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dubya's resume
Reinhold:
my cousin sent this to me. generally speaking, i'm relatively conservative. i'm not a fan of propaganda on either side. i found this relatively intriguing. don't know who wrote it:
Resume of
George W. Bush
The White House, USA
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 for over
twelve months. 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 right-wing 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 and that trend continues every month.
* 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 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 set the record for fewest number 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 protest against any person in the
history of mankind.
* I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked,
preemptive 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, 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,"
WMD.
* I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden
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 view.
ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ:
That was so marvelous I am forced to come up with a word to describe it right now, and the word is...
Scrumtralescent.
godardian:
--- Quote from: Reinhold Messner ---
* 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.
--- End quote ---
Of all the horrendous facts (and they are facts) mentioned in the initial post, this is the one that just gets my goat. Add insult to injury... Republicans have traditionally been able to count on a majority of the military vote, but now that our servicemen and servicewomen see them for what they really are, that's bound to change.
The items mentioned also call to attention the fact that- outside of the awful way Bush has treated our own country and his abhorrent ignorance of and indifference to the rest of the world, which alone should get him voted out- if you're a working American citizen making under $100,000 dollars a year, a vote for Bush is a vote against yourself, in sheer economic/liveability terms. This, THIS is why Republicans are so against "class warfare"; when they say that, they mean they don't want "the little people" sticking up for themselves politically.
I've said it before: He's easily the worst president of my lifetime, and I lived through Reagan and the first Bush. I work, hope, and pray against his re-election.
pete:
as much as I hate this guy, the way he wins elections and gets into the offices is pretty much the same way all politicians get into offices--by raising a lot of campaign funds from asshole wealthy crooked lobbyists who want him to do stuff for them. and like most politicians, he's been doing evil to pay back to those who owe him. Clinton was like that too. Except Clinton took money from lesser evils.
Pubrick:
yeah that's sum despicable shit.
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