Bush's Resume

[Ology777]

Feel free to defend this guy...
But truthfully reading this made me sick to my stomach


RESUME - GEORGE W. BUSH
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 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 fundraising 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.--this is true.

I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.--actually what happened is
the World Court is changing into the International Criminal Court--because
the US wants to be a part of the court, but not
be open to having the US have charges brought up against them, they have
temporarily ceased negotiating with the countries involved in and taking
part in the establishment of the ICC. So, in other words, the US wants to be
able to establish the laws within the ICC, practice those laws within the
ICC, but not have those laws applied to our country.

I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. "prisoners of war" detainees
and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.--Guantanomo Bay.

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 disliked 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 and
Saddam Hussein 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.

[Admin]

You should not believe everything that is posted or on the web. As the 2004 presidential election closes by, more hates and opposition views will be vastly available to the mass. Both party will use all sorts of political and mass media tactics to sway the U.S. citizens in their ideology.

[Keng]

Do you know USA doesn't go by popular vote?

[Ketcham82]

Originally Posted by Keng

Do you know USA doesn't go by popular vote?

Of course not. This is a representative democracy, not a direct democracy. If people would pay attention in their government/history classes these days, we wouldn't have so many ignorant people ranting nonsense without any proof for an argument.

The way it works in our "representative democracy" is we elect people to vote for the president. These people sit in the electoral college and they are the ones that pick the president. A president can win the election even if he doesn't get the popular vote. What matters is the electoral college vote. Maybe in the futue when our technology advances we might have a direct democracy in which we can all vote online.

[Ology777]

Ok yes of course I know about the electoral College. And as a matter of fact Gore should have won if we went by the popular vote but the electoral college voted bush into office.

ok ok so I reread the post and I don't believe EVERYTHING on the "resume" but some of the things are pretty true. Like all the stuff about him owning oil companies and having lots of friends who run oil companies. and here we are trying to basically take over a country that has huge amounts of oil. That alone is reason enough for me to not vote for him.

This next statement I'm not sure how accurate it is... mostly because we weren't very much liked in the first place, but it does make some sense.


"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 disliked country
in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world
history." (from my first post from Bush's Resume")

[Ketcham82]

"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 disliked country
in the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world
history."[/quote]

Where'd you get this from? Who said this?

You need to check your information.

[Ology777]

Sorry its a quote from Bush's Resume

I should have put propper references down. But it is referring to my original post. its basically what the author thinks Bush's Resume should say but its written in a first person point of view. So its like Bush wrote it.

[Admin]

Is everything mentioned above facts (I'm not a history buff)?
Would surprise many people if they are, including myself.

[Ology777]

lol I'm sure some part of them are true but you know how people twist the truth to make their own reality.

[RFIbanez]

What crazy left winged site did you find that from? Theres a new book out where most of the men who served with Kerry in vietnam denounce him and say he is unfit for command. Should be an interesting read.

[JPWRana]

Originally Posted by RFIbanez

What crazy left winged site did you find that from? Theres a new book out where most of the men who served with Kerry in vietnam denounce him and say he is unfit for command. Should be an interesting read.

I head about that in the Howard Stern radio show on thursday I think. Howard Stern had said that he did research, and those who did say that (the vietnam veterans) are huge financial supporters of Bush and neither of them served in the same boat that Kerry did. All of the one's that did serve with Kerry directly do defend what he is saying. So these guys who didn't see Kerry there and support Bush with money ofcourse will say that.

[PandaMoOo]

Without checking sources, from what I know most of them seem about right. Of course a lot of it is play on words, for example:

"I set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market."

Although I don't know the numbers, I imagine the big stock market crash in the 1900's was by far more severe percentage wise. Although due to inflation, he may have lead the biggest recession in the stock market, but only due to inflation adjusting the dollar amounts.

And is that his fault even? I don't know.
A lot of others are left so much up to judgement, its really not fair to put them up there... like that "garnered so much sympathy, but not america is hated a lot." Too wordy to be worth much.

From what information I know, and I follow the politics quite a bit. I have no reason to doubt the truth to the arguments. All in all, I think Bush is quite unfit to be President.

Some interesting tidbits to add:
-Scored just under 1000 on the SATs (when the base was 1600, and 1000 was average.)
-His brother is the governor of Florida. Although there are no hard facts, there is considerable evidence that a lot of african american voters had their vote "discredited" and he ended up winning the state, and the election by only 537 votes. (Thus he is a good thief!)

Kerry doesn't impress me personally, I find it very saddening that our two party political system more or less encourages you pick who is the "least worst." Rather then the "best."

(Edit
I might as add I got that number 537 from this website:
http://democrats.com/display.cfm?id=181
Which sites a study that recounted 175,010 ballots, and counting the numbers, Gore should have won by: 712 votes.

At the time, the supreme court ruled 5 to 4 that no matter what the recounts show, Bush should win. This is widely speculated that they only did this because Fox the TV station broadcasted that Bush won way before it was really counted. It was far too close to declare it.

I can only imagine how things would have been different... I mean, would Gore have gone into Iraq. I would say with little doubt, no he would not. (Saddam vowed to kill W. Bushs father by the way.) I am very worried that Bush might win again because he smears the lies into truth, and people end up believing him. Theres a quote somewhere that goes something like "Tell people one big lie, and they will believe you, tell someone a small lie, and they will question you."

Enough politics though, right? Only makes me depressed.

[Ketcham82]

More than likely, if this was on a website, unless it was an .org, .edu or .gov, it's fluff. Credible sources come out clean and say the facts.

Again, don't believe everything you see on the web.

[zoedragon]

Here's an objective chronology of Bush Sr. and Bush Jr. up until 2000. Some of the facts noted in the "resume" posted here are actually true. Too bad it isn't more detailed.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...bush/cron.html

There is no doubt in my mind that this man got to where he is because of powerful family connections, not because he is qualified in any way. For example, how does he get into HARVARD Law School after being REJECTED by University of Texas Law?? How does he get into YALE with an SAT of under 1000?? Now that he's in the ultimate position of power, all the people who did him favors can now reap the rewards. "War on Terror" my ass... WE'RE the terrorists now thanks to him.

[PandaMoOo]

Originally Posted by zoedragon

"War on Terror" my ass... WE'RE the terrorists now thanks to him.

Yeah no kidding.

What bothers the hell out of me is the big intelligence blunder of weapons of mass destruction. It's too bad they were wrong, but to have the same group after being in power for costing our country $200 BILLION dollars is ludicious to me. Even if it was hard to tell... someone needs to pay the price for their mistakes, their ignorance, or their incompentance. Too many stupid Americans actually believe the War in Iraq is a War ON TERROR (or they don't care that the president and his people were wrong and still want him in office for some crazy reason.) I don't care how the economy is, I don't care about taxes, this president made the biggest mistake our country has done in the last 50 years. (And if you think otherwise, what grounds do YOU have to invade a soverign nation?)

9/11 Commission Report said there are no ties to terrorism and Iraq, do you need any more proof? You ever ask someone who is voting for Bush, "do you care that he got us to invade a soverign nation?" I'd like to see a real justified answer with some terrorism scare tactic bullshit.

[Admin]

YES, get George Bush out for good.
Did you read the 9/11 Commission Report in its entirety?

[JPWRana]

dude!! isn't that thing like 100s of pages?

[PandaMoOo]

Originally Posted by KayCee

YES, get George Bush out for good.
Did you read the 9/11 Commission Report in its entirety?

Its about 400 pages, with 100 pages extra of just references. I've done about 1/2 of it thus far, it's pretty deep well written language that has lots of information... a true expert would read it many times over, it'll probably be a good piece of literature remembered for years and years.

You can get a copy free online at http://www.9-11commission.gov/ . I recommend everyone reads the first chapter, about the planes... at least. And the confusion that was happening about it all, makes sense.

[zoedragon]

I think we should all go seek out a "misguided" Bush supporter and have a chat with them. We really need to make sure our country isn't flushed down the toilet because of another four years of "how can I make more money for myself" leadership. I'm going to start with my Mom. She kind of scares me because she's voting for Bush just because she thinks Kerry "looks funny with his drooping eyes". People like that shouldn't even bother voting! Mom, stop embarrassing me!

Preferably you should try to convince Bush supporters in other states because California will probably go Kerry. I really hate the Electoral College.

[Keng]

I will vote for Bush, anyone want chat with me? haha