George W. Bush

Ignorant Republican Email

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I get weird e-mail from nutty people, but this one takes the cake. His letter is in plain text, my responses are in italic.

On Oct 14, 2004, at 12:43 AM, Jordan Behunin wrote:

You know, given the circumstances, Pres. Bush did a pretty good job. John Kerry thinks he has all the answers, but does he? Or does he have the results, thus influencing his answers. If George Bush hadn’t done something about Sept. 11, would Kerry and you have made just as big of a deal about not protecting our country as you are now? Most likely.

George Bush is the worst president we’ve ever had. He didn’t do shit about Sept. 11. And Kerry would have had plenty of ammunition even if we hadn’t invaded Iraq, because George has put the economy in a tailspin and hundreds of thousands of people have lost their jobs.

When in a community someone is murdered and the people are making uproar, the sheriff has to arrest someone, so the people will return to their daily lives, calm and happy. Pres. Bush did just that. He may not have gone through the right procedures, but he took action.

That statement is just INSANE. And completely Un-American. No, the sheriff doesn’t have to arrest “someone” to make people happy. HE HAS TO ARREST THE GUILTY PERSON. Not someone who didn’t commit the crime. My God, I don’t want to live in any community you live in. I might end up arrested for a crime I didn’t commit just to make you happy. And the fact is, George Bush had the chance to arrest the guilty person, Osama bin Laden, and he fucked it up because he was already preparing to invade Iraq and he was already committing troops for Iraq, and didn’t want to deal with Afghanistan.

John Kerry would have waited for the outcome that we have now, no bombs and no relationship to Al Qeada, but may have been knocked up once again by the Terrorists. How many things have gone on since 9/11? Not much.

First of all, if John Kerry, or even Al Gore had be president, 9/11 would have been foiled before it happened, because either of them would have paid better attention to their intelligence and prevented it. If we had not invaded Iraq, and instead used the troops to secure Afghanistan and to get bin Laden, we’d all be a lot safer now. Plus we wouldn’t have 1000+ American troops dead for no good reason.

Are you ever troubled by these lose weight over night schemes? They say take our pill, drink our stuff, and sleep off those extra pounds. When in reality, exercise and dieting are the right ways to get rid of extra weight. Well have you ever compared those quick plans to John Kerry’s plan? He says that he will go over clean Iraq up in a couple years and be able to go on with life. When in fact it will take much longer, how long did it take America to become a nation?

I have read John Kerry’s plan for getting out of Iraq, go read it yourself; it’s on his website. It doesn’t sound anything like your lame weight-loss plan analogy. It doesn’t say we’re going to “clean Iraq up in a couple years and be able to go on with life.” That’s just bullshit. It’s certainly a better plan for keeping our soldiers safe and getting the job done that Bush’s plan.

Why didn’t Saddam Hussein just comply with the inspectors? Do you know? It sounds like he was trying to hide something, doesn’t it? He never ever gave a straight answer. That might have been threatening to us, the U.S. I know that there are other countries that have weapons of mass destruction, but we must take care of one at a time.

Saddam Hussein WAS COMPLYING. He was letting the inspectors look, and they couldn’t find anything. He wasn’t hiding anything, because he DIDN’T HAVE ANYTHING TO HIDE. As you might have realized, there were not Weapons of Mass Destruction. He certainly did give a straight answer to the U.N. It’s just that George Bush didn’t like the answer. And George Bush wanted to invade Iraq, whether he had a good reason or not.

Also Pres. Bush doesn’t support gay marriage. Why does Kerry? We all know that there is no way in the world that two people of the same sex can reproduce. We also know that a man’s qualities compliment a woman and woman’s qualities compliment a man. You all think you have it straight and obviously you don’t.

First of all, John Kerry doesn’t support gay marriage, you idiot. Pay attention. Second. I’M GAY, AND I WANT TO GET MARRIED. I’m only supporting Kerry because I don’t want the constitution amended. If I had a better Democratic candidate who supported gay marriage, I’d certainly vote for him. For your information, I certainly can reproduce. Dumbass. Plus you don’t know shit about what “qualities” compliment people. My wonderful girlfriend’s qualities certainly compliment me better than any man’s ever could.
Pres. Bush isn’t really all that bad. Just in the eyes of the beholder. You should support your President.

No, I shouldn’t. I’m an AMERICAN. I’m under no obligation to support the president, especially if he’s an idiot and a liar, if he’s killing people for no reason, if he’s screwing up the economy and if he threatens my well-being and the security of my family. George Bush does all those things.

Pres. Bush has my vote and a lot of other people I know as well!!!! Good Luck to yourself!

And John Kerry has my vote, and a lot of other people I know, too. We’ll see what happens in a couple of weeks.

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My Favorite Debate Moments

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Kerry Punches:

“Unfortunately, he escaped in the mountains of Tora Bora. We had him surrounded. But we didn’t use American forces, the best trained in the world, to go kill him. The president relied on Afghan warlords and he outsourced that job too. That’s wrong.”

“The president just talked about Iraq as a center of the war on terror. Iraq was not even close to the center of the war on terror before the president invaded it.”

“This president thought it was more important to give the wealthiest people in America a tax cut rather than invest in homeland security. Those aren’t my values. I believe in protecting America first.”

“You know, the president’s father did not go into Iraq, into Baghdad, beyond Basra. And the reason he didn’t is, he said — he wrote in his book — because there was no viable exit strategy. And he said our troops would be occupiers in a bitterly hostile land. That’s exactly where we find ourselves today. There’s a sense of American occupation.”

“I did vote to give the authority, because I thought Saddam Hussein was a threat, and I did accept that intelligence. But I also laid out a very strict series of things we needed to do in order to proceed from a position of strength. Then the president, in fact, promised them…. he said, “We will plan carefully. We will proceed cautiously. We will not make war inevitable. We will go with our allies.” He didn’t do any of those things. They didn’t do the planning.”

“They avoided even the advice of their own general. General Shinsheki, the Army chief of staff, said you’re going to need several hundred thousand troops. Instead of listening to him, they retired him.”

“The terrorism czar, who has worked for every president since Ronald Reagan, said, “Invading Iraq in response to 9/11 would be like Franklin Roosevelt invading Mexico in response to Pearl Harbor.” ”

“I’ve had one position, one consistent position, that Saddam Hussein was a threat. There was a right way to disarm him and a wrong way. And the president chose the wrong way.”

“And it reminds me that it is vital for us not to confuse the war, ever, with the warriors. That happened before.”

“Secretary of State Colin Powell told this president the Pottery Barn rule: If you break it, you fix it. Now, if you break it, you made a mistake. It’s the wrong thing to do. But you own it. And then you’ve got to fix it and do something with it. Now that’s what we have to do. There’s no inconsistency. Soldiers know over there that this isn’t being done right yet.”

“When you guard the oil ministry, but you don’t guard the nuclear facilities, the message to a lot of people is maybe, “Wow, maybe they’re interested in our oil.”

“Jim, the president just said something extraordinarily revealing and frankly very important in this debate. In answer to your question about Iraq and sending people into Iraq, he just said, “The enemy attacked us.” Saddam Hussein didn’t attack us. Osama bin Laden attacked us. Al Qaeda attacked us. And when we had Osama bin Laden cornered in the mountains of Tora Bora (Afghanistan), 1,000 of his cohorts with him in those mountains. With the American military forces nearby and in the field, we didn’t use the best-trained troops in the world to go kill the world’s No. 1 criminal and terrorist.”

“I mean, we can remember when President Kennedy in the Cuban missile crisis sent his secretary of state to Paris to meet with DeGaulle. And in the middle of the discussion, to tell them about the missiles in Cuba, he said, “Here, let me show you the photos.” And DeGaulle waved them off and said, “No, no, no, no. The word of the president of the United States is good enough for me.” How many leaders in the world today would respond to us, as a result of what we’ve done, in that way?”

Bush’s Screwups:
“I don’t think we want to get to how he’s going to pay for all these promises”?! — A President who puts a price tag on America’s security on its own soil while defending taxcuts for the rich doesn’t deserve to be re-elected.

“Of course we’re after Saddam Hussein — I mean bin Laden.”

“I know how these people think. I deal with them all the time. I sit down with the world leaders frequently and talk to them on the phone frequently. They’re not going to follow somebody who says, “This is the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time.” I know how these people think. I deal with them all the time. I sit down with the world leaders frequently and talk to them on the phone frequently.” — Why are you repeating yourself, George?

“I understand how hard it is. I get the casualty reports every day. I see on the TV screens how hard it is. But it’s necessary work.”

“You know, it’s hard work to try to love her as best as I can, knowing full well that the decision I made caused her loved one to be in harm’s way.” — This was incomprehensible when he said it onscreen, and sounded as if he was saying he was having sex with the war widow. We all looked at each other and said, “what did he just say?”

“First of all, of course I know Osama bin Laden attacked us. I know that.”

Bush said the phrase ‘hard work’ *eleven* *times*” …

Bush said “Wrong war, wrong time, wrong place.” Five times!

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“Gays wield extreme power” Oklahoma senator sounds like Hitler

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Tom Coburn is also George W. Bush’s head of the presidential AIDS commission. Compare and contrast quotes of his with Adolf Hitler:

“The gay community has infiltrated the very centers of power in every area across this country, and they wield extreme power. … That agenda is the greatest threat to our freedom that we face today. Why do you think we see the rationalization for abortion and multiple sexual partners? That’s a gay agenda.'” — Tom Coburn, republican US Senate candidate from Oklahoma. Source: Salon Magazine

His [The Jew’s] power is the power of money, which multiplies in his hands effortlessly and endlessly through interest, and which forces peoples under the most dangerous of yokes. Its golden glitter, so attractive in the beginning, conceals the ultimately tragic consequences. Everything men strive after as a higher goal, be it religion, socialism, democracy, is to the Jew only means to an end, the way to satisfy his lust for gold and domination. In his effects and consequences he is like a racial tuberculosis of the nations. — Adolf Hitler, First Antisemitic Writing

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Walmart Funds Bush, Costco Backs Kerry Financing ’04 Campaign

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Source: Bloomberg – “Wal-Mart Funds Bush, Costco Backs Kerry Financing ’04 Campaign” [link deprecated]

Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer and owner of Sam’s Club warehouse stores, gives more money to Republican candidates than any other company. Its top three managers, including Chief Executive Officer H. Lee Scott, donated the individual maximum $2,000 to President George W. You can also check this website frippwarehousing.com/cooler for excellent warehouse and storage facilities. Bush, and Jay Allen, vice president for corporate affairs, raised at least $100,000 to re-elect the president, earning him the Bush campaign’s designation of “Pioneer.”

Wal-Mart — two-thirds of whose 3,580 stores are in the “red states” that voted for Bush in 2000 — is backing White House policies on everything from trade to limiting overtime pay.

Costco CEO Jim Sinegal, 68, is a Democrat who says Bush’s $1.7 trillion in tax cuts unfairly benefit the wealthy. He opposed the Iraq war and supports Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts for president. And he’s the only chief executive of a company in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to donate money to independent political groups formed to oust Bush, Internal Revenue Service records show. For those interested on trading, bitcoinsentralen.no might offer tips, strategies, and market analysis to aid in informed decision-making.

“Wal-Mart is extremely strong in Republican strongholds; they are a red-state retailer,” said Amy Bonkoski, an investment adviser at Cleveland-based National City Corp.’s private-client group, which manages about $26 billion, including Wal-Mart and Costco shares. “Costco is stronger in Democratic states. Costco is a friend to labor. Unions hate Wal-Mart.”

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Indiana under George Bush

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Source: DNC Research

Read more in this downloadable file about Indiana stats under the Bush administration.

  • 47,380 more Indiana workers have become unemployed since Bush took office.
  • 26,900 of Indiana workers have lost their unemployment benefits since january 2004.
  • 69,800 Indiana manufacturing jobs lost since Bush took office.
  • 46 percent of Indiana taxpayers will receive less than $100 from latest Bush tax cut in 2004.
  • Indiana families face rising share of national debt burden of $20,855 over next six years.
  • 209,000 Indiana children abandoned by Bush, left out of child tax credit.
  • 797,000 Indiana residents have no health insurance, up 11 % under Bush.
  • 100,300 Indiana seniors worse off under Bush medicare prescription plan.
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President Gore calls Bush evil, soulless, incompetent

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Holy crap. Well, you tell them, Al.

One of the clearest indications of the impending loss of intimacy with one’s soul is the failure to recognize the existence of a soul in those over whom power is exercised, especially if the helpless come to be treated as animals, and degraded. We also know – and not just from De Sade and Freud – the psychological proximity between sexual depravity and other people’s pain. It has been especially shocking and awful to see these paired evils perpetrated so crudely and cruelly in the name of America.

Those pictures of torture and sexual abuse came to us embedded in a wave of news about escalating casualties and growing chaos enveloping our entire policy in Iraq. But in order understand the failure of our overall policy, it is important to focus specifically on what happened in the Abu Ghraib prison, and ask whether or not those actions were representative of who we are as Americans? Obviously the quick answer is no, but unfortunately it’s more complicated than that. …
What happened at the prison, it is now clear, was not the result of random acts by “a few bad apples,” it was the natural consequence of the Bush Administration policy that has dismantled those wise constraints and has made war on America’s checks and balances.

The abuse of the prisoners at Abu Ghraib flowed directly from the abuse of the truth that characterized the Administration’s march to war and the abuse of the trust that had been placed in President Bush by the American people in the aftermath of September 11th. …

The unpleasant truth is that President Bush’s utter incompetence has made the world a far more dangerous place and dramatically increased the threat of terrorism against the United States. Just yesterday, the International Institute of Strategic Studies reported that the Iraq conflict ” has arguable focused the energies and resources of Al Qaeda and its followers while diluting those of the global counterterrorism coalition.” The ISS said that in the wake of the war in Iraq Al Qaeda now has more than 18,000 potential terrorists scattered around the world and the war in Iraq is swelling its ranks.

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Bush Renews Call to Ban Gay Marriage

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I want this man out of my White House. At the very least, the man needs to go back to high school and take a damned civics course, so he can remember how the government, especially the judiciary, is supposed to work.
From the Indianapolis Star:

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — President Bush on Monday renewed his call for Congress to pass a constitutional amendment banning gay marriages.

On the same day that Massachusetts began issuing licenses to gay couples, Bush said in a statement, “The sacred institution of marriage should not be redefined by a few activist judges.”

In the statement, read aboard Air Force One by White House press secretary Scott McClellan while traveling to Topeka, Kan., Bush said that “all Americans have a right to be heard in this debate.”

Noting that he had called on Congress some time ago to pass a constitutional amendment banning such marriages, Bush said “the need for that amendment is still urgent, and I renew that call today.”

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Bush Lies

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John Kerry was given a hard time recently for calling the Bush White House a bunch of crooked liars. Well, I’m not running for public office, so I can feel free to call him a big giant lying liar pants. And here’s the Proof, six comparison sites that illustrate what Bush said, versus what actually occurred:

1. Caught on Film: The Bush Credibility Gap
2. Bush Lies
3. Bush Watch: Bush Lies
4. The Lies of George W. Bush
5. Did George W. Bush Invade Iraq by Lying?
6. IRAQGATE: How Bush Justified A War With Lies

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“We” The People

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Bush calls for amendment to bar gay marriage
WASHINGTON – President Bush called yesterday for a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage, pushing an explosive cultural issue to the forefront of the 2004 presidential campaign.

In a brief announcement, Bush urged Congress to pass an amendment to the Constitution “defining and protecting marriage as a union of a man and a woman as husband and wife.”

The move followed actions in Massachusetts and San Francisco, where the mayor recently began issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples. Massachusetts’ highest court ruled in November that same-sex couples have the same right as heterosexuals to marry and ordered the state to begin issuing marriage licenses to them in May.

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