kalisto_911

Sorry if this is a repost, it won't let me search for anything at the moment.

> > > Subject: Resume of President George W. Bush
> > >
> > > RESUME
> > > GEORGE W. BUSH
> > > THE WHITE HOUSE, USA
> > >
> > > EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
> > >
> > > LAW ENFORCEMENT:
> > > * I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for
> > > driving under the influence of alcohol. I pled guilty,
> > > paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for
> > > 30 days.
> > > * My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not
> > > available.
> > >
> > > MILITARY:
> > > * I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went
> > > AWOL.
> > > * I refused to take a drug test or answer any
> > > questions about my drug use.
> > > * By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able
> > > to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.
> > >
> > > COLLEGE:
> > > * I graduated from Yale University with a low C
> > > average. I was a cheerleader.
> > >
> > > PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:
> > > * I ran for U.S. Congress and lost.
> > > * I began my career in the oil business in Midland,
> > > Texas, in 1975. I bought an oil company, but couldn't
> > > find any oil in Texas. The company went bankrupt
> > > shortly after I sold all my stock.
> > > * I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a
> > > sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.
> > > * With the help of my father and our right-wing
> > > friends in the oil industry (including Enron CEO Ken
> > > Lay), I was elected governor of Texas.
> > >
> > >
> > > ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS:
> > > * I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and
> > > oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in
> > > the Union.
> > > * During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as
> > > the most smog-ridden city in America.
> > > * I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to
> > > the tune of billions in borrowed money.
> > > * I set the record for the most executions by any
> > > governor in American history.
> > > * With the help of my brother, the governor of
> > > Florida, and my father's appointments to the Supreme
> > > Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000
> > > votes.
> > >
> > > ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
> > > * I am the first President in U.S. history to enter
> > > office with a criminal record.
> > > * I invaded and occupied two countries at a
> > > continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.
> > > * 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 most foreclosures in
> > > a 12-month period.
> > > * I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in
> > > the history of the U.S. stock market.
> > > * In my first year in office, over 2 million
> > > Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues
> > > every month.
> > > * I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the
> > > richest of any administration in U.S. history. My
> > > "poorest millionaire," Condoleezza Rice, has a Chevron
> > > oil tanker named after her.
> > > * I set the record for most campaign fund-raising
> > > trips by a U.S. President.
> > > * 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, presided over the
> > > largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History,
> > > Enron.
> > > * My political party used Enron private jets and
> > > corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S.
> > > Supreme Court during my election decision.
> > > * I have protected my friends at Enron and
> > > Halliburton against investigation or prosecution. More
> > > time and money was spent investigating the Monica
> > > Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one
> > > of the biggest corporate rip-offs 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.
> > > * I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted
> > > criminals to be awarded government contracts.
> > > * I appointed more convicted criminals to
> > > administration than any President in U.S. history.
> > > * I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the
> > > largest bureaucracy in the history of the United
> > > States government.
> > > * I've broken more international treaties than any
> > > President in U.S.
> > > 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 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 set the record for least number of press
> > > conferences of any President since the advent of
> > > television.
> > > * I set the all-time record for most days on vacation
> > > by a President in any one-year period.
> > > * After taking off the entire month of August, I
> > > presided over the worst security failure 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 hated country in the world, the
> > > largest failure of diplomacy in world history.
> > > * 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
> > > mankind.
> > > * I am the first President in U.S. history to order
> > > an unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military
> > > occupation of a sovereign nation.
> > > * I did so against the will of the United Nations,
> > > the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world
> > > community.
> > > * 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.
> > > * In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our
> > > reasons for attacking Iraq, then blamed the lies on
> > > our British friends.
> > > * I am the first President in history to have a
> > > majority of Europeans(71%) view my presidency as the
> > > biggest threat to world peace and security.
> > > * I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical
> > > Bunker Buster," a WMD.
> > > * I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring
> > > Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein to justice.
> > >
> > > RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
> > > * 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 my insider
> > > trading and my 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.
> > >
> > > GOD BLESS AMERICA
> > >
> > > PLEASE CONSIDER MY EXPERIENCE WHEN VOTING IN 2004.
> > >
> > > PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY VOTER YOU KNOW

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Conclamo Ludus

Go Bush 2004

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filtherton

Let me just throw this in so no one else feels the need to say it.

"Why do you bitter dems and socialist liberals hate america"

oh yeah, and

"Well, bill clinton got a B.J. and lied about it"

now with those two overused lines of reasoning(and hopefully their derivatives) out of the way, please, carry on.

apechild

Nice cut and paste. You even left the little arrow thingies in.

How quaint.

A great deal of that drivel is blatantly false, but I doubt that concerned you one bit when you hit the ol' "ctrl V"

What a sad waste of time...

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inkriminator

what portions of this were false ?

Derwood

I am as staunch a democrat as anyone, but I bet you could make an equally long list of the failures and mishaps of Clinton as well.

One-sided, biased, partisan rhetoric gets us nowhere. Stop watching Hannity and Colmes and the No Spin Zone and form your own opinions!

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rgr22j

Originally posted by kalisto_911
Sorry if this is a repost, it won't let me search for anything at the moment.

> > > MILITARY:
> > > * I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went
> > > AWOL.
False. This has been well-documented, and Bush was cleared.

> > > * With the help of my brother, the governor of
> > > Florida, and my father's appointments to the Supreme
> > > Court, I became President after losing by over 500,000
> > > votes.
False. Jeb recused himself. The father's appointments have approved, just off the top of my head, protection for affirmative action and free speech restrictions (campaign finance "reform"), from one of the most balanced Supreme Courts in history. Not that this was what the Republicans intended, of course.

> > > ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
> > > * In my first year in office, over 2 million
> > > Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues
> > > every month.
Outdated.

> > > * My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one
> > > of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the
> > > largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History,
> > > Enron.
And was stiffed when he pleaded to the Bush administration for help.

> > > * I am the first President in U.S. history to have
> > > the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Human
> > > Rights Commission.
The one headed by Libya?

> > > * I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S.
> > > "prisoners of war" detainees and thereby have refused
> > > to abide by the Geneva Convention.
False. Guantanamo Bay prisoners do not fall under the Geneva Convention. See my other posts for the four requirements laid out by Geneva.

> > > * I am the first President in U.S. history to order
> > > an unprovoked, pre-emptive attack and the military
> > > occupation of a sovereign nation.
False. Which nation? Iraq? Unprovoked would mean Iraq had complied with Resolution 1441. It did not.

> > > * I did so against the will of the United Nations,
> > > the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world
> > > community.
False. 70% of Americans supported the liberation of Iraq.

> > > * 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.
> > > * In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our
> > > reasons for attacking Iraq, then blamed the lies on
> > > our British friends.
False. See Gilligan, Andrew, and Kay, David. The dossier has been vetted down to the 45 minute claim.

> > > * I am the first President in history to have a
> > > majority of Europeans(71%) view my presidency as the
> > > biggest threat to world peace and security.
> > > * I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical
> > > Bunker Buster," a WMD.
False. "Strategic Bunker Buster" would be a WMD; the weapon is being developed to take out one target only (a bunker, hence "Tactical Bunker Buster") rather than wreak mass destruction, a.k.a. Weapon of Mass Destruction.

> > > * I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring
> > > Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein to justice.
False. This resume is outdated.

> > > RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
> > > * All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are
> > > now in my father's library, sealed and unavailable for
> > > public view.
False. From an AP report: "Bush's gubernatorial documents are in the custody of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and are open under Texas public record laws. After Bush's term as governor ended, the documents were sent to his father's presidential library at Texas A&M University. The documents were moved back to archive them."
(http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercuryne...tm%3Cbr%20/%3E)

Look. I supported Bush's opponents in the 2000 election and have never voted for a single Republican, ever. But this is getting out of hand. I'm getting tired of posting the same corrections again and again.

I agree with Derwood. Think for yourself, for a change.

-- Alvin

rgr22j

I believe it's already been done. I seem to remember reading a similar list loaded with falsehoods and lies about Clinton a few years back. I'm sure I could find it easily, if I cared.

-- Alvin

Liquor Dealer

Looks like the Democrats took care of the BS so all I can say is vote


Bush in 2004

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f00sion

no it hasn't.

its a couple years old, lets just ignore it and pretend it didn't happen.
so he turned chickenshit and wouldnt help his good friend?..upstanding guy.

ok, half right

rogue49

Let's not focus on what "was",
Let's focus on what "is"

We can only change the present and the future,
I do not like rehashing things.

While some might be true or otherwise
let's focus on what we can do to change things for the better.
No matter what happen or who leads.

Tophat665

Looks like an even worse idea in big type. Hmm.

Bush in 1984

Nope. Pretty awful idea in color too.

Anyone else in 2004.

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silent_jay

Good job kalisto_911 everything i wanted to say and i didn't have to do it.

CLINTON IN 2004

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onetime2

What an utterly pointless and inflammatory thread. I seem to recall a thread about "The Politics Board" being a big joke at TFP, this is the poster child for that thread.

I am heartened to see that there are some who will defend the truth no matter what side of the aisle they lean toward and dismayed to see some who are perfectly happy to spout useless and false information as if it were gospel. Although perhaps to them it is. I think I almost caught an "Amen" at the end of it but it was muffled by the separation of church and state mantra.

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MSD

Topic has already been beaten to death. If you must, discuss where it's already been done.

http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...ht=bush+resume