re-rentering the forum

Posted by Diana on May 26, 2004 at 21:41:37:

It's been a while but i thought everyone would enjoy this one...pay attention!!!

Subject: Bushy's CV

RESUME

GEORGE W. BUSH
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20520

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 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.

* 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 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 inspector's 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 fewest numbers of press
conferences of any President since the advent of
television.

* I set the all-time record for most days on
vacation 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 protests 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
wartime.

* In my State of the Union Address, I lied about
our reasons for attacking Iraq and 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 [sic] 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.

PLEASE CONSIDER MY EXPERIENCE WHEN VOTING IN 2004.
PLEASE SEND THIS TO EVERY VOTER YOU KNOW.

 

Re: re-rentering the forum

Posted by Doug W on May 28, 2004 at 20:15:12:

In Reply to: re-rentering the forum posted by Diana on May 26, 2004 at 21:41:37:

Welcome back to the forum! I don’t know you, or where you have been, as I am new to the message board myself. I hope you don’t mind some input.

This submission is a particularly nasty little piece of character assassination, comprised totally of innuendo, speculation, proven lies, disingenuous inferences, erroneous conclusions, imaginary scenarios presented as fact, false comparisons, boilerplate Leftist propaganda, completely refuted allegations, skewed perspectives and historical ignorance.

It reeks of mindless hate.

You should be mindful of what you pass on from chain-emails as you may be challenged to defend it.

For one especially egregious example, this screed claims:

“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.”

Some true facts:

Truman... led us into war in Korea, North Korea never attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,333 per year.

John F. Kennedy... started the Vietnam conflict in 1962.Vietnam never attacked us.

Johnson... expanded the Vietnam war. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year.

So much for pre-emptive.

But we didn’t occupy these countries as Bush is doing, you say? Well, that’s because these democrats all lost these wars and Bush won his.

Occupation:

Clinton... went to war in Bosnia without UN sanction or a Congressional resolution, Bosnia never attacked us. How about Kosovo? We are still “occupying” those countries. And, the use of the inflammatory word, “occupation” is for purely emotional effect anyway. We still have forces in South Korea, Germany and Japan. Are we occupying those nations? Of course not. They have their own elected governments (thanks to us) completely free of American influence. Any one of them could ask us to leave and we would. The case in Iraq will be the same.

And just for spice:

According to Gallup, in January 2003, 53% of Americans approved of going to war in Iraq. So, the assertion that it was “against the will of the …the majority of U.S. citizens” is a lie. The “world community” cited in this statement is the vocal Leftist crackpots who demonstrated against the war and the “world leaders” who were milking the oil-for-food program for billions, not the silent majority who have better things to do than rail against the deposition of a psychotic, madman.

And, is it supposed to be scandalous that we pursued our own national interests against the will of the United Nations which is comprised of America’s enemies, foul dictatorships, Islamist sh*tholes and France? This is a badge of honor!

I could go on shredding this one foul, slanderous, America-hating statement out of this huge list. I could dissect this entire loathsome screed in my sleep. But, it’s Friday night and I must commence on my obligatory 12-pack, dripping with condensation and beckoning seductively. Instead, how about you, Diana, or anyone, picking one statement out of all; choose the best of the best; the one factoid that really hammers the president; the one irrefutable, irredeemable, can-never-come-back-from, election-busting iniquity; the one glaring quality or failing of this president that demonstrates, above all of his predecessors, his unsuitability for the office, and I will have the great pleasure of ripping it to shreds!

And that………after my beers! ;-)

Oh, by the way, from a Republican chain-email:

In the two years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Libya, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, and
captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people.

The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but...

It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound and incinerate 80 people, most of them women and children. That was a 51-day operation.

We've been looking for evidence of chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.

It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.

It took less time to take Iraq than it took to count the votes in Florida!!!!