Try your hand at what the lame-duck president was trying to say these past eight years

[Are_grits_groceries]

Assuming Dubya's future pensées are of interest mainly to the Crawford Daily Bugle, here's your last chance to review the 43rd president's greatest hits and identify the word or phrase he was attempting to convey.
Answers beneath statements.
1. "Kosovians can move back in."

2. "Keep good relations with the Grecians."

3. "If the East Timorians decide to revolt, I'm sure I'll have a statement."

4. "It is incredibly presumptive for somebody who has not yet earned his party's nomination to start speculating about vice-presidents."

5. "If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow."

6. "Governor Bush will not stand for the subsidation of welfare."

7. "This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve."

8. "I do not agree with this notion that somehow if I go to try to attract votes and to lead people toward a better tomorrow somehow I get subscribed to some – some doctrine gets subscribed to me."

9. "I don't want to win? If that were the case why the heck am I on the bus 16 hours a day, shaking thousands of hands, giving hundreds of speeches, getting pillared in the press and cartoons and still staying on message to win?"

10. "Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads."

11. "I'm very gracious and humbled."

12. "I did denounce it. I de – I denounced it. I denounced interracial dating. I denounced anti-Catholic bigacy."

13. "This case has had a full analyzation and has been looked at a lot. I understand the emotionality of death penalty cases."

14. "A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness."

15. "I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans."

16. "I don't want nations feeling like that they can bully ourselves and our allies. I want to have a ballistic defence system so that we can make the world more peaceful, and at the same time I want to reduce our own nuclear capacities to the level commiserate with keeping the peace."

17. "They said, `You know, this issue doesn't seem to resignate with the people.' And you know something? Whether it resignates or not doesn't matter to me, because I stand for doing the right thing, and the right thing is hearing the voices of people who work."

18. "They misunderestimated me."

19. "I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors."

20. "Ann and I will carry out this equivocal message to the world: Markets must open."
Answers:
1. Kosovars
2. Greeks
3. East Timorese
4. presumptuous
5. tariff barriers
6. subsidization
7. Perseverance Month
8. ascribed
9. pilloried
10. resort
11. grateful
12. bigotry
13. analysis
14. antidotes
15. fallibility
16. commensurate
17. resonate
18. underestimated
19. successors
20. unequivocal
http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/570546

There are 20 more examples at the site if your brain isn't scrambled too much.

[graywarrior]

1. "I have issues"