]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]]] BUSH TALK [[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[ By George Bush, V.P. (8/18/88) Presidential Candidate (extracted from WSJ, 8/15/88) Touring the Auschwitz death camp, 28 Sept. 1987: "Boy, they were big on crematoria, weren't they?" Explaining his poor showing in Ames, Iowa: "A lot of people who support me were at an air show, they were off at their daughter's coming-out party, they were off teeing up at the golf course in that all-important last round and they were turning out at high school reunions." To a recovering drug addict at a Newark, N.J. drug clinic, 5/26/88: "Did you come here and say, `The heck with it, I don't need this darn thing?' Did you go through a withdrawal thing?" In Greenwich, Conn., after his return from China in 1975, when asked whether he had met any of the common Chinese: "Oh yes. They gave me a boy to play tennis with." Interview with USA Today, 7/28/88: "Michael Dukakis speaks Spanish. I wish I did. But I have three grandchildren, my blood cursing through their veins, who are half Mexican." Discussing his WWII experiences in Garrison, Iowa, 12/5/87: "I was shot down, and I was floating around in a little yellow raft setting a record for paddling. I thought of my family, my mom and dad, and the strength I got from them. I thought of my faith, the separation of church and state." In conversation with a nin-year old Spanish-speaking girl in Harlem, 4/14/88: "Comme ci, comme ca..." * * * [PLEASE NOTE: Contempt for clownish wimps does not imply endorsement of crooks. P.B.] * * *
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