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     Ed May Citizen Username: Edmay Post Number: 1899 Registered: 9-2001  |
George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States. He was sworn into office January 20, 2001, after a campaign in which he outlined sweeping proposals to reform America's public schools, transform our national defense, provide tax relief, modernize Social Security and Medicare, and encourage faith-based and community organizations to work with government to help Americans in need. President Bush served for six years as the 46th Governor of the State of Texas, where he earned a reputation as a compassionate conservative who shaped public policy based on the principles of limited government, personal responsibility, strong families, and local control. President Bush was born on July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, and he grew up in Midland and Houston, Texas. He received a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1968, then served as an F-102 fighter pilot in the Texas Air National Guard. President Bush received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1975. After graduating, he moved back to Midland and began a career in the energy business. After working on his father's successful 1988 presidential campaign, he assembled the group of partners that purchased the Texas Rangers baseball franchise in 1989. He served as managing general partner of the Texas Rangers until he was elected Governor on November 8, 1994, with 53.5 percent of the vote. He became the first Governor in Texas history to be elected to consecutive four-year terms when he was re-elected on November 3, 1998, with 68.6 percent of the vote. Since taking office, President Bush has signed into law bold initiatives to improve public schools by raising standards, requiring accountability, and strengthening local control. He has signed tax relief that provided rebate checks and lower tax rates for everyone who pays income taxes in America. He has increased pay and benefits for America's military and is working to save and strengthen Social Security and Medicare. He is also committed to ushering in a responsibility era in America, and has called on all Americans to be "citizens, not spectators; citizens, not subjects; responsible citizens building communities of service and a Nation of character." The attacks of September 11th changed America - and in President Bush's words, "in our grief and anger we have found our mission and our moment." President Bush declared war against terror and has made victory in the war on terrorism and the advance of human freedom the priorities of his Administration. Already, the United States military and a great coalition of nations have liberated the people of Afghanistan from the brutal Taliban regime and denied al Qaeda its safe haven of operations. Thousands of terrorists have been captured or killed and operations have been disrupted in many countries around the world. In the President's words, "our Nation - this generation - will lift a dark threat of violence from our people and our future. We will rally the world to this cause by our efforts, by our courage. We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail." President Bush is married to Laura Welch Bush, a former teacher and librarian, and they have twin daughters, Barbara and Jenna. The Bush family also includes their two dogs, Spot and Barney, and a cat, India. Ed May | ||
| Montagnard Citizen Username: Montagnard Post Number: 348 Registered: 6-2003 |
Ed, you need to get out of the country more often, and maybe talk to some different people. Bush has been a disaster for U.S. international relations. As for the war on terror, if "rallying the world to this cause" is truly his objective, his best course of action would be to resign. | ||
| Ainsworth Hunt Citizen Username: Ainsworth Post Number: 144 Registered: 1-2003 |
Ed: Check into George W. Bush being AWOL while serving in the Air National Guard. See if that is true or not and get back to me on that. Check into George W. Bush's academic record while at Yale. Also check into his Fraternal relations while there. Did he belong to an organization so secret that's all he can say about it? Check into GWB's record as Governor of Texas. How many executions did he preside over? Did the quality of education get left behind? Since going into office, did GWB sign laws that violate the Constitution and the Bill of Rights? Why are you so enamored of George W. Bush? | ||
| llama Citizen Username: Llama Post Number: 405 Registered: 5-2001  |
Like I said, it looks like a simple case of "Bush envy." It's so bizarre when people buy into it, but I guess that's human nature. | ||
| Ainsworth Hunt Citizen Username: Ainsworth Post Number: 145 Registered: 1-2003 |
The following links probably belong on a different thread, but since I hunting for the truth thought some of you might appreciate this. I doubt Ed, our revisionist historian, who should be applying for a senior job with the ministry of propoganda, will even bother to read any of them. http://geocities.com/mknemesis/homerun.html http://www.geocities.com/subliminalsuggestion/olson.html http://geocities.com/roboplanes/tornado.html http://www.geocities.com/roboplanes/cessna.html http://geocities.com/mknemesis/grenade.html http://geocities.com/vialls/bombs1.html http://geocities.com/mknemesis/airbus.html | ||
| Ainsworth Hunt Citizen Username: Ainsworth Post Number: 146 Registered: 1-2003 |
From The Toronto Star Nov. 17, 2002 What did Dubya do in the war, daddy? LINDA MCQUAIG It's often said that people just won't go into politics any more because of the intense media scrutiny one faces for even the smallest indiscretion in one's past. In fact, the media are temperamental beasts; fierce one day, gentle as lambs the next. Certainly the media showed its soft side last week. As George W. Bush piously observed Veterans Day, media pundits somehow restrained themselves from pointing to the irony that the U.S. Commander-in-Chief, who's sometimes referred to as a "former fighter pilot," has an embarrassing military past. His records show that for months at a time during the Vietnam War, Bush could be classified as, at best, "absent without leave" (AWOL) or, at worst, as an army deserter. This would be equivalent to the media withholding comment as former U.S. President Bill Clinton publicly espoused the virtues of marital fidelity. Indeed, one hardly needs to wait for Veterans' Day to note the irony in Bush's military fervour. The man can scarcely contain his enthusiasm for war — or at least for others going to war. As he inches closer each day to sending tens of thousands of American soldiers into Iraq (to be followed likely by hundreds of Canadian soldiers), any day would be appropriate for the media to satisfy its allegedly insatiable appetite for dirt on the rich and powerful by reporting the president's own military past. The legwork has already been done by the Boston Globe, which dug up Bush's military records and interviewed his former military commanders. While the paper published its dramatic findings during the presidential campaign of 2000, the rest of the media all but ignored the story and continue to do so, even as Bush has turned himself into arguably the most hawkish president in U.S. history. It's not that the media are not hard on military laggards. While there were only 49 media stories about Bush's military past during his presidential campaign, there were a whopping 13,641 media reports on Clinton's Vietnam-era draft dodging during his first presidential race, according to former Clinton aide Paul Begala. Begala made the observation on a media panel at a labour conference shortly after Bush's election. Other panelists, including journalists from major TV networks and Time magazine, agreed that Bush had had a much gentler ride, but attributed it to the media's alleged exhaustion after all the Clinton-era scandals. Of course, it's possible Bush was so morally repelled by the U.S. slaughter in Vietnam that he just couldn't bring himself to participate. But probably not. Here's what we know. Upon graduating from Yale, Bush applied for a position in the Texas National Guard, a coveted spot that required only part-time military duties at home, far from the battlefields of Vietnam. Bush was catapulted to the front of 500 other applicants after a friend of his father, then a wealthy Houston congressman, phoned the Speaker of the Texas House, according to the Boston Globe. After completing training as a pilot, George W. Bush requested and immediately received a transfer to an Alabama National Guard unit in May, 1972. But Bush never showed up for duty there, according to the Alabama unit's commander and the commander's assistant, who were interviewed by the Boston Globe. Military records show that Bush's two commanding officers back in Texas reported George W. did not show up for duty there either for a year, and that they believed he had been transferred to Alabama. Meanwhile, when Bush failed to take his required annual medical exam in August, 1972, his pilot status was removed. It should be noted that reporting for military duty is not something that's optional, particularly during a war. Those caught shirking National Guard duties were usually punished by being drafted into the real army — the one that landed you in Vietman, where some 350 American soldiers were killed each week. But, despite more than a year absent from duty, nothing happened to the well-connected George W. Bush. Favouritism is a sore point among those who actually went to war, including U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. As Powell wrote in his autobiography: "I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well-placed ... managed to wangle slots in Reserve and National Guard units ... Of the many tragedies of Vietnam, this raw class discrimination strikes me as the most damaging to the ideal that all Americans are created equal ..." You've got to marvel at Powell's anger management skills. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Linda McQuaig is a Toronto-based author and political commentator who appears every Sunday. | ||
| tjohn Citizen Username: Tjohn Post Number: 2045 Registered: 12-2001  |
Bush is racking up an unprecedented national debt. We will be paying for this sin long after Bush is out of office, 2nd term or not. We're living in never-never land if we think that tax cuts will stimulate the economy to the point where tax revenues increase and close the deficit. The only reason for the Clinton surplus was a economic boom the likes of which we shall not see again. | ||
| Ainsworth Hunt Citizen Username: Ainsworth Post Number: 156 Registered: 1-2003 |
(Los Angeles Times) Camps for Citizens - Ashcroft's Hellish Vision http://www.c0balt.com/resources/websites/camps_for_citizens/Camps%20for%20Citize ns%20Ashcrofts%20Hellish%20Vision.htm (Washington Post) Agent Claims FBI Supervisor Thwarted Probe http://www.c0balt.com/resources/websites/fbi_stopped/Agent%20Claims%20FBI%20Supe rvisor%20Thwarted%20Probe%20(washingtonpost_com).htm (Ananova) US agents told to back off bin Ladens http://www.c0balt.com/resources/websites/fbi_stopped/Ananova%20-%20US%20agents%2 0told%20to%20back%20off%20bin%20Ladens.htm (Hindustan Times) Bush thwarted FBI probe against Bin Ladens http://www.c0balt.com/resources/websites/fbi_stopped/Bush%20thwarted%20FBI%20pro be%20against%20bin%20Ladens%20-%20[7-11-2001]%20-%20Hindustantimes_com.htm (The Times of India) Bush took FBI agents off Laden family trail http://www.c0balt.com/resources/websites/fbi_stopped/Bush%20took%20FBI%20agents% 20off%20Laden%20family%20trail%20-%20The%20Times%20of%20India.htm (SMH) FBI 'was told to back off Bin Laden family' http://www.c0balt.com/resources/websites/fbi_stopped/FBI%20'was%20told%20to%20back%20off%20bin%20Laden%20family'%20-%20smh_com_au%20-%20smh .htm (Guardian Unlimited) Officials told to 'back off' on Saudis before September 11 http://www.c0balt.com/resources/websites/fbi_stopped/Guardian%20Unlimited%20%20A rchive%20Search.htm (Guardian Unlimited) Agent blasts FBI over 11 September 'cover-up' http://www.c0balt.com/resources/websites/fbi_stopped/Guardian%20Unlimited%20Obse rver%20%20Observer%20site%20%20Agent%20blasts%20FBI%20over%2011%20September%20'cover-up'.htm (MSNBC) How Saddam Happened http://www.c0balt.com/resources/websites/fbi_stopped/How%20Saddam%20Happened.htm (The Scottsman) Blair woos Russia to back war http://www.c0balt.com/resources/websites/fbi_stopped/NEWS_scotsman_com%20-%20Top %20Stories%20-%20Blair%20woos%20Russia%20to%20back%20war.htm (Yahoo! News) Agency Was to Crash Plane on 9-11 http://www.c0balt.com/resources/websites/fbi_stopped/Yahoo!%20News%20-%20Agency%20Was%20to%20Crash%20Plane%20on%209-11.htm | ||
| Joel S. Ziegler Citizen Username: Joelziegler Post Number: 52 Registered: 4-2003  |
REPENT DEMOCRATS REPENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| anon Citizen Username: Anon Post Number: 915 Registered: 6-2002 |
Joel: Glad to see you are feeling better. | ||
| Ukealalio Citizen Username: Ukealalio Post Number: 353 Registered: 6-2003 |
The Democrats and everybody else will have to repent since Dumbya and his gang would just love to crush a little thing called, "Separation of Church and State". Another couple of years of this crew and we'll have Charlton Heston wannabes at our doors with rifles instructing us how to bow and pray to THEIR god. | ||
| Michaela May Citizen Username: Mayquene Post Number: 32 Registered: 1-2004  |
Youch. Pakistan May Have Supplied Nuclear Info By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - The Bush administration's success in persuading Libya to reveal its weapons of mass destruction programs has created a new and potentially embarrassing problem: Pakistan — a vital U.S. ally in the war on terror — appears to have been a main supplier of nuclear know-how to Libya, and possibly to North Korea and Iran. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=703&e=6&u=/ap/20040113/ ap_on_go_pr_wh/the_pakistan_problem | ||
| Joel S. Ziegler Citizen Username: Joelziegler Post Number: 53 Registered: 4-2003 |
I am confused are you Michaela May, Little May, or Pakistan May? I was Ziegler-May. | ||
| Maplewoody Citizen Username: Maplewoody Post Number: 424 Registered: 5-2001 |
I'm so sick of these stupid MAY, Ziegler and most of all that ASSININE DINGLEBERRY"s posts! I am still laughing at Don Perkin's post from Jan 8th saying the republican party was becoming more compasionate! LOL! That's a good one! Are you better off now or when we had a Democrat in the White House? We need better Health care for the sick and elderly NOW ! We need better education for the young NOW ! We need TAX RELIEF NOW ! We need a better Leader NOW ! Vote Dean in 2004 ! | ||
| cjc Citizen Username: Cjc Post Number: 719 Registered: 8-2003 |
Tax relief? Dean?  Tax relief? From a democrat?  | ||
| Addy Citizen Username: Addy Post Number: 26 Registered: 12-2003  |
Dean will give us better health care AND lower taxes? That doesn't sound slightly empty does it? Did Dean say that? Where are the numbers supporting that? | ||
| NRL Citizen Username: Nrl Post Number: 438 Registered: 8-2003 |
Maplewoody, Thats the funniest thing Ive heard this year!!! | ||
| anon Citizen Username: Anon Post Number: 922 Registered: 6-2002 |
How do you "hear" something on MOL? | ||
| ajc Citizen Username: Ajc Post Number: 2315 Registered: 9-2001 |
You listen, pay attention, and respond to what people say. You should try it... | ||
| Michaela May Citizen Username: Mayquene Post Number: 35 Registered: 1-2004 |
Maplewoody -- I know you aren't putting me in the category of Ziegler-May?! How is this GOP administration going to pay for this record expanse of government without raising taxes? Will we simply allow the deficit and the national debt to balloon? The GOP, with few exceptions, has ceased to be the party of small-government. Also, a great article in the Post about the unevenness of this so-called recovery .... http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21204-2004Jan15.html |
