I have written an editorial article that consists of a collection of links to documents and videos that help illuminate the character of George W. Bush. Links include: Bush's DUI, Bush drunk at a wedding in Texas, Bush joking about not finding WMD in Iraq, and Bush joking about the economic recession, and September 11th. Let me know if I have omitted any other links that may belong in this category.
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“The recession -- no question, I remember when I was campaigning, I said, would you ever deficit spend? And I said, yes, only if there were a time of war, or recession, or a national emergency. Never thought we'd get -- (laughter and applause.) And so we have a temporary deficit in our budget, because we are at war, we're recovering, our economy is recovering, and we've had a national emergency.
Never did I dream we'd have the trifecta. (Laughter.)”
I counted
13 occurrences of this “joke” at www.whitehouse.gov.
If Bush did not mean this as a joke he should have stopped after the crowd laughed at it repeatedly.
Here are a couple of the links:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/04/20020416-8.html http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/06/20020613-11.html (video and audio included)
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Read the rest of the article hereAlex Hamilton
IBTP