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Catch22Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-19-03 10:33 PM
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I'd really appreciate some help with this e-mail
I sent this to a friend who sent it to his dad, who sent it to his brother and now the brother is demanding proof. I don't know the guy, but apparently he couldn't believe this was true of our president. If any of you can point me to some kind of documentation for some of this stuff, I'd be oh so grateful!

Accomplishments of President George W. Bush:
. 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 the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market.

. I am the first president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.

. I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one year period.

. After taking-off the entire month of August 2001, I then presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.

. I attacked and overtook two countries, promised to rebuild them and have not yet done so.

. I am getting our troops killed, under the lie of WMD components, then blaming the lie on our British friends and the CIA, where, coincidentally, my daddy used to lead.

. I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. president.

. In my first year in office over 2-million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month, leaving us in higher than ever unemployment.

. I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.

. I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any president in U.S. history.

. I set the record for least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.

. I signed more laws and executive orders effectively amending or ignoring the Constitution than any president 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 and refused to use national reserves as past presidents have done.

. 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.

. I allowed non-compete oil contracts to go to my VP's company (where he is still employed, but on "deferred compensation") and won't answer to anyone about it.

. 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 humankind.

. I've dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S. history.

. I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S. history.

. I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history. My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named after her.

. I am the first president in U.S. history to have almost all 50 states of the Union simultaneously suffer massive financial crisis.

. I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in history.

. I am the first president in U.S. history to order a pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the world community.

. I created the largest governmental department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.

. I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in 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 am the first president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the Elections Monitoring Board.

. I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight, than any presidential administration in U.S. history.

. I rendered the entire United Nations viewpoints irrelevant.

. 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 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, former CEO of Enron Corporation) presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. history. My political party used the Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my 2000 election decision.

. I have spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president 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 resented country in the world, possibly the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.

. I am actively working on a policy of "disengagement" creating the most hostile of Israel-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.

. I am the first to have a majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.

. I am the first president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the U.S. than by their immediate neighbor, North Korea.

. I changed U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.

. I set an all-time record for the number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling their huge personal investments in corporations bidding for U.S. contracts.

. I failed to fulfill my pledge to capture Osama Bin Laden, dead or alive.

. I failed to capture Saddam Hussein.

. My family is very close with the Saudi Royal family, and have been for years, so I kept the pages out of the report on 9-11 that may put the Saudi's in a bad light.

. I failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the U.S. Capitol Building. I have no leads and no credible suspects.

. Following the World Trade Center attack I have successfully prevented any PUBLIC investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.

. I removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any president in U.S. history.

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

. I entered my office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and have turned every single economic category downward -- all in less than two years.

Records and References:
. I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine. My Texas driving record has been erased and is not available.

. I was AWOL from the National Guard.

. I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use.

. 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 insider trading or 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.

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Ksec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-19-03 10:37 PM
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1. Yikes, thats alot of proving
Hes hedging. Ignore him
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La_Serpiente Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-19-03 10:41 PM
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2. We here at DU have to debunk other e-mail
You can add one more on to that

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/11/16/international0122EST0411.DTL

U.S. renews ties with repressive Equatorial Guinea _ rich in oil, poor in human rights


Just proves that Bush is a oil baron. He never put on his amnesty shirt.

But everything you wrote on there is true. Tell him to debunk it himself.
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Brewman_Jax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-19-03 10:46 PM
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3. Tell him that...
"Google is your friend. Go talk to him."

You aren't obligated to do anything. Let the freeper fool do his own research.
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-19-03 10:48 PM
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4. If the guy wants proof
tell him about GOOGLE. Let him look it up. You shouldn't have to and besides that, just a glance over that list, I can see OBVIOUS facts. If he doesn't believe it he can go to GOOGLE.com. Tell him to prove that they AREN'T true. :7
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theorist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-19-03 10:49 PM
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5. It's not to be blindly taken at face value.
This is to force the reader to say, "That can't be. He's my president; he'd never do/be those things." Then, he'll go out to check the claims and see that they are all true, and in the public record. Tell him, "I didn't write it, but then again I didn't have to read it to know the truth."
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meow mix Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-19-03 10:51 PM
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6. should ask,
exactly which part he needs proof on
narrow it down a little.

because most all of this is self-explanatory.
for example..
"I failed to capture Saddam Hussein"

he need proof of that even?!? hehe

yup hedging.. playing games, so not even worth it if he cant be honest.
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sleipnir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-19-03 10:59 PM
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7. This reeks of the kinda stuff right-wignuts put out..
Only because it has items that are out of *'s control and are a matter of common process. Example, the UN elections/human rights are a rotating board, not the doing of Shrub. Sure it happened while he was sitting in office, but it's not his fault, per se. It's not incorrect, but the context is a little iffy, IMO.

Though, it's nice to see good emails like this are circulating, I'm sick of all that fundie-right email crap.
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neuvocat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-19-03 11:19 PM
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8. Here's what you need:
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Spirochete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 12:54 AM
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9. They never prove anything
They just spam people's e-mail over and over with the same bullshit. They never feel compelled to submit proof, so why should you? Let them look it up for themselves. They wouldn't believe the proof you sent them anyway.
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Eloriel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-20-03 01:29 AM
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10. Jeez - tell him to read the f'ing news
on line, of course, since he's not going to get it from his local paper and Fox.

Eloriel
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