From: Kevin Freels (megaquark@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 29 2003 - 12:02:25 MDT
You know what's funny here is that when things go bad, we blame it on the
president. When things go well, we give the president credit. But I hardly
thing that the President really has enough power to really change theses
things or create these problems.
Yes he has spent a lot of money on the military.
No he hasn't stepped up to the late on energy.
But really, the economy is it's own monster. It was slowing down prior to
Bush taking office. Sept. 11 didn;t help matters.
Sept 11 may have been an intelligence failure, but nothing is 100%. How many
tips do they really get on terrorist plots? How many turn out to be real?
How much can you change an organization like our intelligence community in
the 9 months that he had? You can;t shut down the airlines every time
someone threatens to attack our country.
I don't think what we did in Afganistan was wrong. They had it coming.
Iraq is a different story, Saddam is a bastard who kills his own people by
the thousands. He has needed to go for a long time. The world will be a
better place without him. Do the ends justify the means? I don't know.
Tax cuts are not bad. It's simply a matter of letting everyone keep a bit
more of their own hard-earned money rather than confiscating it. If we need
to balance the budget, we should be doing it by reducing our expenses.
I'm not a big fan of Bush, especially the way he invokes "God" at every
opportunity, but I think that this "resume" is rather juvenile and only
serves to polarize those that already dislike him. The President only does
what he thinks he needs to do to get re-elected. That's the way the country
was set up. To fix our problems, we need to change the way the people think,
not sit around and complain about our leaders.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Samantha Atkins" <samantha@objectent.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 12:09 PM
Subject: would you vote for this man?
>
> 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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