How the hell did he ever get to be President?

[Botany]

Sorry but I am just so pissed @ our lazy media that
failed to tell America these facts.

bush had 3 failed businesses
bush went AWOL
bush has a history of drug and alcohol abuse
bush and family were put on "a ranch" that was
as phony as any Disney movie
bush has an arrest record
bush spent 1 year doing a community service
sentence instead of jail (Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center
Houston, TX 1972)
bush reportedly was involved w/ insider trading of stocks
bush was a poor student
bush danced naked on bar stools
bush as Governor of Texas screwed over the public school system
bush as Governor of Texas lied under oath to stop a corruption investigation
bush had a history of being a mean and petty man
and lastly bush is bone stupid
example:
"Redefining the role of the United States from enablers to keep the peace to enablers to keep the peace
from peacekeepers is going to be an assignment."—Interview with the New York Times, Jan. 14, 2001

[liberal N proud]

1. Only through crooked politics and other crimes against the Constitution

[midnight]

2. It is this awareness that made many know he would never be

elected president.

[Botany]

3. I live in Columbus, OH ...

.. and trust me he was never elected in 2004 ....
Although it never should have been even close
either time.

[mod mom]

4. Stolen elections and a complicit media, coupled with a segment of our own party

that only want corporate candidates elected (DLC-of course)

[tularetom]

5. I feel bad enough that George Carlin has died

but did you have to put in that dancing naked on bar stools thing?

Now my day is totally fucked almost before it starts.

[Botany]

7. Well I didn't list that when he was in Alabama

he soiled the bed he slept in with his own urine & feces, trashed
the home he was living in showed up around 1:00 PM for his job
working on a senatorial campaign, and was thought so little of by
the campaign workers they called him Texas Soufflé because he had
so little going on upstairs.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040223-590683,00.html

[tularetom]

10. Well I'm sure glad you didn't tell me that

:puke:

He really is the Britney Spears of politics ain't he?

[boobooday]

13. Leave Britney alone!

:rofl:

[Aviation Pro]

6. How the hell was he even born?

Why, oh, why, didn't you have more highballs, silver douchebag?

[miles 2 go]

40. Silver Douchebag!

:rofl:

[skooooo]

8. That's easy..

oil money!

[lisa58]

9. That's what happens when you don't count the votes

[DailyGrind51]

11. "Big Business" wanted a figurehead president and Bush was

content to just clear brush at Crawford while Dick Cheney ran the country.

[rucky]

12. twice.

that's seriously f-ed up.

[old mark]

14. I was thinking those exact words last week

when I read his belief that anyone who does not believe in god cannot be a patriotic american citizen, becaus, "this is one nation under god."
He is so transendentally stupid and mean spirited, but was elected because he had backers with very wide influence, power and money, mainly in the "religious" right business and the oil business.
I also believe he didn't go as far as they wanted him to, but he won't be done doing damage till he is out of office completely.

It will take a long time to fix what he has broken.
He is the worst president we have had to date.
mark

[Botany]

16. He never fails to underwhelm

And I met a guy named Tom Sawner. Now, he's an old fighter pilot, which means, umm, there's no wall he can run through, you know, he's a, he's a, you know, he's a — he's a doer, an achiever, and he's got him a small business called Educational Options.
Apr. 18, 2008


http://www.dubyaspeak.com/freshdubya.phtml

read in small amounts .... bush's stupidity is really awesome

[old mark]

30. Thanks for that link.

I added it to my favorites, but you are right, I could not stand to read it all at once.

Every time I think I grasp his stupidity, I find something else that just takes my breath away.
And, don't forget his long family association with the Nazis.
This fucking asshole just represented us in Europe!
I would be too embarassed to travel there till we replace him with a human being.

He is just astounding, and I'm interested to learn what really happened secretly while he was in office.

mark

[Botany]

46. Don't forget Enron (his Texas buddies) and Brother Neil's S. & L. Silverado

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3330.htm

The Silverado Savings and Loan Scandal

By William Bowles

05/11/03: (Information Clearing House) The savings and loans crashes of the 1980s, themselves directly the result of Reagan’s deregulation of the banking industry, is more interesting because of how it reflects the rapacious nature of unbridled capitalism than of Neil Bush himself. Who by the way, is now embroiled in another scam with his latest venture, educational software, Ignite (turnover $20 million, much of it from educational subsidies obtained in the state of Florida ,where, ‘coincidentally’ of course, his bro Jeb, is governor).

Altogether, it’s been calculated that bailing out the failed S&Ls countrywide cost the US taxpayer around $1.4 trillion!

There are nowhere as many digital sources on the S&L debacle because it predates the Web. Much of it is contained in pages that refer to the numerous scandals and malfeasances of the Bush clan at large. Even so ,I’ve managed to uncover a number of dedicated sources.


***********

BTW did you hear about Barack Obama's pastor? :rofl:

[SammyWinstonJack]

15. He also gave away the largest surplus in Texas history to his corrupt corprat bidness buds

leaving Texas with a deficit and he laughed about it, saying he was hoping not to have to deal with the impending deficit since he was seeking a higher office. Translation; he was planning on doing to the rest of the Country what he did to Texas. And he did.

[Botany]

17. I have a good friend w/ family in Texas (he lives there 1/2 time now)

He told me that bush dumped a lot of the property taxes in TX
and just screwed the public school systems but not giving them
a replacement revenue stream.

[SammyWinstonJack]

18. Funny thing is our property taxes have doubled in the past

six years, from just over $2000/yr to $4700/yr. and half of that is for public school taxes. :shrug:

[Cerridwen]

19. I've always wondered if the first question we should have asked

is "how the hell did he ever get to be governor of TX?"

I still wonder if that campaign was the precursor to and "dress rehearsal" for his run for the presidency. I remember Ann Richards was a popular governor; polling high even in the final days of the race. It always "struck me weird" as having gone to junior.

[SammyWinstonJack]

21. Easy, he lied and smeared Ann Richards and probably some election fraud was involved too.

[Cerridwen]

24. That's what I remember. And that's what I suspected.

By the way, I didn't live in TX and I saw what was happening. Or maybe it's more correct to say, because I didn't live in TX, it was easier for me to see what happened.

Whichever, it was ugly even from a distance.

[SammyWinstonJack]

25. It was very ugly and I witnessed it up close.

[Cerridwen]

27. You have my sympathies.

That kind of an experience stays with us for a long time. Especially since this time, they took it national.

:(

[peekaloo]

31. Yep. Gays and guns. Gays taking over and guns will be taken away.

Ann's people handled it with humor but to no avail.

I remember whispers about questionable absentee votes, too.

[waiting for hope]

43. Karl Rove had a hand in there -

1994 George W. Bush gubernatorial campaign In 1993, Rove began advising George W. Bush in his successful campaign to become governor of Texas. Bush announced his candidacy in November 1993. By January 1994, Bush had spent more than $600,000 on the race against incumbent Democrat Ann Richards, with $340,000 of that paid to Rove's firm.

Rove has been accused of using the push poll technique to call voters to ask such things as whether people would be "more or less likely to vote for Governor Richards if knew her staff is dominated by lesbians." Rove has denied having been involved in circulating these rumors about Richards during the campaign, although many critics nonetheless identify this technique, particularly as utilized in this instance against Richards, as a hallmark of his career.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove#1990_Texas_gubernatorial_campaign

I believe in Karma, and the premise that what goes around, comes around. Rove and Bush are going to get what's due and it can't come soon enough.

[Botany]

22. What Rove did to Ann Richards was nasty

Someday we might learn that a lot of "republican victories" were functions
of other factors.

[Cerridwen]

26. Yeah, I remember a lot of that. More the "nasty"-factor than

specifics. See my post above. Watching from a distance was like watching a slow-motion train wreck.

Wasn't it just a couple years later that a number of TX legislators left the state in an attempt to stop the gerrymandering of legislative districts?

[BOSSHOG]

20. YOUR POST MUST BE A LISTING OF CONSERVATIVE VALUES

[timtom]

23. The president is selected by someone other than the vox populi

Just watched a George Carlin bit on youtube. He quite agreed with me.

[ProSense]

28. Here:

exhibit A

[Echo In Light]

29. {S}election

[marions ghost]

37. yep

OK he garnered a lot of support from the corrupt elites and the gut voters-- but it was not enough to win.

They stole it. Anyone who doubts that by now is living in a big vat of denial.

[Broadslidin]

32. Since the Harken "insider stock trade" scam, Generalissimo George has gayly stiffed the system.

Reflecting upon this Imperial Empire's veneer of High Moral Values,
the Pompous Palosi & Rodomontade Reid democrat duo defiantly declare:

"Our Lucifugous Leader will never be taken to account for nuttin."

[Triana]

33. All this and we have some nincompoop putting out a book about how Obama's....

"hidden agenda" hasn't been fully investigated by an "Obama-friendly" media.

The words HYPOCRISY and utter IRONY don't even BEGIN to cover it.

[old mark]

45. I have been looking for that

"Obama friendly media" and have yet to find it.
There must be a lot of right wing money flowing to the media owners right now.


mark

[LeftishBrit]

34. His brother was governor of Florida and a crook; that's how

[question everything]

35. Name recognition, frat boy, and some who wanted to "restore dignity"

to the White House.

You start with an assumptions that most voters actually think and analyze their leaders and their policies.

No, voting is a gut reaction. This is why Reagan and Clinton won re-election.

Voters want someone who is a charmer, who smiles, who does not appear to take himself too seriously.

[kaybea]

36. Because the kind of people who vote for him really love being lackeys and sychophants...

they pretend to love up-by-the-bootstraps type of self-made man, but they don't at all. Look at Bill Clinton, for example. Truly a self-made man from an impoverished single-parent household. They couldn't wait to run him out on rail and trumped up bullshit impeachment charges to do it. Special bonus: now that impeachment is beyond warranted for this clown, the Clinton impeachment has left people "fatigued" and politicians "wary" to do it again.

[cobalt1999]

38. Maybe it's the cynic in me, but I think all politicians are sleaze-bags.

They all have clay feet (of course with Bush the clay goes all the up).

To quote Douglas Adams "Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."

[Prophet 451]

39. Lots of reasons

In no particular order:
- Stolen elections (definately in 2000, probably in 2004)
- Name recognition
- Uninformed and uncaring populace
- Support of hard right (largely due to his advisers)
- Support of the business lobby and Religious Reich


You'll notice that most of these have nothing to do with Chimpy himself. He's something of a cypher in that his administration has been more about acting as a puppet for the aristocracy than putting his own stamp on policy.

[lonestarnot]

41. Well they cheated of course!

[Catherine Vincent]

42. This is how....

[dajoki]

44. SCOTUS!! n/t