DSL
Dubya as a Second Language

1. Vocabulary
=============

Barriffs : barriers
Cuff Links : handcuffs
Grecians : Greeks
Inebriating : enthralling
Obscufate : obfuscate
Pillared : pilloried
Preservation : perseverance
Presumptive : presumptuous
Slovokian : Slovenian
Subscribe : ascribe
Subsidation : Subsidization
Tacular weapons: tactical weapons
Tenants : tenets
Terriers : tariffs
Vile : viable
Vulcanize : balkanize

2. Grammar
==========

You teach a child to read and he or her will be able to pass a literacy
test. - President Bush at Townsend TN Elementary School

Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's
trustworthiness. -- Aug. 30, 2000.

Laura and I really don't realize how bright our children is sometimes until we
get an objective analysis.

I was raised in the West. The west of Texas. It's pretty close to California.
In more ways than Washington, DC, is close to California

Reading is the basics for all learning

I understand small business growth. I was one.

The senator has got to understand if he's going to have - he can't have it
both ways. He can't take the high horse and then claim the low road,

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles,
come and join this campaign.

How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles
kids through.

We ought to make the pie higher.

I think we need not only to eliminate the tollbooth to the middle class, I
think we should knock down the tollbooth.

The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case.

Will the highways on the Internet become more few?

I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.

This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and
potential mential losses.

Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning

There needs to be debates, like we're going through. There needs to be
town-hall meetings. There needs to be travel. This is a huge country.

When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world and you knew exactly who they
were. It was us versus them and it was clear who them was. Today we are not so
sure who the they are, but we know they're there.

This is Preservation month. I appreciate preservation. This is what you do
when you run for president. You've got to preserve." -- To several hundred
children at an elementary school in Nashua that was celebrating what it called
Perseverance Month (not Preservation Month).

What I'm against is quotas. I'm against hard quotas, quotas that basically
delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think,
vulcanize society.

Tell them I have learned from mistakes I may or may not have made.

3. Style
========

I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing how businesses conduct their
business. And like them, I am very optimistic about our position in the world
and about its influence on the United States. We're concerned about the
short-term economic news, but long-term, I'm optimistic. And so, I hope
investors, you know -- secondly I hope investors hold investments for periods
of time -- that I've always found the best investments are those that you salt
away based on economics." -- Jan. 4, 2001.

I am mindful of the difference between the executive branch and the
legislative branch. I assured all four of the leaders that I know the
difference, and that difference is they pass the laws and I execute them." --
Dec. 18, 2000.

The Legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to
interpret law." -- Nov. 22, 2000.

Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it
is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods." -- Dec. 20, 2000.