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Kerry's Bushisms

Jacob Sullum | 10.14.2004 8:37 AM

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One leaped out at me during last night's debate: "It's against the law in the United States to hire people illegally."

Perhaps you noticed others.

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Jacob Sullum is a senior editor at Reason. He is the author, most recently, of Beyond Control: Drug Prohibition, Gun Regulation, and the Search for Sensible Alternatives (Prometheus Books).

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  1. wellfellow   22 years ago

    "...there is amendments on certain bills."

  2. Max   22 years ago

    In the first debate, didn't Kerry say something about "Islamic Muslims"?

  3. OL   22 years ago

    I liked it when Bush said something along the lines of, "You can't trust TV news, oh, never mind."

  4. Mith   22 years ago

    My favorite was by Bush. He mispronounced "programs" so that he ended up something something like:
    "We'll have pogroms for school children."

  5. Rimfax   22 years ago

    In the second debate Kerry mentioned something about a women going to her "OGBYN". He didn't pause long enough for a rimshot and the rest of his statement was without flaw, so he didn't look stupid. I doubt that 99.99% of the audience noticed.

  6. Pedro   22 years ago

    Maxed missages.

  7. Scott   22 years ago

    Did anyone catch Kerry's response to one of the abortion questions?

    "I'm not going to appoint a judge to the Court who's going to undo a constitutional right . . . or some other right that's given under our courts today-- under the Constitution."

    But hey, don't worry. Democrats would never legislate from the bench.

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