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Mon 9 Jun, 2003 11:06 am
This is a George W. Bush resume. It was sent to a friend of mine by a staunch Republican friend of hers.
I'm sure some of the items may be a bit exaggerated, but I'm not sure which they are.
Read it over -- and comment.
RESUME:
George W. Bush , Resume
Past work experience:
Ran for congress and lost.
Produced a Hollywood slashed "B" movie.
Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas, so the company went bankrupt.
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
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With father's help and name, was elected Governor of Texas.
Accomplishments:
Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union.
Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog-ridden city in America.
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.
Became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with>the help of father's appointments to the Supreme Court.
Accomplishments as president:
Attacked and took over two countries.
Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any
12-month>period.
Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock >market.
First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.
First year in office 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, presided over the>worst security failure in US history.
Set the record for most campaign fundraising trips than any other president in US history.
In first two years in office, over 2 million Americans lost their>jobs.
Cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any president in US history.
Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.
Set the record for the smallest number of press conferences of any president since the advent of television.
Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history.
Presided over the biggest energy crisis in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to take to the streets simultaneously to protest policies (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.
Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history.
Most secretive and un-accountable presidency of any in US history.
Cabinet members are the richest of any administration in US history (the 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleza Rice has a Chevron oil tanker named after her).
First president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
First president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation.
Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.
First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission.
First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from
the elections monitoring board.
Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.
Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
Withdrew from the World Court of Law.
Refused to allow inspectors' access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).
All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
Biggest lifetime campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO, Enron Corporation, now a convicted felon).
Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history.
First president in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
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).
First US president to establish a secret shadow government.
Took the biggest world 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).
With a policy of 'disengagement,' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
Fist US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
Failed to fulfill pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive.'
Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capitol building. After 18 months there are no leads and zero suspects.
In the 18 months following the 9/11 attacks, successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.
Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other>president in US history.
In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war.
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:
At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available).
AWOL from National Guard and deserted the military during a time of war.
Refused to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.
All records of tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to father's library, sealed in secrecy, and unavailable for public view
All records of any SEC investigations into personal insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
All minutes of meetings for any public corporation in which Bush served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
Any records or minutes from meetings Bush or his vice president attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.
I think us, the American People, are going to have to get used to the fact that whichever party's candidate is in power -- the other party will do anything to undermine that president. We did it with Clinton, and now you're doing it with Bush. All's fair... I guess.
Munch wrote:I think us, the American People, are going to have to get used to the fact that whichever party's candidate is in power -- the other party will do anything to undermine that president. We did it with Clinton, and now you're doing it with Bush. All's fair... I guess.
Jezz, Munch, I put out a list of things Dubya can point to with pride -- and you accuse me of undermining him.
Is there no justice???
I would like to dispute some of the "facts" presented in the post.
Uh ... somebody help me out.
tap tap tap tap tapping and waiting with my buddy Dyslexia. Tap tap tap!!!!
Are you guys seriously waiting? Everyone of those "charges" can be refuted, depends on the point of view! But, who has the time to look each one up and then research it and disprove what was said.
I wouldn't even know where to start with that mess. So much of it is inflated and exagerrated and some is just silly.
Well, what we do know to be facts is bad enough, so the rest of it doesn't make the man look any worse.
CodeBorg, I'll just bet Molly Ivins could help you add to the facts on the list, but not dispute them.
Actually, why don't we start a campaign to elect Molly Ivins for president in 2004?
Damn, I live in Canada. I never voted through all the years I lived there anyway since I never ran across anyone I liked, believed, or respected.
what, me worry? vote alfred e newman
McGentrix wrote:Are you guys seriously waiting? Everyone of those "charges" can be refuted, depends on the point of view! But, who has the time to look each one up and then research it and disprove what was said.
I wouldn't even know where to start with that mess. So much of it is inflated and exagerrated and some is just silly.
Jeez, Mc, "everyone" of them can be refuted.
Why not pick one or two -- so that we can get a taste of how you would refute them?
drum roooooooollllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
Refutation? Of at least one?
Ahem.
Why did I undergo a basting on another thread for listing Bill's finer points (allegations and fact).
If it is good for Frank here, why not good for me, there?
If we entertain a Clinton/Bush list for refutation, I'll play.
No good, Sofia - you had your thread, this is Frank's. Your refutation's good here, we're just waiting to hear one of them.
No fun without
Quid Pro Quo.
Carry on.