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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 10:34 PM
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Billboard Altered To Show Bush Quote
Edited on Tue Jun-29-04 10:35 PM by Kadie
Billboard Altered To Show Bush Quote
Quote Featured In 'Fahrenheit 9-11'

POSTED: 2:59 pm PDT June 29, 2004
UPDATED: 3:37 pm PDT June 29, 2004

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A Sacramento billboard drew a lot of attention Tuesday after it was altered to show a quote from President George W. Bush that was included in the controversial new Michael Moore movie.

The billboard near Land Park Drive and Broadway, which was originally for Baskin Robbins, was changed to show a quote from President George W. Bush.

The quote -- "A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it" -- was included in the film "Fahrenheit 9-11."

more... http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/3474646/detail.html

yahoo link... http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040629/lo_kcra/2268905

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Nlighten1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 10:37 PM
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1. Beautiful.
Why this quote never got more attention is a mystery to me.
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 10:40 PM
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5. There are three different quotes of
bush where he mentions something about his liking a dictatorship in the US. I hope this comes back and bites him.
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gold_bug Donating Member (485 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 12:47 AM
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13. actually it's four!
"It's not a dictatorship in Washington, but I tried to make it one in that instance. We are beginning to see some success in opening up federal coffers for faith-based programs."
--George W. Bush (quotation from "Bush Courts Black Voters", Washington Post Friday, January 16, 2004; Page A09)

"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier."
-- George W. Bush (Governing Magazine 7/98) (From Paul Begala's "Is Our Children Learning?" Describing what it's like to be governor of Texas.)

"I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator," Bush joked.
-- George W. Bush (CNN.com, December 18, 2000)

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it, "
-- George W. Bush (Business Week, July 30, 2001)
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Room101 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 01:00 AM
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14. All four(4) quotes with links.....
"It's not a dictatorship in Washington, but I tried to make it one in that instance." - George W. Bush Jan. 15, 2004
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A21079-2004Jan15¬Found=true

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question
about it," - George W. Bush - July 30, 2001
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jul2001/nf20010730_347.htm

“If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.” - George W. Bush - December 18, 2000
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html

"You don't get everything you want, a dictatorship would be alot easier." George W. Bush July 1998
http://www.governing.com/archive/1998/jul/bush.txt
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complain jane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 10:37 PM
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2. HA
That's awesome!
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BattyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 10:38 PM
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3. Defaced?
That's looks like a professional billboard to me. The average person would "deface" a billboard with paint, don't you think?

In any case, it's pretty funny! :evilgrin:

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LifeDuringWartime Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 10:39 PM
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wow
they did a good job!

that wasnt the only time he said something like that was it?
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 10:39 PM
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4. God, I love whomever is responsible
for that..Priceless! I rated yahoo a five and it's already 4.44!

Darn! baskinrobbins is going to take it down.
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BattyDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 10:42 PM
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6. Baskin Robbins should leave it up for a few days ...
Edited on Tue Jun-29-04 10:42 PM by BattyDem
I bet their sales would go way up! :evilgrin:
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 10:53 PM
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7. Wouldn't that be just desserts!
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asjr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 11:05 PM
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8. LOL Rich!
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leQ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 11:13 PM
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9. that lifted my day!
thanks!
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-29-04 11:23 PM
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10. That's in my neck of the woods...
and that artist deserves kudos even though I don't condone the destruction of private property. I would like to meet the artist.
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Morning Dew Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 12:35 AM
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11. wasn't the rest of that quote
something like

"especially if I was the dictator."

Aw man, I don't want to have to look for it.
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 12:43 AM
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12. Here are teh GW dictator quotes link
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=256103

<snip>
If this were a dictatorship, this
would be a heck of a lot easier." Chuckling, he added, "Just so long
as I'm dictator."

And a DU link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/01/08/17_ships.html

Dictatorships That Pass in the Night
August 17, 2001
by Robert C.

<snip>
As Jonathan Alter notes in his on-line column in the 8/6 issue of Newsweek (on MSNBC - "Fighting the HMO Meanies"): "'...A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier - there's no question about it,' he said again last week, repeating what appears to be his favorite quip." (In the book Fortunate Son, J. H. Hatfield has Dubya, as governor of Texas in 1996, saying this to a business group - "It would be a heck of a lot easier to be a dictator than work in a democracy". This is not a "new" joke for him.)

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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-30-04 10:09 AM
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15. kick
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