Anti-Bush sites

[nicky g]

An email and a website that have been doing the rounds. Neither originate from or anyone I know.

Website: http://www.talion.com/Qs.html

Email:

George W. Bush Resume

Past work experience:
Ran for congress and lost. Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie. Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas, company went bankrupt shortly after he sold all his stock. Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using tax-payer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox. With father's help (and his name), was elected Governor of Texas.

Accomplishments:
Changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union. Replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog ridden city in America. Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money. Set record for most executions by any Governor in American history.

Became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of his father's appointees to the Supreme Court.

Accomplishments as president:
Attacked and took over two countries. Spent the huge surpluses and bankrupted the treasury. Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history. Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period. Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market. First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.

First president in US history to enter office with a criminal record. First year in office 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, presided over the worst security failure in US history. Set the record for more campaign fund-raising trips than any other president in US history.

In his first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs. Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history. Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.

Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history. Set the record for the lowest number of press conferences of any president since the advent of television. Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history.

Presided over the biggest energy crisis in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed. Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have. Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.

Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest a US action (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.

Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history. His presidency is the most secretive and unaccountable of any in US history. Members of his cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history (the 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice, curiously has a Chevron oil tanker named after her).

First president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt. Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world. Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States. Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history.

First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission. First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board. Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount ofcongressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.

Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant. Withdrew from the World Court of Law. Refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and, by default, no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions. First president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).

All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations. His biggest life-time campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).

Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history. Firstpresident in US history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.

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). First US president to establish a secretive 'shadow government'.

Received a tremendous level of world 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). With his policy of'disengagement,' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.

First US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view his presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability. First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.

Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts. Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.

Failed to fulfill his pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'. Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capitol building. After 18 months he has no leads and zero suspects. In the 18 months following the 911 attacks he has successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.

He has removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any
other president in US history. In a little over two years created the most
divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been
since the Civil War. He entered office with the strongest economy in US
history and in less than two years turned every single economic category
heading straight down.

Interesting facts:
He has at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving
record has been erased and is not available). AWOL from National Guard and
deserted the military during a time of war.

Refused to take drug tests or even answer any questions about drug use.
All records of his tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to
his father's library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

All records of any SEC investigations into his possible insider trading
>or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.
>All minutes of meetings for any public corporation where he served on the
>board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. Any records or
>minutes from meetings he (or his VP) attended regarding public energy policy
>are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.

[MMMMMM]

Besides the numerous and obvious lies in this listing, there is at least one glaring real problem mentioned:

"Presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history"

Now, that's a problem.

nicky, perhaps you could answer this question for me;-): just why do Europeans put up with $4.00 a gallon gasoline? You guys even have all that Brent North Sea Crude up there, you're closer than us to the Middle East, and you still pay absurd prices (over twice what we pay). Why?

[nicky g]

Lol, I dunno. I don't drive so I don't really care. I presume it's due to high taxes, which a lot of people see as a good idea to reduce pollution and provide investment for more environmentally friendly forms of transport. Suits me, though the funds aren't spent very well here in the UK where all forms of transport are disastrous.

Which are the obvious lies.

[Cyrus]

The reason oil prices in Europe for the consumer are higher than in the U.S. is strictly the higher taxation. (This also makes for a nicer incentive for contraband!)

Europeans rightly consider crude oil to be finite -- an unbelievable concept to the American voter. Europeans also consider oil to be produced at the expense of future generations, so they partially price that expense into the cost. At least, that's the idea.

Me? I go by Luttwak who claimed that "the solution to the high oil prices, is ..even higher oil prices !"

[MMMMMM]

I suspected it was because Europeans wanted to pay more for gas, LOL.

"He entered office with the strongest economy in US
history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down." When Bush took office the economy was already in trouble.

"Failed to fulfill his pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'." Did he say for sure he'd do it by May, 2003?

"Presided over the biggest energy crisis in US history"--I thought the Arab oil embargo of the 70's and resultant gas lines was our biggest energy crisis.

"With his policy of'disengagement,' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years." I thought Arafat walking away from talks and starting the "intifada" created the bigger change toward hostilities. Granted the writer slyly saves himself by using the comparison of "most" not "most changed" but it's intellectually dishonest nonetheless.

"First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea." This is an outnought lie. There was a bit of sentiment in this direction very briefly--until we suggested removing or moving our troops from the boder zone, LOL. Then the Southies begged us to stay and held demonstrations for our continued presence.

There is more slanted stuff than outright lies but it's a sad attempt unless it's just meant to be funny.

By the way, the U.N.'s anti-U.S. positions, and the views of that 71% of Europeans, speak more to the disingenousness of the U.N. and the socialized brainwashing of the European street than to any flaws in current U.S. policy. And viewing 'peace' as always being more important than 'liberty' is misguided at best. Sure there can be peace with tyrants if we just let them continue to tyrannize. But some people view human rights and liberty as sometimes being more important than 'peace.'

Europe is getting stupider, more socialized, more Islamized, and less principled. Kohl and Thatcher were much better, and under them your economies were much better too. A word to the wise.

[nicky g]

Dear me. Calling us stupid because we don't share all US attitudes is a bit much, dear M.

[Jimbo]

You don't drive and do not live in the USA yet are fixated on our president, pretty scary.

[Parmenides]

He is the by far the worst CEO this country has ever seen. He's benefited from the media being co-opted by crooks like R. Murdoch. The media ignores the truth and publishes lies like Iraq had an active nuclear program and other WMD.

[Parmenides]

You should properly state our unelected dictator.

[Jimbo]

"You should properly state our unelected dictator.

Last time I checked President Bush won the election like everyone else has in the past, he got more electoral college votes than his supposed competition.