When w campaigned, did anyone ask if he was qualified to be president?

[Philosoraptor]

Like they are now asking about Hillary and Obama? That's the question today on cspan.

If I remember my ancient history, his so called political experience was being the governor of Texas, and the word was that he was merely a statue governor, and he once owned a baseball team and sold it for a monstrous profit, and he had once run an oil company that couldn't find oil in Texas and went bankrupt, while he made humongous profits, and oh yeah, he did tons of cocaine and drank rivers of Jack Daniels.

And he was a shitty student and he went AWOL from the TANG.

If bush can be president, a fucking dead armadillo can be too.

[flyingfysh]

1. an armadillo would have done less damage

[maine_raptor]

2. The first test for any want-to-be Prez.

You gotta be able to say the word "nuclear" correctly. If you can't do that, then you shouldn't be running.

[salin]

3. Yes - but the media always raised then quickly dismissed both

the experience - and the "gravitas" issues - telling the public that those things really weren't important.

[mwb970]

11. They said it didn't matter that Bush was dumb.

Because he had a "dream team" of experienced hands - you know, guys like Cheney and Rumsfeld.

[Shadrach]

4. I remember someone gave him a quiz on the spot

asking him about names of world leaders and he did really poorly and that was news for a couple of days. It was obvious that he was an idiot and he lost the election. The supreme court decided that election. Not the people.

[BOSSHOG]

6. Welcome Shadrach, nice to have you aboard

The story you refer to was that someone had the audacity to ask a man who wanted to be president questions he should have known the answer to. Obviously the questioner was an evil liberal plant trying to confuse the christian and ever wonderful george bush, patron saint of pretty fucking worthless shitty politicians (all of whom are republican.)

[Jeanette in FL]

8. You are 100% correct

Welcome to DU,Shadrach

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/11/05/bush.popquiz/

Bush fails reporter's pop quiz on international leaders
November 5, 1999

Web posted at: 3:29 p.m. EST (2029 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Texas Gov. George W. Bush is enduring sharp criticism for being unable to name the leaders of four current world hot spots, but President Bill Clinton says Bush "should, and probably will, pick up" those names.

The front-runner for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination faltered Thursday in an international affairs pop quiz posed by Andy Hiller, a political reporter for WHDH-TV in Boston.
Hiller asked Bush to name the leaders of Chechnya, Taiwan, India and Pakistan. Bush was only able to give a partial response to the query on the leader of Taiwan, referring to Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui simply as "Lee." He could not name the others.

[izzie]

5. He also did his father's dirty work I read.

I think we need to put in a 'type' not how long he has been in any office. Bush's history in every thing shows he was not a man of good values and never a man with an open mind. That is not a man to put in as a President of this country. Obama seems to have a open mind to all problems and is of course smart enough to be able to think in an open way and see many sides. I do not know but do not think he thinks he is always right. Bush seems to think he is right about every thing and I am sure believes in divine rule which really is a scary thing to me.

[KharmaTrain]

7. Experience Was A Bad Thing In 2000

The corporate media told us so!

They kept building up boooshie as a "fresh new face"...a new generation...an outsider, blah blah blah. Experience? That was a bad thing. Like the time the reporter asked him to name leaders of foreign countries and boooshie couldn't do it...one of those he was asked about was Musharaf! The media thought the asking him this question was over the line...the first of many, many passes this boy has had. On the otherhand Gore couldn't get a break. The most experienced man we've had running for President in our lifetimes was pummeled for his wardrobe, if he was an "alfa-male", if he had invented the internet and so on.

The corporate game is to build 'em up and knock 'em down. Now we're seeing some of that finally going boooshie's way, since he's lost a lot of his political popularity...and be assured they'll be going after any and all Democrats. They've already done a number on Hillary and have used Obama to be the anti-Hillary...if there's no Hillary around, then he gets all their scorn.

As we've been told over and over again here, the corporate media is not our friend. Count on them to spin things in a Repugnican light as that's where their interests truly lie. Look at the pass St. McCain has been getting on his extreme positions and support of very unpopular positions...yet he's still there darling.

[fasttense]

9. Ever since the Fairness Doctrine was ignored by Raygun

we have had the corporate elite shoving their opinion down our throats. Most people just open wide and swallow.

[HughBeaumont]

10. Nobody asked anything.

He's a Bush. That's what qualifies him. And half of this cargo van full of idiots fell for it.

It's amazing that the same Americans calling for the end of England's royals have no problem genuflecting face down to our own.

[Philosoraptor]

13. His daddy was president 41, the total fuckup, it'll be great!

[zbdent]

12. The media hyped that he was the first MBA President(hopeful)

obviously ignoring the fact that he never had anything to do with a business venture that made a profit ...

[geiger]

14. The money "qualified" him, remember? That's all they talked about.

"he had the money to win"

[Philosoraptor]

15. & unfortunately it IS the number one qualifier.

[Virginia Dare]

16. He was the man that most voters wanted to sit down and...

have a beer with. That was his qualifier. Plus, his daddy's friends paid good money to get him there.

[TahitiNut]

19. Yep. "Entertaining Drunkard" is now a qualification for high office.

John Tower would be proud. (hic!) :puke:

[dkofos]

17. We didn't have to

The M$M told us he was immensely qualified.

[LynnTheDem]

18. Yes, and the US "media" felt that Cheney the Dick would be the guiding hand,

the responsible grown-up, who would gently teach & guide bush.

Of course that's the same US "media" who helped the bush regime lie 72% of Americans into believing Iraq did 911.

[UTUSN]

20. K&R for one of those eternal questions n/t

[DuaneBidoux]

21. No one asked. And they should have. And that's my point.

[WI_DEM]

22. Nobody seriously asked and he was a failure at everything he did prior

to being Governor of TX, which is a constitutionally weak Governor's office. The Lt. Gov. has more power on budgetary matters for instance.