This is long, but worth reading and knowing. If those who support Bush can't see the writing on the wall, take off the blinders.
GEORGE W. BUSH
The White House
USA
RESUME
PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:
I ran for congress and lost.
I produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.
I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas; the company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.
I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.
Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox.
With my father's help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS :
I changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union.
I replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog ridden city in America.
I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money.
Set record for most executions by any Governor in American history.
I became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of my father's appointments to the Supreme Court.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
I attacked and took over two countries.
I spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
I shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
I set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.
I set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
I am the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
My first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history.
After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, I presided over the worst security failure in US history.
I set the record for most campaign fundraising trips of any president in US history.
In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs.
I cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history.
I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
I appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.
I set the record for the fewest press conferences of any president since the advent of television.
I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history.
I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
I presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
I cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for
protest against any person in the history of mankind
I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.
My presidency is the most secretive and unaccountable of any in US history.
Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (The 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice has a Chevron oil tanker named after her).
I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
I am the first president in US history to order a US attack and military ccupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
I created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.
I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission.
I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board.
I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight, of any presidential administration in US history.
I rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
I withdrew from the World Court of Law.
I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and thereby no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).
I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
My biggest lifetime campaign contributor, who is also one of my best friends, presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world
history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
I spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.
I am the first president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied, saying the enemy had the code to Air Force One)
I am the first US president to establish a secret shadow government.
I took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest
diplomatic failure in US and world history).
I, with a policy of 'disengagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
I am the first US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
I am the first US president in history to have the people of South Korea feel more threatened by the US than by their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
I changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
I set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
I failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive.'
I failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capitol building. After 18 months I have no
leads and zero suspects.
In the 18 months following the 911 attacks I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.
I removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.
In a little over two years I created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war.
I entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years every single economic category and indicator was heading straight down.
RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available).
I was AWOL from National Guard and deserted the military during a time of war.
I refuse to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.
All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my father's library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
All minutes of meetings for any public corporation where I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.
For personal references please speak to my dad or uncle James Baker. (They can be reached at their offices of the Carlyle Group for war-profiteering.)
Posted by Maria at July 8, 2003 07:22 PM | TrackBackI hear ya and am completely overwhelmed by the lies...just visit and read along; I posted something about what Ijust said, what you just reiterated, today - your comments are welcomed
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what baffles me is the amount of support Bush is still getting. and despite his confession that he "lied" (BBC: White House admitted that one of its claims about Iraqi weapons was false), the way mr. bill clinton had been under fire because of his "sexcapade," wherein mr. bush's degree of lies is much more complicated and bigger, i just hope, he wouldn't manage to escape unscathed.
Living in Europe, the Europeans view him as a dangerous man. and it's not because of envy. it's just the awful truth.
All the talk that conservatives still do about Bill and Monica is just a diversion. The reality is that Bill Clinton is not the president of the United States anymore and it is not the least bit constructive to continue harping on something that really does not matter. What matters is that Bush is the president NOW and he is effectively destroying the lives of many, many people.
The fact that people still support him? I find it profoundly disturbing. If people can read the facts about him and continue to believe that he acts in the best interest of the United States and the world, I think that is really, really sad, not to mention extremely irrational.
Posted by: Maria at July 9, 2003 08:49 AMWhy do you have a link to asmallvictory site of Michelle's? It's full of dead heads, is it to see how the others think?
Posted by: anwar at July 9, 2003 12:17 PMAll politicians are fucking crooked and if Bill were still President the writer of that would have just changed the names. Every president is drug through the mud over every decision they make and I've never heard anyone in the last 30 years say they were happy w/our economy. Jimmy Carter had no scandal in his personal life and he was slaughtered in the press daily-Presidents are easy targets and speaking of being not relevant, Bush and his drug use and DUI-So fucking what!!! I wouldn't expect anything less of one of our Presidents. They are all scumbags and so far I'm not impressed with anyone who wants to run in the next election either. I guess we'll all be stuck with trying to vote for the "lesser of the evils".
Posted by: sandy at July 10, 2003 11:19 AMp.s.
Sorry if I seem "pissy" but this is all old hat you know..show me a decent, honest politician and I'll show you how my size 14 ass can fit into some extra small pantyhose :)
I am not comparing politicians. I am also not denying any wrong doing/bad decision making on Bill Clinton's part during his presidency. People automatically assume that if you despise Bush you must love Clinton. That's not the way it works in my world.
I judge a person by the things that he does. And in this case, George Bush is the current president of the United States and he is the one I'm worried about. And anyone who can read that long ass list of "accomplishments" and say "so fucking what?" and continue to support him as our president, I think, really just isn't caring enough.
Posted by: Maria at July 10, 2003 11:28 AM"I've never heard anyone in the last 30 years say they were happy w/our economy."
Sandy, no offense, but I don't think you were listening very hard during Clinton's presidency. Not to debate any of the other things he did, but one thing that was good during his presidency, was our economy. The stock market has hit RECORD lows during Bush's presidency and 2 million people have lost their jobs since he came into office. I think that is relatively significant. And if cutting taxes for the rich and lying, saying that the cut is also going to benefit the poor, is just a "decision" which he is being drug through the mud for, what other "decisions" will the American people willingly accept at the expense and sacrifice of their own well being?
Posted by: Maria at July 10, 2003 11:35 AMLast thing and I'll stop:
Conservatives can sit around all day bashing Clinton for getting a blow job in the oval office (not harming anyone except for his marriage and political career) but George Bush has a history of drug use and DUI (endangering the lives of others) and it's "So what?"
That just doesn't make any sense to me.
Posted by: Maria at July 10, 2003 11:53 AMI served in the military while Clinton was President. I listened all to well to him. While he was President his decisions affected me greatly and now being a dependent I watched our medical benefits go down the toilet. I've seen military families go on welfare, food stamps while Clinton was President.
Maybe I do sound like I don't care but so far I'm not jumping up and down for anybody and the point I'm making is that long list of "accomplishments", I've seen done on every last one of our Presidents. The bone will always be picked clean when it comes to our leaders. If the American people don't like Bush they can vote him out soon enough.
Okay one more thing and I'll stop :)
Dude Bush wasn't the President when he got a DUI and he used dope in college, yeah so what....If Bill Clinton was nothing more than a neighbor to me and I heard he cheated on his wife I would still think he was a jerk for doing that. I've heard Liberals say that Bills indiscretion makes him more "human"...well so does having one too many cocktails and blazing up a joint.
Amen Sandy.
I didn't really want to get into this one because anyone who read BH knows where I stand on this issue: I support Bush and I will definitely vote for him again. I don't agree with everything he does, but dammit, at least he's a president who actually does something besides sit on his ass and hope his problems will go away, and the way I see he's the best out of all the options being presented. The democratic nominees look like an SNL skit. I was with Sandy in the AF during the Clinton years and know exactly what she's talking about. I don't give a damn about anyone getting blow jobs or smoking dope; I like those myself. It makes both of them more human and there's nothing wrong with it. It's what they do as president that counts, and Clinton accomplished next to nothing. I watch the news constantly, and everyone, liberal and conservative alike, agrees that the economy takes time to turn around or decline. The current economy is almost always completely due to the last president, not the current one, so giving Clinton credit for a good economy is ridiculous, especially since it started nose-diving as he was leaving office.
Sandy's right; those lists like the one you posted can and are made about any president. Hell, the way it's been slanted and opinionated it probably wouldn't be too hard to create a similar list that makes Mother Theresa look like the devil. What the hell does trading Sammy Sosa to the White Sox have to do with being president? And he was also traded by them to the Cubs. He didn't make the UN irrelevant, the UN did that by themselves and they have been for 50 years. And "presiding" over anything doesn't necessarily have anything to do with "causing."
By the way, how can you post so much about liking to get high and then bash Bush for a history of smoking pot? It's hypocritical. Maria, I love you darling, but I've read that list and I think it's mostly exaggerated bullshit. I keep up with the news and I think he's the best president we've had since Reagan. And, by the way, I don't consider myself Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative. I watch the news, take into consideration the positions of the people reporting it, and make my own decisions.
Have a nice day :)
Posted by: lee at July 10, 2003 12:41 PMI appreciate everyone getting involved in the discussion, but I need to remind you guys that the reason I posted this was not to make a comparison to any previous president, or any other politician. Nowhere in my original post did I ever even mention the name Clinton. That is because this is not about him, what he did while he was in office, or what it was that he left behind. Neither of you have addressed the issue of tax cuts for the rich (and the "misstatement" that it would also benefit the poor), the cuts in unemployment benefits for those who have lost their jobs during this economic crisis, cuts to healthcare benefits for military, unilateral amendments to the constitution, half-truths about many things including why we went to war with Iraq, whether or not he even knew Kenneth Lay, and a host of other corporate matters. You have not mentioned or defended the fact that he changed laws to allow government contracts to be awarded to convicted criminals (though he sure did want to keep "criminals" out of the voting booths during his election), the fact that he has failed to keep his promise about capturing Osama, the fact that he deserted the military in a time of war...and the fact that DRINKING AND DRIVING is a CRIME which endangers the WELL BEING OF OTHERS.
Are none of these things important? Don't tell me again that "every president has been picked apart like this" It doesn't make it okay. It doesn't excuse anything. And don't try to create a diversion by talking about and comparing the Clinton presidency. Because that is not the issue that needs to be addressed now. I don't care what Clinton did. I cared then and I am just as passionate about the many things that he did that I disagree with. I am not beating this dead horse because Bush is a republican. I am doing it because I believe he is a danger to the world and to this country. What I want you to tell me is how you can look around at the way things are and say that you're happy with the job that he's doing. Because he's doing "something?" A mass murderer is doing "something" while a couch potato is doing "nothing" but personally, I'd rather hang with the couch potato. Lots of people are out "doing something" that doesn't mean it's the right thing.
Posted by: Maria at July 10, 2003 12:59 PMP.S. I have never bashed anyone for smoking pot and I never will. If you can tell me where I did so I would retract it immediately. Bush had a history of severe alcohol and cocaine abuse. Different story. And Reagan??? Oh my god, we better just not go there.
Posted by: Maria at July 10, 2003 01:08 PMSpeaking on behalf of myself-I've done better with taxes sine Bush has been around and being military I'm definitely not categorized as "rich". I've gotten a better deal w/Bush bottom line.
Government contracts have been a dirty little business for years, why should Bush be any different? I don't think it's fair to expect Bush to be honest-none of them are fucking honest. I take whatever any politician says with a grain of salt. Presidents are only puppets on a string, they do not hold all the power..they do what they're told to do..
"Presidents are only puppets on a string, they do not hold all the power..they do what they're told to do.."
That's true Sandy, and in this case, Bush is a puppet to his father and the corporations who give him campaign funds. In exchange, he hooks them up too. Just like when your friend used to work at the pizza place or the movie theatre and hook you up with free stuff.
That's what makes a politician truly dangerous, his commitments to others. All the favors he owes to corporations...and the unfinished business of his own father. He would never have been able to become president if it weren't for daddy...Remember GWB was the first president EVER to enter office with a criminal record. That just doesn't happen.
Posted by: Maria at July 10, 2003 01:14 PMI totally agree-the promises they make to others, the debts they personally owe-the big payback to get in office!!!! I'm just completely disgusted with everyone and more so of how our country is run. All Presidents on the last leg of office look like shit because they all implement quick fixes-nothing long term, they only do what will make them look good for 4 fucking years--I don't have alot of respect for politicians anymore. I'm not disagreeing w/you on any points you made about Bush-I just think he's like all the rest. Crooked. I'm feeling defeated by all politicians and almost ready to accept all their faults. You know throwing my arms up in the air and yelling, "Okay...you win".
Posted by: sandy at July 10, 2003 01:26 PMThat's the bottom line: POLITICIANS FUCKING SUUUUCK. But one thing I can never feel okay about is giving up or saying "you win" to the bad guys. I will never feel comfortable handing over my freedom or personal will in that way.
When we stop caring or trying to influence the path that our country takes, that's when we get screwed and the politicians get rich and powerful. To have power, you must have someone to weild it over. And fuck if I am going to sit back and say nothing while politicians destroy the world, asserting their power and ego this way and that. The least we can do is open our mouths and assert our own power as citizens.
Posted by: Maria at July 10, 2003 01:42 PMPower as citizens? I'm sorry but I'm not seeing that anymore. Sure we can open our mouths-what we need is a "revolution"...talking all day ain't gonna change shit. Some even believe the "voting" is rigged..I mean what kind of scandal was there with Bush and his votes?
I can talk till I'm blue in the face and so can you but we need to take "action". We need an uprising of citizens and I'm not talking a stupid Boycott..We need to show them we're not gonna take it, not tell them..when we talk they squash us like bugs. How do you take control over a system that is so fucked up? How do you honestly make a change within a system? As a citizen you are powerless. Look what happened at Ruby Ridge-our words as citizens have fallen on deaf ears.
The Bush/Gore election was a complete debacle of every imagineable sort. From the fast ones that Bush and his team pulled to the spinelessness of Gore...what a mess.
We do have power as citizens. And the power of opening your mouth and sharing your views is the beginning of everything. That IS action. Getting word out. Educating, speaking, learning and making your voice heard by those who matter. That IS power. And if you don't think so then I'm only sorry. But laying down and confirming to all the politicians who are in it for personal gain that we are a weak bunch who have resigned ourselves to their decision making with regard to OUR lives - that is unacceptable. Revolution begins with knowledge. And not accepting the ride that you are being taken on by those who are leading. As long as everyone sits back and enjoys/endures the ride, nothing will ever change. It is fucked up. It is endlessly frustrating. There is an overwhelming feeling that one opinion means nothing or that we can't change anything, but I don't believe that's true. Because I believe Martin Luther King, Jr. was one person and he changed the world. He wasn't superman. Every great human being who has had a huge impact started off as one person, who, by expressing themselves and insisting on being heard, changed the world.
Posted by: Maria at July 10, 2003 02:13 PMMartin Luther King, Jr was a great man...and his views got him killed.
Posted by: sandy at July 10, 2003 02:24 PMIs his cause any less worthy of dying for than the causes for which the soldiers of this country die? That is the price a person might pay to change the world. I'm sure that if he had the choice today he wouldn't take back a single word that he spoke in his quest to liberate others, in order to have his own life back.
Posted by: Maria at July 10, 2003 02:33 PMOK, so all politicians are scum, but like Sandy, I've been better off since Bush came into office, and I'm a poor starving college student. I'm no economist, but my understanding is that tax cuts for the rich create jobs because the rich are the employers in this country, and more money in their pockets means they can expand their businesses. What they do with those tax cuts is the issue. I would like to get a nice tax break too, but in my case it would be a one-time thing and then it would be over; creating jobs is a more permanent fix and THAT'S how it benefits the poor. Christ, even Greenspan says it was the right thing to
do to turn around the economy, and everyone on both sides of the issue regards him as the top expert on the subject. I saw an interesting interview once with Ben Stein also, and he's also an expert in economics and had high praise for the tax cuts. I'll withhold judgment and wait to see what happens, but I'll take these guys words for it over anyone's here anyday.
As far as the war is concerned, I'm waiting to see
what our intelligence shows up, but he had all the
same information everyone else did and came to the
same conclusions everyone else did, including the UN, the French, the Germans, ad nauseum. I believe he used the information to his advantage, but we did the right thing. Like it or not, a strong national defense and the willingness to use it is what made our country the wealthiest and most powerful in the world and gave us the freedom to sit here and argue about it, and I couldn't care less what the French or anyone else thinks of us. You can't honestly tell me the world isn't a better place without that murdering tyrant. If you think otherwise talk to the thousands of family members of the people we've dug up in those
mass graves. With people like that in the world, if you think Bush is the danger then you are the one wearing the blinders my dear. And he has yet to fail in his promise to find Bin Laden; that hunt is still ongoing.
I won't argue with you that DUI is or isn't a crime; it most certainly is but many people have made that mistake, lots of them friends of mine, and it still has nothing to do with a person's ability to do his job. You're arguing character and I'm arguing job performance. Like I said, I don't agree with everything about Bush; I don't go for blind acceptance, but from my perspective he's been doing the right thing instead of the popular thing and I think his performance as president has been outstanding overall.
As for political dealings, I'll agree with you and Sandy. It's all shady, but name me a facet of business, anywhere in the world, where it isn't about who you know and who can do you favors. In our country, at least, the little people do have power, and we have to show it the way you are talking about. I just don't think I see it as seriously bad right now as you do.
Posted by: lee at July 10, 2003 02:35 PMMaria writes:
"I am not beating this dead horse because Bush is a republican. I am doing it because I believe he is a danger to the world and to this country."
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Oh yeah. I hear you now Maria.
I dunno. Call it some ominous sixth sensey thingy but I concur Maria. This man has SHIT written all over his presidency.
There is an insidiously vile quality about him unmatched in bipartisan politics. He is dangerously stupid, perilously aggressive, hugely arrogant and ominously obsessed.
No good can come of his presidency and we are just now beginning to reap, as a nation, what the George Walker Bush presidency has sown. (Most recent revelations about intelligence sources to justify the attack on Iraq)
It is, as my friend Karen would say, a "shitstorm".
If I were a "believer" (and in the spirit of my ancestors I'll say it):
"GOD help us".
Posted by: Chosesinconnues at July 11, 2003 10:08 PMI saw something on tv last night, made me think of this conversation. The Air Force Academy has been under fire recently for all the rape cases that went unnoticed. The Major General of the Academy is being demoted over this. A woman from a Rape Activists group said that she hoped this guy would not become a scape goat for all the scandal. Policies had been ignored for many many years and she didn't think it was fair that this one guy was being put on the chopping block. It's the same with our government. You think George Bush is accountable for all of this-in one term you're telling me he solely has fucked up everything...I don't buy it. You don't want to bring up past Presidents but you have to take the past into consideration. The economic decisions our leaders make take years to work out. Bush has made bad choices just like Clinton, Daddy Bush, Reagen...I'm not down w/attacking one man over policies that have been years in the making.
Posted by: sandy at July 12, 2003 05:27 PMp.s. I'm off to Missourri to pick up my daughter..talk to you guys sometime next week..
Posted by: sandy at July 12, 2003 05:30 PMI'm not talking about forein policy or comparison to other administrations. I'm talking about THIS INDIVIDUAL.
I talking about THIS MAN (presidency notwithstanding): George Walker Bush.
He's so frighteningly unintelligent he's a disaster in the making.
You know how some of you feel about Hillary??
Now you have an idea of how uncomfortable this man makes me.
I repeat, "SHITSTORM"
Posted by: Chosesinconnues at July 15, 2003 07:46 PM