I watched John Kerry and John Edwards in a pseudo-head-to-head on George Snuffleupagus's show yesterday, and continue to be impressed by both candidates. I'm still supporting John Kerry, partly because I think we need a consensus candidate, and partly because he's the only candidate I've had a positive gut feeling about from the beginning. Edwards is young and charismatic and Southern -- all great qualities -- but I don't think he's quite ready for the POTUS gig.
While I found the juxtaposed George interviews very informative and interesting, the biggest impact the show made on me was with the interspersed snippets of Dubya stating his position on the issues addressed in each question. It never ceases to amaze me just how moronic our Fearless Leader appears, how dead and vacant his eyes seem, and how glibly he manages to spout blatant lies like "America's healthcare system is the best in the world."
Along these lines, I offer you this piece, which has been circulating by e-mail for quite some time. It's not new, but is well worth revisiting if you're having trouble getting fired up about November's election:
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RESUME
GEORGE W. BUSH
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20520
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
Law Enforcement:
*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.
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 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 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, has 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 Department 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 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 in 2001, 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 have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden 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.
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In other news, this weekend Ralph Nader decided to run again. I have to imagine that Nader has some non-ego-driven basis for this decision, since it seems to me an arrogant move that could hand the election to the Republicans. Nader may well see himself as validly seeking to turn the U.S. into a multiparty democracy, but his announcement left me chilled to the bone at the thought of four more years under President Shrub and his Minister of Injustice, John Ashcroft. I have to hope that the majority of voters for whom "Green" issues are paramount will acknowledge John Kerry's outstanding environmental record (and personal commitment to environmental issues) and do their part to boot Bush, leaving Nader with only a symbolic handful of votes.
An interesting scenario is painted in this piece by Slate's Timothy Noah. Should former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore throw his hat into the ring, we may see the closest thing to multiparty election in this country since pretty much never. Moore will siphon off the ultra-conservatives, the ones who reject the First Amendment, live for the Second, and think George W. Bush is too damn liberal. If Nader takes the extreme lefties and Moore pulls away the far right, then whichever John wears the Democrat hat will be left to battle Bush for the middle. I still believe that the majority of the middle is intelligent (and fed up) enough to show Bush the door, particularly when the alternative is virtually guaranteed to be a John of intelligence, integrity, and action. And I'm crossing my fingers that Edwards will stop pooh-poohing suggestions of a VP nod, since the two-John ticket looks awfully strong from my vantage point.
Now get off your butt and go register to vote.
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