* 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.
SUBSTANCE EXPERIENCE
* I was arrested in 1972 for cocaine possession, taken to Harris County Jail, but avoided jail or formal charges through an informal diversion plan involving community service with Project P.U.L.L., an inner city Houston program for troubled youths at the Martin Luther King Jr. Community Center in Houston's dirt-poor Third Ward. As soon as the year was over, I resumed to my previous pattern and have not done any charity work since.
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. The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.
* 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 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 largest U.S. budget surplus in history and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.
* I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.
* I have single-handedly racked up more debt than all 43 presidents’ before me combined. 1.03 trillion dollars and counting...
*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, had 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 inspector’s 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 fewest numbers 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 protests 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-wartime.
* In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking Iraq and 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 [sic] 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.
* I am a member of the Republican Party.
PLEASE CONSIDER MY EXPERIENCE WHEN VOTING
IN THE 2006 MIDTERM ELECTIONS.
Edit: oops sorry everyone I got it from myspace bulletin. I was meaning to post the resource.....gotta stop posting at night.
I guess Kat has fixed the problem. Thank-you.
Edit: i am gonna find out the source
You can criticize bush all you want, but those statements are so subjective and twisted that it isn't worth considering....
If someone wanted to write up a bunch of statements about my life and twisted to their own gain, then I would look as bad or worse than this....and I am a decent person, imho.
HOB 10.05.2005, E Rutherford 06.03.2006, The Gorge 07.22.2006, Lolla 08.05.2007, West Palm 06.11.2008, Tampa 06.12.2008, Columbia 06.16.2008, EV Memphis 06.20.2009, New Orleans 05.01.2010, Kansas City 05.03.2010
Admittedly I had a good chuckle over this list, pretty funny, and somewhat spot on, but for instance -- If Al Gore hadn't invented that whole Internet thing, along with the whole dotcom bubble, then W wouldn't have seen the largest drop in the stock market.... Attributing that to his presidency is kinda like... Al Gore inventing the internet.
A lot of the attributions to his presidency are a reach. Again, like Al Gore inventing the internet.
I don't really get the point this website is trying to make, I think the person who did that lost a lot of time for nothing :
1 - Taking the bush resume litteraly is stupid. I don't know the guy personnaly but he seems like an average guy. Neither stupid nor an incredible genius. He's just average. And even if he was a political genious there is no way he alone could have : started two wars, run texas all alone, run oil companies and do all those sorts of things. When you're governor/ceo/president (when you have power) you're surrounded by counsellors, experts and many other people who tell you what to do. Because no one can run a country alone. So the claims on W's resume do not solely lay on W.
2 - The person who wrote this website seems more keen on demonstrating the resume is wrong rather than demonstrating W is a good leader. Who cares if the resume is wrong? We all know it is (see point 1), but it's fun. And in the end what both the resume and the truth seem to point out is : W made big mistakes in his politics (not the worst mistakes in american history it seems), fucked up an oil company, didn't do a great job as governor, has a rather strange economic policy and has (arguably) did big big mistakes in his foreign policy.
3 - Pointing out wars in Irak and Afghanistan were legitimate is a moot point. Some think they weren't, some think they were (I don't agree, but hell I'm in a good mood so I'll respect that). But you can't change the facts : considering the countries America is allied to in Irak (did you read the list? do you still think it was a good decision??), considering the shit that is going on in Irak and Afghanistan, considering the position Iran has today I dare anybody to tell me a little more thinking would have been to much on both wars.
4 - The whole part on the human rights is useless and boring. We all know now America along with some european allies have made serious breaches in the human rights treaty. Comparing them to china is not really a good argument. Their were serious (and horrible) mistakes made towards that treaty and the geneva convention, now deal with it. Don't whine cause you know, Iran and China are bad boys too.
5 - I don't really get the awol thing. What I do get is that W is neither a moron who cannot tie his shoelaces neither an outstanding person who will win several nobel prizes. He's average (some will say below, other above but in the end just average), had average grades and did an average military time. Woohoo, who cares?
6 - I'm not an economical genius (neither student for that matter) but it seems america spends a lot of money... on war for example. Congress is responsible for expenses, but I honestly think W and his team may have had some expense suggestions given to congress. Pointing out the final decision was made by congressmen? ...
7 - Finally a war costs a lot of money. A war changes the political and economical relations throughout the world. And a war in the middle east is sure to change the face of energy economics. It's not a secret nor a mistake to say oil companies had a word to say in both wars. I mean without being a conspiracy buff it is an evidence major oil companies and their interest (wich somehow converge with america's interests have something to do with the wars. Not W alone. Giving the moral issue on both wars is really nice and all but come on, give a bit more credit to your governement.
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Yep ...
You can criticize bush all you want, but those statements are so subjective and twisted that it isn't worth considering....
If someone wanted to write up a bunch of statements about my life and twisted to their own gain, then I would look as bad or worse than this....and I am a decent person, imho.
A lot of the attributions to his presidency are a reach. Again, like Al Gore inventing the internet.
I don't really get the point this website is trying to make, I think the person who did that lost a lot of time for nothing :
1 - Taking the bush resume litteraly is stupid. I don't know the guy personnaly but he seems like an average guy. Neither stupid nor an incredible genius. He's just average. And even if he was a political genious there is no way he alone could have : started two wars, run texas all alone, run oil companies and do all those sorts of things. When you're governor/ceo/president (when you have power) you're surrounded by counsellors, experts and many other people who tell you what to do. Because no one can run a country alone. So the claims on W's resume do not solely lay on W.
2 - The person who wrote this website seems more keen on demonstrating the resume is wrong rather than demonstrating W is a good leader. Who cares if the resume is wrong? We all know it is (see point 1), but it's fun. And in the end what both the resume and the truth seem to point out is : W made big mistakes in his politics (not the worst mistakes in american history it seems), fucked up an oil company, didn't do a great job as governor, has a rather strange economic policy and has (arguably) did big big mistakes in his foreign policy.
3 - Pointing out wars in Irak and Afghanistan were legitimate is a moot point. Some think they weren't, some think they were (I don't agree, but hell I'm in a good mood so I'll respect that). But you can't change the facts : considering the countries America is allied to in Irak (did you read the list? do you still think it was a good decision??), considering the shit that is going on in Irak and Afghanistan, considering the position Iran has today I dare anybody to tell me a little more thinking would have been to much on both wars.
4 - The whole part on the human rights is useless and boring. We all know now America along with some european allies have made serious breaches in the human rights treaty. Comparing them to china is not really a good argument. Their were serious (and horrible) mistakes made towards that treaty and the geneva convention, now deal with it. Don't whine cause you know, Iran and China are bad boys too.
5 - I don't really get the awol thing. What I do get is that W is neither a moron who cannot tie his shoelaces neither an outstanding person who will win several nobel prizes. He's average (some will say below, other above but in the end just average), had average grades and did an average military time. Woohoo, who cares?
6 - I'm not an economical genius (neither student for that matter) but it seems america spends a lot of money... on war for example. Congress is responsible for expenses, but I honestly think W and his team may have had some expense suggestions given to congress. Pointing out the final decision was made by congressmen? ...
7 - Finally a war costs a lot of money. A war changes the political and economical relations throughout the world. And a war in the middle east is sure to change the face of energy economics. It's not a secret nor a mistake to say oil companies had a word to say in both wars. I mean without being a conspiracy buff it is an evidence major oil companies and their interest (wich somehow converge with america's interests have something to do with the wars. Not W alone. Giving the moral issue on both wars is really nice and all but come on, give a bit more credit to your governement.