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welshTerrier2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-03 03:27 PM
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The Bush Resume: Why All the Criticism ??
The White House, USA
GEORGE W. BUSH

ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

I attacked and took over two countries.

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

I shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in history (not easy!).

I set an economic record for the most personal bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.

I set all-time record for the 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.

In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history (tough to beat my dad's, but I did).

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 fund raising trips by any president in US history.

In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.

I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other president in US history.

I set the all-time record for most real estate 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 TV.

I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any other US president in history.

I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.

I cut health care 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.

I've made my presidency 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 am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously struggle against bankruptcy.

I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in 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 occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the vast majority of the international community.

I have created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States, called the "Bureau of Homeland Security" (only one letter away from BS).

I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any other president in US history (Ronnie was tough to beat, but I did it!!).

I am the first president in US history to compel 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 than 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 by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.

I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors access during the 2002 US elections.

I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.

The biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign, 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 1)

I am the first US president to establish a secret shadow government.

I took the world's sympathy for the US after 9/11,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 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 changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

I set the all-time record for the number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling their huge investments in corporations bidding for gov't contracts.

I have removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.

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

I entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category 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 the National Guard and deserted the military during time of war.

I refuse to take a 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 fathers 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 of any public corporation for which 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.

PERSONAL REFERENCES:

For personal references, please speak to my dad or Uncle James Baker (They can be reached in their offices at the Carlyle Group where they are helping to divide up the spoils of the US-Iraq war and plan for the next one).

(Note: this information should be useful to voters in the 2004 election.

Circulate to as many citizens you think would be helped to be reminded about my record.)

The White House, USA
GEORGE W. BUSH
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-03 03:31 PM
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1. snopes calls it "varied"
and uses this link:
http://www.crossbearer.com/resume/The_Truth.pdf

notice how often they use media whores and nebulous sources to "disprove" the facts.
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ComerPerro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-03 03:37 PM
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3. Blah Blah Congress' fault, blah blah everyone's fault but mine
Im so sick of this shit. Nothing is Bush's fault, but he should get credit for anything that goes right? (Best example: Right wingers say 9/11 was Clintons fault and was in no way Bush's, but the fact that we haven't had a terrorist attack since then should be a credit to Bush? WTF????)

And I do think its funny that the "proof" comes from FreeRepublic and the Wall Street Journal.
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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-03 03:43 PM
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5. Yet somehow the first WTC bombing . . .
wasn't Poppy Bush's fault. That never did sit too well with me.
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-03 03:36 PM
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2. They renamed the Condoleeza Rice, and strictly speaking she's not
in the Cabinet (although no doubt National Security Advisor is Cabinet-level)
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Bandit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-03 03:40 PM
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4. I would say that is quite impressive by any stretch of the imagination
Too bad it isn't just reversed in each and every detail. We could then be proud.
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maggrwaggr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-03 03:45 PM
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6. this should be on the front page of every paper in the country
come election time
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rock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-03 03:45 PM
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7. A careful review of the debunking shows
many, many logical falacies. The most common tactic is to discuss the insignificance of the charge while ignoring that the charge is true. I.e. "So he lost an election or two?" The problem with this kind of debunking is that by claiming everything is unimportant (in my opinion), I can demolish any argument.
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Julien Sorel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-03 06:25 PM
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11. Yep, I zipped through the debunking, and while I found
a lot of it was decent, a lot more of it was as bad as the original text, and much of it consists of, 'This is true, but it was almost as bad under the so-and-so Administration' which misses the point entirely. If I sucked at my job, it would be scant defense to say, 'yeah, but that guy over there sucks almost as bad!!!'
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-03 03:52 PM
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8. Thanks......a truly amazing list
Can you imagine what he could have done working for the American people instead of against us?

I've cut and pasted for future reference.

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buff2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-03 05:24 PM
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9. Come to think of it..........
What happens to Bu$h's "shadow Government" when we kick his ass out of Al Gore's house? Knowing those sneaking idiots,would they still be lurking in the shadows no matter WHO is President? :scared:
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FireHeart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-12-03 06:03 PM
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10. All those things pale in comparison
to Clinton's BJ. There can be no greater crime in the minds of those who actually think Dubya is a good President.

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