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coloradodem2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-11-04 04:38 PM
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here's another reason to get off our asses and vote this year...
...could you imagine another BUSH-era??!! god save us!






Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual
> power. We have guided
> >> missiles and misguided man. -- Dr. Martin Luther
> King, Jr., 1963
> >>
> >>
> >> RESUME (November 2003)
> >>
> >> George W. Bush
> >> The White House, USA
> >>
> >> LAW ENFORCEMENT:
> >> I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976
> for driving under the
> >> influence of alcohol. I pled guilty, paid a fine,
> and had my driver's
> >> license suspended for 30 days. My Texas driving
> record has been
> >> "lost" and is not available.
> >>
> >> MILITARY:
> >> I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went
> AWOL. I refused to
> >> take a drug test or answer any questions about my
> drug use. By
> >> joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able
> to avoid combat duty
> >> in Vietnam.
> >>
> >> COLLEGE:
> >> I graduated from Yale University with a low C
> average. I was a
> >> cheerleader.
> >>
> >> PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:
> >> I ran for U.S. Congress and lost. I began my
> career in the oil
> >> business in Midland, Texas, in 1975. I bought an
> oil company, but
> >> couldn't find any oil in Texas. I bought the
> Texas Rangers baseball
> >> team in a sweetheart deal that took land using
> taxpayer money.
> >>
> >> With the help of my father and our right-wing
> friends in the oil
> >> industry (including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was
> elected governor of
> >> Texas.
> >>
> >>
> >> ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS:
> >>
> >>
> >> I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and
> oil companies,
> >> making Texas the most polluted state in the
> Union. During my tenure,
> >> Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most
> smog-ridden city in America.
> >>
> >> I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to
> the tune of billions
> >> in borrowed money.
> >>
> >> I set the record for the most executions by any
> governor in American
> >> history
> >>
> >> With the help of my brother, the governor of
> Florida, and my father's
> >> appointments to the Supreme Court, I became
> President after losing by
> >> over 500,000 votes.
> >>
> >>
> >> ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
> >>
> >> I am the first President in U.S. history to enter
> office with a
> >> criminal record.
> >>
> >> I invaded and occupied two countries at a
> continuing cost of over one
> >> billion dollars per week.
> >>
> >> 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 most foreclosures
> in a 12-month period.
> >>
> >> I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in
> the history of the
> >> U.S. stock market.
> >>
> >> In my first year in office, over 2 million
> Americans lost their jobs
> >> and that trend continues every month.
> >>
> >> 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 set the record for most campaign fund-raising
> trips by a U.S.
> >> President.
> >>
> >> 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, presided over the largest corporate
> bankruptcy fraud in
> >> U.S. History, Enron.
> >>
> >> My political party used Enron private jets and
> corporate attorneys to
> >> assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court
> during my election
> >> decision.
> >>
> >> I have protected my friends at Enron and
> Halliburton against
> >> investigation or prosecution. More time and money
> was spent
> >> investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has
> been spent
> >> investigating one of the biggest corporate
> rip-offs 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.
> >>
> >> I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted
> criminals to be awarded
> >> government contracts.
> >>
> >> I appointed more convicted criminals to
> administration than any
> >> President in U.S. history.
> >>
> >>
> >> I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the
> largest bureaucracy
> >> in the history of the United States government.
> >>
> >> I've broken more international treaties than any
> President in U.S.
> >> 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 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 set the record for the fewest number of press
> conferences of any
> >> President since the advent of television.
> >>
> >> I set the all-time record for most days on
> vacation in any one-year
> >> period.
> >>
> >> After taking off the entire month of August, I
> presided over the
> >> worst security failure 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
> >> hated country in the world, the largest failure
> of diplomacy in world
> >> history.
> >>
> >> 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 mankind.
> >>
> >> I am the first President in U.S. history to order
> an unprovoked,
> >> pre-emptive attack and the military occupation of
> a sovereign nation.
> >> I did so against the will of the United Nations,
> the majority of U.S.
> >> citizens, and the world community.
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> In my State of the Union Address, I lied about
> our reasons for
> >> attacking Iraq, then blamed the lies on our
> British friends.
> >>
> >> I am the first President in history to have a
> majority of Europeans
> >> (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to
> world peace and
> >> security.
> >>
> >> I am supporting development of a nuclear
> "Tactical Bunker Buster," a
> >> WMD.
> >>
> >> I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to
> bring Osama Bin Laden to
> >> justice.
> >>
> >> RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
> >>
> >> 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 my insider
> trading and my
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> PLEASE CONSIDER MY EXPERIENCE WHEN VOTING IN
> 2004.
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