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First Draft of Bush's Inaugural Address
My fellow Armenians,
As I stand here today, looking out over this magnificent viagra, I think we can
agree that the past is over. Our country is ready for a fresh, bipolar approach.
I want to bring America together. We are the hill shining on a city, and each of
us can get to the top if we set our feet to it Americans have made their
decision. They don't need sympathy; they need ablutions. We need to move beyond
the petty armadilloes.
Politics doesn't have to be the way it is today. We can make the pie higher. A
high pie lets everyone put food on their family and their family on the table.
That's my record: I side with the people. And the B-side of my record is
Billy-Joe Gibbs and the Shoeshine Boys singing "Streets in Laredo".
(Music break)
A president has to think not only of himself and his family and his baseball
team's families, but of all American families. I don't believe a president
should be choosing who are the right Americans and who are the wrong Americans.
All of us are together, white or wrong, black or right. Or perversely. That's
why my tax cut is as broad as we are. And it will give our expansion a timely
second dose of wind.
(Zantac commercial)
I say there's a cost to inaction. I haven't done the acrobatics, but it's
probably around a trillion dollars. That's a good round sum to offer to
everyone, especially our seniors, who are the backache of our nation. I would
like to take a moment to mention my mother, Barbara Bush, who taught me to read
and write when I was still knee-high to a lawnmower. We need our seniors to be
free to pass on their life's work to those they love, and especially to pass
on.
Thanks, Mom and Dad.
(Applause; tears)
We know that America is the best in the world. We are the great super-premium;
we cannot afford to be unleaded. This is still a world of madmen and mental
losses. And mental loss is easy to underestimate. We need a sharpened sword to
light our way. To quote Ronald Reagan: "I do not believe in a fate that
will fall on us if we do nothing. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if
we do something. And it must never run our lives."
(Exxon commercial).
The purpose of prosperity is to make sure the American dream touches every
killing heart. Progress can be slow; you measure it in inches and feet, not
miles or kilograms. Or cantilevers. I worked in Texas by common sense and plain
dozing. I got on with small business, because I was one myself. I'm less now.
But I'm also more. We are all less and more. More or less. And I believe we must
match our compassionate hearts to our preservative minds.
I know you would rather be
watching TV, and so would I, so I will draw to a confusion. My message is: I
will get things done. I will inspire and untie. I will appeal to people's better
angles. I will prove that politics can be bigger than you ever thought possible.
We will trust the people we serve, and serve the people we trust. Together, we
can do what needs to be done to preserve this great bastard of freedom.
Thank you, and God help America.
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