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To: Sir Gawain; Jim Scott
Your request has been granted; From the NFRA speech, 8/25/01.

Dr. Alan Keyes is speaking... ...a person would come to me and say, "Well, you've got to acknowledge that we've got to get rid of Bill Clinton, that's the worse evil possible," and I tried to explain to them, no, the evil that you know, the evil that you recognize, the evil that inspires you to fight against it, that's not the worse evil you can face. The worst evil you can face is the insidious evil that creeps behind your lines, that demoralizes your leadership, that confuses your commitment and your understanding and that, in the end, defeats you, not because your enemy overwhelms you but because in your confusion, your doubt, and your lack of commitment to those things, you overwhelm yourself.

And I'm watching it happen right now. I watched the run-up to the stem cell research decision on the part of President Bush. Now, part of me was impatient with the whole process that we were going through because I watched the media hyping the "judicious" and "agonizing" decision that he was making, and I've got to tell you, there are times when somebody comes to me and says, "Oh, I'm agonizing over this decision," and the very fact that their agonizing tells me they don't understand the decision.

See, my problem is that I sit in front of a decision like that and I say this is a decision where somebody sat down to figure out how much evil they could get away with.

Note that Keyes goes to great lengths to attribute the word evil to George Bush but doesn't have the guts to apply it directly so in a very, very narrow sense, Keyes didn't directly call President Bush 'evil', but his meaning was implicit; George W. Bush is evil..........JIM SCOTT

339 posted on 10/06/2003 10:33:08 AM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs (There is no shame in being poor, just dressing poorly)
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To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
but his meaning was implicit

Not from your quote it's not. Sorry.

343 posted on 10/06/2003 10:35:33 AM PDT by Sir Gawain
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