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Demobrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 11:28 AM
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In the past this person has told me to shut up
when I mentioned politics. She has said that she doesn't see how who is president affects her life. This morning she sent me this.

GEORGE W. BUSH RESUME

The White House, USA: ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
I attacked and took over two countries.
I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the Treasury.
I shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in history.
I set an economic record for the most private bankruptcies filed in
any 12 month period.
I set all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the
stock market.
I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
I am the first president in US history to enter office with a
criminal record.
In my first year in office I 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, I presided
over the worst security failure in US history.
I set the record for most campaign fundraising trips by any
president in US history.
In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their
job.
I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any
other president in US history.
I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month
period.
I appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions
than any president in US history.
I set the record for the fewest press conferences of any president
since the advent of TV.
I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution
than any other US president in history
I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused
to intervene when corruption was revealed.
I presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and
refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
I cut health care benefits for war veterans.
I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to
simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million
people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the
history of mankind.
I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US
history.
I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any
in US history.
Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US
history. (The poorest multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice, has a
Chevron oil tanker named after her).
I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the
Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in any
market in any country in the history of the world.
I am the first president in US history to order a US attack and
military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the
will of the United Nations and the world community. I have created
the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the
United States.
I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending
increases, more than any other president in US history.
I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations
remove the US from the Human Rights Commission.
I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations
remove the US from the Elections Monitoring Board.
I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of
congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US
history.
I rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
I withdrew from the World Court of Law.
I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by
default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations
election inspectors access during the 2002 US elections.
I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate
campaign donations.
The biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign, who is also one of
my best friends, presided over one of the largest corporate
bankruptcy frauds in world A history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of
Enron Corporation).
I spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in
US history. I am the 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) I am the first US president to establish a secret
shadow government.
I took the world's sympathy for the US after 911, 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).
I am the first US president in history to have a majority of the
people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to
world peace and stability. I am the first US president in history to
have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than by
their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
I changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded
government contracts.
I set the all-time record for the number of administration
appointees who violated US law by not selling their huge investments
in corporations bidding for gov't contracts.
I have removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than
any other president in US history. In a little over two years I have
created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most
divided that the US has been since the civil war. I 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:
I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas
driving record has been erased and is not available).
I was AWOL from the National Guard and deserted the military during
time of war. I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any
questions about drug use.
All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited
away to my father's library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for
public view.
All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or
bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public
view. All minutes of meetings of any public corporation for which I
served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public
view. Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended
regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable
for public review.

PERSONAL REFERENCES:
For personal references, please speak to my dad or uncle James Baker
(They can be reached in their offices at the Carlyle Group where
they are helping to divide up the spoils of the US-Iraq war and plan
for the next one).

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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 11:36 AM
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1. REPLY TO HER
BUT....................HOW DOES THIS AFFECT YOUR LIFE??? :7
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Demobrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 11:54 AM
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4. No. This is not the time for sarcasm.
This is the time for positive reinforcement!! I thanked her for making my day and told her I was going to pass it on. I want her to feel good about it.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 12:35 PM
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10. Exactly the right thing to do.
Looks like she saw some light.
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LEFTofLEFT Donating Member (381 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 11:42 AM
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2. WOW. That is an impressive record.
I might have to change my views about the resident.

Whats lower than a snakes belly?
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 01:12 PM
Response to Reply #2
12. A snake's Belly in a wagon rut!
I have some Pub neighbors who are crying like babies! They are telling me they are sorry! Should I agree that they are infact sorry, or should I invite them and their church snakes in and cry along with them?

Signed
Bewildered
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Sequoia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 11:49 AM
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3. Thanks for taking the time
Edited on Thu Aug-07-03 11:54 AM by Sequoia
to do this. I'm sending to Repubs I have known. Maybe they'll shut up and start thinking. I generally get the same statement and that I shouldn't watch the news but do stuff I can change and what affects me. I say, what ever that moron does affects me and my family and I will not be silent, nor will I fly my flag until he's out of office.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 11:58 AM
Response to Reply #3
5. Hey, no forget the mass mooning by hundreds of people in Scandinavia in 01
as a protest of our not wanting the Kyoto Accord to go forward. Not green in that man and his group.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 01:23 PM
Response to Reply #5
13. Rumdumb has Green Teeth!
And so do the FReepers that have any teeth!

Sympathy is in the dictionary between SH?T and Syphilis if they are lookin' for it!

Come we go be the do-gooders one more time, while they stab us in the back and steal us blind! Politics has a direct effect on your kids doing without while, some rich bastard buys a new Beemer with his 90,000 tax cut! Should I laugh and be happy and forgiving?
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rock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 12:08 PM
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6. Tell her to go to hell
bush*sucks is such an asshole that I don't give anybody any slack for supporting him. We're in a bunch of trouble now because a lot of people have acted like a bunch of braying jackasses.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 12:10 PM
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7. I have a hard time forgiving these morons too
but it would seem in our best interests to do so. :(
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JohnyCanuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 12:10 PM
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8. Oil Tanker name was changed. No longer named after Condi
This statement is no longer factually correct:

Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US
history. (The poorest multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice, has a
Chevron oil tanker named after her).


Just for the record the oil tanker has been renamed and it no longer sports CondiLIAR Rice's name on it's bow.

I guess it proved just a little to embarrassing even for the usually totally shameless Bush gang of crooks to have an oil tanker belonging to a major oil industry player named after a prominent member of the corporate whore administration.

More info from multinationalmonitor.org:

Energy giant Chevron Corp. has quietly renamed one of its big oil tankers.

The Condoleeza Rice, named after the former Chevron director and current National Security Adviser to President Bush, was renamed the Altair Voyager, the San Francisco Chronicle reported in May.


In April, at a White House press briefing, assistant press secretary Scott McLellan was asked about the oil tanker.
The reporter put it this way: “Before she became National Security Advisor, was on the board of directors of Chevron Corporation. Chevron –– before she left –– named an oil tanker after her. There’s an oil tanker named the Condoleeza Rice. It’s a 136,000 ton oil tanker that carries oil around the world. Given that Chevron has been accused of human rights abuses with the Nigerian Mobile Police against civilians in Nigeria, I’m wondering whether the president thinks it’s wise to have this close a relationship with Chevron.”

McLellan said that he thought “the issue has already been addressed by Dr. Rice and she will uphold the highest ethical standards in office.”


http://multinationalmonitor.org/mm2001/01june/june01names.html

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HFishbine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 12:33 PM
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9. The Whole List
is frought with factual errors.
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DemBones DemBones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-07-03 12:50 PM
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11. I'm not sure I'd say the list is fraught with factual errors. Perhaps

you'll give us a list of what you see as errors?

I'm not sure that he was the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner. When was McVeigh executed? It seems so long ago it could have been on Clinton's watch.
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