I've started this thread to discuss George W Bush. First off let me say that I cannot even comprehend how any logical (or perhaps moral) person would choose George W Bush to be the most powerful man in the world. Let's just look at his track record:
(this list was not compiled by me so if there are any factual errors please let me know so I can ammend/remove them)
Geroge Bush:
a-had been a cheerleader in school.
b-was a documented draft dodger.
c-had been arrested for public drunkenness.
d-had lost the election by 600,000 votes, but was president after being installed by his fathers friends in the supreme court.
e-had been best friends with the ceo of the corporation involved with the biggest instance of corporate fraud EVER.
f-had invited the perpetrators of the aforementioned fraud to the white house to set policy.
g-had long standing family ties with saudi arabia and the bin laden family.
h-allowed a private jet to fly around the united states after september 11 to pick up members of the bin laden family and return them to saudi arabia without being questioned by the fbi.
i-had presided over the steepest drop in the stock market and the greatest rise in unemployment figures of any president in the last 60 years.
j-bombed afghanistan looking for osama bin laden and never found him.
k-bombed iraq looking for saddam hussein and weapons of mass destruction and found neither.
l-proposed a 700 billion $ tax break for the wealthiest americans and planned on paying for it by cutting money to the police, fire departments, education, etc.
m-had members of his administration who had long standing ties to racist and white-supremacist organizations.
n-had a vice president who had been in business with the bin laden family.
and so on.
These points only scratch the surface of the complete incompetance of George Bush. If anyone else would like to add to this list please feel free to (there's a more comprehensive coverage in Mike Moore's Book Stupid White Men, however this book was discussed ad nauseum a little while ago if I remember correctly, so let's keep the discussion of it in the relevent thread)
Also if we can, let's try and keep this discussion as civil as possible (which might be hard considering some of the strong opinions about this matter) and look at each argument with an open mind.
Whew, that's it, I fear that this is definately going to become a very heated discussion - perhaps even moreso than the one that Krazy and I had about rappers (if you're reading this Krazy I'm still awaiting your response to my last post in that thread) - well, that's all from me on this for now.
xylo
(this list was not compiled by me so if there are any factual errors please let me know so I can ammend/remove them)
Geroge Bush:
a-had been a cheerleader in school.
b-was a documented draft dodger.
c-had been arrested for public drunkenness.
d-had lost the election by 600,000 votes, but was president after being installed by his fathers friends in the supreme court.
e-had been best friends with the ceo of the corporation involved with the biggest instance of corporate fraud EVER.
f-had invited the perpetrators of the aforementioned fraud to the white house to set policy.
g-had long standing family ties with saudi arabia and the bin laden family.
h-allowed a private jet to fly around the united states after september 11 to pick up members of the bin laden family and return them to saudi arabia without being questioned by the fbi.
i-had presided over the steepest drop in the stock market and the greatest rise in unemployment figures of any president in the last 60 years.
j-bombed afghanistan looking for osama bin laden and never found him.
k-bombed iraq looking for saddam hussein and weapons of mass destruction and found neither.
l-proposed a 700 billion $ tax break for the wealthiest americans and planned on paying for it by cutting money to the police, fire departments, education, etc.
m-had members of his administration who had long standing ties to racist and white-supremacist organizations.
n-had a vice president who had been in business with the bin laden family.
and so on.
These points only scratch the surface of the complete incompetance of George Bush. If anyone else would like to add to this list please feel free to (there's a more comprehensive coverage in Mike Moore's Book Stupid White Men, however this book was discussed ad nauseum a little while ago if I remember correctly, so let's keep the discussion of it in the relevent thread)
Also if we can, let's try and keep this discussion as civil as possible (which might be hard considering some of the strong opinions about this matter) and look at each argument with an open mind.
Whew, that's it, I fear that this is definately going to become a very heated discussion - perhaps even moreso than the one that Krazy and I had about rappers (if you're reading this Krazy I'm still awaiting your response to my last post in that thread) - well, that's all from me on this for now.
xylo