From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Fri Aug 29 2003 - 11:09:53 MDT
A "resume" for GW Bush currently circulating on the web, worth reprinting
here, I think:
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 the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock
market. I am the first president in U.S. history to enter office with a
criminal record. I set the the all-time record for most days on vacation in
any one year period. After taking-off the entire month of August 2001, I then
presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history. I attacked and
overtook two countries, promised to rebuild them and have not yet done so. I
am supporting development of a "Tactical Bunker Buster" nuke, a WMD. I am
getting our troops killed, under the lie of WMD components, then blaming the
lie on our British friends and the CIA, where, coincidentally, my daddy used
to lead. I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S.
president. In my first year in office over 2 million Americans lost their
jobs and that trend continues every month, leaving us in higher than ever
unemployment.
I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period. I
appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any president in
U.S. history. I set the record for least amount of press conferences than any
president since the advent of television. I signed more laws and executive
orders effectively amending or ignoring the Constitution than any president
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 and refused to
use national reserves as past presidents have done. I have cut health care
benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty benefits for active duty
troops and their families -- in war time. I allowed non-compete oil contracts
to go to my VP's company (where he is still employed, but on "deferred
compensation") and won't answer to anyone about it. 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 humankind. I've dissolved more international
treaties than any president in U.S. history.
I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S.
history. 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 am the first president in U.S.
history to have almost all 50 states of the Union simultaneously suffer
massive financial crisis. I presided over the biggest corporate stock market
fraud of any market in any country in history. I am the first president in
U.S. history to order a pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of a
sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the
world community. I created the largest governmental department bureaucracy in
the history of the United States.
I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more
than any president in 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
am the first president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the
U.S. from the Elections Monitoring Board. I removed more checks and balances,
and have the least amount of congressional oversight, than any presidential
administration in U.S. history. I rendered the entire United Nations
viewpoints irrelevant. 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 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, former CEO of Enron Corporation)
presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. history. My
political party used the Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure
my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my 2000 election decision. I
have spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president 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 resented country in the
world, possibly the largest failure of diplomacy in world history. I am
actively working on a policy of "disengagement" creating the most hostile of
Israel-Palestine relations in at least 30 years. I am the first to have a
majority of Europeans (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world
peace and security. I am the first president in history to have the people of
South Korea more threatened by the U.S. than by their immediate neighbor,
North Korea. I changed U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded
government contracts. I set an all-time record for the number of
administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling their huge
personal investments in corporations bidding for U.S. contracts.
I failed to fulfill my pledge to capture Osama Bin Laden, dead or alive. I
failed to capture Saddam Hussein. My family is very close with the Saudi
Royal family, and have been for years, so I kept the pages out of the report
on 9-11 that may put the Saudi's in a bad light. I failed to capture the
anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the U.S.
Capitol Building. I have no leads and no credible suspects. Following the
World Trade Center attack I have successfully prevented any PUBLIC
investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United
States. I removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any
president in U.S. history. In a little over two years, I created the most
divided country in decades, possibly the most divided since the Civil War. I
entered my office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and have turned
every single economic category downward -- all in less than two years.
Records and References: I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in
Maine. My Texas driving record has been erased and is not available. I was
AWOL from the National Guard. I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any
questions about drug use. 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 insider trading or 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.
(Apologies to the original author...couldn't find any accreditation for the
above piece.)
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