politics from the vaults
Sep. 22nd, 2004 04:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmI am looking at a debate from 2000 as practice for the work we'll be doing on this year's debates, and I want to share with you several choice quotes from this event.
If you doubt my veracity, I'm sure you can find transcripts online -- these are all from the second presidential debate in 2000.
GWB: "I'm going to be judicious about how I use the military. It needs to be in our national interest and the exit strategy needs to be obvious."
GWB: "I'm not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say this is how it's got to be."
GWB: "I don't think it's the role of the United States to walk into a country and say we do it this way and so should you."
GWB: "There are other kinds of racial profiling that go on in America... and my friend Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan is pushing a law to make sure Arab-Americans are treated with respect."
I think the hypocrisy of those statements in light of the last four years speak for themselves.
If you doubt my veracity, I'm sure you can find transcripts online -- these are all from the second presidential debate in 2000.
GWB: "I'm going to be judicious about how I use the military. It needs to be in our national interest and the exit strategy needs to be obvious."
GWB: "I'm not so sure the role of the United States is to go around the world and say this is how it's got to be."
GWB: "I don't think it's the role of the United States to walk into a country and say we do it this way and so should you."
GWB: "There are other kinds of racial profiling that go on in America... and my friend Senator Spencer Abraham of Michigan is pushing a law to make sure Arab-Americans are treated with respect."
I think the hypocrisy of those statements in light of the last four years speak for themselves.
