he should make up for it somehow? I dunno.