" documents that may prove very damaging at this late date"

[donsu]

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/101404Mazza/101404mazza.html

The Big Picture shows Bush in big mental trouble

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What's more, in the same issue, publisher Whalen relays, from a knowledgeable Texas source, that a New York Times investigative team has been probing G.W. Bush's sale of his stake in the Texas Rangers baseball team. They've obtained documents that may prove very damaging at this late date in the campaign.

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The bottom line is that when Texas billionaire Tom Hicks, owner of the Dallas Stars, purchased the Texas Rangers and their stadium for $250 million, Bush received $15 million, a profit nearly 25 times his initial 1989 investment of $606,000. Nor did Bush place the $15 million in a blind trust with the rest of his assets, as the law required the governor to do. He claimed, as Hatfield reported, it would "have required a vote of the baseball owners;" and further, "We just didn't think it was necessary to get that vote." Actually the reason is it would have forced him to loose control of the team.

-snip-

Bush told the press . . .

"Here is visible evidence that I can think big thoughts, dream big dreams and get something done. Politically it means I was able to dream a dream . . . and build something that will last. And when all those people in Austin say, 'He ain't never done anything,' well, this is it."

The guy has a way with words, doesn't he? What was "it"? Scamming his way with $606,000 in illegal insider trading funds into a circle of wheeler-dealer millionaires to buy a team? Then fleecing public funds and private real estate to build a ballpark. Then selling his share of the pie for 25 times the original investment? Is that "it" an American dream or nightmare, worthy of a long run around the bases or a jailyard? Only Georgie boy can play with empty language like that and get so much juice out of it. But maybe his past moral ailments are catching up with him, and that's what's worrying Junior and the Republicans—as much or more than his present, failing, mental health.
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[Neecy]

1. yeah

It really irks me that the Republicans talk up private property rights and ownership, but when it comes to making a buck for themselves, they'll throw you out of your home to build baseball stadiums and feather their own nests.

Hypocrites. All of 'em.

[frankly_fedup2]

2. I had read something a while back about the antidepressants; however,

I thought he was on a short-term dose. Hmmmm, maybe electroshock could be helpful. It helps you forget what you are depressed about . . . among other things.

Now that's a pretty picture for you. We have a president who is on antidepressants, in the debates, could not stay on topic at all, and looked like he was wired for one of them. Does this remind anyone of anything? Remember Pres. Reagan? The last year or so of his presidency, they were doing everything they could to keep him away from reporters and the public. Leslie Stahl from 60 Minutes wrote a book a long time ago regarding this. I cannot remember the name of it, but she stated that it was a well-known secret on Capital Hill that the President was showing obvious signs of dementia or Alzheimer.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

3. YES! Arlington Stadium-gate!

NYTimes has been digging deep on a lot of Bush dirt lately! :bounce:

[shaolinmonkey]

4. Putrid. That's it, I'm swearing off sports completely.

Let the others watch the gladiators in the coliseum paid for with their tax dollars. Not me.

[drdigi420]

6. why hold sports accountable for what baseball does?

unless, you are stretching the word sports to also include baseball

I contend that baseball is a game, not a sport

the word sport implies physical activity

[shaolinmonkey]

7. All sports hold communities hostage for new stadiums.

But it's a good point. Anything you can play drunk or while smoking a cigar/chewing tobacco is not really a sport.

But I do love baseball. Just not the professional variety.

[aquart]

5. Aspartame???

Aspartame disease:

<http://www.mercola.com/2004/jan/7/aspartame_disease.htm>

<http://aspartametruth.com/eyeproblems.html>

Is Aspartame the cause of the blinking?

[Lilli]

8. I dunno

But that stuff makes me mean! :) I turn in to psycho crabby girl if I drink diet-sodas with it.

[aquart]

9. Have a nice selzer. Add fruit juice.

[Gloria]

10. kick!!

eom

[ladybugg33]

11. And they impaled Hillary for turning $1,000 into 100,000 investment

and them wanted to send Bill and Hill to jail because they lost money on Whitewater.