Why I'm not voting for "W" (Resume)

[Guest]

This individual seeks an executive position. He will be available next
January, and is willing to relocate.

                                      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 ensure 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 am trying to cut over time pay.

   - 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 Ministry 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 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. elections).

   - 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 2001, I presided over
the worst security failure in U.S. history.

   - I garnered the most sympathy ever 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,

preemptive 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 am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster,"

a WMD.

   - 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.

PLEASE CONSIDER MY EXPERIENCE WHEN VOTING IN 2004!

[GraveDigger]

Lol, politics are so negative. I don't care for either one, but if I had to vote for one, it would be W. Did you hear the lesbian comment Kerry made, he is not winning now after that, so don't back the lesbian hater!!!

[Guest]

WTF? It's not like he outed Mary Cheney. Her father did that on August 4th, 2004 at a Republican rally in Iowa. All he said was if you asked her, she would say it was not a choice to be a lesbian and that she was just being who she was. What was wrong with that? Actually here is exactly what was said:

"We're all God's children, and I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was. She's being who she was born as. I think if you talk to anybody, it's not a choice."

Where did it even IMPLY that he hates gays/lesbians? If anything it is the Republican party who despise gays/lesbians. Why else would have they introduced a change to the constitution to make it illegal for gays/lesbians to get married. I say leave it up to each individual state to make that determination, even if (for example) South Dakota decided to allow gay marriages, North Dakota would have no obligation to honor that marriage (or any marriage for that matter) under the CURRENT constitution.

[DaveH]

It kind of sad that negative politics is what it takes to win. But that is how you win over the people the don't take the time to actually study the candidates positions and values. It's really sad that a lot of elections are decided by people who don't really know whats going on, and just vote based on "this guy sounded better than that guy".

[DaveH]

1. I don't think bringing the up other candidates family into the debates is a good practice. I think thats making things a little too personal.

2. I don't think Kerry was hating on gays/lesbians

3. Republicans don't hate on gays/lesbians either. I think it is correct to make it a federal law re: gay marriage. Why open it up to the states to decide something like that? Then you would have groups flocking to states (like they were a while back when a certain city was giving out marriage licenses to gay/lesbians) to get married. Then if they were to go back to their home state which disallows it, where does that put them in the eyes of the law? It would be opening up a can of worms IMO.

[Guest]

I agree whole heartedly w/ that statement dave! I should have clarified. I am not a Bush hater, but rather a Kerry supporter. I honestly think that Kerry would make for a more reliable president than Bush. I will be the first to admit, taxes will be going up under Kerry. Things are to the point where they have to. When we have to borrow $160,000,000,000 from China (a communist country mind you) to help pay for the war in Iraq I think we are just setting ourselves up for disaster in the long run. I'd personally rather pay for the war in Iraq now, with my money, than place the burden on future generations. The thing that gets me about a lot of conservatives is the way they attacked Kerry for not funding the war after he voted to authorize it. There are two faults with that.

1. Kerry was in support of the bill in its raw form, however he did not like the finalized product and the fact that it had a $17,000,000,000 payment in there to Halliburton on a no-bid contract.

2. We should have NEVER sent our troops to Iraq w/o the proper gear in the first place. Why did the troops have to be there w/ unarmored humvee's and lacking bullet-proof vests and other protective gear in the first place. If this president was so concerned about our men and women in combat, those provisions would have been provided BEFORE placing them in harms way.

Which brings me to another point. The Bush administration lobbied congress to CUT COMBAT PAY for our troops mid-war. And he says he is behind the men and women in uniform in this country?????

For the record on Kerry's stand on military spending:

John Kerry has voted in favor of military appropriations 16 of the 19 times it has been presented to him. He has voted for over $4,000,000,000,000 in military hardware spending. He has backed every weapons program that George W. Bush has proposed.

[STiSchucky]

DaveH wrote:
It kind of sad that negative politics is what it takes to win. But that is how you win over the people the don't take the time to actually study the candidates positions and values. It's really sad that a lot of elections are decided by people who don't really know whats going on, and just vote based on "this guy sounded better than that guy".
you can easily tell where Kerry stands, always on the corrected side with all of his plans.

[DaveH]

Well, the thing is each side can spin the numbers to make their guy look good. In politics, a cut isn't really a cut but rather a decrease in the amount of increase... I could go and find a lot of statistics to show just the opposite of what you just wrote is true, but I'm not a fan of cut-n-paste politics.

I would never vote for a guy that wants to increase taxes. The income tax structure is already too biased toward "getting the rich people". I would go so far as saying that a flat income tax is even too biased. I would prefer that every american pays the same amount of tax. Why should someone have to pay more in taxes than their neighbor? Figure out a number, and thats what everyone pays... done deal, no loopholes, no more IRS is needed, etc. Then the next job is getting rid of all the crap spending.

As far as voting for the bill for the additional wartime spending goes, EVERY bill that goes through has pork crap attached to it... I don't like it, but thats the way it is. Every politician has to decide whether the bill has enough good stuff in it to compensate for the crap that gets attached to it.

[Guest]

Which is basically what I was trying to get at anyway. I agree, I think EVERYONE should pay the exact same percentage of tax as the next guy. IMHO the advantage the "Rich" have is that they (generally) have more things to write off against their taxes.

I'm not saying Kerry is perfect, I just think he's a better choice based on my own beliefs and/or research.

However I have no problem with someone who wishes to support Bush. There needs to be balance in government, otherwise we might as well be under a dictatorship.

[PSiedTSi]

i personally dont know who to vote for...i dont like bush and i dont really like kerry...id rather vote for kerry because i wanna see how someone else would handle the country...i just dont wanna not vote...i dunno im in trouble maybe ill just vote for ralph nader and then i wont hold myself responsible if bush or kerry mess up the country lol

[2wheeler]

Ok Chuck, good points in your original post. Now, convince me....list 50, give or take, positive, original(please don't put "Kerry didn't" in front of each point on the list you have above) reasons why I should vote for Kerry. Here's your chance to swing a vote.

[Tad218]

GraveDigger wrote:
Lol, politics are so negative. I don't care for either one, but if I had to vote for one, it would be W. Did you hear the lesbian comment Kerry made, he is not winning now after that, so don't back the lesbian hater!!!

there was too big of a deal made of that. it was a nice cheap shot. i know kerry enjoys lesbian porn just like the rest of us

[Guest]

DaveH wrote:

1. I don't think bringing the up other candidates family into the debates is a good practice. I think thats making things a little too personal.
   I agree somewhat, however, it appeared to me (an admitted democrat) that during the VP debate when Edwards spoke of Mary Cheney as a lesbian and had some kind words to say about her and her family regarding her sexual orientation that Dick Cheney seemed to warm up to Edwards and (I might be wrong here) thanked him for the kind words. When Kerry mentioned it, they acted like it was the first time she had ever been publicly acknowledged as a lesbian....seemed like a double standard in some ways.

DaveH wrote:
2. I don't think Kerry was hating on gays/lesbians
I agree

DaveH wrote:
3. Republicans don't hate on gays/lesbians either. I think it is correct to make it a federal law re: gay marriage. Why open it up to the states to decide something like that? Then you would have groups flocking to states (like they were a while back when a certain city was giving out marriage licenses to gay/lesbians) to get married. Then if they were to go back to their home state which disallows it, where does that put them in the eyes of the law? It would be opening up a can of worms IMO.
This is where dave and I differ in opinion. I agree that there will be some loopholes, but I believe that a lot of states (including ND) have it on the ballot to make it perfectly clear how the state wishes to view same-sex marriages. Right now, no state in the union has an obligation to honor a marriage that took place in another state.

I, personally am in favor of allowing the same benefits to gays/lesbians that are allowed to hetero-couples. For example, if one partner is in a hospital w/ a serious illness/disease/injury, I think that persons partner should have the same right to visit that person as ones spouse would have if they were a hetero couple. I'm not saying either side is in favor or against this, just stating my view. Having said this, I am NOT in favor of gay marriages, just equal rights under the law (give them the same priviledges w/o giving them a marriage license)

[jct_4628]

Holy crap. What is so wrong with gay marriages? Gays like the same sex, hetros like the opp sex. I dont really see the big difference here....both sides are in love. I'm not trying to impose my views here on anyone, I just seriously want to know why people think gay marriage is so bad! IMO we shouldnt even have to think if gays get the same rights, they just should. I dont really know how to explain that last part, it didnt come out right. I hate what society does to us. People hate gays, US citizens sue eachother all the time. Our country has the highest death from guns rate BY FAR over any other country. Girls are supposed to be 5'8 100 pounds like the fake airbrushed magazine covers. Our society implys some horrible stuff on us.

[SmitEvo]

Got BUSH!

[2wheeler]

Chuck, I don't see a response yet. Where's all the positives on Kerry?

[STiSchucky]

give him a second, he's looking at bush's site and then converting them to Kerry's plans

[2wheeler]

That's what I was kinda thinking.

[dynasty_v6]

Tjamz, bush won fair and square period

[Guest]

Sorry, I was away from my computer until now, I don't have time to respond at this moment as I am doing some remodeling in my house. I will by the end of the night.