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Wasn't it George Bush Sr. who was quoted saying "I'll say anything to win this election?"

I try to have my pander-meter running whenever I listen to any candidate of either party.

Just curious, Josh, where did he say that. I tried a Google on that quote to see in context, but came up dry.

I came up empty also but I thought I remembered him saying that, or something very much like it. That's why I put it in the form of a question, because I'm not sure.

Josh, I would think that when I see a direct quote set off with quotation marks, it is a quote, not something that somebody thought that they might remember.

J, I clearly asked whether it was Bush who said it. I don't know where you're trying to go with this.

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Not always, Ian, and in this particular case in the current common use of English, it in a great many cases is a (sometimes sarcastic) way of saying that someone said something. The use of a question mark does not always denote that the statement is a question. The use of quotation marks is universally taken to mean the words between them is a direct quote of something that was said by someone.
Say, Ian, in your post, didn't you say "C'mon J"? That was not a question, I know you did, the quotation marks denote that it was an exact quote. The use of the question mark does not mean that it was not, it was just a very common was to communicate something. It is like using the words "but you said".

I don't recall Bush having said that, BUT Sam Katz was accused of such by Dan Fee, Mayor John F. Street?s campaign spokesman.

Then in a Newsweek article from November of 1999, Al Gore was quoted as saying, ?I will do anything to win this election.? Saying is doing and he definitely said a lot of interesting things such as inventing the Internet.

John Major (England 1992) came close with -- "I wouldn't say I'd do anything to win this election, my grandmother's far too important to me."

I am certain that I did not put any there as I was paraphrasing. Even looking back at it now I myself can not see where it appears that I quoted him but maybe your eyes are sharper than mine (or your display is acting up).

Edison "took the initiative" on the light bulb you know.

You know what you were inferring about Gore's credibility by bringing it up, and you know (from numerous past postings on this topic) that you were mis-paraphrasing him. I'm not going down the semantic road.

Josh, this road in a familiar one, let me again point out a couple of sign posts.
In 1772, ARPA became DARPA. Be that as it may, in 1772, a "net" of interconnected computers was first publically demonstrated. In 1973, this "net" (ARPAnet) started growing, and in but a year or two the public was all over it.
Al Gore first entered elected service in 1976, and his initiating a bill dealing with the developing net came later on 24 Jun 1986 when Gore introduced S 2594, the Supercomputer Network Study Act of 1986.
Your statement, "meaning he spearheaded legislation to make the Arpanet available to the general public, which is a truthful statement." has a severe time line problem.

1772, really? The Internet predates electricity by over a hundred years, Wow!

I figured since you wrote it twice, it wasn't a typo.



Seriously though, here's a link:

http://www.perkel.com/politics/gore/internet.htm

While an obviously pro-Gore page, the quotes around midpage are worthy of note. The page also addresses the "lies" Gore told about Love Canal and the book Love Story.

Whoopsie, the old one finger typing glitch raises its head. Just wait, Josh, it's not that cold here yet, just wait till it is and the shaking really starts (grin). Or at least, perhaps I should move my 19 in. monitor to this computer so I could preview posts better. Fat chance, considering what it weighs and what I do (grin#2).

...we're expecting our first big snowstorm of the season tomorrow and Saturday. Normally I'd just be annoyed by it but we have tickets to a Barney concert on Saturday in Trenton (our 14-month-old's Xmas gift from her grandma) and it's over an hour's drive on a good day. Stressing....

(I am sure there are exceptions) but the Democrat presidential hopefulls have really outdone themselves and all who have gone before with the possible exception of Clinton.

my favorite from that column was "Howard Dean wears his brother's battered 1960s belt every day. (By contrast, Ted Kennedy honors the memory of his deceased family members with several belts every day.)"

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I didn't know anyone was considering increasing mercury levels by adding mercury to water or anywhere else Dave. Is chlorine getting in short supply or something?