Bush Resume. Recipe for Disaster

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RESUME

GEORGE W. BUSH
The White House, USA


PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:

* I ran for Congress & lost.

* I produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.

* I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas; company
went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.

* I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that
took & used taxpayer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago Cubs.

* With my father's help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas.



ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

* I changed pollution laws for power & oil companies & made Texas the
most polluted state in the Union.

* I replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog-ridden city in
America.

* I cut taxes & bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money.

* I set the record for most executions by any Governor in American
history.

* I became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000
votes, with the help of my father's appointments to the Supreme Court.



ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

* I attacked two countries.

* I spent the surplus & bankrupted the treasury.

* I shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in history.

* I set the economic record for the most private bankruptcies filed in
any 12-month period.

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

* I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.

* I am the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record.

* In my first year in office I 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, I presided
over the worst security failure in US history.

* I set the record for more campaign fund-raising trips than any other
president in US history.

* In my first two years in office over 3mn Americans lost their jobs.

* I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any
president in US history.

* I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.

* I appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history.

* I set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any
president since the advent of television.

* I signed more laws & executive orders amending the Constitution than
any president in US history.

* I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history & refused to
intervene when corruption was revealed.

* I presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history & refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.

* I cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.

* I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15mn people), shattering the record for protests against any person in the history of mankind.

* I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US
history.

* My presidency is the most secretive & unaccountable of any in US
history.

* Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US
history.
(The 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice has a Chevron oil
tanker named after her).

* I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the
Union simultaneously go bankrupt.

* I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.

* I am the first president in US history to order a US attack & military occupation of a sovereign nation, & I did so against the will of the United Nations & the world community.

* I created the largest government 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 US history...

* I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations
remove the US from the human rights commission.

* I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations
remove the US from the elections monitoring board.

* I removed more checks & balances, & have the least amount of
congressional oversight than any presidential administration in US history.

* I rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.

* I withdrew from the World Court of Law.

* I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war & by
default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.

* I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations
election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).

* I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate
campaign donations. My biggest lifetime campaign contributor, who is also one of my best friends, presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).

* I spent more money on polls & focus groups than any president in US
history.

* I am the first president to run & hide when the US came under attack
(and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)

* I am the first US president to establish a secret shadow government.

* I took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 9/11, & in less
than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US & world history).

* I, with a policy of 'disengagement' created the most hostile
Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.

* I am the first US president in history to have a majority of the
people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace & stability.

* I am the first US president in history to have the people of South
Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbour, North Korea.

* I changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded
government contracts.

* I set all-time record for number of administration appointees who
violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.

* I failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'.

* I failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders
of
our country at the United States Capitol building. After 18 months I
have no
leads & zero suspects.

* In the 18 months following the 9/11 attacks, I have successfully
prevented
any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the
history of
the United States.

* I removed more freedoms & civil liberties for Americans than any other
president in US history.

* In a little over two years I created the most divided country in
decades,
possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war.

* I entered office with the strongest economy in US history & in less
than
two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.



RECORDS & REFERENCES:

* I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas
driving
record has been erased & is not available).

* I was AWOL from the National Guard & deserted the military during a
time
of war.

* I refused to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug
use.

* All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away
to
my father's library, sealed in secrecy & unavailable for public view.

* All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or
bankrupt
companies are sealed in secrecy & unavailable for public view.

* All minutes of meetings for any public corporation where I served on
the
board are sealed in secrecy & unavailable for public view.

* Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding
public energy policy are sealed in secrecy & unavailable for public
review.

* For personal references please speak to my daddy or uncle James Baker
(They can be reached at their offices of the Carlyle Group- global arms
dealer)

[BikeDeck]

1. So many things wrong

So many things in the resume are false. This is as bad as those looney right wing emails that make the rounds.

[Old and In the Way]

2. Please list your objections.......I read it and I couldn't find anything

factually untrue....but I'm open to detailed arguments to refute this list.

[BikeDeck]

3. Couple of things

I read it and I couldn't find anything factually untrue

Then you didn't try very hard. Here are just a few.

I set the record for most executions by any Governor in American
history.

Right of the bat, anyone who knows anything about Texas law knows that the Governor does not have the power to pardons or clemency for those on death row. The only power the Gov. of Texas has in regard to death sentences is the ability to stay an execution, one time, for 30 days. That is it.

I set the economic record for the most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.

While technically true, it can be said of every president since FDR. Not exactly an exceptional or out of the ordinary item to hang on Bush.

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

This one is particularly outrageous. The largest single day drop in stock market history was Black Monday, October 19, 1987. The market dropped 508 points, 22.6% of its value. If one wants to argue the resume means the largest drop in value over a period of time, it is again wildly wrong. The loss in value of the market from Bush's inaguration to its lowest point doesn't even put it in the Top 10 market retreats in history.

I signed more laws & executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history.

Another outrageous claim. The words "amending the Constitution" have a very specific meaning. POTUS does not posses the ability to "amend the Constitution."

I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history & refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.

I would suggest the multiple energy criseses of the 70's were far worse than that which California experienced.

I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the
Union simultaneously go bankrupt.

No states have gone "bankrupt". This statement is just rediculous. Do some states have big budget problems? Yes. Bankrupt? No. Words mean things, and bankrupt has a very specific meaning.

I removed more freedoms & civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.

President Lincoln suspended habeas corpus for ALL US citizens for 5 years. President Adams signed the Alien & Sediction acts which allowed the government to arrest US citizens who wrote or spoke against the government. I would suggest these actions are far and away worse than anything in the Patriot Act and other various legislation.

All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my father's library, sealed in secrecy & unavailable for public view.

A big fat lie. The Records of George W. Bush can be found here.
http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/arc/findingaids/bush.html

A quote from the web site:

The records of Governor George W Bush are available for research. Researchers will expedite thee fulfillment of their reference requests by first consulting finding aids. Requests for records must follow the procedures set forth in the Texas Public Information Act.

The Records of Governor George W Bush ( http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/tslac/40078/tsl-40078.html ) are available for research despite the fact that they have not been fully prepared for research. As the Archives' staff prepares each group of records, this finding aid is updated on the Web at TARO (Texas Archival Resources Online). http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/index.html



And thats just a quick refutation of just a few items. A lot of the UN stuff is completely bogus, and some of the UN organizations listed DO NOT EXIST!

If you want more, spend some time doing some research of the claims made.

And sorry for the delay in responding to you. Had some major problems getting logged in for a few hours this evening.

[Old and In the Way]

4. OK.....

Executions. "It must be said that George W. Bush is not responsible for the increased pace of executions, nor did he create Texas' arcane clemency procedures. But it cannot be denied that Bush has steadfastly opposed changing the clemency procedures in the face of stinging criticism by the courts."

Source: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articles/0,3266,39180,00.html


Market Drop - True, we've had worst drops in terms of points, but we've seen by far the largest wipeout in valuation. By give him time, he's only been in 3 years. But wait till his new economic stimulus package (tax cuts) kicks in...

Amending the Constitution - agreed, we haven't given him the power to make changes to our constitution...yet.

Energy crises - Well, I believe that we are now seeing the highest average cost of gasoline, ever. Of course, if you factor in the true costs of this administration's energy policies (war in Iraq), I'd say he's spun us into the worst energy crisis we've seen yet. Worse than that, his corrupt ties to the oil industry will keep us from developing an energy policy that uses alternative/renewable energy, thus creating even worse costs to the US consumer in the years to come.

States "Bankrupt" - OK, all 50 states are running a deficit...semantics. He's given the rich a big federal tax cut and transfered the pain to the state and local levels.

Civil Liberties - I would suggest he's implemented the tools he needs to erode our civil freedoms. I'm only 50, so I can't tell you much about the times when John Adams was president and there was a Civil War that I recall when Lincoln suspended Habeus Corpus...but I can tell you that this guy thinks life would be easier if he was a dictator...and I see Homeland Security and the Patriot Act as steps that will enable him to realize his goal. I'm thinking this country is becoming the one-party state that the Republicans used to rail against in the good old days when we had McCarthyism.

Bush Governor Records - I can site web links too! - http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/features/news/bush_documents.html

So you really haven't refuted anything....but, hey, if you think this unelected fraud doesn't deserve impeachment, I guess our standards for criminal malfeasance are completely different.