Bush's Successes

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Bush's Successes
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Mon, 07-19-2004 - 3:25pm
The Successes of President George Bush

Dear Reader,

I'm getting sick and tired of my fellow Americans

saying that the presidency of George W. Bush is a

failure. With the string of successes he's had,

nothing could be further from the truth. Let me list a

few:

1. He has successfully rid America of that troubling

budget surplus and turned it into a $500 billion

deficit.

2. He has successfully helped America's trading

partners have the highest trade surplus with us in

America's history.

3. He has successfully lowered the taxes for the

richest Americans and corporations at the expense of

99% of the American population.

4. He has successfully started another Viet Nam in

Iraq after lying to the whole world.

5. He has successfully pushed the price of gas up to

the highest level ever here in America.

6. He has successfully allowed American corporations

to dramatically increase their pollution.

7. He has successfully thrown about 10% of the

population out of work.

8. He has successfully allowed corporations to export

our best middle-class jobs.

9. He has successfully divided our country as never

before.

10. He has successfully driven our oldest allies away.

11. He has successfully united the terrorists as never

before (he said all along he was a uniter, not a

divider).

12. He has successfully broken his oath to uphold the

constitution of the United States of America.

13. He has successfully united Democrats (yay!) as

they haven't been for years (I told you he was a

uniter).

14. He has successfully driven me out of the

Republican party for the rest of my life.

You know, with a string of successes like that, it's a

wonder America is still standing.

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Tue, 08-10-2004 - 3:52am

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Registered: 05-28-2003
Tue, 08-10-2004 - 9:01am
I think we're missing the point on the Code Orange. It's not to protect the average US citizen, it's to protest the Republican party. Everytime Kerry gets a bump it hurts the Republicans so they bump it up a level to alert all Republicans to give more money to the cause or call in more talk radios. I predict it will go all the way to Code Red during the Republican Convention - again as a warning to the Republicans on the many protests slated for NY against them not the US. (This is said somewhat tongue and cheek - I hope you get the idea.) Same as Fox News. Everyone thinks it's supposed to be a news show, but if you alter your paradigm and think of it as the right-wing equivalent of the Jon Stewart show and see it as an "ENTERTAINMENT" show, it's down right hysterical. All in how you look at things.

As to preparedness, in our area we all got a little booklet from FEMA in the paper. My DH was downtown DC on 9/11 and walked 7 miles to my office at the time (most of Metro was shut that close to the White House), so I now carry a backpack with a water bottle and a few essentials in it, always wear comfortable shoes, cell phones are charged, emergency sheet completely filled out at daycare, and several other precautions. Do I really think I'm prepared - no, but I've done what I can (except plastic sheeting and duck tape). Am I bothered by Code Orange? Not really. If it's my time, it's my time. Would I or my DH ever work in downtown DC or NY or any other big city? Heck no! I'm as close as I'll ever get and wouldn't mind being further away. My favorite charity is the local fire department.

Do I feel safer with Bush as CiC - Heck no! Did we really have to go to war with Iraq? No. I have no problem with Kerry supporting Iraq at first when everyone bought that there were ties with Al Queda. Then when the facts changed he changed his mind. The whole country pretty much has except Bush (stay the course... right off the cliff). I don't know if I buy the whole "we went in to Iraq for Oil", but it's not that ludicrous. Neither is, Saddam wanted to kill my Daddy. There are reasons this is being compared to Vietnam and Bush to Nixon. We were duped by this administration into going into Iraq and we know we can't just pull out, but we need to be making motions to get out. Saddam is the wild card. Even if Iraqis want him dead he's in a legal system now and this guy isn't stupid.

Even if Unemployment is a lagging indicator, many jobs are being shipped overseas. What's to take their place here in the US now? What will be our next tech surge? With all the surplus gone and a record breaking deficit, how do we dig ourselves out of this hole Bush put us in? Yes, Bush put us here. He has only had failed businesses, and now he's bankrupted the country. Do you really trust him to get us out of this situation? He would need an enormous boost from somewhere. It won't be tech. Wall Street is only predicting marginal increases in portfolios in the next year, so I don't think we're rounded the corner.

Yes, OPEC is getting greedy, but Bush doesn't seem to have any pull with them does he? Seems most presidents at least ASK for some action. Most of the time it's heeded to as they don't want us to follow what Kerry proposes - less reliance on oil.

Boy do you hate the UN. Ouch! We certainly didn't listen to the UN this time I wonder what prevented Bush Sr/Schwarzkopf from sending in special ops anyway.

It's kind of funny that I'm going to go with the one I don't know over the one I do and you would rather go with the devil you do know, then the one you don't. To me things are bad under this administration (economy, war, legalities, pollution, basic freedoms, international policy, etc.) but I guess things aren't bad enough for you. I look optimistically to the future, you look optimistically to the present. I want change, you accept this situation is better than the untried alternative. Now I understand better where you're coming from. Well, I hope what they say about Kerry is true and that he is a closer - he gets better as election day draws near.

As to the candidate saying what he's all about - how about Mondale admitting he'd have to raise taxes? Didn't seem to get him elected now did it? Would we really trust someone who didn't play the game? Can you imagine what would happen if Mr. Smith really did come to Washington? I can, because to me Bush and Cheney remind me of the villains in that movie.

Cheer up, it'll all be decided in three more months. And should Bush win (shiver) I shall accept it as gracisouly as I can. I'll cry. Then I'll pray that we're strong enough to endure another four more years. I'll also start stashing cash in preparation of more layoffs and I'll stay active in the political party in my area gearing up for interim elections, because if Bush wins, it's not over.

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Registered: 09-14-2003
Wed, 08-11-2004 - 1:38pm
Thank you!!! You said it all in both of your posts. . except for one thing. .

Why is it, if the Dems support the "working class," why is it that every pampered Hollywood elitist is working so hard to get Bush out of office? How did they have it so much better with Clinton? Gotta wonder. . .

And, Teresa Heinz Kerry and her millions are REALLY in touch with the "heart of America."

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Wed, 08-11-2004 - 4:53pm

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Wed, 08-11-2004 - 11:23pm
Welcome momathome!

Renee ~~~

Renee ~~~

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Thu, 08-12-2004 - 6:47pm
What does your "tree hugging, rock eating, bleeding heart pot smoking tye dye wearing bike riding hair farming hippie liberal" ex-fiance have to do with this discussion? So you dated a wacked out freak, what does that have to do with the fact that Kerry is a two faced lying traitor? In my personal opinion, if Kerry gets into the White House, we're Scr*wed! He is so anti-military, and I happen to be employed by a company that builds aircraft for the military, he will probably cancel the program that I am currently involved with...leaving me without a job!

And speaking of "rich republicans", if living pay check to pay check means you're rich, then I'm one of the wealthiest republicans there is...and that's not saying a whole lot, trust me!

I've voted since I turned 18 but have never been so passionately opposed to one candidate until this election year and it's because of the fact that this election is so very important to the welfare of America! No Presidential candidate is going to please everyone all the time, and fulfill every promise he makes, it's impossible, but to vote for someone who protested the Vietnam War, which in my eyes is Anti-American, or someone who earned Purple Hearts and never spent a day in the hospital is ludicrous!

We went to war because war came to us on Sept 11th, and if we sit back and do nothing, it will only show we are weak...and AMERICA is NOT WEAK!

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Registered: 06-17-2004
Thu, 08-12-2004 - 6:57pm
Yeah, let's go to war - we don't care if it is with the Wrong country. We have to prove American is not weak and keep You in a job.
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Registered: 08-12-2004
Thu, 08-12-2004 - 6:59pm
Well said 'shesmymom'...I despise Kerry and it scares me to death to think that he could be our Commander in Chief!
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Thu, 08-12-2004 - 8:12pm
Welcome nascarmama!

Renee ~~~

Renee ~~~

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Registered: 05-12-2004
Fri, 08-13-2004 - 2:58am
he has everything to do with everything, as he is a voter!!

you think for a moment, you build aircraft for the military that needs to do what in order to keep you in business, meaning it needs to be used. NOw we all know military aircraft is not for leisure travel... It is used for war purpopses or to take soldiers all over the place to fight wars, if not to drop weapons or supplies. If not for war, then yes, you may be out of a job, and what kind of a raise do you get when we are at war? well we know you are living paycheck to paycheck. So, not a good one, that is for sure. But all this war has to be generating a good deal of revenue for the wweaponscompanies, I sure hope you are seeing it. Also, the guy I dated who I mentioned before happened to be studying to be a pastor at a bible college when I met him. He was a Rebublican as well.

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