The Guardian October 15, 2003


The Bush resumé

BUSH'S PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:

* I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas. 
The company went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock.

* I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal 
that took and used taxpayer's money. Biggest move: Traded Sammy 
Sosa to the Chicago Cubs.

* With my father's help (and his name) was elected Governor of 
Texas.

BUSH'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

* I changed pollution laws for power and oil companies and made 
Texas the most polluted state in the Union.

* I replaced Los Angeles with Houston as the most smog-ridden 
city in America.

* I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas government to the tune of 
billions in borrowed money.

* I set the record for most executions by any Governor in 
American history.

* I became President after losing the popular vote by over 
500,000 votes, with the help of my father's appointments to the 
Supreme Court.

BUSH'S ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:

* I attacked two countries.

* I spent the surplus and bankrupted the treasury.

* I shattered the record for the biggest annual deficit in 
history.

* I set the economic record for the most private bankruptcies 
filed in any 12 month period.

* In my first year in office I set the all-time record for most 
days on vacation by any President in US history.

* After taking the entire month of August off for vacation, I 
presided over the worst security failure in US history.

* In my first two years in office over 3 million Americans lost 
their jobs.

* I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than 
any President in US history.

* I appointed more convicted criminals to administration 
positions than any President in US history.

* I set the record for the least amount of press conferences than 
any President since the advent of television.

* I signed more laws and executive orders amending the 
Constitution than any President in US history.

* I presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and 
refused to intervene when corruption was revealed.

* I presided over the highest gasoline prices in US history and 
refused to use the national reserves as past Presidents have.

* I cut healthcare benefits for war veterans.

* I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to 
simultaneously take to the streets to protest against me (15 
million people), shattering the record for protests against any 
person in the history of mankind.

* I dissolved more international treaties than any President in 
US history.

* Members of my cabinet are the richest of any administration in 
US history. (The "poorest" multimillionaire, Condoleeza Rice has 
a Chevron oil tanker named after her).

* I am the first President in US history to have all 50 states of 
the Union simultaneously go bankrupt.

* I presided over the biggest corporate stock market fraud of any 
market in any country in the history of the world.

* I ordered a US attack and military occupation of a sovereign 
nation, and I did so against the will of the United Nations and 
the world community.

* I created the largest government department bureaucracy in the 
history of the United States.

* I set the all-time record for biggest annual budget spending 
increases, more than any President in US history.

* I am the first President in US history to have the United 
Nations remove the US from the UN Human Rights Commission.

* I removed more checks and balances, and have the least amount 
of congressional oversight than any Presidential administration 
in US history.

* I withdrew from the World Court of Law.

* I refused to allow inspectors access to US prisoners of war and 
by default no longer abide by the Geneva Conventions.

* I am the first President in US history to refuse United Nations 
election inspectors (during the 2002 US elections).

* I am the all-time US (and world) record holder for most 
corporate campaign donations. My biggest lifetime campaign 
contributor, who is also one of my best friends, presided over 
one of the largest corporate bankruptcy frauds in world history 
(Kenneth Lay, former CEO of Enron Corporation).

* I spent more money on polls and focus groups than any President 
in US history.

* I am the first President to run and hide when the US came under 
attack (and then lied saying the enemy had the code to Air Force 
1)

* I am the first US President to establish a secret shadow 
government.

* I took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 9/11, and in 
less than a year made the US the most resented country in the 
world.

* I, with a policy of "disengagement", created the most hostile 
Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years.

* I am the first US 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.

* I changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded 
government contracts.

* I set an all-time record for the number of administration 
appointees who violated US law by not selling huge investments in 
corporations bidding for government contracts.

* In the 18 months following the 9/11 attacks, I have 
successfully prevented any public investigation into the biggest 
security failure in the history of the United States.

* I removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than 
any other President in US history.

* In a little over two years I created the most divided country 
in decades, possibly the most divided the US has ever been since 
the civil war.

BUSH'S RECORDS AND REFERENCES:

* I have at least one conviction for drunk driving in Maine 
(Texas driving record has been erased and is not available).

* I was AWOL from the National Guard and deserted the military 
during a time of war.

* I refused to take a drug test or even answer any questions 
about drug use.

* All records of my tenure as governor of Texas have been 
spirited away to my father's library, sealed in secrecy and 
unavailable for public view.

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

* All the minutes of board meetings of public corporations where 
I served are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view.

* Any records or minutes from meetings I (or my V-P) attended 
regarding public energy policy are sealed in secrecy and 
unavailable for public review.

* For personal references please speak to my daddy or uncle James 
Baker (They can be reached at their offices of the Carlyle Group 
— a global arms dealer)

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(This resumé is a shortened version of the original by journalist Kelley Kramer)

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