"Not the America I know..."

We've all heard this meme now. Yet another newspeak negative affirmation - a definition of America by describing what it is not. We know what it isn't. The question burning in my mind is "what it is?" I decided to spend a few minutes with Google to see if I could find out a little better description of Bush's America.

I searched on: ["not the america I know" bush ] and came up with quite a few links.

Here are some of the more choice items:

First of course is the darling of this week's headlines:

In interviews for US-funded al-Hurra network and the al-Arabiya satellite channel, President Bush said: "People in Iraq must understand that I view those practices as abhorrent.
"They must also understand that what took place in that prison does not represent the America that I know."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3685669.stm

Okay, so apparently this America is not a torturer, or abuser, or a doer of the abhorrent.
Let's step into the wayback machine and travel back to September of 2001. What kind of America didn't our fearless leader know then?

September 17, 2001
" Women who cover their heads in this country must feel comfortable going outside their homes. Moms who wear cover must be not intimidated in America. That's not the America I know. That's not the America I value."

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/military/terroristattack/bush_speech_9-17.html

So this sounds like an America that isn't opposed to women wearing head coverings. Especially not moms. And it wouldn't intimidate them for it. Or assume that based on thier appearance or dress, they were associated with a religion, or ethnic or political group. And then intimidate them. Okay.
But a little over a year later...

President Bush Outlines Iraqi Threat
Remarks by the President on Iraq
Cincinnati Museum Center - Cincinnati Union Terminal - Cincinnati, Ohio
October 7, 2002
" Failure to act would embolden other tyrants, allow terrorists access to new weapons and new resources, and make blackmail a permanent feature of world events. The United Nations would betray the purpose of its founding, and prove irrelevant to the problems of our time. And through its inaction, the United States would resign itself to a future of fear.

That is not the America I know. That is not the America I serve. We refuse to live in fear. (Applause.) This nation, in world war and in Cold War, has never permitted the brutal and lawless to set history's course. Now, as before, we will secure our nation, protect our freedom, and help others to find freedom of their own."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021007-8.html

Well now. This sounds like a much tougher America. An America that isn't an emboldener. Or an allower of terror. And it seems a kinda pissed at the UN too.

So, what IS this America of "ours"? Just this week Mr. Bush himself gave us a little peek at that America that he does know. Now we know, it isn't not white.

April 30, 2004
President Bush Welcomes Canadian Prime Minister Martin to White House

" There's a lot of people in the world who don't believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and self-govern. I reject that. I reject that strongly. I believe that people who practice the Muslim faith can self-govern. I believe that people whose skins aren't necessarily -- are a different color than white can self-govern."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040430-2.html