My f***ing boss

[Skittles]

announced last night he will vote for Bush because:

1) he likes his Iraq policy
2) Bush "fixed" the economy Clinton destroyed
3) Clinton "never did anything about terrorism"
4) Bush is "not the most charismatic guy" but he is "likeable"
5) Hopefully during his next term Bush will invade Iran

:puke: Obviously there are some situations I cannot kick ass but good LORD I didn't know where to start. I advised him to enlist immediately.

[DelawareValleyDem]

1. Missed one

6) He's a brainwashed idiot for actually believing the first five

[Spinzonner]

2. So, he lives in the Bizarro world

[Skittles]

Texas

close enough

[Spinzonner]

12. That's the Bizarro-Bizarro world

and not in a good way

[lancdem]

15. At least you live in a solid red state

It's not like Kerry was going to win Texas or anything. :)

[phillybri]

Your Boss said this???

2) Bush "fixed" the economy Clinton destroyed

I'm assuming whatever business you're in is not effected by the economy of this country...

[Skittles]

6. WE ARE IN FREAKING IT (INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY)

OUR JOBS WILL BE IN BRAZIL NEXT YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hand]

20. Oh, well... that explains it....

The IT biz (which I'm also in, tech writer--ugh) is in the 19th century culturally, politically, and intellectually. The management styles I've seen range from outright bullying to carrot-and-stick primitivism, and that's pretty much it?

The most ignorant, racist big-bucks right-wingers I know are all in IT.

Unions? Collective bargaining? 40-hr. week? Grievance procedures? Ha!

Comes with the territory. I think it's because IT itself is totally divorced from reality--these nitwits think they're doing something when they're just pushing electrons around.

[redqueen]

3. lol what'd he say when you said he should enlist?

Does he have draft age kids?

Morans... they're everywhere!

[CBHagman]

4. I know you can't speak out easily, but....

...the deficits and the debt come at a huge cost to this man and the rest of us. It's going to be painful to dig out of this hole, mark my words.

Bush as likeable. Boy, that one gets old. I give you but one quote: In December 2001, in a year of huge political divisions, the loss of thousands of jobs, the deaths of thousands of innocent people in terrorist attacks, the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, Bush proclaimed, "All in all, it's been a fabulous year for Laura and me."

[molly]

5. You work for someone that stupid?

you must have a difficult time going to work every day.

[Skittles]

8. luckily we don't deal with him much

he just makes an appearance every once in a while

[Massacure]

7. I have an idea.

How much pay raise did you get between 1996 and 2000? How much between 2000 and now? If the 2000 to now is lower than the 96 to 00, then ask him to match it if the economy is so 'good.'

You may not convince him to vote for someone other than bush, but at least you may get yourself a pay raise, or just humiliate him. :P

[Ravy]

9. There are just some people who like Bush for the policies...

best to move on to someone more undecided than to argue with someone you won't convince.

[democrat in Tallahassee]

10. Mine dislikes bush but can't find a reason to vote for kerry.

didn't vote last time either

[Toucano]

24. That's fine, I think

Of course dislike of Bush is a reason to vote for Kerry, but no bother. :)

If your boss isn't going to vote for Kerry, it's nice of him to stay home!

[Ravenseye]

11. Does Your Company

Sell Health Insurance to people who's Cobra has expired because they've been unemployed so long, and are getting the money from their parents to pay for their own insurance?

I bet that industry has just BOOOMED.

[dennis4868]

13. Is your boss....

Dick "Fuck-off" Cheney? Sounds like it....

[BiggJawn]

14. What's his beef with Iran?

Is he still steamed over the embassy storming that was probably engineered by Poppy and his people in the FIRST place?

Or does the thought of olive-skinned people who don't "love Jeebus" dieing make his dick harder?

[Skittles]

17. he thinks Bush's policies will "stabilize the Middle East"

I kid you not.

[BiggJawn]

26. Sure they will.

Once he's killed everyone who's living there and figured out how to Nuke the place w/o fucking up oil production for centuries...

See? He hasn't killed his six million YET....

[President Jesus]

16. My advice: bet him $1000 Kerry will win

This will shut him up.

It's money in the bank, because Kerry will win, and if he has half a brain, he knows it...or at least, he knows it's going to be so close (at best) that it's not worth risking $1000.

He won't take the bet, and he'll have to shut up.

[in_cog_ni_to]

18. Please, give him a copy of Richard Clarke's book.

"Against All Enemies." If he reads that and still says Clinton did nothing about terrorism, there's no hope for the man.

Then, print this out and give him a copy.

Clinton Policies

Tried to get Universal Health Care
National Health Care Costs rising at 10% per annum. Cut to 3%
Deficit Reduction Package
Crime Bill
100,000 cops on street—crime down down down
Welfare Reform-- Mend do not end. GOP helped bit time
80% increase in child welfare payments
Job Growth-Record 236,000 per month. (Reagan/Bush 167,000)
Largest percentage of Americans working in history
Largest Home Ownership in history
Record number of small business formations
Tax Cut for 15 million working families
Family and Medical Leave Act
Defense Reinvest and Conversion—Bush enjoying weapons created by Clinton
Direct loan programs for students
Guts to put promises in a book "Putting People First"-58 promises in book. Took action on 56 in first two years.
Second best record in history for getting legislation through Congress in first to years. LBJ number one.
Reinvented Government—cut payroll
Fewest number of civilians on federal payroll in 36 years
Attacked cop killing nasty rifle association.
Attacked the cancer inducing tobacco industry
Promoted a global effort to ban abusive forms of child labor
Loan 12.8 Billion to Mexico. Made 800 Million profit. Kept Mexico afloat.
Wash. Post kept list of campaign promises. 162. Took action on 96% in first two years.
Took on prejudice toward other Americans in military
Took on his own Southern Baptist Church
Hard smart work in Middle East and Bosnia-Kosovo
Honored with all of the following:
Dove of Peace Award
Rabin-Peres Peace Award
Gandhi Peace Award
Order of Good Hope Award
Nominated for Nobel Peace Award
Northern Ireland Peace Agreement
Lifeaholics of America Award for Quarter Century "Working for a Life Not Just A Living".
First President to visit Northern Ireland
Cleanup of Toxic sites. Record
Increasing weekly earnings
Shoo Shoo Saddam get away from Kuwait
Stopping Haitians from drowning enroute to freedom
First to visit South Africa
First to make a determined effort to help the African continent come together and grow together
Taxing top 1.2% of very wealthy to get Zoom Zoom Boom economy
Stopping Republicans in the House from raiding Medicare of 181 Billion
Stopping Republicans raid on Medicaid
Stopping Republicans raid on education
Stopping Republicans attack on environment
Largest increase in Education funding since GI Bill
Increased funding for Head Start
Nafta.. A success until the Peso went south
Submitting 8 budgets close to rate of inflation
Brady Bill
Gaat
Assault Weapons Ban
Telling Japan "You take our auto parts or we will apply tariffs on you
California Desert Protection
Forest Management Plan for Northwest
Restoration of Florida Everglades
Preservation of land in Utah
Major increase in funding for homeless
Motor Voter Act
Lobbying Reform Effort. Handshake with Newt who reneged
Pressure to get Campaign Finance Reform.
National Export Strategy. Unbelievable success.
Over 250 Trade pacts
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Pact
Summit of Americas
Super 301
Chemical Weapons Ban Treaty.
Bottom Up Review of Military
Agreement with Cuba to stop flow of immigrants to USA.
Ameri-Corps
Reduced Nuclear Threat Around the World
Community Banking Act
FEMA used as an active participant and a leader in disaster relief
Tax on well off social security beneficiaries
100,000 new teachers effort
5,000 new classroom effort
50% of classes thru K-12 on internet
Fourth Graders improvement on world tests
Lifetime Learning Opportunity Program
Controls on Spending and Borrowing
Pension Protection Act of 1994
Record high consumer confidence
Very, very, very low Misery Index
National Agenda on Racial Prejudices
First to get African-American unemployment under 10%
Balanced Budget
Record Corporate profits
Record Bank profits
Record Savings and Loan profits
Never whining despite non-sop smears and attacks
Not having a Mean Bone in his body per Historian David Maraniss
Not knowing how to hate
Classing others as "opponents" not "enemies"
Inviting your attackers to the White House functions
Inviting your defeated opponent Bob Dole to visit troops at Christmas
A national attack on hate crimes
Fighting to protect "legal" immigrants from Republicans in the House.
Fighting hard for Fast Track legislation
Kennedy and Kassenbaum Portability of Insurance
Lowest interest rates in 30 years
Allowing millions of homeowners to refinance home loans at lower (much) rates
Lowest unemployment in 25 years
Lowest inflation in 25 years
Lowest welfare rolls in 27 years
Lowest crime Rates in 25 years
First balanced budget sent to Congress in 29 years
Protecting worker pensions (repeat?)
Opposed ban on "Late Term Abortions"
A stock market which passed a 1,000 mark six times
Greatest growth in federal revenues in history
Played Saxophone and Smoked Peace Pipe, instead of beating War Drums like____.
One of History's all time workers for Peace
President in a year when Fortune Magazine classified it as "Greatest Economy in the History of the world"
Popularity jump in the midst of a scandal.
President with highest peacetime popularity in Asia, Africa, Russia and Europe.
Highest popularity of any president at end of fifth year in office
One of the most highly regarded First Lady in History.
One of the most highly regarded Vice-President in History

Accomplishments of President George W. Bush:

I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.

I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.

I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any
12-month
period.

I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S.
stock market.

I am the first president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal
record.

I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one year
period.

After taking-off the entire month of August 2001, I then presided over the
worst security failure in U.S. history.

I attacked and overtook two countries, promised to rebuild them and have
not
yet done so.

I am supporting development of a "Tactical Bunker Buster" nuke, a WMD.

I am getting our troops killed, under the lie of WMD components, then
blaming the lie on our British friends and the CIA, where, coincidentally,
my daddy used to lead.

I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. president.

In my first year in office over 2-million Americans lost their jobs and
that
trend continues every month, leaving us in higher than ever unemployment.

I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.

I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any president
in
U.S. history.

I set the record for least amount of press conferences than any president
since the advent of television.

I signed more laws and executive orders effectively amending or ignoring
the
Constitution than any president in history.

I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to
intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.

I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to
use national reserves as past presidents have done.

I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty
benefits for active duty troops and their families -- in war time.

I allowed non-compete oil contracts to go to my VP's company (where he is
still employed, but on "deferred compensation") and won't answer to anyone
about it.

I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously
protest me in public venues (15 million people) shattering the record for
protest against any person in the history of humankind.

I've dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S.
history.

I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in
U.S.
history.

I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any
administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice,
has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.

I am the first president in U.S. history to have almost all 50 states

of the Union simultaneously suffer massive financial crisis.

I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in
any country in history.

I am the first president in U.S. history to order a pre-emptive attack and
the military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the
will
of the United Nations and the world community.

I created the largest governmental 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 history.

I am the first president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove
the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.

I am the first president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove
the U.S. from the Elections Monitoring Board.

I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of
congressional oversight, than any presidential administration in U.S.
history.

I rendered the entire United Nations viewpoints irrelevant.

I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.

I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. "prisoners of war"
(detainees)
and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.

I am the first president in history to refuse United Nations election
inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).

I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most
corporate campaign donations.

My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends,
(Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation) presided over the largest
corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. history. My political party used the
Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the
U.S. Supreme Court during my 2000 election decision.

I have spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in
U.S.
history.

I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World Trade Center
attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most resented country
in the world, possibly the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.

I am actively working on a policy of "disengagement" creating the most
hostile of Israel-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.

I am the first to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as
the biggest threat to world peace and security.

I am the first president in history to have the people of South Korea more
threatened by the U.S. than by their immediate neighbor, North Korea.

I changed U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded
government
contracts.

I set an all-time record for the number of administration appointees who
violated U.S. law by not selling their huge personal investments in
corporations bidding for U.S. contracts.

I failed to fulfill my pledge to capture Osama Bin Laden, dead or alive.

I failed to capture Saddam Hussein.

My family is very close with the Saudi Royal family, and have been for
years, so I kept the pages out of the report on 9-11 that may put the
Saudi's in a bad light.

I failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of
our country at the U.S. Capitol Building. I have no leads and no credible
suspects.

Following the World Trade Center attack 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
president
in U.S. history.

In a little over two years, I created the most divided country in decades,
possibly the most divided since the Civil War.

I entered my office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and have
turned every single economic category downward -- all in less than two
years.

Records and References:

I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine. My Texas
driving
record has been erased and is not available.

I was AWOL from the National Guard.

I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.

All records of my tenure as Governor of Texas are now in my father's
library, sealed, and unavailable for public view.

All records of SEC investigations into insider trading or bankrupt
companies
are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President,
attended
regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for
public review.

~ Please consider my experience when voting in 2004. ~

[FlaGranny]

23. The problem with your list of

all the good things Clinton accomplished is that neocons are against nearly every one of them. They don't want more people working, the want the deficits to destroy ALL social programs, they don't want poor kids to get educated. I'm guessing that not even corporate profits interest them, except as it applies to them personally. These people are not to be reasoned with. They are evil.

[Warren DeMontague]

19. He Fixed The Economy Like I Fixed My Cat.

Sounds Like Your Boss Is A Nutbar.

[misanthrope]

21. DON'T DO THIS...

...Remember, you have no Constitutionally-protected rights to free speech. You need to keep your mouth shut, or prepare for poverty and personal injury.

The only thing the First Amendment guarantees is that "the state" cannot throw you in jail for some types of speech. You are fair game for every other type of retaliation, though.

Sorry to say, but the Bill of Rights is a nebulous set of half-truths hardly worth the hemp its written on. Unless, of course, you have a fat wallet, and then you can do anything you so desire...most of the time.

[Toucano]

22. Two of his reasons involve Clinton?

Clinton isn't running this year. You might have to let your boss know that. ;)

[lumpy]

25. Good grief.

It must be hard to be working under such an ignoramous.

[CBHagman]

27. Ah, but so many of us do.

I have a few in my place of work. One boasts that she's better off than she was four years ago (I don't mention the possibility of a housing bubble or the effects of the debt/deficit). Another informed us that Kerry was dropping out of the race back in the winter. Another gushed about Bush's not doing too badly in the pre-election debates. Some re well-meaning, some are insensitive, some are selfish. I don't trust even one of them, due to the stunts they pull at work. Their political views make me even more nervous.

I'm not afraid of Bush, I'm afraid of stupidity unchecked and unleashed.

[Hand]

28. Hmm...

"I'm not afraid of Bush, I'm afraid of stupidity unchecked and unleashed."

Sounds like Chimpy in a nutshell!

[CaTeacher]

29. you need to tell this freeper where

to shove it. Seriously. I have never heard anything so stupid in my life as his "reasons".

[Skittles]

31. I hear stupid shit like this all the time in Texas

there is just so much rightwing brainwashing going on, and a lot of these people are NOT stupid.

[progressivebydesign]

30. I feel for you.. my husband's boss is just as lame..

.. I can't even put a Kerry sticker on our car, because they are the type to fire you if you did. We suffer fools gladly in order to eat.