Can Bush do a more screwed up job as president than he has done already?
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The Resume of George W. Bush\nGeorge W. Bush\nThe White House, USA\n\nEDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:\n\nLAW ENFORCEMENT:\n--I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the influence of alcohol.\n\n--I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for 30 days.\nMy Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available.\n\nMILITARY:\n--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.\nBy joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty in Vietnam.\n\nCOLLEGE:\n--I graduated from Yale University with a low C average.\nI was a cheerleader.\n\nPAST WORK EXPERIENCE:\n--I ran or U.S. Congress and lost.\n\n--I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas, in 1975.\nI bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas.\nThe company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.\n\n--I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took land using taxpayer money.\n\n--With the help of my father and our right-wing friends in the oil industry (including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected governor of Texas.\n\nACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS:\n--I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making Texas the most polluted state in the Union.\nDuring my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden city in America.\n\n--I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in borrowed money.\n\n--I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American history.\n\n--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.\n\nACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:\n--I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.\n\n--I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one billion dollars per week.\n\n--I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.\n\n--I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.\n\n--I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.\n\n--I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.\n\n--I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market.\n\n--In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and that trend continues every month.\n\n--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.\n\n--I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S. President.\n\n--I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most corporate campaign donations.\nMy largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends, Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S. History, Enron.\nMy political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election decision.\nI have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation or prosecution.\nMore time and money was spent investigating the Monica Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest corporate rip-offs in history.\n\n--I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.\n\n--I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.\n\n--I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.\n\n--I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any President in U.S. history.\n\n--I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in the history of the United States government.\n
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Not after the complete mess that Bush has made.
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I lean towards the "Bush is clueless" angle, but I have to tell you, I'm worried that nobody could possibly be that much of an imbecile and make it to the oval office.  What if he's only pretending to be an idiot, just to take advantage of the Steve Urkle "duh, did I do that?" excuse that comes with it?\n\nThere's a chance that this fool isn't a fool at all.  When he finishes out his presidency, he'll have added millions to his personal fortune and strengthened countless evil alliances worldwide, having thoroughly greased their palms.  Clinton and Gore tryed to move us towards environmental sanity, get us to think about using cleaner energy sources.  Bush made sure to undo everything they accomplished, with his "the environment is my toilet" initiative.  Can't you just picture "Big Oil" whispering in Bush's ear, "doggone dub-ya, ya done good," while handing him a wire transfer receipt for his bank account in Zurich.  He's either dangerously stupid, or he should be prosecuted for treason...
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Unfortunatly, she'd probably do a better job than Bush. Then so would Mickey Mouse, or even this squishy stuff I just pulled out from between my toes....\nSQUISHY STUFF FOR PRESIDENT!
820487
We need to fix the mess he has made. We need to stop him from making it worse. And we need to make sure that NO ONE LIKE HIM IS EVER ELECTED AGAIN!
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Of course he could have, he chooses not to. They have an agenda, and they are playing it out to the end. Bush keeps saying that he will stay the course. He isn't going to admit he is wrong about anything. Senator John McCain said last Sunday on MEET THE PRESS that Bush has done several things wrong. He said that their were several in the Republican party, that don't support the president on alot of policies.
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Unfortunately, even now they are not. Anyone can make mistakes. So, electing him first time is understandable. But re-electing him is shocking. Supporting him even now is completely beyond my grasp.
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Bush isn't the sharpest nail in the nail-gun is he. You know what gets me is, Bush has been doing it all in every bodies faces. So he and his crew need to be extra punished don't you think. I really think maybe executed, to stop all of this madness, and to take the American Presidency more seriously. That what I personally think with George Bush disgracing the Presidency before the World. The best the Republican dirty tricks squad could get on Clinton was a headjob (WHICH THE WORLD VIEWS CLINTON AS A MAN). Nobody in the World cares,but the Republicans 30% pathetic sociopaths.
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Bush will go done in history as the sorriest President ever. The way he callously mislead countless world leaders with his adolescent college attitude and "better than thou -privileged boy" world view — will have the world recovering from this wound forever.
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I do not approve of much the Bush Administration has perpetrated in its five years of existence, but I think it's entirely appropriate to compare present administrations to recent past ones.  Anyway, the Clinton Administration did far more good than bad, so the Bush Administration comes up short anyway.
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He can't. President Bush only has a little over two years left, and it's time for him to start thinking about his legacy. At this point nobody likes him (not even his dog). If he is going to do anything REALLY productive before the Republicans in congress and the senate COMPLETELY turn on him, he's going to have to stop listening to his advisors, stop listening to his wife, stop listening to the Pentagon, stop listening to the press, and sit and think about why he REALLY wanted to be President Bush in the first place.
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President Bush has had to tackle major hurricane devastations in the south, the 9-11 attacks, the floods in the Ohio valley,  rising gas prices that are threatening our economy, major economic slowdowns that began years before he took office and the continuing threat of terrorist activity on our soil without appearing alarmist. I think he has had to deal with more critical major events that any other president in recent history and is saddled with a bureaucracy that would take years to revamp to adequately handle these. Also he sees that there are probable crises approaching such as Social Security failure and the lack of adequate healthcare for many people but can do nothing right because the public cannot agree to a good solution for these. I think considering all he has had to deal puts him among the best leaders we have although many people currently only judge him by his unpolished speaking ability. I think he will be overlooked for the work he has done because he is not everyone's idea of a movie star. It is like John Kennedy getting credit for being some kind of civil rights saint while Johnson was the guy who did the work in getting it all passed.
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That's what they'd like to do, alright. Bush is almost certainly the worst president since Nixon, but he's *their* worst president since Nixon.
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It really isn't..Bush just thinks he can run every country when in reality he is not only the worst president our country has ever had but by far the stupidest...the man can't even put a sentence together for crying out loud! He is a murderer also but wishes to deny he has done anything wrong in his presidency.....The first thing wrong that man did was before he became president...he was born
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I like Bush alot, but I have to admit he is falling on his face quite a bit in the last few months....personally, no I do not feel sorry for him. He could fix the problems, instead of making them worse.
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"Hey, at least I can't screw up as badly as Bush!"
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He says that history will say whether he has made mistakes.\n\nHistory is happening now, and the answer is, "Yes, in spades."\n\nI used to think the Bush administration was evil.  Then, after Katrina, I thought that they were incompetent.  Now, I realize that they are both.\n\nIs it 2008 yet?