Documents Reveal Gaps in Bush's Service as President

[DemFromMem]

Funny stuff from today's Onion

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4039&n=0&pg=1

Documents Reveal Gaps in Bush's Service as President

WASHINGTON, DC—Freshly unearthed public documents, ranging from newspapers to cabinet-meeting minutes, seem to indicate large gaps in George W. Bush's service as president, a spokesman for the watchdog group Citizens for an Informed Society announced Monday.

"We originally invoked the Freedom Of Information Act to request material relating to Bush's spotty record while in office," CIS director Catherine Rocklin said. "But then we realized that the information was readily available at the corner newsstand, on the Internet, and from our friends and neighbors who pay attention to the news."

According to Rocklin, the most damning documents were generated at roughly one-day intervals during a period beginning in January 2001 and ending this week. The document's sources include, but are not limited to, the U.S. newspaper The New York Times, the London-based Economist magazine, and the well-known international business and finance record, The Wall Street Journal.

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[The Wielding Truth]

1. What happened?

Did they actually prove the documents to be totally fraudulent that were brought out by 60 minutes or were they(CBS) just beaten down like
Connie Chung, all those years ago.How were the proven false? Thanks to anyone who can tell me I just couldn't find the proof of fraud on any news show and hadn't heard.

[scarletwoman]

2. I LOVE the Onion!

While experts say it may be too early to judge the impact the documents may have on the polls, top Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign organizers said they are confident the scandal will be short-lived.

"Our opponents have dredged up this kind of thing every time Bush has run for office," Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd said. "We've faced down widely reported, fully researched, carefully documented accounts of Bush's alcoholism, drug use, private-sector business failings, ignorance in matters of state, smug arrogance, and general self-serving lackadaisical behavior. So I'm hardly worried. An overwhelming mass of published information like this has never stopped Americans from voting for him before."

OUCH!

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