Political Questions ( very OT - feel free to delete )

[Andrew & Rebeca Anderson]

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Jim:
As a dual citizen who follows Canadian politics I am relieved that the 
silliest man to ever lead a civilized nation has been retired.  I hope for 
Canada's sake they don't put another pathological drunk in.

As for the vitreolic spin be passed around down here by extreme left-wing 
democrats.  Bring on the salt.  What is surprising is how many lies they 
think they can get away with.  But then...wasn't it Goebbels that said to 
the effect that for a lie to succeed it must be told boldly and often?  The 
author apparently wasn't very bold though, he/she didn't put a name to this 
piece of propaganda.0

T.M.W.R.T.C.N.D. (The Man Who RunsThe Country Next Door) -
>I. Subject: GWB - Presidential Resume
>
>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.

Could add, "I joined Alcoholics Anonymous and kicked drinking.  This also 
introduced me to Christianity and I became a born-again-Christian.

>
>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.
>
The AWOL charge is a proven falsehood but is sooo juicy to 
hate-filled-democrats that they won't drop it.


>COLLEGE:
>I graduated from Yale University with a low C average. I was a
>cheerleader.

Anyone who is admitted to the Yale School of Business is above average.  (A 
student from that time reported that the Prince of Wales applied and was 
denied admission at the same time Bush was admitted.  Oh, and his father 
was a lowly congressmen at the time and a member of a political party 
despised by the Yale elitists.)  The few who don't wash-out are 
super-above-average.  If they graduate with a C they are the average of the 
above.

>
>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.
That is, super-low oil prices from an OPEC afraid it would lose control 
over the market actually worked effectively to destroy domestic production 
where the costs are higher.


>
>I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took
>land using taxpayer money.

All stadiums etc. involve taxpayers money.  If you don't like that (I 
don't) you're in the minority of the electorate.

>
>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.

Uh-huh, and with the help of big-insurance etc. Kerry got elected to the 
senate where he shamelessly voted on behalf of his big-money-contributors.


>
>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.

Really? Statistics are available from the EPA website.  Falsehood can be 
juicier than the truth especially if you want to believe it.

>
>During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden
>city in America.

Addressed above.

BTW when California was experiencing its power snafu it had power plants 
running idle.  The now ex-governor wouldn't let them run because they were 
too polluting.  Instead they bought power from a plant in Texas that is 
usually idle for the same reason.  It usually is a short-term backup for 
other, newer plants undergoing maintenance.  Upon their insistence it was 
started up and then the daily EPA fines were passed on in the bill.  Yep, 
the Californians screamed bloody murder and charged price gouging.  A 
charge that was dismissed in court.  So why doesn't California have more 
modern power plants of its own?  Because of NIMBYism.   The price in the 
form of political bribery, law suits, and environmentalist group bribery is 
higher than the return on the business.

>
>I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions
>in borrowed money.

It seems a certain political party is out to try to achieve what the NDP in 
Canada and the Communists in eastern europe have already proven 
impossible.  The power to tax is the power to destroy.  The higher the tax 
the slower the economy until it stops like it did in British Columbia where 
the NDP where booted out in a super-landslide election.  In Russia they 
went to a flat tax that is much lower then ours and tripled their revenue 
in a matter of months.  Now they watch bemused while some of us are 
hell-bent to reinvent the broken wheel they abandoned.
Democrats love to hate Reagon.  Problem is his tax principles were also 
Kennedy's and they worked.  The economy he started survived the Gulf War 
with the slightest blip (big enough to elect Clinton) and powered through 
most of the two Clinton administrations despite the imposition of high 
taxes.  High taxes did take their toll and it is official, the recession 
started during the Clinton's last years.  Usually there is some lag time 
and the next president gets blamed for the results of the previous 
president's incompetence.  Then there was 9-11 and the corporate 
scandals.  Unlike Democrats in bed with the big-money contributors, Bush 
bit the hand that gave and sicked the justice department on the wrong-doers 
and those wheels are still turning.
Bush saw that desperate measures were necessary and he window dressed a 
huge tax cut.  I say window-dressed because until the "Alternative Minimum" 
tax is dealt with the other is largely fictitious.  All those early refund 
checks kicked in and wow, Bush will get blamed for the improving economy in 
his own presidency.  I personally didn't think such a large ship could be 
turned around so quickly.

>
>I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American
>history.

That has more to do with more obscure judicial history in Texas than it 
does with his administration.  A lot of appeals were opened up in the past 
by some judicial decisions.  They had exhausted their course during his 
administration.  The appeals process takes much longer than a governor's 
term lasts.  Come on now does this spin-monger think we're that stupid?

>
>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.

Presidents are not elected by popular vote nationwide.  They are elected by 
popular vote state-wide.  The winner takes all the state's electoral votes 
which are apportioned every ten years in the census.
In Florida there was an attempt to steal the election by the Democrat 
party.  The votes were being recounted over and over again in the hopes 
that local election judges could somehow pull off a coup.  This was 
properly thrown out by the Florida Supreme court and then by the US Supreme 
Court.  I have been an election judge and I know very well what was going 
on there.
After the court decisions a lot of news organizations went in and funded a 
private un-official recount to determine who actually won.  They came back 
rather crestfallen with the report that, under rules even more generous 
than the whining Gore had wanted, Bush still won Florida handily with a 
good margin.
The democrat party has elevated stealing elections to an art-form in places 
like Chicago Illinois.  This is getting harder to do as the equipment gets 
better and they're getting caught more often now.  By the way, the only way 
to get a hanging chad with a punch card system is to stuff more than one 
ballet at a time into the machine.  Tried it.  Think about that for a while...
>
>ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
>I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a
>criminal record.

Huh? What criminal record?  That would prevent his candidacy and Democrats 
would have been quick if there really was one.
>
>I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one
>billion dollars per week.

Afganistan
How quickly we forget 9-11.  If there were a Democrat in the oval office 
this would be a regular occurrence like the bombing of the twin towers etc, 
according to this writer's logic.  Come to think of it, there were a lot of 
terrorist strikes during the Clinton years and all we did was lob missiles 
at empty buildings.

Iraq
As for Iraq, is anyone concerned about the UNs credibility?  The only world 
leader willing to do something about Saddam's ceasefire agreement 
violations and all the ignored UN resolutions was Bush (well not quite, GB 
Poland and many others stood up too).  All Sadam had to do was to abide by 
his agreement, stand back and let the inspectors do their work.  Uday and 
Qusay could still be raping dissadents wives and daughters if he had.  Yes 
Iraqi dissadents probably did lie to us to get us off of our duffs.  Oh 
well, someone had to kick us into action.
>
>I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.

The "surplus" was an accounting fiction perpetrated by a Clinton 
White-house in search of a legacy.  The national debt continued to rise 
during the Clinton years.  During good times congress should run small 
budgetary surpluses and during bad times deficits are good for the 
economy.  In fact there is a line of thinking among contrarian economists 
that embraces deficits on the national level.  (You have to remember that 
the money you are spending is an elaborate fiction and that the way it 
works has nothing to do with the old view of scales and weights.)  On a 
national scale the debt is an interesting fiction that is not entirely 
without consequences.  "Secrets of the Temple" is a worthwile tome to read 
if you want to understand this.

>
>I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S. history.
False in per-capita or inflation adjusted dollars, we've run higher 
deficits in war time in the past.


>
>I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any
>12-month period.

He didn't overspend his means and then find himself unable to pay his debts 
when business was slow.  A bunch of over-optimistic individuals did despite 
severe warnings about our general lack of savings over the past decade.

>
>I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.

The one does follow the other. ;-)

>
>I set the all-time record for the biggest drop in the history of the
>U.S. stock market.

9-11 was the biggest drop yes, a democrat in the same seat would face the 
same illogical charge.  This stressed companies that were playing shell 
games with their finances and revealed all the corporate scandals that 
followed.  To Bush's credit he has been severe with respect to 
prosecution.  CEOs etc usually don't have to pay back their ill-gotten 
gains and they never had to do time under Democrat masters.

>
>In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs
>and that trend continues every month.

Actually that trend has reversed, jobs recoveries usually trail economic 
recoveries by at least a quarter.  His desperate measures seem to be paying 
off.  As to low paying blue-collar jobs; they are being exported at a 
phenomenal rate.  If you think you can get a blue-collar job out of high 
school and keep it until retirement age you are in for a rude 
surprise.  Education is not optional now.  Should we stop the exodus of 
manufacturing jobs?  Maybe we should slow it.  Problem is, fighting the 
economy is very expensive.  Say we improve our free trade practices (We get 
free access to your markets and you get tariffed access to ours) to 
increase the cost of imports, that cost will hit the poorest first and 
generally filter its way up.  By maintaining a higher standard of education 
(under stiff competition right now) we create new industries and stay 
ahead.  Trying to keep an economy static always causes it to 
stagnate.  There are no silver bullets, let alone golden ones for this 
problem/opportunity.

>
>I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any
>administration in U.S. history.

And the most racially diverse ever.  For the first time ever Blacks and 
Hispanics hold real power and influence in any administration, not just the 
back-office consolation jobs.  It doesn't hurt that they've already proved 
their capabilities elsewhere and have been willing to take the huge pay-cut 
that public service entails.

>
>My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker
>named after her.

I'd take that as a complement.

>
>I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by a U.S.
>President.

So did Clinton before him so he's in good company after all. ;-)

>
>I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most
>corporate campaign donations.

It might come as a surprise to democrats that so-called campaign reform 
hurt them more than Republicans.  The Republicans raise much more in small 
campaign contributions than the Democrats do.  Democrats have been relying 
on George Soros for money during this present campaign.

>
>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.

And he's getting no thanks for it from my justice department either.

>
>My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to
>assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my election
>decision.

Bad corporate expenditures don't you think, in light of the drubbing 
they're now getting in court.  (Enron and other companies are also known 
for playing both sides.  Most pay protection money to both parties in an 
election.  The dirty little secret is that Democrats generally got more 
because they were more dangerous and willing to make serious threats to get 
it.  Microsoft got in so much trouble because it wouldn't give donations to 
the Democrat party or to anyone else either.  Bill Gates figured it out 
late though and established a foundation to immunize himself and his 
company for the future.)

>
>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.

Now there's a lie being revealed in the daily headlines.  By the way 
Halliburton was made a big government contractor by Albert Gore, no less 
(reference his "smaller" government speeches how Haliburton could supply 
and setup cheaper then the evil military could.  It is the Bush White House 
that has soured on that and kicked Halliburton out of military supply 
contracting in Iraq because of price-gouging.

>
>I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused
>to intervene when corruption involving the oil industry was revealed.

Intervene how?  The justice department is involved.  The problem was bigger 
than corruption.  It was largely a lack of capacity close enough to the 
market.  NIMBYism struck hard there.

>
>I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.
According to Albert Gore that is a good thing.  The higher the price the 
more efficient and environmentally friendly the cars will become.  When 
Bush's speech writer extolled low prices the president himself commented 
that they got us into an energy efficiency and foreign source dependency 
problem that is going to be hard/pricey to get out of.


>
>I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded
>government contracts.

Really?  Be specific.  Clinton changed US Policy to allow nobodies with no 
money to tie up huge amounts of oil being released from the National Energy 
Reserve to combat high fuel oil prices.  Some of these clowns had fancy 
papers and websites but no credit or history in the market and they tied up 
large fuel contracts and the resulting litigation kept them from market 
until long after they were needed

>
>I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any
>President in U.S. history.

Be specific...I've encountered too many lies to swallow that statement 
unsubstantiated.

>
>I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in
>the history of the United States government.

Actually knee-jerk reaction Democrats in Congress forced that on the 
President over his demurrals that it wasn't necessary.

>
>I've broken more international treaties than any President in U.S.
>history.

Treaties have done individual US citizens more harm financially than most 
are aware off.  I'd like to see a lot more broken.

>
>I am the first President in U.S. history to have the United Nations
>remove the U.S. from the Human Rights Commission.

And replace us with Libya where woman are still forced into arranged 
marriages and honor killings are still legal.  The UN is a pure 
democracy.  Remember that Hitler was democratically elected.  Think that 
through...

>
>I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.

The world court wanted to entertain lawsuits against individual US soldiers 
for their actions while on the line of duty.  We turn US soldiers over to 
local jurisdictions when we find they have committed a crime.  Check out 
headlines in Australia for an example.  This was a whole new level of 
jeapardy that no soldier should have to face personally.

>
>I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. "prisoners of war"
>detainees and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.

The Red Cross has access to detainees at Guantanamo Bay Cuba and in 
Iraq.  They are probably talking about terrorist detainees in Guantanamo 
Bay who did not wear military uniforms and fight for a recognized 
government.  Sorry, the Geneva Convention only applies to those specific 
circumstances.  We let the Red Cross in even though we didn't have to.

>
>I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations election
>inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).

And the first to be offered the insult.

>
>I set the record for fewest number of press conferences of any
>President since the advent of television.

And....?  Since when is the White House to revolve around a reporter 
feeding-frenzy-circus.  Right now they're complaining about how many public 
events he's taking part in--how its stealing attention from the 
all-important-democrat presidential candidate vetting process.

>
>I set the the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year
>period.

Finally a president who doesn't have delusional fantasies that he's superhuman.

>
>After taking off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst
>security failure in U.S. history.

By terrorists encouraged on by the previous president's half-hearted 
responses to terrorist attacks.  This attack was below the radar of the CIA 
and the FBI, it didn't show up on any terrorist briefings.  Bush had 
campaigned on a get-tough about defense policy.  Al Queda miscalculated big 
time on this one.

>
>I garnered the most sympathy 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.

Actually do something and you will be hated by someone.

>
>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 protest against any person in the history of
>mankind.

And so...?  Hitler was elected by a landslide.  Neville Chamberlain was 
elected by a majority over Churchill.

>
>I am the first President in U.S. history to order an unprovoked,
>pre-emptive 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.

Ahem, a conveniently ignored fact:  The first Gulf War ended in a 
cease-fire based on a cease-fire-agreement that was voided by a dictator 
that didn't think we would actually hold him to the terms of the agreement.

>
>I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in
>duty  benefits for active duty troops and the ir families -- in war
>time.

Be specific...I've caught too many lies so far to believe this one.

>
>In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for
>attacking Iraq, then blamed the lies on our British friends.

They were our reasons.

>
>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.

Those numbers depend on where you choose to draw your European boundaries 
and how you want to spin the questions.

>
>I am supporting development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster," a
>WMD.

A WMD is an indiscriminate weapon that hurts civilians as much as it does 
the military.  Generally it is intended to destroy a civilian 
population.  Tactical Bunker Busters are intended to get bunkers with less 
collateral damage than conventional weapons currently do.  So far that 
promise has yet to be proven.  US military policy has shifted more and more 
towards achieving the least impact against an civilian population 
possible.  Compare any recent war to wars in the past and the differences 
are phenomenal.  I am personal friends with experts who work for the 
government in this very field and they are proud of their progress and 
anxious to make much more.


>I have so far failed to fulfill my pledge to bring Osama Bin Laden and
>Saddam Hussein to justice.

Saddam Hussein is in a cell.  Osama Bin Laden in reported to have fled to 
Iran after we pressured the Pakistanis to go after him in Pakistan.  Right 
next door to biggest US force in the Middle East.  I hope that fact is not 
lost on the Iranian mullahs.  It would be unfortunate if we had to go into 
Iran too!


>All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my father's
>library, sealed and unavailable for public view.

All public records are still available at the capital.

>
>All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my
>bankrupt companies are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public
>view.

All records that do not result in indictment and conviction are private 
period.  I should hope so.


>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.

As are all executive meetings, even Clinton fought for this.  He lost in 
one case because his wife was not an executive of the United States and 
could not claim executive privilege.  Executive privilege exists for good 
reasons and will be protected by smart democrats and republicans alike 
whenever attacked.

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>The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress
>
>         -- Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French Philosopher

Obviously a truth filled discussion was not the "progress" the author was 
hoping for.  I personally am disappointed in Bush because of his big 
spending.  Democrats are promising to spend less, they think we should 
spend more!
I also feel that we over-reacted on the security side of things.  Security 
measures are now reaching the point of ridiculousness and are punitive to 
good Americans without any payback on the security side.  There seems to be 
the attitude that if we rough them up they'll feel safer.  I don't like to 
fly anymore and that can't be good for American airlines.

Anyhow, don't take seriously anything that the author isn't willing to sign.

Here's my signature,
Andrew C. Anderson III
Las Cruces, NM


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