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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Subject: Re: Presidential quote (Bush/atheism)
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- References: <1992Dec21.205707.16360@news.acns.nwu.edu> <AULTJ.92Dec23173736@caleb.rpi.edu> <3077@anprda.atson.asahi-np.co.jp> <63060@mimsy.umd.edu> <rdippold.725603976@cancun> <1992Dec31.230016.8696@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 06:27:20 GMT
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- leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
- >rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
- >>tms@cs.umd.edu (Tom Swiss (not Swift, not Suiss, Swiss!)) writes:
- >>> RS: "Mr. President, what will you do to win the votes of Americans
- >>> who are Atheists?"
-
- >>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.
-
- >Or they are (quite properly) saying "the man who is currently President
- >made the comments...".
-
- What? There's the quote, right up there... Robert Sherman: "Mr.
- President,..." Supposedly asked when Bush wasn't president. Either
- Sherman screwed up and called him "Mr. President" or someone has been
- monkeying with what is being passed off as a series of direct quotes.
- If they did go playing with the quote to add effect, then the rest of
- it is suspect as well.
- --
- There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.
- No artist ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
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