You know,when I was a kid growing up in Texas, one of our sayings was, "Let's make like a Baptist church and split."

当我小时候还在德州时，我们会听到一种说法，“我们像浸信会一样不和“

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I also served for the two years before that as the policy director of President Bush's presidential campain, working at the Texas.

在那之前，我做过两年的,布什总统选举的,政策主任，在德州工作。

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This kind of ritual honor all the time I mean after all we have a president who just likes to speak like a Texan, he doesn't do all that honor stuff.

这种走过场的形式到处都是,毕竟我们的总统在讲话的时候,很喜欢装成德州佬的样子,他不喜欢做面子工程

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