Billboard Altered To Show Bush Quote

[Kadie]

Billboard Altered To Show Bush Quote
Quote Featured In 'Fahrenheit 9-11'

POSTED: 2:59 pm PDT June 29, 2004
UPDATED: 3:37 pm PDT June 29, 2004

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A Sacramento billboard drew a lot of attention Tuesday after it was altered to show a quote from President George W. Bush that was included in the controversial new Michael Moore movie.

The billboard near Land Park Drive and Broadway, which was originally for Baskin Robbins, was changed to show a quote from President George W. Bush.

The quote -- "A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it" -- was included in the film "Fahrenheit 9-11."

more... http://www.thekcrachannel.com/news/3474646/detail.html

yahoo link... http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ibsys/20040629/lo_kcra/2268905

[Nlighten1]

1. Beautiful.

Why this quote never got more attention is a mystery to me.

[Cha]

5. There are three different quotes of

bush where he mentions something about his liking a dictatorship in the US. I hope this comes back and bites him.

[gold_bug]

13. actually it's four!

"It's not a dictatorship in Washington, but I tried to make it one in that instance. We are beginning to see some success in opening up federal coffers for faith-based programs."
--George W. Bush (quotation from "Bush Courts Black Voters", Washington Post Friday, January 16, 2004; Page A09)

"You don't get everything you want. A dictatorship would be a lot easier."
-- George W. Bush (Governing Magazine 7/98) (From Paul Begala's "Is Our Children Learning?" Describing what it's like to be governor of Texas.)

"I told all four that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator," Bush joked.
-- George W. Bush (CNN.com, December 18, 2000)

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it, "
-- George W. Bush (Business Week, July 30, 2001)

[Room101]

14. All four(4) quotes with links.....

"It's not a dictatorship in Washington, but I tried to make it one in that instance." - George W. Bush Jan. 15, 2004
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A21079-2004Jan15¬Found=true

"A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question
about it," - George W. Bush - July 30, 2001
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/jul2001/nf20010730_347.htm

“If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.” - George W. Bush - December 18, 2000
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/18/nd.01.html

"You don't get everything you want, a dictatorship would be alot easier." George W. Bush July 1998
http://www.governing.com/archive/1998/jul/bush.txt

[complain jane]

2. HA

That's awesome!

[BattyDem]

3. Defaced?

That's looks like a professional billboard to me. The average person would "deface" a billboard with paint, don't you think?

In any case, it's pretty funny! :evilgrin:

[LifeDuringWartime]

wow

they did a good job!

that wasnt the only time he said something like that was it?

[Cha]

4. God, I love whomever is responsible

for that..Priceless! I rated yahoo a five and it's already 4.44!

Darn! baskinrobbins is going to take it down.

[BattyDem]

6. Baskin Robbins should leave it up for a few days ...

I bet their sales would go way up! :evilgrin:

[Cha]

7. Wouldn't that be just desserts!

[asjr]

8. LOL Rich!

[leQ]

9. that lifted my day!

thanks!

[BrotherBuzz]

10. That's in my neck of the woods...

and that artist deserves kudos even though I don't condone the destruction of private property. I would like to meet the artist.

[Morning Dew]

11. wasn't the rest of that quote

something like

"especially if I was the dictator."

Aw man, I don't want to have to look for it.

[Whoa_Nelly]

12. Here are teh GW dictator quotes link

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=256103

<snip>
If this were a dictatorship, this
would be a heck of a lot easier." Chuckling, he added, "Just so long
as I'm dictator."

And a DU link:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/01/08/17_ships.html

Dictatorships That Pass in the Night
August 17, 2001
by Robert C.

<snip>
As Jonathan Alter notes in his on-line column in the 8/6 issue of Newsweek (on MSNBC - "Fighting the HMO Meanies"): "'...A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier - there's no question about it,' he said again last week, repeating what appears to be his favorite quip." (In the book Fortunate Son, J. H. Hatfield has Dubya, as governor of Texas in 1996, saying this to a business group - "It would be a heck of a lot easier to be a dictator than work in a democracy". This is not a "new" joke for him.)

[Kadie]

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