WORK EXPERIENCE: I ran for congress and lost. I produced a Hollywood slasher B movie. I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas; 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. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox. With my father's help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas. ACCOMPLISHMENTS: I changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made Texas the most polluted state in the Union. I replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog ridden city in America. Cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money. Set record for most executions by any Governor in American history. I became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of my fathers appointments to the Supreme Court. ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT: I attacked and took over two countries. I spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury. I shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history. I set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period. I set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market. I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner. I am the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record. I am the first year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history. After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, I presided over the worst security failure in US history. I set the record for most campaign fundraising trips than any other president in US history. In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs. I cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history. I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period. I appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history. I set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television. I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history. I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed. I presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have. I cut healthcare benefits for war veterans. I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.> I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history. My presidency is the most secretive and unaccountable of any in US history. Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in US history. (The 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice has a Chevron oil tanker named after her). I am the first president in US history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt. I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world. I am the first president in US history to order a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and the world community. I created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States. I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in US history. I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission. I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board. I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight of any presidential administration in US history. I rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant. I withdrew from the World Court of Law. I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions. I am the first president in US history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections). I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations. My biggest lifetime campaign contributor, who is also one of my best friends, presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation). I spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in US history. I am the first president to run and hide when the US came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1) I am the first US president to establish a secret shadow government. I took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history). I, with a policy of 'disengagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years. I am the first US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability. I am the first US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than their immediate neighbor, North Korea. I changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts. I set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts. I failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive'. I failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capitol building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects. In the 18 months following the 911 attacks I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States. I removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history. In a little over two years I created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been since the civil war. I entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down. RECORDS AND REFERENCES: I have At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available). I was AWOL from National Guard and deserted the military during a time of war. I refuse to take drug test or even answer any questions about drug use. All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my father's library, sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading or bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. All minutes of meetings for any public corporation I served on the board are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review. For personal references please speak to my daddy or uncle James Baker (They can be reached at their offices of the Carlyle Group for war-profiteering.) Jay Schmidt The Daily Reporter 580 S. High St. Columbus, OH 43215 (614) 228-NEWS
Nice post, JohnnyBlaze. This guy has been an absolute disaster for this country, but because he has an (R) before his name, he'll probably be appointed again.
i think the real question is whether or not he had good or bad intelligence about sammy's corkings before he traded him to the white sox. i don't think he lied to us about that. further, it would appear that the white sox were relying on the same intelligence! i mean, they traded him too! great list, though. all very straightforward, truthful and in no way deceptive.
if you want want to start talking about his personal life then bill clinton's problems are about 3 times as much as bush.
i'm hoping there's an understanding here that you could flip it around...do a resume solely spun in a positive fashion...including taking credit for things he had little or no effect on (the same way he's given blame for those same things)...you do realize that, right? you do realize that what's presented as fact is from the observer's perspective, right?
please... he got a hummer and lied about it, so what? I'd much rather have slick willy than Bush. At least I knew my civil liberties were safe under Clinton.
MM...I agree, the list includes a lot of things which aren't really GW's fault, are spun,etc... ...however, and this is a point about Bush, if you were to try and come up with a real , accurate resume for the guy...not a counter spin, but an accurate reflection of his 'accomplishments', do you honestly think it would look all that good? Do you think that, aside from his father being President, thus qualifiying in the sadly ever increasingly important electoral factor of 'name recognition', if you were to look at his career leading up to the election, you'd say " President!'? Now, this has nothing to do with Republican or Democrat to me...I actually prefered Bush, at the time of the elction to Gore...but ever since his actions and, well, personal abilites have made me question my leaning...and that leaning was sort of a better of two evils kind of thing. But, in light of the Clark resume the other day...or Colin Powell's...or people like that...does Bush's qualification for President not seem incredibly meagre at best? The Presidnet is supposed to be chosen from among the very best, no? Ok...so what, exactly, is Bush outstanding at? ...or even very good? The things I liked about him pre-election; his rep for being bi-partisan, his staff ( especially Powell) all seem now to be terribly weak excuses, and were really only made in comparison with Gore. Some say he's a nice guy...great...so's the check out guy at the grocery store...some say he's comitted....hurrah....MM, I ask you, seriously...why is this man President? I see it as an indictment of how terrible political candidates have become recently. Gore was of the same calibre, although brighter, he also wasn't a leader, and seemed like a political opportunist to me. But the point I'm making, MM, is this: Rather than consider whether you could counter-spin up a positive resume for Dubya, ask yourself this: Can I really come up with a resume of this man, objectively, that explains why he is President, how he is among the very best, and gives me confidence in his qualification to lead our nation? Have his actions as President been such as to calm the fears that his resume would otherwise give rise to, or have they confirmed the opinion that the man is reckless, short-sighted, and not all that bright? I was going to ask someone to come up with an objective resume to counter this one...because, sadly, a lot of the stuff on this resume is accurate, but I feel that including spin, hyperbole, etc. only serves to diminish an otherwise sadly accurate and frightening point. MM, if you'd like to do so, and remain objective about it, I'd love to read it.
This isn't a contest between Bill Clinton and George Bush (though Americans try to make EVERYTHING a contest). You can't compare the two. Look at what each accomplished (or didn't). By ANY measure, Bush has done virtually nothing positive for this country. If the best argument for Bush is that an intern hasn't blown him, that's pretty dang weak. Was Clinton great? No, but what does he have to do with how sh!tty a president Bush is?
as an aside... Why do people always consider a budget surplus a good thing? Isn't a goverment surplus an abuse of power? The government is not a business, so they should not squirrel away my money. If I send them my money, and they can't use it, why did they take it? This isn't a political statement; I am not endorsing a party. I also am not saying that a deficit is good, or better than a surplus. But I see a lot of people praise the surplus, and I don't get it.
A budget surplus is concrete evidence of fiscal responsibility, fiscal responsibility is good, therefore a budget surplus is held up in contrast to a (record setting) budget deficit, which is a sign of fiscal irresponsibility, which is bad; or so the syllogism goes.
...so the bigger the surplus, the better? It seems like concrete evidence on fiscal irresponsibility.
Nobody ever said bigger surpluses are better. I don't know why you brought it up, I didn't write that. Bigger deficits are definitely worse, however. But in reality, you are right, bigger surpluses, in terms of our own government finances, WOULD have been better. WHy? because in the short run, it was a surplus, but in the long run,even with record setting budget surpluses, the federal budget would have returned to deficits because of Social Security and Medicare costs. A larger surplus would have lessened or delayed this problem, but the current deficts of course have killed ths and made it that much worse. If you honestly think that a budget surplus is more evidence of fiscal irresponsibilty than the banana republic fiscal policies that are currently in effect, then we should end this now as you and I will never find common ground.
I don't think I ever claimed to prefer one fiscal policy to another, but I can see that is where you plan to take the discussion, so we shall discontinue.
It's not a matter of preference, its a matter of fact. Look at the governments that are on IMF probation and constantly hurting for money, now look at the ones that are not. The ones that are not have solvent governments and have more stable political and economic situations. It's not partisan or ideological to admit that a solvent government is better than an insolvent one.
I became president after losing the popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of my fathers appointments to the Supreme Court. This is the big one.
