"Kerry, you want to cut the wood?"
Posted on 10/08/2004 8:20:09 PM PDT by dodger
What was the best line in this all-round peppier debate????
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I believe it was a reference to a small stake Bush owned in a lumber company. He made $84.00 one year from the lumber company, which qualified him for a tax cut for small businesses.
Yes, dubya is sexy!!!!!
GIBSON: Senator, I want to extend for a minute, you talk about tax cuts to stop outsourcing. But when you have IBM documents that I saw recently where you can hire a programmer for $12 in China, $56 an hour here, tax credits won't cut it.
You can't stop all outsourcing, Charlie. I've never promised that. I'm not going to, because that would be pandering. You can't.
But what you can do is create a fair playing field, and that's what I'm talking about.
But let me just address what the president just said.
Ladies and gentlemen, that's just not true what he said. The Wall Street Journal said 96 percent of small businesses are not affected at all by my plan.
And you know why he gets that count? The president got $84 from a timber company that owns, and he's counted as a small business. Dick Cheney's counted as a small business. That's how they do things. That's just not right.
BUSH: I own a timber company?
(LAUGHTER)
That's news to me.
(LAUGHTER)
Need some wood?
(LAUGHTER)
Most small businesses are Subchapter S corps. They just are.
I met Grant Milliron, Mansfield, Ohio. He's creating jobs. Most small businesses -- 70 percent of the new jobs in America are created by small businesses.
Taxes are going up when you run up the top two brackets. It's a fact.
My ex-liberal (and still borderline) wife, has been walking around the house with her infectious laugh repeating W's line: "I own a lumber company? That's news to me. Anybody want some wood?
"be talking about, and he knew he had to say something, so he threw out what turned out to be a very good line."
Huh? Threw out a very good line?
That was a moment marvelous to behold!! It sure "connected" with me. It was a stitch as they say. Best line bar none!
Eternal entrepeneur! I loved it!
..I get it !!--on seeing a pic of President Bush 'clearing brush on his ranch.....yes, he own a lumber co. !!! but if that is true....on seeing sKerry surfing on the ocean, then eKerry owns a ocean...oh well--lib.??
Daddy, I cannot tell a lie....I did chop down that Kerry tree!!
Bush came across as a guy who cared about his job and really wanted to keep it. He was vigorous and competent and really made back some of the momentum he lost. A good Bush win, IMHO.
Give the woman a break...she's been beat with the ugly stick enough already!
That was great. I also liked when he said he would do what's right for this country, even if it makes him unpopular in "the halls of some European capitals."
W stands for Whoopass!
Milliron is a self-educated entrepreneur and has been referred to as a "brilliant metallurgist," "an expert in environmental protection legislation" and "the definition of integrity." He gives his time and charity, serving on the boards of ReDEC, Richland Bank, Regional Planning Commission, North Central State College Foundation, Mansfield-Richland Area Chamber of Commerce and the Vision Committee.
Milliron married Mary, his high school sweetheart and wife of 52 years.
Except he said Senator KENNEDY!
OH MY LORD...FABULOUS!
How many people here thinks Bush in the photo with the ax look like the actor Chris Cooper (October Sky, Seabiscuit)
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