The bush legacy is:
-Attacked and took over two countries.
-Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
-Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
-Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
-Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
-First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
-First president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
-First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S. history.
-After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
-Set the record for most campaign fundraising trips than any other president in U.S. history.
-In first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.
-Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in U.S. history.
2006-10-27
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Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in U.S. history.
Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in U.S. history.
Presided over the biggest energy crises in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
Presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
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.
Dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S. history.
2006-10-27
15:52:43 ·
update #1
My presidency is the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S. history.
Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history (the 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleezza Rice, has an Exxon oil tanker named after her).
First president in U.S. history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
First president in U.S. history to order a U.S. attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation.
Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in U.S. history.
First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the human rights commission.
First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the elections monitoring board.
2006-10-27
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update #2
At least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine (Texas driving record has been erased and is not available)
Past Work Experience
Ran for congress and lost.
Produced a Hollywood slasher B movie.
Bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas; company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.
Bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy Sosa to the Chicago White Sox.
With father's help (and his name) was elected Governor of Texas.
2006-10-27
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update #3
yes i could go on forever, now is Bill Clinton really the one with the faults? i dont recall him being so bad, except that the nation was at its peak economically speaking, ever wonder why now the Euro and Pound is so much higher than the US dollar?
2006-10-27
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k im gona go on.
Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history.
Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
Withdrew from the World Court of Law.
Refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
First president in U.S. history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. elections).
All-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
My biggest lifetime campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S. history.
First president in U.S. history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
2006-10-27
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First president to run and hide when the U.S. came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)
First U.S. president to establish a secret shadow government.
Took the biggest world sympathy for the U.S. after 9/11, and in less than a year made the U.S. the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in U.S. and world history).
With a policy of 'disengagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
Fist U.S. 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.
First U.S. president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the U.S. than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
2006-10-27
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Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
Failed to fulfill my pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive.'
Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capital building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects.
In the 18 months following the 9/11 attacks I have successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.
Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in U.S. history.
In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the U.S. has ever been since the Civil War.
Entered office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.
strongest in 60 years?..
2006-10-27
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yes low unemployement bush? because everyone is working in the military, trade deficit is still an all time war thanx to a pointless war, and no Iraq was in no condition to strike us anytime, we decided to strike iraq on basis of WMD? where are they? no clue saddam must be a magician, what else did i mention all the thousands of US soldiers dying out there and innocent Iraqi civilians who at no point in time asked US forces to invade and "establish order" which is yet to be seen. Since when is Iraq and Al-Qaeda connected>, o thats right in the eyes of a republicans, they cant seem to see the two distinct differences that one is a religious extremist group and the other is a country. boy they need to take geography class again.
2006-10-27
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an all time high**
2006-10-27
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update #9
wow. not regiment, i meant division, i was thinking of something else while typing, and im not lying, my friend is a political major and served in the Marines, i have no reason to lie.. im debating i dont use lies to back up what i say.
2006-10-27
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update #10
Ah. I didn't know that. Very enlightening.
2006-10-27 15:55:13
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Hey-Your forgetting about Plame-gate.
One Word--Katrina
Remember Jeff Gannon?
Abramoff/Rove/Susan B. Ralston/Sai Pan/North Marainis Islands
Downing Street Memos
Repealing of Federal Prevailing Wage Laws in order to hire illegals to clean up /rebuild-Katrina
Six million more uninsured Americans
250 Million stagnant Middle-Class wages
A 430 to 1 ratio between CEO's and the peon's pay
10 Billion Dollar profit for Exxon
Tax Breaks for the wealthy
The Bankruptcy Bill
Phew---Can't wait till Congress gets back to work--They're gonna be BUSY!! First thing Dems outta do is get the rights to the new Reality Show--Law and Order DC----thoonk!!!
P.s. Will someone please explain the worthless figures below me to the uneducated diehards>--Thanks
2006-10-27 23:14:39
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answered by scottyurb 5
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I know many conservitives who are totally fed up with george.
Some are still loyal to the party and can't bring themselves to vote Dem but many others have stated that their anger with the failed policies and the blundering and corruption and abuse have them determined to vote All Dem in protest of the crap the republicans have pulled these last few years.
2006-10-28 00:12:14
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answered by ??IMAGINE ?? 5
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Hey! You missed one important quality of great leaders.
They are mostly good Communicators which help them to build understanding and Alliances.
President George Dubya Bush:
"Too many good docs are getting out of the business. Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country." Dubya on Women & Love
Maria Bartiromo: "I'm curious, have you ever googled anybody? Do you use Google?"
President Bush: "Occasionally. One of the things I've used on the Google is to pull up maps. It's very interesting to see -- I've forgot the name of the program -- but you get the satellite, and you can -- like, I kinda like to look at the ranch. It remind me of where I wanna be sometimes." Dubya on I.T.
2006-10-27 23:57:08
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answered by faruqiss 2
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You left off he has taken in two consecutive years of the highest tax revenues in the history of the country, consumer confidence is at a record high, and the economy is the strongest in the last 60 years and perhaps one of the strongest ever.
And while I don't favor capital punishment McVeigh deserved it.
2006-10-27 23:00:08
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answered by Anonymous
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A lot of those things mean almost nothing. How could the economy be his fault? Oh yeah, everything is Bush's fault in your mind. How about next time you get some true facts, that could help your cause, instead out right idioms that show a large amount of ignorence in your part
2006-10-27 22:55:43
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answered by Anonymous
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Uncle G.W.? Known Him and Aunt Laura for all my life. Lived down the road just a little piece.
2006-10-27 22:56:47
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answered by wzant1 2
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Ahhhhhhh you poor thing you! Waaaahhhhhh
Balanced112, caught you in a lie on another question. There is no regiment, anywhere in the Army, that's lost 25 % of its personnel. So if your going to lie in the future, I suggest you make sure its not something so easily verifiable like the numbers of dead, and from what unit. I for one work with those numbers and issues daily, and to out right lie as you did is just disgusting, and misleading!
2006-10-27 22:53:47
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The stock market is at an all time high, all presidents take vacations, jobs is at an all time high, unemployment is low, other than that OK but he is still president It is a little early to decide his legacy!!!
2006-10-27 22:57:10
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answered by Anonymous
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You go, Balanced. What good thing has Bush done? I can't think of anything. How did he get re-elected? He's such a lousy president, and I wince whenever I hear him speak.
2006-10-27 22:56:51
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answered by dinosaurbess 2
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Stop. Don't confuse us with the facts! If it isn't in the Bible it can't be true.
2006-10-27 23:13:53
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answered by michaelsan 6
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