Accomplishments of George W Bush
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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. I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money. I set the record for most executions by any Governor in American history.
I became President of the United States of America after losing the
popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of my father's
appointments to the Supreme Court.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
I attacked two countries. I spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury. I shattered the record for biggest annual deficit in history. I set the economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period. I set the
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 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. I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of billions in borrowed money. I set the record for most executions by any Governor in American history.
I became President of the United States of America after losing the
popular vote by over 500,000 votes, with the help of my father's
appointments to the Supreme Court.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
I attacked two countries. I spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury. I shattered the record for biggest annual deficit in history. I set the economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period. I set the
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.
Kreskin
George Bush doesn't run the government of the United States. His prejudices and perspectives will certainly have influence on how the executive branch functions, but George Bush isn't the dictator of America, he's a man who holds the office of the presidency. I've not found anything that would lead me to believe the man George Bush isn't exactly what he appears to be. A conservative who believes in "values" that he doesn't understand. The presidency relies on information, interpreted data, analysis and that individual's acumen at weaving the fabric of state in a manner that reflects the temperament, spirit and hopes of the people he's supposed to represent. But he doesn't do that alone. George Bush's weakness is a failure of character. A man and an administration that doesn't now nor has ever had any broader or longer vision of the world than the self-interest that drives so much of America. George Bush didn't exhaust every means at his disposal to verify that information received from his advisors and "intelligence organizations" was factually correct and accurate. Advice he recieved from this community of "intelligence" gatherers and analysts was intrinsically flawed. Special authority granted the president was a key element in the "power" of this administration to seek answers and strategies that a sub-culture of greed and corruption within the government as a whole wanted. George Bush placed his faulty understanding of the "values" he's been groomed to believe represent the will and wishes of the people of the United States....then there was this enormous disconnect from reality. Neither George Bush nor any of his advisory staff actually understood the philosophic and ideological structures of nations and the people of those nations. One achieves the office of president of the United States through currying favor among the wealthy and the powerful. George Bush's failure of character was placing this effort to appease the wealthy and powerful who influence the process of government in America far more directly than Joe and Jane Average American ahead of every other process that could have described an alternative to the path taken by the United States.
Born into wealth and as champion of wealth, the influence of the many factions around the table at the center of power recognized Mr. Bush's vulnerability. They took this poorly educated and naive fellow for a ride.
Mr. Bush nor most Americans for that matter understand or want to understand that tribal societies ruled by religious doctrines, permeated with corruption from top to bottom aren't interested in "democracy"...despite the flowery rhetoric of Condolezza Rice and the pitiful reincarnation of Julius Caesar that was Donald Rumsfeld. The community of "leaders" in the United States begins with wealth and multi-national organizations. Exxon was the home of many of the advisors and "friends of the administration" long before any of these folk found their way into federal politics. Without understanding the dynamics, and listening to the mandarins of Carlyle and the petrochemical interests who form the core of support around hiim, he was not only incapable of making any decision on the basis of his own understanding but castrated by the character flaw that see's him posing for cameras and smiling broadly under that banner I mentioned in my first contribution to this thread.
The people of the United States are as much to blame for what's happened in Iraq and Afghanistan and many locals around the world as is the president, and the presidency itself.
The character flaw of George Bush is identical in expression as the character flaw that resides at the core of every American. Apperance is everything. It doesn't matter if you can't afford that luxury home, the banks and lending institutions will grant you "credit" based on your "credit-worthiness", a constuct of profiteers who salivate at the prospect of wealth and power for little effort. It doesn't matter if you don't have a regular and steady employment history ..."Stop on down to Bargain Bills...where credit is easy and you'll be living the life of Riley sooner than you can imagine..."
Dress up your little girl like a streetwalker and we'll shower you with money and fame....
Bat a thousand and the stadiums will be filled to bursting to watch their "heroes" perform.....
Buy your way to happiness...after all "prosperity" is the pursuit of happiness and the facility to demonstrate your prosperity is exhibition of how wealthy and powerful you've become....
Belive in god and send in your money to my TV crusade and you'll be assured a "place in heaven".....
Don't bother with the messy uncomfortableness of independent thought, just all this number with your credit card handy and everything you want to know will be handed to you....
Americans don't exist any more only consumers....
Why shouldn't the Presidency reflect that reality?
George Bush doesn't run the government of the United States. His prejudices and perspectives will certainly have influence on how the executive branch functions, but George Bush isn't the dictator of America, he's a man who holds the office of the presidency. I've not found anything that would lead me to believe the man George Bush isn't exactly what he appears to be. A conservative who believes in "values" that he doesn't understand. The presidency relies on information, interpreted data, analysis and that individual's acumen at weaving the fabric of state in a manner that reflects the temperament, spirit and hopes of the people he's supposed to represent. But he doesn't do that alone. George Bush's weakness is a failure of character. A man and an administration that doesn't now nor has ever had any broader or longer vision of the world than the self-interest that drives so much of America. George Bush didn't exhaust every means at his disposal to verify that information received from his advisors and "intelligence organizations" was factually correct and accurate. Advice he recieved from this community of "intelligence" gatherers and analysts was intrinsically flawed. Special authority granted the president was a key element in the "power" of this administration to seek answers and strategies that a sub-culture of greed and corruption within the government as a whole wanted. George Bush placed his faulty understanding of the "values" he's been groomed to believe represent the will and wishes of the people of the United States....then there was this enormous disconnect from reality. Neither George Bush nor any of his advisory staff actually understood the philosophic and ideological structures of nations and the people of those nations. One achieves the office of president of the United States through currying favor among the wealthy and the powerful. George Bush's failure of character was placing this effort to appease the wealthy and powerful who influence the process of government in America far more directly than Joe and Jane Average American ahead of every other process that could have described an alternative to the path taken by the United States.
Born into wealth and as champion of wealth, the influence of the many factions around the table at the center of power recognized Mr. Bush's vulnerability. They took this poorly educated and naive fellow for a ride.
Mr. Bush nor most Americans for that matter understand or want to understand that tribal societies ruled by religious doctrines, permeated with corruption from top to bottom aren't interested in "democracy"...despite the flowery rhetoric of Condolezza Rice and the pitiful reincarnation of Julius Caesar that was Donald Rumsfeld. The community of "leaders" in the United States begins with wealth and multi-national organizations. Exxon was the home of many of the advisors and "friends of the administration" long before any of these folk found their way into federal politics. Without understanding the dynamics, and listening to the mandarins of Carlyle and the petrochemical interests who form the core of support around hiim, he was not only incapable of making any decision on the basis of his own understanding but castrated by the character flaw that see's him posing for cameras and smiling broadly under that banner I mentioned in my first contribution to this thread.
The people of the United States are as much to blame for what's happened in Iraq and Afghanistan and many locals around the world as is the president, and the presidency itself.
The character flaw of George Bush is identical in expression as the character flaw that resides at the core of every American. Apperance is everything. It doesn't matter if you can't afford that luxury home, the banks and lending institutions will grant you "credit" based on your "credit-worthiness", a constuct of profiteers who salivate at the prospect of wealth and power for little effort. It doesn't matter if you don't have a regular and steady employment history ..."Stop on down to Bargain Bills...where credit is easy and you'll be living the life of Riley sooner than you can imagine..."
Dress up your little girl like a streetwalker and we'll shower you with money and fame....
Bat a thousand and the stadiums will be filled to bursting to watch their "heroes" perform.....
Buy your way to happiness...after all "prosperity" is the pursuit of happiness and the facility to demonstrate your prosperity is exhibition of how wealthy and powerful you've become....
Belive in god and send in your money to my TV crusade and you'll be assured a "place in heaven".....
Don't bother with the messy uncomfortableness of independent thought, just all this number with your credit card handy and everything you want to know will be handed to you....
Americans don't exist any more only consumers....
Why shouldn't the Presidency reflect that reality?
Middle East indebted to Bush
By SALIM MANSUR
This week's journey of U.S. President George W. Bush to the Middle East -- the itinerary beginning with Israel includes visits to the Palestinian territories, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt -- is greatly significant and yet, in keeping with his temper, a low-keyed affair as the last remaining months of his presidency unfold.
We likely can surmise there is one more visit to the region still to be made by Bush.
This will be a visit to Baghdad with an address to Iraq's democratically elected parliament before Bush takes leave from the White House for his ranch in Crawford, Tex.
When Bush stepped into the Oval Office -- a long time ago now it seems on that cold January morning in 2001 -- the Arab-Muslim world was furthest from his mind as it was from the minds of most Americans.
But the malignancy of the Middle East, ignored by the West and the previous occupants of the White House, would strike New York City, bringing the Arab-Muslim world's politics of fanatical hate, deep-seated resentment and a mountain of grievances to the shores of the United States.
The Arabs had squandered the 20th century just as they slept through much of the previous four centuries, while the West created a whole new world of science and democracy.
The independence won for the Arabs from the rule of the Ottoman Turks by Britain and France at the end of the First World War eventually became a cruel mockery with a people -- despite the resources and goodwill available -- incapable of lifting themselves up from the broken ruins of their tribal culture.
This is the root cause of Arab failure, and instead of embracing the modern world by reforming its culture the Arab political class has indulged in blaming others, most particularly Jews and Israel.
George Bush could have remained indifferent to the Arab-Muslim world's malignancy, mouthing pieties as members of the ever fashionable lib-left political class in the West endlessly does, while watching the Arabs sink deeper into the political squalor of their making.
Instead, Bush struck directly at the most rotten core of the Middle East -- Iraq, the land of two rivers, choked to death by the vilest of Arab tyrants in recent memory, Saddam Hussein -- to give the Arabs an opportunity one more time to make a better future.
Regime change in Baghdad has brought a new Iraq to emerge with American support despite the fanatical opposition of the most backward tribal warriors of the Arab-Muslim world.
Iraqis -- Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds -- now bear responsibility that comes with freedom to write a new history for Arabs as, for instance, the far more populous and ethnically diverse people of India are doing.
The Arab leaders greeting Bush remain frozen in their hypocrisy, unable to say publicly what they will say privately, being relieved in knowing the United States remains committed to maintaining order and security in the Persian Gulf region.
But free Iraq looms large in the capitals of the Arab states, and if Iraqis keep progressing in freedom their example will be an irresistible attraction for the Arab-Muslim world spread between the Atlantic and the Persian Gulf.
A democratic Iraq is George Bush's formidable legacy, and the Arabs will be talking about him long after his contemporary critics bite the dust and are forgotten.
By SALIM MANSUR
We likely can surmise there is one more visit to the region still to be made by Bush.
This will be a visit to Baghdad with an address to Iraq's democratically elected parliament before Bush takes leave from the White House for his ranch in Crawford, Tex.
When Bush stepped into the Oval Office -- a long time ago now it seems on that cold January morning in 2001 -- the Arab-Muslim world was furthest from his mind as it was from the minds of most Americans.
But the malignancy of the Middle East, ignored by the West and the previous occupants of the White House, would strike New York City, bringing the Arab-Muslim world's politics of fanatical hate, deep-seated resentment and a mountain of grievances to the shores of the United States.
The Arabs had squandered the 20th century just as they slept through much of the previous four centuries, while the West created a whole new world of science and democracy.
The independence won for the Arabs from the rule of the Ottoman Turks by Britain and France at the end of the First World War eventually became a cruel mockery with a people -- despite the resources and goodwill available -- incapable of lifting themselves up from the broken ruins of their tribal culture.
This is the root cause of Arab failure, and instead of embracing the modern world by reforming its culture the Arab political class has indulged in blaming others, most particularly Jews and Israel.
George Bush could have remained indifferent to the Arab-Muslim world's malignancy, mouthing pieties as members of the ever fashionable lib-left political class in the West endlessly does, while watching the Arabs sink deeper into the political squalor of their making.
Instead, Bush struck directly at the most rotten core of the Middle East -- Iraq, the land of two rivers, choked to death by the vilest of Arab tyrants in recent memory, Saddam Hussein -- to give the Arabs an opportunity one more time to make a better future.
Regime change in Baghdad has brought a new Iraq to emerge with American support despite the fanatical opposition of the most backward tribal warriors of the Arab-Muslim world.
Iraqis -- Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds -- now bear responsibility that comes with freedom to write a new history for Arabs as, for instance, the far more populous and ethnically diverse people of India are doing.
The Arab leaders greeting Bush remain frozen in their hypocrisy, unable to say publicly what they will say privately, being relieved in knowing the United States remains committed to maintaining order and security in the Persian Gulf region.
But free Iraq looms large in the capitals of the Arab states, and if Iraqis keep progressing in freedom their example will be an irresistible attraction for the Arab-Muslim world spread between the Atlantic and the Persian Gulf.
A democratic Iraq is George Bush's formidable legacy, and the Arabs will be talking about him long after his contemporary critics bite the dust and are forgotten.
Walter, "A democratic Iraq is George Bush's formidable legacy, and the Arabs will be talking about him long after his contemporary critics bite the dust and are forgotten."
I hope that you are absolutely right. In spirit, you are. I too hope for success, not failure. Imagine Bush an Arab cultural hero, beyond our Bethune in repute. But one of the common ailments of the failing is their crippling pride, and nobody injures the pride of Canadian losers like America. You are really in for it now old boy. I hope that your bullschit shields are up to it.
I hope that you are absolutely right. In spirit, you are. I too hope for success, not failure. Imagine Bush an Arab cultural hero, beyond our Bethune in repute. But one of the common ailments of the failing is their crippling pride, and nobody injures the pride of Canadian losers like America. You are really in for it now old boy. I hope that your bullschit shields are up to it.
Salim Mansur is a paid propagandist for the media empires of the world. A a puppet of the poltical-correct-speak that fills the pages of American and Canadian dailies, anything that invites the desired conclusion but these hollow assurances aren't worth the paper they're written on. George Bush, Clinton, how many times have we heard that "America" is "working" to bring "peace" to the Middle East? The notion of "peace" to the correct-speak crowd includes of course destroying the Arab world...in the name of petroleum...in the name of "transplanting" freedom and democracy...in the name of establishing out-posts for the military regime of the great American terrorist state.
Where was Salim Mansur when Iraq was the "ally" of America? Shhhhhhhh we won't talk about that will we Mr. Mansur? Where was Mansur when America was cutting deals with Iran to supply weapons to the Contrqs..under Oliver North and Ronald Raygun.....shhhhhh we won't ask those questions now will we..?
With hundreds of thousands of dead as the legacy of the Bush administration and adminstrations prior to his, do you think that Salim Mansur's opinion cuts any ice among those who have learned to hate America?
Rememer this propaganda is for western audiences...an audience that believed and still believes that Saddam Hussein had designs on destroying the United States...desite any and all evidence to the contrary. You believe the quacking of this yellow journalist if you will, it's as sound as anything else the world's (Americans and Canadians) have learned to accept without thinking.
Where many have failed...and will continue to fail...Bush will succeed?
When pigs fly.
Where was Salim Mansur when Iraq was the "ally" of America? Shhhhhhhh we won't talk about that will we Mr. Mansur? Where was Mansur when America was cutting deals with Iran to supply weapons to the Contrqs..under Oliver North and Ronald Raygun.....shhhhhh we won't ask those questions now will we..?
With hundreds of thousands of dead as the legacy of the Bush administration and adminstrations prior to his, do you think that Salim Mansur's opinion cuts any ice among those who have learned to hate America?
Rememer this propaganda is for western audiences...an audience that believed and still believes that Saddam Hussein had designs on destroying the United States...desite any and all evidence to the contrary. You believe the quacking of this yellow journalist if you will, it's as sound as anything else the world's (Americans and Canadians) have learned to accept without thinking.
Where many have failed...and will continue to fail...Bush will succeed?
When pigs fly.
Ya right Jim, there will be monuments and museums dedicated to the great Liberating Democrat
all over the middle east and millions of little boys will be named George and little girls Georgena.
You are one of the funniest posters here Jim a close tie with Walter who believes the sea are teeming with fish. But you're both fun to play with, broken wheels and all.
all over the middle east and millions of little boys will be named George and little girls Georgena.
You are one of the funniest posters here Jim a close tie with Walter who believes the sea are teeming with fish. But you're both fun to play with, broken wheels and all.
So how will the future judge George W. Bush. Two numbers, 9-11. On the morning of September the 11th, 2001, there was a major terrorist attack on US soil. Two thousand nine hundred ninety-seven innocent US citizens were killed. A decade from now, the American people will remember looking to George W. Bush for strength and consolation. The memory of him standing amongst the ruins of the Twin Towers, where so many lost their lives, with a bull horn, promising reprisals for the deadly attacks will never be forgotten by this generation. Ten years from now, Democrats will see no major political advantage in attacking his presidency and its management of the Iraq war. They'll be busily engaged in the contemporary issues of the day. The Iraq War will be seen as a step the president took to take the fight to the enemy and keep the homeland safe. No one, Republican or Democrat, will want to remember that the pre-war, worldwide intelligence was wrong and that thousands of US soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis lost their lives because of it. The same thing happened in the early 1950s when the CIA aided the Iranian Shah in crushing Mossadegh, his political opposition. That act inadvertently paved the way for the religious opposition and the rise of Islamic fundamentalism. Americans will remember and laud George W. Bush for preventing another terrorist attack on American soil and for presiding over a booming economy. Why? Because they'll want to.
Complete article: http://www.associatedcontent.com/pop_print.shtml?content_type=article&content_type_id=241850
Complete article: http://www.associatedcontent.com/pop_print.shtml?content_type=article&content_type_id=241850
December 19, 2007
GEORGE W. BUSH, CLIMATE-CHANGE HERO:
The Kyoto treaty was agreed upon in late 1997 and countries started signing and ratifying it in 1998. A list of countries and their carbon dioxide emissions due to consumption of fossil fuels is available from the U.S. government. If we look at that data and compare 2004 (latest year for which data is available) to 1997 (last year before the Kyoto treaty was signed), we find the following.
* Emissions worldwide increased 18.0%.
* Emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21.1%.
* Emissions from non-signers increased 10.0%.
* Emissions from the U.S. increased 6.6%.
In fact, emissions from the U.S. grew slower than those of over 75% of the countries that signed Kyoto.
They told me that if George W. Bush were elected, the United States would lag behind the rest of the world on greenhouse gases And they were right!
UPDATE: Actually, if you look at the most recent years the news gets better:
U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels decreased by 1.3 percent in 2006, from 5,955 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (MMTCO2) in 2005 to 5,877 MMTCO2 in 2006, according to preliminary estimates recently released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
The economy, as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), grew by 3.3 percent and energy demand fell by 0.9 percent indicating that energy intensity (energy use per unit of GDP) fell by 4.2 percent. Carbon dioxide intensity (CO2 emission per unit of GDP) fell by 4.5 percent.
The market seems to be doing what Kyoto hasn't. (Somewhat related item here).
posted at 02:47 PM by Glenn Reynolds
GEORGE W. BUSH, CLIMATE-CHANGE HERO:
The Kyoto treaty was agreed upon in late 1997 and countries started signing and ratifying it in 1998. A list of countries and their carbon dioxide emissions due to consumption of fossil fuels is available from the U.S. government. If we look at that data and compare 2004 (latest year for which data is available) to 1997 (last year before the Kyoto treaty was signed), we find the following.
* Emissions worldwide increased 18.0%.
* Emissions from countries that signed the treaty increased 21.1%.
* Emissions from non-signers increased 10.0%.
* Emissions from the U.S. increased 6.6%.
In fact, emissions from the U.S. grew slower than those of over 75% of the countries that signed Kyoto.
UPDATE: Actually, if you look at the most recent years the news gets better:
U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels decreased by 1.3 percent in 2006, from 5,955 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (MMTCO2) in 2005 to 5,877 MMTCO2 in 2006, according to preliminary estimates recently released by the Energy Information Administration (EIA).
The economy, as measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), grew by 3.3 percent and energy demand fell by 0.9 percent indicating that energy intensity (energy use per unit of GDP) fell by 4.2 percent. Carbon dioxide intensity (CO2 emission per unit of GDP) fell by 4.5 percent.
posted at 02:47 PM by Glenn Reynolds
So how will the future judge George W. Bush. Two numbers, 9-11. On the
morning of September the 11th, 2001, there was a major terrorist attack
on US soil. Two thousand nine hundred ninety-seven innocent US
citizens were killed. A decade from now, the American
people will remember looking at George W. Bush ....reading to a kindergarden class about the perils of a fukking goat, giving plenty of time for the `tarrists` to complete what the US knew they had coming to them.
Some might argue, deserved.
morning of September the 11th, 2001, there was a major terrorist attack
on US soil. Two thousand nine hundred ninety-seven innocent US
citizens were killed. A decade from now, the American
people will remember looking at George W. Bush ....reading to a kindergarden class about the perils of a fukking goat, giving plenty of time for the `tarrists` to complete what the US knew they had coming to them.
Some might argue, deserved.
Kreskin said:
;-)
I genuinely try. But unlike the Orwellian Bushies, I will not succumb to the idea that less is more, war is peace, and ignorance is bliss.;-)