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AmericanErrorist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-29-04 01:21 AM
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Documents Reveal Gaps In Bush's Service As President
WASHINGTON, DC—Freshly unearthed public documents, ranging from newspapers to cabinet-meeting minutes, seem to indicate large gaps in George W. Bush's service as president, a spokesman for the watchdog group Citizens for an Informed Society announced Monday.

"We originally invoked the Freedom Of Information Act to request material relating to Bush's spotty record while in office," CIS director Catherine Rocklin said. "But then we realized that the information was readily available at the corner newsstand, on the Internet, and from our friends and neighbors who pay attention to the news."

According to Rocklin, the most damning documents were generated at roughly one-day intervals during a period beginning in January 2001 and ending this week. The document's sources include, but are not limited to, the U.S. newspaper The New York Times, the London-based Economist magazine, and the well-known international business and finance record, The Wall Street Journal.

"Factual data presented in these publications indicates that Bush took little or no action on issues as widely varied as the stalled economy, increasing violence in post-war Iraq, and the lagging public education system," Rocklin said. "The newsprint documents also reveal huge disparities between the ways Bush claimed to have served Medicare patients, and what he actually did."

..."Bush shirked his presidential duties with regard to the nation's fiscal health," Rocklin said. "Take, for example, the controversial memo in which Congressional Budget Office director Douglas Holtz-Eakin states that the federal deficit will reach a record high of $422 billion this year. This memo unequivocally shows that Bush was AWOL on the domestic front."

Rocklin said her organization obtained print-outs from the press-briefings section of the White House web site which show that Bush has spent nearly as much time out of the White House as in it.


http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4039
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-29-04 01:34 AM
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1. What else is new??? LOL, We knew that. He is the Vacation President
Most of Bushys time is spent playing golf or fund raising....
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ogradda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-29-04 01:34 AM
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2. proving yet again
he could give a shit about anything but himself.
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