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Old 14-December-2007, 08:47 PM
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And we ought to declare that we will be free of energy consumption in this country within a decade, bold as that is.
Ilya, what you don't understand is that in Arkansas it is widely understood that between 'free of...' and '...energy consumption' one would insert 'each and every one of'. Therefore, the sentence would correctly read:

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And we ought to declare that we will be free of each and every one of energy consumption in this country within a decade, bold as that is.
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Personally, I like Bush's own explanation:
But what does he mean by "is"? Oh, wait, wrong president.

(But if he really did say the above, I'm impressed he managed to memorize the whole sentence and say it without screwing up this time. I wonder how long his handlers had to have him repeat it to get him to do that?)
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