When the first President Bush, George Herbert Walker, gave his acceptance speech 12 years ago, he said "We didn't come here to bicker". That attempt to change the tone in Washington lasted about five minutes. Mind you, that time, the election lasted only a day as well. This time, five weeks almost to the minute passed from the point on election night when the television networks took Florida out of Al Gore's column and into the "undecided" one, to the moment when the Supreme Court delivered its final, deeply controversial judgment against the vice-president. Yet if you had listened to George W. Bush's acceptance speech after spending the past five weeks on Mars, you would hardly have known that anything unusual had been going on.
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机译：当12年前的第一任布什总统乔治·赫伯特·沃克（George Herbert Walker）致欢迎辞时，他说：“我们不是来这里吵架的。”试图改变华盛顿气氛的尝试持续了大约五分钟。请注意，那一次选举也只持续了一天。这次是从选举之夜到电视网络将佛罗里达州从戈尔的专栏带入“未定”专栏的那一刻，直到最高法院针对该案做出最终的，备受争议的判决的那一刻，已经过去了大约五个星期。副总统。然而，如果您过去五周在火星上听过乔治·W·布什的致辞，您几乎不会知道发生了什么异常情况。
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