A "resume" for GW Bush currently
circulating on the web, worth reprinting
here, I think:
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
the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock
market. I am the first
president in U.S. history to enter office with a
criminal record. I set the the
all-time record for most days on vacation in
any one year period. After
taking-off the entire month of August 2001, I then
presided over the worst
security failure in U.S. history. I attacked and
overtook two countries,
promised to rebuild them and have not yet done so. I
am supporting development of a
"Tactical Bunker Buster" nuke, a WMD. I am
getting our troops killed,
under the lie of WMD components, then blaming the
lie on our British friends and
the CIA, where, coincidentally, my daddy used
to lead. I set the record for
most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S.
president. In my first year in
office over 2 million Americans lost their
jobs and that trend continues
every month, leaving us in higher than ever
unemployment.
I set the all-time record for
most foreclosures in a 12-month period. I
appointed more convicted
criminals to administration than any president in
U.S. history. I set the record
for least amount of press conferences than any
president since the advent of
television. I signed more laws and executive
orders effectively amending or
ignoring the Constitution than any president
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 and refused to
use national reserves as past
presidents have done. 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. I allowed non-compete oil contracts
to go to my VP's company
(where he is still employed, but on "deferred
compensation") and won't
answer to anyone about it. 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
humankind. I've dissolved more international
treaties than any president in
U.S. history.
I've made my presidency the
most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S.
history. 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 am the first president in U.S.
history to have almost all 50
states of the Union simultaneously suffer
massive financial crisis. I
presided over the biggest corporate stock market
fraud of any market in any
country in history. I am the first president in
U.S. history to order a
pre-emptive attack and the 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 governmental 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 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
am the first president in U.S.
history to have the United Nations remove the
U.S. from the Elections
Monitoring Board. I removed more checks and balances,
and have the least amount of
congressional oversight, than any presidential
administration in U.S.
history. I rendered the entire United Nations
viewpoints irrelevant. 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 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, former CEO of Enron Corporation)
presided over the largest
corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. history. My
political party used the Enron
private jets and corporate attorneys to assure
my success with the U.S.
Supreme Court during my 2000 election decision. I
have spent more money on polls
and focus groups than any president 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 resented country in the
world, possibly the largest
failure of diplomacy in world history. I am
actively working on a policy
of "disengagement" creating the most hostile of
Israel-Palestine relations in
at least 30 years. I am the first to have a
majority of Europeans (71%)
view my presidency as the biggest threat to world
peace and security. I am the
first president in history to have the people of
South Korea more threatened by
the U.S. than by their immediate neighbor,
North Korea. I changed U.S.
policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded
government contracts. I set an
all-time record for the number of
administration appointees who
violated U.S. law by not selling their huge
personal investments in
corporations bidding for U.S. contracts.
I failed to fulfill my pledge
to capture Osama Bin Laden, dead or alive. I
failed to capture Saddam
Hussein. My family is very close with the Saudi
Royal family, and have been
for years, so I kept the pages out of the report
on 9-11 that may put the
Saudi's in a bad light. I failed to capture the
anthrax killer who tried to
murder the leaders of our country at the U.S.
Capitol Building. I have no
leads and no credible suspects. Following the
World Trade Center attack 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
president in U.S. history. In
a little over two years, I created the most
divided country in decades,
possibly the most divided since the Civil War. I
entered my office with the
strongest economy in U.S. history and have turned
every single economic category
downward -- all in less than two years.
Records and References: I have
at least one conviction for drunk driving in
Maine. My Texas driving record
has been erased and is not available. I was
AWOL from the National Guard.
I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any
questions about drug use. 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 insider trading or 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.
(Apologies to the original
author...couldn't find any accreditation for the
above piece.)