Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 28, 1992

Transcript:

Mark: In the age of sound bites, who gets to hear candidate Bush really stretch anymore? Well, thanks to official White House transcripts, you do! Enjoy! Asterisk/Bush: These people that are now campaigning for President...they've never been here before. They don't know the heartbeat of it. When a hurricane hits Portsmouth, it hits my house up there, not so far away from here. And when I was going to school we used to compete in New Hampshire...One thing that really - we'll clean this up for this marvelous audience - burns me up - put it that way - is this charge that I don't care. And I can understand it...Times are tough. This state has gone through hell. It's gone through an extraordinarily difficult time, coming off a pinnacle, you might say, of low unemployment. Tomorrow: More on the pinnacle thing.