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Saturday, October 09, 2004
They Are Really Pathological
Probably the oddest moment in the debate Friday was when Bush expressed surprise and made a joke ridiculing Kerry's statement that Bush owns a part-interest in timber-growing company that, based on the Administration's definition of small business, would make Bush a small business. Bush said the fact that he owns part of timber company was "news to me."
Well, if you've been following this administration's statements over the Iraq war, you can guess who was right and who was wrong with this one too. According to Dick Cheney's favorite source, FactCheck.org:
President Bush himself would have qualified as a "small business owner" under
the Republican definition, based on his 2001 federal income tax returns. He
reported $84 of business income from his part ownership of a timber-growing
enterprise. However, 99.99% of Bush's total income came from other sources that
year. (Bush also qualified as a "small business owner" in 2000 based on
$314 of "business income," but not in 2002 and 2003 when he reported
his timber income as "royalties" on a different tax schedule.)
Frankly, I'm just surprised that Bush didn't claim that Friday night was the first time he met Kerry...
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