Thread: GWB borrowed more money than any president in history

G. W. Bush Accomplishments

• Spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.
• Shattered record for biggest annual deficit in history.
• Set economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period.
• Set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market.
• First president in decades to execute a federal prisoner.
• First president in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal record.
• First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S. history.
• After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, presided over the worst security failure in U.S. history.
• Set the record for most campaign fundraising trips than any other president in U.S. history.
• In his first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their job.
• Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in U.S. history.
• Set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
• Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in U.S. history.
• Set the record for the least amount of press conferences than any president since the advent of television.
• Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in U.S. history.
• Presided over the biggest energy crises in U.S. history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.
• Presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history and refused to use the national reserves as past presidents have.
• Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.
• Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest him (15 million people), shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind.
• Dissolved more international treaties than any president in U.S. history.
• His presidency is the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S. history.
• Members of his cabinet are the richest of any administration in U.S. history (the 'poorest' multimillionaire, Condoleezza Rice, has an Exxon oil tanker named after her).
• First president in U.S. history to have all 50 states of the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.
• Presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any market in any country in the history of the world.
• First president in U.S. history to order a U.S. attack and military occupation of a sovereign nation.
• Created the largest government department bureaucracy in the history of the United States.
• Set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending increases, more than any president in U.S. history.
• First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the human rights commission.
• First president in U.S. history to have the United Nations remove the U.S. from the elections monitoring board.
• Removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount of congressional oversight than any presidential administration in U.S. history.
• Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.
• Withdrew from the World Court of Law.
• Refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. prisoners of war and by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.
• First president in U.S. history to refuse United Nations election inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. elections).
• All-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.
• His biggest lifetime campaign contributor presided over one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history (Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).
• Spent more money on polls and focus groups than any president in U.S. history.
• First president in U.S. history to unilaterally attack a sovereign nation against the will of the United Nations and the world community.
• First president to run and hide when the U.S. came under attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 1)
• First U.S. president to establish a secret shadow government.
• Took the biggest world sympathy for the U.S. after 9/11, and in less than a year made the U.S. the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in U.S. and world history).
• With a policy of 'disengagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.
• Fist U.S. president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability.
• First U.S. president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the U.S. than their immediate neighbor, North Korea.
• Changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts.
• Set all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated U.S. law by not selling huge investments in corporations bidding for government contracts.
• Failed to fulfill his pledge to get Osama Bin Laden 'dead or alive.'
• Failed to capture the anthrax killer who tried to murder the leaders of our country at the United States Capital building. After 18 months I have no leads and zero suspects.
• In the 18 months following the 9/11 attacks he successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest security failure in the history of the United States.
• Removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in U.S. history.
• In a little over two years created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided the U.S. has ever been since the Civil War.
• Entered office with the strongest economy in U.S. history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down.

Obama shattered that in two months.
We'll see if it pans out or not. BTW, did anyone see him on 60 minutes last night?

Wow.......

This list is.....wow.

His presidency is the most secretive and unaccountable of any in U.S. history.

He would have made Nixon proud...

Jesus....he sucked balls

Originally Posted by min0 lee

This list is.....wow.

I am sure some of our beloved republicans here will reply and defend him and tell us how most of that list is either not his fault, Clinton's fault, or some how the fault of the Democrats, or just completely inaccurate.

that list is extremely flawed

And us as Americans, could only stand idly by and watch.

Thanks Satrap, for the reminder.

Prince you just need to switch news channels. Fox gives Obama credit for everything on that list. Ha

Our government just needs to fix the problems. I really believe they are more concerned with making the other (dems/repubs) look bad in the eyes of Americans than actually doing the job they were elected to do. Our government is just one big joke.

I'm going to adopt a new policy. "To change the way you look at things.....change the way you look at things."

Everything is kosher in my world

Originally Posted by Prince

I am sure some of our beloved republicans here will reply and defend him and tell us how most of that list is either not his fault, Clinton's fault, or some how the fault of the Democrats, or just completely inaccurate.

That goes without saying.

I think there are a few who do realize he wasn't very good, Bonecrusher was one.

Originally Posted by Prince

I am sure some of our beloved republicans here will reply and defend him and tell us how most of that list is either not his fault, Clinton's fault, or some how the fault of the Democrats, or just completely inaccurate.

They are all at fault.

Originally Posted by bio-chem

that list is extremely flawed

Looks pretty accurate to me, the only thing I would add is Cheney's name. In my honest opinion I think that creep had more to do with running the Presidency than most would admit.

Originally Posted by min0 lee

That goes without saying.

I think there are a few who do realize he wasn't very good, Bonecrusher was one.

i'll readily admit Bush was not a great president. there were plenty things that he did that I don't agree with.

does everyone here really think that this list is accurate though?

• First year in office set the all-time record for most days on vacation by any president in U.S. history.

What a difference between these two.
If you go by stereotypes you would think the opposite.
Obama has been very active, good or bad at least we know there is someone in office.

Originally Posted by bio-chem

i'll readily admit Bush was not a great president. there were plenty things that he did that I don't agree with.

does everyone here really think that this list is accurate though?

Point out the inaccuracies and we can see if it false, it does look horrible when compiled as a list.

failed to capture the anthrax killer.
In mid-2008, the FBI narrowed its focus to Bruce Edwards Ivins, a scientist who worked at the government's biodefense labs at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. Ivins had been told about the impending prosecution and died from an overdose of "Tylenol with Codeine," which was reported as a suicide on August 1, 2008.[1][2]

Bush failed to capture the anthrax killer. C'mon people this is something we are going to blame on Bush. For real?

next he is going to be blamed for children of illegal aliens not getting proper vaccines. lets try and limit the list to things he had control over.

Rendered the entire United Nations irrelevant.

when has the united nations been anything but?

First U.S. president to establish a secret shadow government.

oh really?

All-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.

corporations are not allowed by law to donate to campaigns.

im getting tired of attacking this list. Bush is not a great president. i readily accept this. but it would be nice if this public back lash against bush was tempered a little bit with reality.

Originally Posted by bio-chem

All-time U.S. (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations.

corporations are not allowed by law to donate to campaigns.

"Corporations are prohibited from directly donating to candidates, but they can form political action committees that do contribute to campaigns."

Corporations Play Financial Role in Campaigns : NPR

Originally Posted by bio-chem

First U.S. president to establish a secret shadow government.

oh really?

not sure on that one, but found this:
THE SECRET SHADOW GOVERNMENT

What's the big deal? Just print more money. Problem solved.

Originally Posted by Prince

"Corporations are prohibited from directly donating to candidates, but they can form political action committees that do contribute to campaigns."

Corporations Play Financial Role in Campaigns : NPR

Among the top givers, most of the top 20 are favoring Democrats — a big shift from previous cycles, according to Ritsch.

If it seems like they're covering their bases, they are, says Ritsch.

Originally Posted by Prince

not sure on that one, but found this:
THE SECRET SHADOW GOVERNMENT

yea, i think calling FEMA a secret shadow organization, and blaming it's creation on Bush is a little far fetched.

I don't like the list. it is not judgmental in any shape or form. an accurate list could be created that would paint bush in a bad light. i don't argue that point, but this list wasn't made for that purpose. This list was made by some ridiculous conspiracy buff because he knew most people wouldn't look at it abjectly.

Originally Posted by bio-chem

failed to capture the anthrax killer.
In mid-2008, the FBI narrowed its focus to Bruce Edwards Ivins, a scientist who worked at the government's biodefense labs at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland. Ivins had been told about the impending prosecution and died from an overdose of "Tylenol with Codeine," which was reported as a suicide on August 1, 2008.[1][2]

Bush failed to capture the anthrax killer. C'mon people this is something we are going to blame on Bush. For real?

next he is going to be blamed for children of illegal aliens not getting proper vaccines. lets try and limit the list to things he had control over.

Source: New York Times, December 22, 2001.

U.S. Inquiry Tried, but Failed, to Link Iraq to Anthrax Attack

By WILLIAM J. BROAD with DAVID JOHNSTON

Shortly after the first anthrax victim died in October, the Bush administration began an intense effort to explore any possible link between Iraq and the attacks and continued to do so even after scientists determined that the lethal germ was an American strain, scientists and government officials said.

But they said that largely secret work had found no evidence to back up the initial suspicions, which is one reason administration officials have said recently that the source of the anthrax was most likely domestic.

For months, intelligence agencies searched for Iraqi fingerprints and scientists investigated whether Baghdad had somehow obtained the so-called Ames strain of anthrax. Scientists also repeatedly analyzed the powder from the anthrax-laced envelopes for signs of chemical additives that would point to Iraq.

Maybe because we went to the wrong place....damn it was costly...