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JI7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 05:34 AM
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an old article on Bush's younger days and his hatred of America
Edited on Sun Jul-23-06 05:36 AM by JI7
based on what he is doing right now, you can see he has not changed.

< Bush: "Poor people are lazy"

This explains just about everything that's happened since Bush took office. In an interview with Mary Jacoby of Salon.com, one of Bush's former business professors at Harvard said Bush "showed pathological lying habits and was in denial when challenged on his prejudices and biases. He would even deny saying something he just said 30 seconds ago. He was famous for that."

The professor, Yoshi Tsurumi, recalled that when he was leading a discussion on whether the government should assist retirees and other people on fixed incomes with heating costs, Bush said, "The government doesn't have to help poor people...they are lazy." And when Tsurumi showed the film "The Grapes of Wrath," Bush sneered. "We were in a discussion of the New Deal," Tsurumi said, "and he called Franklin Roosevelt's policies 'socialism.' He denounced labor unions, the Securities and Exchange Commission, Medicare, Social Security, you name it. He denounced the civil rights movement as socialism. To him, socialism and communism were the same thing. And when challenged to explain his prejudice, he could not defend his argument, either ideologically, polemically, or academically."

Students who challenged and embarrassed Bush in class would then become the subject of a whispering campaign by him, Tsurumi said. "In class, he couldn't challenge them. But after class, he sometimes came up to me in the hallway and started bad-mouthing those students who had challenged him. He would complain that someone was drinking too much. It was innuendo and lies. Behind his smile and his smirk, he was a very insecure, cunning, and vengeful guy."

Tsurumi said Bush sometimes came late to class and often sat in the back of the classroom, wearing a bomber jacket from the Texas Air National Guard and spitting chewing tobacco into a cup.

"At first," Tsurumi said, "I wondered, 'Who is this George Bush?' It's a very common name and I didn't know his background. And he was such a bad student that I asked him once how he got in. He said, 'My dad has good friends.'" Bush scored in the lowest 10 percent of the class.>

http://editor-at-large.blogspot.com/2005/11/bush-poor-people-are-lazy.html


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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 05:50 AM
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1. You know what pisses me off?
This story was all over the blog sites during the 2004 campaign. I would like to thinkit made it into at least a few newspapers.

But it wasn't enough to keep idiots from voting for him.
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ClintonTyree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 06:02 AM
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7. He'd found jebus......
and that gave him a clean slate. Every fuck-up in his life to that point was forgiven. He was a changed man after his "life changing" epiphany, right? :rofl: I don't think so. It was just another in his series of bullshit "makeovers" but the good christians on the right bought it hook, line and sinker. We and the entire world have been paying for it ever since.

This man isn't qualified to manage a 7-11 yet he was foisted upon us as man of integrity, vision and good old American values. History will one day reflect his many shortcomings and ignorance, but we're living in the now and the now doesn't look too hopeful because of him. America's great mistake, george w. bush.
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proud2BlibKansan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 06:08 AM
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8. That 7-11 statement is funny and sad at the same time
And don't forget he saved us from the danger of gay marriage.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 08:02 AM
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17. Once again, PROJECTION. As a rich person, HE was the "lazy" one,
and his sub- or actual conscious full well KNEW it.
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CoffeeCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-24-06 12:45 AM
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58. That's an excellent point!
Edited on Mon Jul-24-06 12:47 AM by TwoSparkles
You are very astute to point out that Junior IS indeed the lazy one.

Who is that smarmy bastard to call anyone lazy? What has he ever done? He admits to a college professor that he stole his way into college, because his daddy has friends in high places. Then, he goes on to complain about an entire class of people who don't work hard enough. Ironical bastage.

His daddy also secured his place on company boards and got him jobs. What the frick has this little pisher EVER done that required intelligence or work?

A man that has been handed EVERYTHING and EARNED NONE OF IT--is going to judge "poor people" as "lazy"?

Junior hasn't worked a day in his life. He is a pathetic waste.

The description of him sitting in the back of the class, wearing a bomber jacket and spitting tobacco into a cup confirms all of our worst fears. We always knew that this assclown was an arrogant dipstick.

We all knew someone like this in high school or college. No wonder this country is in the shitter.
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 10:07 AM
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32. He also saved thousands of petrie dishes across the country!!
Don't forget that one!!
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Spazito Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 04:11 PM
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41. How dare you make fun of those precious....
Petri-Americans!!!

(Thanks to a poster who's user name I have forgotten for this descriptive gem)

:rofl:
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driver8 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 04:20 PM
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42. Petri-Americans??!! That is hilarious!!! n/t
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klook Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 10:18 PM
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55. Everything's changed
since 7-11.

If only that were so. But that does a disservice to the many qualified people working in the convenience store industry.
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ClintonTyree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 05:51 AM
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2. No surprise there.
His actions today speak volumes about his early life. "Poor people are lazy"......yep, that's just what you'd expect from a "fortunate son" who was never allowed to fail (although he did, constantly) and someone with feelings of entitlement and superiority. The "gentleman's C" student who would schmooze his way to the top with the help of Daddy's rich friends and later on in life repay them handsomely. Born with a silver coke-spoon in his mouth, he never had to develop social skills or be nice to anyone on the way up. He KNEW he was never going to have to come back down, his life was preordained. A vicious, backbiting, vengeful, spoiled brat who got his way or someone else would pay, dearly.

He was installed as the 43rd President of the United States and continues his boorish behavior to this day. Our pResident, george w. bush. :puke:
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laheina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 06:00 AM
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4. When I think about him, I try to remind myself about karma.
He's coming back as a lab rat in a chemical weapons lab.
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Freedomofspeech Donating Member (622 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 07:21 AM
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13. He's already a rat...
Let him come back as a poor person in the Sudan.
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TheModernTerrorist Donating Member (645 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-24-06 12:16 AM
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57. no way
because I actually want to HELP the Sudanese.
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Faux pas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 01:29 PM
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38. Karma is great, but I want to see it in his/my/our lifetime. Not in
the 'afterlife'. I was surprised he wasn't arrested at the G-8 conference. But I guess acting like a supreme ass isn't against global law.
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smirkymonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 06:34 PM
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47. I want to see it happen within the next week.
I can't believe how much I hate that fuckface. I didn't even know what hate really was until he came along.
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Faux pas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-24-06 02:13 AM
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60. I'm with you. I thought I knew what hatred was, it was puny and
insignificant compared to what I feel toward him.

Trying to keep the Faith and it ain't easy!
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 06:01 AM
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6. History is replete wit guys like him,Arrogant/Spoiled, Delusional/Ignorant
Damn....dey all fah down
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90-percent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 06:26 AM
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11. schmoozing with daddy's friends
Didn't they set him up in business and then he ran those businesses into the ground..repeatedly!

Didn't the Carlyle board, of which he was gifted a membership, fire him for his casual disinterest?

And then the Bin Laden family partnerships. It always amazes me America doesn't know ANYTHING about the Bush families cozy relationship with the Bin Laden Family.

-85% Jimmy
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suziedemocrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 09:16 AM
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30. At least you don't live in Indiana!
I can't believe how people think Bush is OK because he didn't "disgrace" the presidency by having an affair. People don't know anything about voting problems because "when I voted there was no line." Iraq is not a hell-hole it is "getting democracy." I get angrier and angrier living here - but I can't find a job in a blue state. I think people from blue states don't want to hire people from red states. I'm stuck here and I'm going insane!!!!
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Lasher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 12:31 PM
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36. Don't give up, Suzie.
Persistence, above all else, is the key to success. I know it's hard to keep your spirits up when it feels like you've been rejected about a million times, but you'll find a good job in another state if you keep at it.

Lasher
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fordnut Donating Member (207 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 07:30 AM
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14. You said it best "Installed"
He was not elected by any means
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 08:31 AM
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20. He was "installed" in every job he ever had
They certainly weren't earned by merit. From his failed oil companies to the Governorship of Texas, Shrub was riding merrily on the reputation and power of his father and his cronies.
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maxrandb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 08:01 AM
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16. This has got to be the entry in the world Atlas for this guy
"The "gentleman's C" student who would schmooze his way to the top with the help of Daddy's rich friends and later on in life repay them handsomely. Born with a silver coke-spoon in his mouth, he never had to develop social skills or be nice to anyone on the way up. He KNEW he was never going to have to come back down, his life was preordained. A vicious, backbiting, vengeful, spoiled brat who got his way or someone else would pay, dearly."

Every History book ever written - every encyclopedia - should have the above caption under the 43RD Pretzledent of the US.
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theanarch Donating Member (523 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 06:29 PM
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46. 43rd Pretzledent?
i like that...how about, 43rd Accident?
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maxrandb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 08:30 PM
Response to Reply #46
50. I've been calling him "pretzledent"
ever since he almost killed himself with one.

Perhaps if we all sent him a bag of pretzles, the world would be a better place.
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 05:58 AM
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3. well, lets spread it around now---maybe it will be picked up?
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 11:53 AM
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33. Quick
someone put it on Wikipedia...
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 06:00 AM
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5. Looks like the Sales Department needs new window dressing. nt
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 06:13 AM
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9. Yoshi said in 74 end of year, he pitied the company that hired him..LINKs
Edited on Sun Jul-23-06 06:15 AM by sam sarrha
Here is the 36 minute AAR Audio of his interview but you cant link form DU
http://s88172659.onlinehome.us/Yoshi.mp3 but you cant get there form here, you have to go you google/yahoo

Transcript from the above interview with Yoshi
http://s88172659.onlinehome.us/bushprofessor.htm

if you Google: 'Yoshi Tsurumi bush' ..there is a plethora of information
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 08:39 AM
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21. Great links! Thanks sam sarrha!
EXCERPT from Air America Radio interview...

Tsurumi: Oh yeah. He said that the Securities Exchange Commission was the enemy of capitalism and that greed is beautiful and all those stuff. And to him Franklin Roosevelt was a socialist, the New Deal was socialism. So now what he’s doing is trying to push the United States back to pre-Great Depression era.

Seder: I’ll tell you something, it’s funny that you say that because I think I heard a story, maybe it was from the Richard Clarke book. Or I can’t re..or Paul O’Neil? I can’t remember what story it was. They were discussing why when he was in office early on; this is after 9/11, why the stock market wasn’t doing well. And he’s in the room full of advisors and says, “The stock market isn’t doing well because the SEC is regulating them too much.” Now this a time where all the, where we’re finding out of all the incredible, you know the Enron scandal, WorldCom, all of it. And they all look at him with a blank face and he goes, “Well it’s actually because of Iraq. Because Iraq is a people aren’t sure what’s going to happen.”

Garafolo: So, in a nutshell if I may, it’s neoCons and neoconfederates bring on a neo-gilded age. And what George Bush was doing at that time, because he obviously doesn’t have the intellectual curiosity to come up on these theories on his own. He was mimicking what he’s heard at home probably. And from his peer from his peers in that world that he lived in. Like his father and mother had probably said things like that and he was just mimicking what they would say.

Tsurumi: He was just parroting what I thought he heard from his Texas friends.

CONTINUED...

STUPIDEST
PRESIDENT EVER
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sam sarrha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 09:01 AM
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23. NeoCons "Cultists" believe a Utopia will arise from the ashes of the
distruction of the Constitution the country and the entire world..

the Pentagon insiders call the NeoCons the 'Utopians'.:hide:
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 09:23 AM
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31. Chimpageddon
End-of-Days morons.

The new world that will arise will be chiefly populated by cockroaches and their brethren, the BFEE.

Rev. Moon's purchased a big chunk of land south of the Amazon, where there's enough water and jungle to protect the select few:

Rev. Sun Myung Moon OWNS Poppy Bush
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StellaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 08:45 AM
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22. We're the company that hired him
Or, you know, had him foisted upon us in a hostile takeover.
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StellaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 09:02 AM
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25. Powerful stuff
Edited on Sun Jul-23-06 09:02 AM by StellaBlue
I'm one of those people.

I have two degrees and am working in two part-time jobs for the state government - in the same DEPARTMENT - but because they are part-time, I get no healthcare. Nice.

So I am paying $83 a month for basic individual health insurance, I live in a $550 a month, 450-sq-ft apartment, and I drive rarely and don't go out much anymore. I was trying to get a professional qualification in the field I am working in for the state, but with the recently deregulated state school tuition thing, I can't afford to continue. Taking THREE classes for the fall landed me with a bill for $2600 (IN STATE TUITION), and I am already in credit card debt so high I can *just* squeak by, on rice and Ramen. Seriously.

I want to work. I want a career. I want to support myself. And I find I can't. Nevermind that I am 27 and would like to have children. Oh, WELL!

I was told my whole life that going to college would ensure a better life for me than my high-school educated parents had. Not so. I find myself in the same situation as my legal secretary mother, living month to month, with no emergency fund, and little hope of seriously increasing my income (short of stripping or dealing, which are starting, sadly, to look attractive), only, unlike my mother, I started off my life saddled with $43,000 in federal student loan debt ALONE. Buy a house? Ha!

As long as these oligarchs (or, the Kleptocracy, as Tsurumi calls them, accurately) are in power, there is no hope for us. I shudder to think what it's like for the woman of my same age with only a high school diploma and two kids to feed. Although we are mostly going after the same jobs these days.

:shrug:
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pooja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 12:28 PM
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35. Right there with you... college degree in science.. don't know why
the bastard keeps saying we need scientists when there are so many under/ non-employed scientists now. I'm 27, saddled with debt that at least I get to share with my husband and oh yeah, that kid thing... not sure when I'll be able to afford them (I guess right about the time I hit menopause).

I guess we have our dreams.. there's much to be said for a good nights rest.
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StellaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 02:49 PM
Response to Reply #35
39. To quote Julie Andrews:
Strength doesn't lie in numbers
Strength doesn't lie in wealth
Strength lies in nights of peaceful slumbers
When you wake up -- Wake Up!

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Maraya1969 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 06:14 AM
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10. Needs some more votes!
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 06:41 AM
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12. What it comes down to: *'s version of social Darwinism (survival of the
incompetent with money and power).

What * is really threatened by is the egalitarian promise of this democracy, where, if things were "perfect", one could be born into abject poverty, yet receive temporary government financial assistance, benefit from public education that would allow acension into public universities or vocational education, and consequential financial stability and development, not to mention government recognition to continue to "take care" of its retirees as a civil duty. In other words, if more people were allowed to advance, * would end up competing with them on a fair playing field, and his potential loss against their intellect, capabilities, skills, etc. * knows his limitations and also understands that when one is limited, the only way to get ahead is to cheat and/or get unreasonably promoted if the system allows it.

My point: * is taking his lifelong insecurity against honest competition and expanding it to American society at large by denying opportunity to a great proportion of citizens. When you're wealthy and powerful, you don't have to worry about competing with a "lesser" candidate on a job interview or a promotion. You always "win".

I agree with the original post: This attitude does reflect a hatred of Ameerica.
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The Count Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 07:57 AM
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15. The whispering campaign explains Plame as his own idea
I had this paragraph as signature eversince that broke:

Students who challenged and embarrassed Bush in class would then become the subject of a whispering campaign by him, Tsurumi said. "In class, he couldn't challenge them. But after class, he sometimes came up to me in the hallway and started bad-mouthing those students who had challenged him. He would complain that someone was drinking too much. It was innuendo and lies. So that's how I knew, behind his smile and his smirk, that he was a very insecure, cunning and vengeful guy."
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2004/09/16/tsurumi/index_np.html?pn=2
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 09:12 AM
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29. It's way more than just Plame
The Ann Richards is a lesbian whispering campaign when he was running for governor of Texas
The John McCain is crazy whispering campaign
The John McCain fathered a black baby out of wedlock one
The Al Gore is a liar one
The John Kerry lied about his war record one
The journalist who challenged Bush back in 2000 or 2001 was gay (and, worse, Canadian!)
Joe Wilson was sent to Niger by his wife
John Murtha is a cut & run coward

you name the person whose opposed Bush, that person has had a whispering campaign against them.

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pretzel4gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 08:12 AM
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18. he danced naked on a crowded bar in houston once
when he plotted to become il dunce, the boor's asses scoured the record looking for pics or any reference to bush's freakshow...imagine clinton dancing naked on a bar, in a crowded pub? imagine that, and you get picture of how piggish is the mass newsmedia
(the story about the dance on the bar is from 'fortunate son' by james hatfield, who supposedly killed himself a few years ago)
what a freaky country the usa is
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 08:26 AM
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19. ''Whispering campaign...vengeful guy'' explains Plame outing.
That professor is one brave man. I remember reading he also said Bush got into Harvard to stay out of Vietnam.

Thank you for bringing up this important part of Smirko's make-up, JI7.

A piece by Professor Tsurumi shows he's pegged the phony Little Turd from Crawford.



Hail to the Robber Baron?

By YOSHI TSURUMI
Harvard Crimson, Wednesday, April 06, 2005

Thirty years ago, President Bush was my student at Harvard Business School. In my class, he called former president Franklin D. Roosevelt, Class of 1904, a “socialist” and spoke against Social Security, unemployment insurance, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other New Deal innovations. He refused to understand that capitalism becomes corrupt without democratic civic values and ethical restraints.

In those days, Bush belonged to a minority of MBA students who were seriously disconnected from taking the moral and social responsibility for their actions. Today, he would fit in comfortably with an overwhelming majority of business students and teachers whose role models are celebrated captains of piracy. Since the 1980s, as neo-conservatives have captured the Republican Party, America’s business education has also increasingly become contaminated by the robber baron culture of the pre-Great Depression era.

Bush is the first president of the United States with a Master’s of Business Administration (MBA). Yet, he epitomizes the worst aspects of America’s business education. To privatize Social Security, he is peddling a colossal lie about its solvency. Furthermore, Bush, along with today’s business aristocrats, shows no compassion for working Americans, robbing them to benefit big business and the very rich. Last year, due to Bush’s tax cuts, over 80 of America’s most profitable 200 corporations did not pay even a penny of their federal and state income taxes. Meanwhile, to pay for his additional tax cuts for the very rich, Bush is drastically cutting back several social services, such as federal lunch programs for poor children.

Business education has also produced former Enron CEO Jeff Skilling and other MBAs behind the malfeasances of Tyco, HealthSouth, Haliburton, AIG, and WorldCom. Many executives of corporate America who hold MBAs have also been engaged in the unethical acts of raiding their corporate treasuries at the expense of employees and stockholders. Emulating President Bush’s hubris, a multitude of CEOs in corporate America give themselves obscenely large bonuses that have little to do with their performance. In 1980, the CEOs of Fortune 500 large corporations received, on average, 70 times larger annual compensations than their average employees. Under the Bush Administration, comparable CEOs have come to give themselves 600 to 1,000 times larger annual compensations than their rank-and-file employees whose pay has stagnated. To pay for such self-dealt compensations, corporate aristocrats layoff their workers, cut ordinary employees’ health benefits, and outsource jobs abroad. Under the Bush Administration, over five million Americans have lost their health benefits, and the U.S. has lost over 2.7 million quality manufacturing jobs. President Bush and his rapacious “captains of piracy” of corporate America are destroying America’s democracy built up since Roosevelt’s New Deal era.

CONTINUED...



DESTROYING
AMERICA 24/7
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Straight Shooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 09:02 AM
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24. There you have it. The poor were "too lazy" to get out of New Orleans.
Too lazy to be born to wealthy, white, uber privileged parents. They deserved to die in Katrina.

:sarcasm:
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StellaBlue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 09:04 AM
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26. Hey. that's what Elisabeth Hasselbeck said on the View
in the days following Katrina. Even Barbara Wa-Wa had to tell her she was an idiot.
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timontheleft Donating Member (147 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 10:02 PM
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52. But according to Mama Bush . . .
getting the privilege to stay in the Astrodome was "working out well for them", since they were poor and all. :sarcasm:
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 09:07 AM
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27. And he hasn't grown one bit....can't you just hear Babs spoutin' those
philosophical gems around the dinner table?
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fordnut Donating Member (207 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 09:12 AM
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28. somebody should have whipped his ass
instead of  George W complaining about those students they
(the students)should have put him in his place and put his
head in the toliet and gave him a swirley
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Pierre.Suave Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 12:00 PM
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34. or
beat him to a bloody pulp and leave him in teh toilet bleeding...
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grannylib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 01:11 PM
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37. Sneering, spoiled, petulant, whiny, arrogant, immature little rich boy...
fuckin' great.
How very 'presidential' he is.
Holy shit, if Clinton had done HALF the stupid, illegal shit that this little imbecile has pulled while in office, the rePiglicans would've had him executed, for God's sake...and they keep excusing this piss-poor excuse for a human being from ANY responsibility, morals, ethics, intelligence, or even upholding his oath of office...

There are no words any more to describe my utter disgust and contempt for this asshole and anyone who still supports him.
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Quantess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 04:08 PM
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40. Kicked & Recommended!
He's such a tool. Some of the above posts made me laugh out loud.:kick:
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 04:25 PM
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43. Where was Professor Tsurumi during the 2000 campaign?
If there's anything that Middle Americans hate more than intellectuals (e.g. Al Gore) it's whiney little snitches.
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Lisa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-24-06 02:38 AM
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62. he claimed that he tried to warn people back then ...
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=503181

"When he discovered that his former pupil was vying for the presidency in 2000, Tsurumi said he tried to inform the public about his experience with the then-Texas governor at HBS—but got few results beyond hate mail.

“Last election time, if you recall, the American mass media did a shameful job of vetting ,” Tsurumi said."


This writer suggests Prof. Tsurumi waited until he'd gotten his US citizenship, before trying to get the story out to more reporters, out of concern that Bush's powerful friends might make life difficult for him otherwise ...

http://www.counterpunch.org/landau10222004.html



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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 04:59 PM
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44. How could anyone be so stupid as to vote for him.
There is really no excuse. You would have to be deaf, dumb and blind, to not see he was a sadistic stupid spoiled brat. I'll never believe anyone who says they didn't know. It's one of those, "just one look" deals.
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Forrest Greene Donating Member (946 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 05:35 PM
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45. Say What You Like About G.W. Bush
...he must have at least done alright when he managed that baseball team down in Texas. After all, didn't they name a league after him?



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kurth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 06:50 PM
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48. How George W. Parlayed $600,000 into $14.9 Million:
Bush's Deal for the Texas Rangers
How George W. Parlayed $600,000 into $14.9 Million

When George W. Bush first embarked on a deal to buy the Texas Rangers professional baseball team in 1988, he already had his eye on the governor's mansion in Austin. But he knew that to have a shot at winning, he would need better credentials than a string of unsuccessful oil companies and a failed bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1989 he told Time magazine, "My biggest liability in Texas is the question, 'What's the boy ever done?' He could be riding on Daddy's name."

But his father's connections were instrumental in helping Bush overcome that perception. Back in 1973, when the senior George Bush was the chairman of the Republican National Committee, Bush befriended one of his father's assistants, Karl Rove. Rove cut his teeth alongside the senior Bush's chief political strategist, Lee Atwater. Rove would become George W.'s own Atwater, helping to run his 1978 bid for Congress and laying the groundwork for his 1994 run for governor. As the Rangers deal got under way, Rove told Bush that baseball was his ticket to the big time. "It gives him ... exposure and gives him something that will be easily recalled by people," Rove said. Rove's calculation turned out to be right on the money.

It all began in fall of 1988, when William O. DeWitt Jr., Bush's partner in a Texas oil-and-gas exploration company called Spectrum 7, called to let him know that Eddie Chiles, the owner of the Texas Rangers, was looking for a buyer. Chiles, a family friend who called Bush "Young Pup" when he was a kid, was eager to sell to Bush. And so Bush and DeWitt quickly assembled a team of investors. They hit a snag when Peter Ueberroth, then commissioner of Major League Baseball, told them he wouldn't approve the sale without more investors from Texas. Ueberroth believed that local owners would be less likely to relocate the team. The commissioner, a GOP donor himself, wanted the deal approved before his term expired at the end of 1989, and so he and then-American League president Bobby Brown took it on themselves to line up Fort Worth financier Richard E. Rainwater.

Rainwater and Bush weren't exactly strangers. Rainwater was a contributor to his father's presidential campaigns and, later, an overnight guest in the Bush White House. Until 1986, he was the chief money manager for the Bass brothers, Fort Worth billionaires who financed drilling in Bahrain by the Harken Energy Corp., a company that in 1986 had bought out Spectrum 7, one of Bush's oil companies....

http://www.tompaine.com/feature.cfm/ID/2675

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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-24-06 01:50 AM
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59. When it comes to "presidentiating",
he definitely is "bu$h league".
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 08:23 PM
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49. Sociopath.
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 08:32 PM
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51. Proof that Bush is a pathological liar
Not good.
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RagAss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 10:06 PM
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53. It doesn't matter at this point. The nation will not survive his 2nd term
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Cobalt-60 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-24-06 02:32 AM
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61. Don't Give up!
I know these people would rather burn the country than let go.
I know we're up against it- but we can take these guys!
And even if we can't - better to perish on our feet than our knees.
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 10:09 PM
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54. Great post, but it hit a pet peeve of mine...
To him, socialism and communism were the same thing

Marx used the terms interchangeably, and one thinks that he of all people would know. Both simply meant "the control by the proletariat of the means of production".
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-24-06 07:39 PM
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64. I thought he considered socialism as a stage on the way to communism
which is why the old Soviet bloc members never referred to themselves as "communist countries" but as "socialist countries."
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ladym55 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-23-06 10:37 PM
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56. I remember Professor Tsurumi
He spoke out. He published articles, BUT NO ONE PAID ATTENTION.

Tsurumi remembers Dubya because he was one of the WORST students the professor ever had--now THERE'S something I want to lead MY country. :sarcasm:

Is it any wonder the Middle East is in conflagration, the Gulf Coast hasn't been rebuilt and a new hurricane season is upon us, the deficit is out of control, corruption is at unprecedented levels-- I could go on and on ... Because Smirky the Chump--er--Chimp--er--whatever is OUR pretzeldent.

My question: Where the hell were the REST of the Harvard faculty? Why did they remain so quiet? Afraid of losing a donation or two?

All of the people who had to deal with Chimpy and his great mean-spirited stupidity should have opened their mouths and just kept yelling and yelling.
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raysr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-24-06 02:44 AM
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63. I like to shake hands
with whoever broke his fucking nose. (Looks broken)
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Wonk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-25-06 04:35 AM
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65. kick
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