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Unlike father, unlike son (liberal divide-and-conquer alert)
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Posted on 06/15/2003 5:51:32 PM PDT by El Conservador

President George H. W. Bush

High School

Admitted to prestigious Phillips Academy based on solid academic and athletic credentials Captain of basketball and soccer teams Elected president of senior class Joined Air Force on graduation day

Military Service

Youngest pilot in Air Force Flew 58 combat missions in World War II Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery in action

College

Admitted to Yale based on outstanding academic, athletic, and leadership credentials Captain of baseball team Economics major, graduated in three years, elected to Phi Beta Kappa (America's most prestigious honor society

Business

Left family connections in New England to strike out on own in Texas Became a respected and remarkably successful businessman

Public Service

Two terms as US Representative from Texas Ambassador to the United Nations Ambassador to China Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Two terms as Vice-President

Presidency - Election

Defeated Michael Dukakis in popular vote by 6,930,000 votes Defeated Michael Dukakis in electoral vote 426 to 111

Presidency - Economy

At great political cost and loss of face ("read my lips..."), raised taxes and restored US fiscal stability Presided over one of shortest (and worst-timed for reelection) recessions in US history Rather than artificially inflate the economy before the election, maintained fiscally responsible policies that helped lay the foundation for the subsequent elimination of budget deficits and the longest economic expansion in US history

Presidency - At War

Worked tirelessly to unite the world against Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait Led Coalition with full UN backing and 160,000 troops from other nations into professional, quick, successful war against Iraq Cut Saddam's army to a third of its former size Intimidated Saddam into never again attacking another nation Forced Saddam to accept intrusive arms control inspections that ended his nuclear ambitions Strategically chose to allow Iraq remain as a brutal but secular, stable government between fundamentalist Iran and Saudi Arabia, the region's main terror exporters

President George W. Bush

High School

Attended Phillips Academy as legacy student after rejection elsewhere Head cheerleader C student

College

Admitted to Yale as legacy student C student - no academic, athletic, or leadership accomplishments

Military Non-Service

Used family connections to avoid Vietnam by serving in National Guard Grounded from flying in National Guard for failure to take physical after introduction of drug tests AWOL last 14 months of National Guard duty

Graduate School

Admitted to Harvard MBA program after rejection by University of Texas law school No academic, athletic, or leadership accomplishments

Business

While father was vice-President, used money from family connections to start oil company Drove company into near bankruptcy, rescued by family friends While father was President, given large share of Texas Rangers baseball team at deep discount, sold shares and became rich

Public Service

Elected in 1994 as Governor of Texas after father lost Presidency in 1992 Served 6 years in the largely ceremonial, part-time position - the budget in Texas is controlled by the Lt. Governor

Presidency - Election

Won key debate with prophetic statement, "If we’re an arrogant nation, they’ll resent us. If we’re a humble nation but strong, they’ll welcome us." Lost national popular vote to Al Gore by 540,000 votes despite Ralph Nader taking over 2,000,000 votes from Gore Amid controversy over 179,855 uncounted ballots in Florida where brother Jeb was Governor, vote count was stopped by Supreme Court with Bush in lead by several hundred votes Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling included votes from Justices appointed by his father Newspaper consortium later counted all ballots - found full count gave Gore the victory, partial count gave Bush the victory

Presidency - Economy

Rejected mainstream policies of his father With large tax cut for richest Americans, drove US back into deficit - record $400 billion deficit likely for 2003 Presided over longest (though perhaps well-timed for reelection) recession since the 1930s

Presidency - At War

Worked 16-hour weeks in first eight months of Presidency, took entire August off before 9/11 while CIA chief warned of Bin Laden threat Overthrew government of Afghanistan (Russia did so three times - keeping a friendly government is the hard part) and let it fall back into anarchy Following advice of chickenhawks with no war experience, strangely reinterpreted father's victory in Iraq as a failure Persuaded 51% of Americans, and perhaps himself, that Saddam was personally involved in 9/11 tragedy Persuaded 50% of Americans, and perhaps himself, that most or some of the 9/11 hijackers were Iraqi - none were Persuaded 79% of Americans, and perhaps himself, that they should worry about Iraq's (non-existent) nuclear weapons Persuaded 57% of Americans, and perhaps himself, that UN inspectors had found banned weapons when they had not Despite substantial financial inducements, could not persuade a majority of Security Council to support invasion of Iraq, leading to nation's worst diplomatic defeat in 80 years United world against US for first time in American history Led US and UK troops into war with approval from Macedonia, Slovakia, the Solomon Islands and other minor countries promised billions of taxpayer money Repeatedly claimed his coalition was larger than his father's Defeated remnants of Iraq's army decimated in previous war Left Iraq open to takeover by fundamentalists backed by Iran and Saudi Arabia


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bush41; bush43; gwb; papabush
Well, if you can't mess with the man, then mess with his family...

That's low, even for knee-jerk liberals...

1 posted on 06/15/2003 5:51:33 PM PDT by El Conservador
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To: El Conservador
THERE ARE SO MANY LIES HERE I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START.
THIS COULD BE A GREAT LAWSUIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2 posted on 06/15/2003 6:00:42 PM PDT by OREALLY
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To: OREALLY
I'll start.

Bush was elected by the Electoral College. The count of valid votes in Florida went to Bush, any way it was counted. The only way to get 179 thousand votes thrown out is to include the invalid ballots which had two holes, at least one of which was for Gore, aka the overcounts, as well as the valid ballots which had no presidential candidate marked aka the under counts.

The legislature of Florida had voted to certify Bush, if necessary. Jeb Bush immediately recused himself from the ballot count, an honorable thing to do, but not one that any Democrat would have done.

3 posted on 06/15/2003 6:11:48 PM PDT by donmeaker (Safety is NO Accident!)
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To: donmeaker
"Persuaded 57% of Americans, and perhaps himself, that UN inspectors had found banned weapons when they had not "

Actually, the UN inspectors were not to ferret out hidden weapons, but rather to supervise the disarmament process. We know what disarmament looks like, South Africa and Ukraine have done it. Iraq didn't disarm, and noone claims that they had.
4 posted on 06/15/2003 6:16:02 PM PDT by donmeaker (Safety is NO Accident!)
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To: donmeaker
"Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling included votes from Justices appointed by his father "

The ruling which mattered was 7-2. After all, it was a federal election. The Florida electors were certified by the state Secretary of State, and that was backed up by the Legislature. The Florida Supreme court had no standing because the Federal Constitution gave the power of selecting electors to the state legislatures. The law passed by the Florida state legislature gave the responsibility to certify the election to the state Secretary of State, not to the State Supreme court.
5 posted on 06/15/2003 6:21:05 PM PDT by donmeaker (Safety is NO Accident!)
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To: donmeaker
Uh GHW Bush was a Navy not Air Force Pilot.
6 posted on 06/15/2003 6:21:32 PM PDT by Credo
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To: donmeaker
I'll follow:

GHB was Navy, Not Army (since the Air Force didn't exist yet.....
7 posted on 06/15/2003 6:23:59 PM PDT by par4
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To: donmeaker
Oh, I forgot this.

"Youngest pilot in Air Force Flew 58 combat missions in World War II Awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery in action "

GHWB was a Navy pilot. He was not the youngest pilot in the Navy, at that time another member of GHWB's class was 12 days younger. After pilot training, GHWB was assigned to a shorter school than his classmate (that classmate also went to Yale, but didnt join Scull and Bones) so for a brief period GHWB was the youngest Navy Pilot IN COMBAT.

I withhold the name of the other pilot, who happens to be my first cousin once removed because he deserves his privacy, after later going on to also be an Air Force pilot, Air American pilot, and a test pilot for Ling-Temko-Vought.

So this one counts for 2 lies.
8 posted on 06/15/2003 6:27:54 PM PDT by donmeaker (Safety is NO Accident!)
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To: El Conservador
Raising taxes as well as spending are 'mainstream' policies? Wow..........
9 posted on 06/15/2003 6:28:38 PM PDT by somemoreequalthanothers (Cause of deficit = uncontrolled government spending)
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To: El Conservador
Elder Bush gave into Democrats controlling Congress and the newsmedia, and broke his promise by raising taxes. Younger Bush kept his promise, despite the wailings of the Democrats in Congress and the newsmedia, and passed the biggest tax cut in history.
10 posted on 06/15/2003 6:29:50 PM PDT by DeweyCA
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To: OREALLY
Copyright 1996-2003 by Rick Harbaugh (an economist who works on the economic theory of communication - see my work on countersignaling - a phenomenon that should not be confused with simple ignorance and incompetence).

I offer no guarantee, express or implied, regarding the accuracy of the information on this site.

I went to the original web site that this tripe was taken from. The web site has something to do with Chinese characters/teaching Chinese dialects. I found the original 'piece of work' near the bottom and managed to follow the links to several sites. Some sites no longer exist, some have questionable research, although several were mainstream (Pew research council, Slate). From the mainstream sites, quotes were frequently taken out of context or truncated to fit the author's POV particularly re: election, Andover.

I noted the the italicized disclaimer and found it interesting in its placement--just above the banner link to the tripe listed above.

11 posted on 06/15/2003 6:48:35 PM PDT by Tarheel
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To: donmeaker
I still can't believe all the whining over the 2000 election. And to add to your description, it was the Florida SC that was out of step with their own lower courts. The totallity of cases in the Bush V Gore dispute went in favor of Bush...something like 5-0. The only court that ruled in Gore's favor was the FSC..were they even overruled N. Sander Sauls, a democrat (along with all others) who ruled in Bush's favor. And they did this a couple times, extending the deadlines. Along with the 7-2 vote, was the 9-0 vote, were the USSC reprimanded the FSC. It's obvious what court was out of line.
12 posted on 06/15/2003 6:59:36 PM PDT by cwb
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To: donmeaker
Newspaper consortium later counted all ballots - found full count gave Gore the victory, partial count gave Bush the victory

That never, ever happened. They found a full recount gave Bush a victory, a partial, 4 county also gave Bush a victory, and that is a best (to them worst) case scenario. This is if you use standards, if no standards are used, and each ballot is independently judged, then, hypothetically, Gore could win. The media never ever found a way where gore does win.

I don't think this idiot even realized it was Gore who wanted a partial recount of only 4 counties. Gore stated once he would compromise and ask for a full state recount, but his Lawyers, not once, ever, ever asked for a full re-count and in fact objected to one several times In just questioning.

13 posted on 06/15/2003 7:18:05 PM PDT by Sonny M ("oderint dum metuant")
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To: El Conservador
Ha. Anybody remember the left talking about Poppy in glowing terms like that when he was president? Me either.
14 posted on 06/15/2003 8:39:42 PM PDT by RichInOC (Hey, lefties, don't hate, appreciate.)
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To: El Conservador
Newspaper consortium later counted all ballots - found full count gave Gore the victory, partial count gave Bush the victory.

If I remember correctly, only one out of about 20 possible ways of counting would have given the state to Gore.

15 posted on 06/15/2003 9:48:56 PM PDT by Restorer (TANSTAAFL)
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To: El Conservador
This pretty much sums it up:


16 posted on 06/15/2003 9:53:56 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
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To: El Conservador
The Economist sums up the Left's Bush problem well: they're too angry to punch straight. That's why they can't dent Bush's approval rating. Whenever a lefty works himself up, I don't dignify his rants- I just tell him not to get high blood pressure and snicker in his face. It's great- I just egg them on to the point where they're about to explode then I thank them for an irrationally, totally unelightening experience, laugh, and I'm on my way.
17 posted on 06/16/2003 12:47:39 AM PDT by jagrmeister
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To: El Conservador
President George H. W. Bush raised taxes after the lying Democrats promised to reduce spending (a sucker is born everyday). George H.W. Bush lost the election. Democrats love Republicans who lose elections to Democrats. George W. Bush will not lose elections to Democrats. Democrats hate George W. Bush. Democrats lie about George W. Bush: same old same old.
18 posted on 06/16/2003 8:26:01 AM PDT by nyconse
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