home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!noose.ecn.purdue.edu!author.ecn.purdue.edu!unglenie
- From: unglenie@author.ecn.purdue.edu (Robert J Unglenieks)
- Subject: Re: Presidential quote (Bush/atheism)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.024922.13324@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Sender: news@noose.ecn.purdue.edu (USENET news)
- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <63060@mimsy.umd.edu> <rdippold.725603976@cancun> <1992Dec31.230016.8696@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 02:49:22 GMT
- Lines: 36
-
- Tom Swiss writes:
- >>> From an old copy of the Alt.atheist FAQ list:
- >>>23. "Did George Bush really say that atheists should not be considered
- >>> citizens?"
- >>> President Bush made the comments during a campaign stop on August 27,
- >>> 1988 at O'Hare airport. He spoke with Robert Sherman, chief spokesman
- >>> for American Atheists:
- >>> RS: "Mr. President, what will you do to win the votes of Americans
- >>> who are Atheists?"
-
- Ron Dippold writes:
- >>Except that he wasn't president, or even president elect. Either
- >>Robert Sherman cocked up when he asked he question and reported it, or
- >>someone's been playing with the quote to give it more outrage value.
-
- Leonard Erickson writes:
- >Or they are (quite properly) saying "the man who is currently President
- >made the comments...".
- >
- >"President Bush made the comments" does *not* necessarily imply that
- >he was president at the time the comments were made, merely that he was
- >president at the time the writer commented on the matter!
-
- Yes, you are probably correct that the writer of the FAQ wrote,
- "President Bush made the ...." when Bush was President, but that is moot.
- The problem involves something else, as Ron pointed out, that the
- Chief Spokesman asked, "Mr. President, what will you do to win the votes..."
- on August 27, 1988 but President Bush wasn't....yet. You didn't read far
- enough in Tom's original post to see the problem.
-
- Rob U
- --
- - Rob Unglenieks REAL race cars DON'T wear BOWTIES -
- - "It is the foreign element that commits our crimes. There is no -
- - native criminal class except Congress." [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] -
- - (Don't look at me, I DIDN'T vote for Clinton. Will Engineer For Food) -
-