"war" begins with "dubya"
i'm not going to try and be cool and pretend i found any of this on my own...credit goes to Mr. Ryan Muir for posting the link to the RxBandits site and their ideas archive (which you should all go check out because if you think you're hardcore political, you know NOTHING until you've started to read some of the shit they've found...). anyway, read on...i think this is so interesting and well put together and fucking awesome.
FROM YOUR PRESIDENT!!!
Election time again..... just so you know:
*I attacked and took over 2 countries.
*I spent the U.S. surplus and bankrupted the US Treasury.
*I shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in history (not easy!).
*I set an economic record for the most personal bankruptcies filed in any 12 month period.
*I set all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
*I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
*In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in US history (tough to beat my dad's, but I did).
*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 fund raising trips by any 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 other president in US history.
*I set the all-time record for most real estate 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 fewest press conferences of any president, since the advent of TV.
*I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any other US president in history.
*I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
*I cut health care 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.
*I've made my presidency 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 struggle against bankruptcy.
*I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud in 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 vast majority of the international community.
*I have created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States, called the "Bureau of Homeland Security"(only one letter away from BS).
*I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any other president in US history (Ronnie was tough to beat, but I did it!!).
*I am the first president in US history to compel 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 than 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 the 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 access during the 2002 US elections.
*I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
*The biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign, 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 world's sympathy for the US after 9/11, 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 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 changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
*I set the all-time record for the number of administration appointees who violated US law by not selling their huge investments in corporations bidding for gov't contracts.
*I have removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.
*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 the National Guard and deserted the military during time of war.
*I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use. (wink,wink)
*All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been spirited away to my fathers 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 of any public corporation for which 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.
With Love,
GEORGE W. BUSH
The White House,
Washington, DC
Note: this information should be useful to voters in the 2004 election. Circulate to as many citizens you think would be helped to be reminded about this splendid record.
i guess it gets a little bit repetitive towards the end, but i think that is all so interesting. i should probably throw in here that i'm a registered independant voter, not democratic or republican. andrew tried to "diagnose" my political standing a while back to make me choose a side:
andrew: "are you for or against the war?"
sarah: "against"
a: "democrat. are you concerned about education?"
s: "duh"
a: "democrat. are you for reinstating the draft?"
s: "are you eligable to be drafted?"
a: "yes"
s: "against"
a: "democrat."
but after this little talk, we actually determined that we're both registered independant, soooo...heh. whatev! the point is, i'm not pro democrat or anti republican. i'm pro education, anti war, passionate as hell about why you should vote, and basically the biggest anti bush candidate out there. anyway, i'm going to leave you with a few links, and this:
welcome to the united states of america. we're a democracy. we like the idea of freedom. everyone here has a voice. here's yours: use it.
"anyone who tells you that we've always had a voice, and it's in the form of money spent, knows good and well where your money goes when there's only one product on the shelf. you disagree? we can discuss it every four years in november." --gavin castleton
declare yourself
rock the vote
maroon5.tour.diary (check it out, trust me. jesse has some really interesting things to say)
learn some stuff and use your voice. if you think you have a good reason not to vote, talk to me...give me 10 minutes and i bet i can convince you otherwise.
for now....ttfn!
--s*