A look back: George Bu$h 2000

[DoYouEverWonder]

Now that we are heading into Campaign 2004 I thought it would be interesting to look back at Campaign 2000 and look at what Bu$h did and said back then and how it compares to the present.

It seems that the world has change in unbelievable ways, but it's funny Bu$h hasn't changed at all. And almost everything we suspected about Bu$h then, has turned out not only to be true, but even worse than we thought. Yet the corporate controlled media continues to cover up for their Boy King and the fact that everybody knows the emperor has no clothes



BBC News

George W Bush: Out of his father's shadow

8 November, 2000

<snip>

Bush has also been surrounded by rumors of a hell-raising lifestyle which included not only hard drinking but drug abuse.

Asked by one reporter if he would pass a White House background check, Bush replied that he had not taken drugs for seven years.


<snip>

Bush describes himself as a "compassionate conservative".

In his 1999 inaugural address, following re-election as Texas Governor, Bush said it was not enough to reduce problems just to a matter of economics.

"The real answer is found in the hearts of decent caring people who have heard the call to love their neighbours as they would like to be loved themselves," he said.

<snip>

"We cannot let terrorists and rogue nations hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile," Mr Bush once commented in relation to the proposed missile defence programme.

[F.Gordon]

1. "Trust"

“Trust” was a name given to a series of ads Bush* ran towards the end of the 2000 Election.

Governor Bush:

I believe we need to encourage personal responsibility so people are accountable for their actions. And I believe in government that is responsible to the people.

There's a big difference in philosophy between my opponent and me. He trusts government. I trust you.

I trust you to invest some of your own social security money for higher returns. I trust local people to run their own schools. I trust you with some of the budget surplus. We should help people live their lives, but not run them.

I'm asking for your vote.

http://www.politicsandelections.com/usa/ads/bush.htm

There is so much irony here I wouldn't know where to begin. The above link also references the "Rats" ad and the pulled Clinton-Gore-Monica ad.

I suspect we'll see the same worn-out spin in 2004. He's* already puking a variation of the "Trust" ad in his "Presidential Theater".

"which is going to happen in '05 unless this Congress acts, makes the decision, does what is right, this good family will pay $1,300 -- have $1,300 less in money to spend. And it means people in Congress will be spending it.

Now, we've got plenty of money in Washington. I would rather have {Teresa} making the decision with that $1,300 than the people in Congress.

This slimy piece of shit won't even accept responsibility for Government spending or the deficit. (On Edit: He* won't even acknowledge that there IS a deficit: "we've got plenty of money in Washington") He's* already blaming Congress for mis-management of "your" tax dollars.

When I hear people here at DU saying that won't vote ABB or won't vote for "so-and-so" it makes my skin crawl. This is the man you want to keep in the White House?

[rasputin1952]

2. Whew! I sure don't want to keep him in the WH...

the sooner he's0. gone, the quicker the nation can get back to the people.

I'm an ABB person, I cannot see tossing my vote away, the stakes are far too high!

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