Language/Alisms/Bushisms Was: I Hate PCs

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> I have problems with Winders too .. so he's gonna stay on my list ..

> and I'm thinking of adding Al Gore cause the dude says he wuz the

> one whut invented the I-Net. ;-p Butch

 

Now Butch, in all fairness, that is NOT what he said. That remark was

taken out of context and twisted.

 

What was said was:

 

" During my service in the United States Congress, I took the

initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving

forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important

to our country's economic growth and environmental protection,

improvements in our educational system. "

 

Different statement than: " I invented the internet. "

 

Now, the language is somewhat fumbly, and unclear, but it *clearly*

does not say " I created " or " I invented "

 

The legislative initiatives that he took were:

 

- High-Performance Computing Act of 1991

 

- Funding for development and construction of a National Research Network

 

Those were the said intiatives he was referring to.

 

Yes, yes, very bad language choices AL! But I listened to President

Bush say commiserate instead of commensurate the other day, so Al does

NOT corner the market on bad word choices.

 

So if you want to take issue with the WHOLE statement, go ahead. But

it's just not fair to rearrange quotation marks. And I know you are a

fair person. :-P

 

JenB