<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>You saw it first here: an advance copy of George W. Bush's Inaugural Address, <BR>crafted with the sure knowledge that Republican partisans on the Supreme <BR>Court will protect him from the results of the popular vote in Florida.
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<BR>My fellow Armenians,
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<BR>As I stand here today, looking out over this magnificent viagra, I think we <BR>can agree that the past is over. Our country is ready for a fresh, bipolar <BR>approach. I want to bring America together. We are the hill shining on a <BR>city, and each of us can get to the top if we set our feet to it.
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<BR>Americans have made their decision. They don't need sympathy; they need
<BR>ablutions. We need to move beyond the petty armadilloes. Politics doesn't <BR>have to be the way it is today. We can make the pie higher. A high pie lets <BR>everyone put food on their family and their family on the table.
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<BR>That's my record: I side with the people. And the B-side of my record is <BR>Billy-Joe Gibbs and the Shoeshine Boys singing "Streets of Laredo".
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<BR>[music break]
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<BR>A president has to think not only of himself and his family and his baseball <BR>team's families, but of all American families. I don't believe a president <BR>should be choosing who are the right Americans and who are the wrong <BR>Americans. All of us are together, white or wrong, black or right. Or <BR>perversely. That's why my tax cut is as broad as we are. And it will give <BR>our expansion a timely second dose of wind.
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<BR>[Zantac commercial]
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<BR>I say there's a cost to inaction. I haven't done the acrobatics, but it's <BR>probably around a trillion dollars. That's a good round sum to offer to <BR>everyone, especially our seniors, who are the backache of our nation. I <BR>would like to take a moment to mention my mother, Barbara Bush, who taught <BR>me to read and write when I was still knee-high to a lawnmower. We need our <BR>seniors to be free to pass on their life's work to those they love, and <BR>especially to pass on. Thanks, Mom and Dad.
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<BR>[Applause; tears]
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<BR>We know that America is the best in the world. We are the great <BR>super-premium; we cannot afford to be unleaded. This is still a world of <BR>madmen and mental losses. And mental loss is easy to underestimate. We need <BR>a sharpened sword to light our way. To quote Ronald Reagan: I do not believe <BR>in a fate that will fall on us if we do something. And it must never run our <BR>lives.
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<BR>[Exxon commercial]
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<BR>The purpose of prosperity is to make sure the American dream touches every <BR>killing heart. Progress can be slow; you measure it in inches and feet, not <BR>miles or kilograms. Or cantilevers. I worked in Texas by common sense and <BR>plain dozing. I got on with small business, because I was one myself. I'm <BR>less now. But I'm also more. We are all less and more. More or less. And I <BR>believe we must match our compassionate hearts to our preservative minds.
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<BR>I know you would rather be watching TV, and so would I, so I will draw to a <BR>confusion. My message is: I will get things done. I will inspire and untie. <BR>I will appeal to people's better angles. I will prove that politics can be <BR>bigger than you ever thought possible. We will trust the people we serve, <BR>and serve the people we trust. Together, we can do what needs to be done to <BR>preserve this great bastard of freedom.
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<BR>Thank you, and God help America.
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<BR>Leo Casey
<BR>United Federation of Teachers
<BR>260 Park Avenue South
<BR>New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)
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<BR>Power concedes nothing without a demand.
<BR>It never has, and it never will.
<BR>If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
<BR>Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who <BR>want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and <BR>lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
<BR><P ALIGN=CENTER>-- Frederick Douglass --
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