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The New York Times, July 23, 2006:
GROUP OBJECTS TO BUSH'S 'SIGNING STATEMENTS'
The American Bar Association said Sunday that President Bush was flouting the Constitution and undermining the rule of law by claiming the power to disregard selected provisions of bills that he signed.

Historians have recently uncovered these other previously unknown signing statements from history.

John Kennedy, Executive Order 10924 (establishing Peace Corps), 1961:
*For clarity’s sake, when this act refers to "the globe," it is speaking of the planet Earth and not my enormous head.

Franklin Roosevelt, United States Executive Order 9066 (authorizing internment of Japanese-Americans), 1942:
*This does not apply to Nips in wheelchairs – they have it tough enough as it is.

William Howard Taft, Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, 1909:
*These higher tariff rates shall not apply to food products dedicated to consumption by the President of the United States, signatory to this act. Additionally, a copy of this law shall be transcribed onto the side of a lamb shank, which the President will then eat with delicious barbecue sauce.

Abraham Lincoln, Emancipation Proclamation, 1862:
*I reserve the right to force into slavery any douchebag that calls my wife ugly or shoots me.

Franklin Pierce, Kansas-Nebraska Act, 1854:
*If anyone has a better idea for how to handle this, please let me know. (You can reach me by post at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, D.C. I would provide my zip code, but it has not yet been invented.)

John Adams, Alien and Sedition Acts, 1798:
*Unto the Condtions set out above– Is added this Decree – Henceforth shall the Vice President be regarded as an Ass –Who may lick my scrotal Regions – If the Man can find a Moment in which he is not engaged with one of his Slaves.