そのため、ケーブルTV以外のテレビ局ではコメディアンさえもブッシュ政権を揶揄したジョークを控え、red states（共和党の支持者が多い州）でも人気があるためアメリカ全土で一番視聴率の高い『The Tonight Show with Jay Leno』という夜のトーク・ショーではブッシュ関連のジョークは全く出てこなくなり、代わりに反戦を唱える人々がジョークのやり玉にあがる、という状況に陥っていました。
You know the story about the guy whose car gets stuck in a muddy hole. A farmer comes along and says he'll pull the car out of the mud but he's going to have to charge 50 bucks 'cause this is the tenth time he's had to pull it out of the mud today. The driver says, "God, when do you have time to plow your land, at night?" The farmer says, "No, no. Nighttime is when I fill the whole with water."
....We need to find energy alternatives. We're getting our cue. We're getting it right now. The Republicans are busy. They're trying to convince us that they care about new energy and that they're not in the vest pockets of big oil, and that's a tough sell. I don't envy them, 'cause their only hope is that we don't notice that they're the ones who are filling the hole with water every night, and I think Americans are smarter then that. I think we noticed.
ボブ・ウッドワード記者（ニクソン政権のウォーターゲート事件を暴露した辣腕記者）が2004年に発売した著書『Plan to Attack（邦題：攻撃計画）』に「サウジアラビアは2004年の大統領選の直前にブッシュ再選を助けるために石油の値段を下げると約束した」と書いていますが、民主党派のアメリカ国民はこの本が出るずっと前からサウジアラビアとブッシュ政権の深い関係を把握していたんですよね。
It is sheer lunacy to suggest America takes unilateral steps while exempting 80% of the world's nations from the same obligations.
President:
Developing nations, and I think what's lunacy is a nation of SUV's telling a nation of bicycles, that they have to change the way they live before we'll agree to do something about greenhouse emissions.
Bryce:
Among our economic competitors there's the principle of fairness.
President:
Well, in international law there's a principle called
differentiated responsibilities. We're the ones making the greenhouse gas!
Mutual fund that's supposed to send her to college. I never imagined at $55,000 a year, I'd have trouble making ends meet. And my wife brings in another 25. My son's in public school. It's no good. I mean, there's 37 kids in the class, uh, no art and music, no advanced placement classes. Other kids, their mother has to make them practice the piano. You can't pull my son away from the piano. He needs teachers.
I spend half the day thinking about what happens if I slip and fall down on my own front porch, you know? It should be hard. I like that it's hard. Putting your daughter through college, that's-that's a man's job. A man's accomplishment. But it should be a little easier. Just a little easier.
