Do you remember when you first discovered how bad Bush is?

[Rocknrule]

For me, it was the first debate of Election 2000. All I knew was that my mom supported Gore and my dad supported Bush, and my mom usually has more common sense than my dad, so she was probably right. I already knew of Bush's reputation as an idiot after reading a Dave Letterman Top 10 about him. Also, I noticed that for some reason, it seemed that the media wanted Bush to win. I remember upon seeing both candidates for the first time during debate 1, the first thing I thought was "Isn't it OBVIOUS that Gore is the better choice?"

[autorank]

1. When I saw his press conference on the MonicaGate scandal...

I thought "What a total jerk!" And I vastly underestimated the situation since he's that and much, much more.

[rocktivity]

2. Sure--it was when he announced he was running for president

Since his father also ran as a moderate and made a right turn, I knew what to except. Both the election theft (in the state that his brother just happened to be governor of) and 9/11 saddened me--but I was not shocked.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Ian David]

4. It was when they stopped the Florida recount that I knew he was a Nazi

[depakid]

3. When he lied through his teeth about social security

and the budget numbers- and the corporate media that Clinton pandered to for 8 years muzzled EVERYONE who could do even a little arithmetic, I pretty well knew it was going to be worse than anyone could imagine.

[cybildisobedience]

5. for me, it was just before the 2000 South Carolina primary

He was being interviewed, and I could see his dark soul through his beady, little evil black eyes. At that point,he had already lost to McCain and in danger of being out, if he lost this state. So his minions went to work, and Bush acted like he was above it all. Clearly, he was in up to those beady eyeballs, but all you heard about was how affable and charismatic he was.
It was SO obvious -- I couldn't believe everyone didn't see it.
And I thought, here he is, the annointed. The MSM refused to report on anything unflattering about his past, his shady National Guard "service," the cretins he surrounded himself with. I feared, from that point on, that he would be "installed" in some manner, never really thinking that it would be the Supreme Court that did it, AFTER preventing votes from being counted.
At that stage, I knew our democracy was crushed by this monster.

[tridim]

6. Yea, but don't you remember.. Gore sighed in the debates

Obviously that means he lost, right MSM? Assholes.

[TomInTib]

7. I am from Texas and had to.....

oh, screw it, just too damned painful to think about.

[JuniperLea]

8. It was hate at first smirk

The debate clinched it.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

9. Back in 1999. ~more Brandy please~ nt

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

12. Same here. I saw some interview with him in 1999 and I was like

"Good Lord, this guy is a total moron"!!! The smirk on his face really turned me off. It took me awhile, but I finally realized where I had seen his face before..

On the cover of my brothers' Mad Magazines in the 1960's...

[sellitman]

10. When Babs refused the morning after pill n/t

[KevinJH87]

11. Before Iraq War

I never really liked him but I was for the most part indifferent until mid 2002 when Bush was pushing for the Iraq War. I did not like what he was doing and how he was disregarding the UN. Also, being half French and very close to my relatives there I did not like what he was doing to Europe and France when they opposed him. My regret is turning 18 six months after the 2004 elections. I would have loved to vote for Kerry.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

17. I hate with my soul, how this WH administration has

tried to crap all over France. I'm not even descended of French blood.
You can vote in 06!!

[KevinJH87]

30. i do plan on voting!

[abluelady]

13. The first time I heard him open his mouth. eom

[TahitiNut]

14. Early 2000, before the Presidential Primaries.

When I saw that he was a candidate, I stifled my disgust for his father out of a sense of fairness. I said to myself, "Self, he might not be as bad as his father. You should keep an open mind and research his qualifications." So I did the research. What I found was appalling. His evasion of not only the draft but completion of 'service' in the Champagne Unit of TANG, coupled with the near-certainty that he was a elitist, rich-kid, entitled coke snorter while in the TANG, put the cap on it for me. Absolutely everything I've learned since has merely lowered my opinion of him. Continuously. Every time I think it can't go lower, it does.

[cynatnite]

15. I never cared for him to begin with, but the bad feelings...

Really came out when he first started talking about Saddam after 9/11. That's when I realized how dangerous he really was. It just got worse from then on and this was before I got informed about how bad he was before 9/11.

[dogday]

16. When interviewed on election night 2000 and Bush

said "My Brother told me I have Florida" with all the confidence of someone who already knew it. My husband and I knew right then, something was stinking in the state of Florida.....

[Hardrada]

18. On sight!!

[musical_soul]

19. I discovered it in 2000.

How could the Republicans vote in somebody so evil for the primaries?

[Democrats_win]

20. 2000, open microphone caught him calling someone an a-hole then refused to

apologize to the person he was talking about but did apologize that we heard it. BTW Cheney's response, also caught by the microphone: "Yeah, big time."

This is the stupidist thing I've ever seen and showed how disengenuous these people really are. It also showed his poor manners and upbringing. This moment forshadowed their entire BS administration.

You don't need to know anything else about them although Molly Ivin's "Shrub" already told the country that he was a moron.

[aden_nak]

21. 1998 for me. I got a bit of an advance warning. Big trouble come soon.

[NNN0LHI]

22. I assumed no one would steal a presidential election for noble reasons

So for me it was in 2000 that I realized what a dickhead Boosh was.

Don

[ourbluenation]

23. The "ice" incedent....

Before he was appointed the king of america, at a presser with the dickster during the whole gore v bush debacle. The first reporter asked him a question and he was taking a gulp of his diet coke. He spit the goddam ice back into the glass to answer the question.

[mcscajun]

32. YUCK! I see he showed his lack of class even then.

Ugh.

[Mr_Spock]

24. When in 1/2001 I had a vision he would cause a Middle Eastern backlash

that would lead to a major catastrophic event based on getting back at the evil Bush family...

[CornField]

25. Carla Tucker. eom

[Beaverhausen]

26. Oh- that is my answer! When he laughed about executing her

that was a long time ago...a lot of hatin' going on!

[JerseygirlCT]

27. Exactly! That said it all. nt

[Rainscents]

28. Summer of 2000

I was researching and found of bad information... mostly business failure and involvement in BCCI.

[RoyGBiv]

29. Way before then ...

I was Texas Rangers fan at one point in my life. He ruined that. When I realized that was the same George Bush that was running for governor of Texas, I coughed a lot. When I discovered he was running for President, I shook my head and choked. When he was appointed ... well, I survived, but barely.

So, basically, we're talking about the early 90's, before Clinton was elected, that I realized what a complete imbecile he is.

Thinking back on it, I really should have seen it all coming. He rise to power in Texas followed a path that was repeated in 2000 and 2004. It's surreal to think about the position he holds...this CAN'T BE REAL. But, it is, and it sucks a hot, stank wind.

[mcscajun]

31. During the 2000 campaign when he wouldn't be pinned down on

his position on a woman's right to choose.

He was shucking and jiving even then. I knew where he stood...my Republican friend SWORE he wasn't against abortion. Right.

[radwriter0555]

33. August 2000, when I decided I needed to know more about bush and gore

so that I could chat with the idiots in room 4 on yahoo politics lobby.

I've been saying "I told you so" ever since.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

34. Yup. Third Girlfriend. I Asked The Fourth To Shave.

Ok, bad joke, but at least it's out of the way.

Anyway, I discovered how bad * was the first time I heard him speak at length. Even then he just seemed so simplistic and simply dumb. I knew right then that this was somebody we just simply could not elect as leader of the greatest nation on earth. In the end, I was right, but only to a degree. See, as bad as I thought he'd be, I had no idea the levels of how bad it realllllly was going to get.

[f-bush]

35. yeah the day the fucker first publicly opened his mouth!

[Alamom]

36. A few people in Alabama remember way back when...

He hid out here and was "excused" :sarcasm: from his National Guard duty during the Vietnam War to work on Red Blount's Campaign.
My husband lived in Mongomery at that time and people do gossip. You've all probably read the stories and recently, in the last year, one of the main players of Blount's campaign, aging but articulate, was interviewed by a local paper and stated it was all true and much more.

When he ran for governor of Texas and won, my husband said then.....this can't be good.
When he ran for president, my husband said, he will be pResident, no matter how they have to do it.

The story sums up who and what he is and will always be.
We all know he was causing Poppy trouble in Texas. Poppy was on his way up serving as
United States Ambassador to the United Nations and then appointed Chairman of the Republican National Committee.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H.W._Bush

Georgie was raising hell and had to be sent somewhere......


In Alabama, where George W. Bush supposedly was slaving away on Winton "Red" Blount's 1972 U.S. Senate campaign in lieu of National Guard duty, he is remembered by a Blount son as a smartass "****sman" from Texas.

Bush Junior, as he was then called, used to come into Blount's campaign office in Montgomery, prop his feet up on a desk, and blab on about how much he'd drunk the night before, according to a detailed article by New Orleans freelance journalist Glynn Wilson on his Progressive Southerner blog (southerner.net/blog/awolbush.html).
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Blount's Belles, a group of young Republican women and Montgomery debutantes who were helping out on the campaign, would fall into a swoon at the sight of young George. "We thought he was to die for," said one. But the Blue Haired Platoon, a group of older women campaigning for Blount, referred to Junior as "the Texas souffl颠because he was "all puffed up and full of hot air."

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According to Wilson, Tom Blount "remembers thinking to himself" the following: "This guy thinks he is such a ****sman, God's gift to women. He was all duded up in his cowboy boots. It was sort of annoying seeing all these people who thought they were hot shit just because they were from Texas."

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/6/3585


No offense to real Texans...just the "bush-rich-ass" kind who have always thought they owned & ruled the world. We also know, they're not Texans.

My husband was right....this ain't turned out good.

[Rocknrule]

38. And they said Clinton was a womanizer

At least Clinton didn't need to stuff socks in his crotch to look manly

[SPKrazy]

37. When He Ran For Governor In Texas And Beat Ann Richards

Knew he was bad news then

nothing but a name that people knew

[bklyncowgirl]

39. The McCain smears during the primaries

Anyone who would allow his backers to float those sort of rumors had to be the lowest form of pond scum on the face of the planet. I was also surprised to learn that the seemingly old family ranch had been newly purchased for the campeign and that the guy's cowboy persona was a total fraud.

I was sort of tempted to vote for Nader because I thought that Gore was not running the sort of campeign that I found inspiring, but pulled the lever for Gore anyway, and talked anyone I could into doing the same because I had a bad feeling about Bush. In the end, I was wrong. He was alot worse than I feared.

[Lochloosa]

40. 1996 my stepmother is the treasurer of the demo party in a small town in

TX. Enough said

[lpbk2713]

41. When I first saw him in the Y2K primaries.

I had to say "Is this a joke?"

When he got his party's nod at the convention I was in disbelief. I knew there had to be some sort of conspiracy afoot because someone so blatantly inept could not have made it that far otherwise. Only thing I could figure was his old man was once the head of the CIA. I knew that must have been a big part of whatever conspiracy there was.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

42. How far back do you want to go? How about when he was...

...Governor of Texas? Or when he owned the Texas Rangers? Or when he was "running" his own businesses?