Homework Assignment For Everyone Here!

[KissMyAsscroft]

I need to do this just as much as anyone. I am just as guilty and I apologize to bashing Kerry.

Go back through the last 3 years, using any methods you can and remember why you hate GWB.

Right now on this board there are only a few issues being discussed....IWR, No Child Left, Tax, etc...

These are important issus, yet there are thousands of reasons why any Dem is better than Bush and we can't allow ourselves to get into fighting on a couple of issues to the point where there is "no diffence" in the candidates....

I just got finished doing this and it made me totally clear my head and realize that I am ABB all the way.

Remember the White House Prayer Meetings?

Remember Henry Kissinger heading the 9/11 panel?

Remember the boy king's smarmy face at the UN?

Remember every other disgusting thing he did during his first 2 years in office?

It's easy to get caught up in the present regarding how these candidates all look compared to Bush but everyone needs to keep in mind how disgusting the first half of his term truly was.



I WANT EVERY PERSON IN THIS THREAD TO POST THEIR MOST HATED GWB MOMENT FROM THE BEGINNING OF HIS TERM.

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. I will start!

Appointing HENRY FRICKING KISSINGER AS HEAD OF THE 9/11 PANEL!!!!!

[PaDUer]

34. "The Hunting of the President"..n/t

[PVnRT]

2. Hmmmmm, most hated?

I don't know if I can select just one.

Probably the Iraq War and No Child Left Behind do it for me. The overtime pay elimination ranks right up there, as well.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Stealing Al Gore's house

and thanks for this thread

[LifeDuringWartime]

4. ditto

that timeframe was when i first started paying attention to politics... and boy did it get me fired up :grr:

[AZCat]

5. Remember the "Trashing of the White House"?

Remember all the Ari Fleischer crap about removing all the "W" keys from the keyboards?
The arrogance was appalling, but in hindsight it must come naturally for them.

[lovedems]

6. Cheney's secret energy task force

NCLB, lying about the estate tax to eliminate it, all of the roll backs on the environmental laws, not allowing the federal workers of the new Homeland Security to unionize.

Edit: the lies they told about the Clinton's when they left the WH.

[hang a left]

7. "Bring em on"

n/t

[Military Brat]

8. Landing on the Lincoln. Should have said "Emission accomplished"

bush and cheney and wolfowitz and rummy and perle, all warmongering and salivating at the thoughts of profits and power, with condi cheerleading them on, reminded me of one big circle jerk.

I still spit nails when I think of the prancing imposter, swaggering with his bunched-up Depends in his crotch. That AWOL deserter, lying with no conscience, sending our country's finest into his trumped-up war to avenge his daddy and reward his cronies. I'm a long, long way from forgiving him for that.

[right is wrong]

9. "feel good"

what a Cheney!

[lastknowngood]

10. are you trying to crash the servers

I don't think you can put that much data on the web.

[LatteLib]

11. His fuzzy math

Spending our country out of a surplus and into a spiralling deficit.
All the corporate welfare for companies that left our country and took the jobs with them.
Bush* and his repubic thugs blow.

[AZCat]

12. Spring and Summer 2001 California "Energy Crisis"

Cheney and his "conservation is a personal virtue" crap, BFEE claiming their hands were tied while their friends made billions screwing the energy markets.

[Bitchgoddes]

13. For me......

Bush stealing the election with his daddy and brothers friends. Not letting the votes to be counted, along with the rest that is above.

[MGKrebs]

14. My most hated is definitely attacking Iraq. But

the FIRST thing I remember hating was Bush* and Cheney talking about a recession during the campaign. Anyone over about 25 years old knows that perception and consumer confidence are serious forces, and they purposely (or ignorantly) helped to create a bad economy to further their personal political benefit. GRRRR.

[AVID]

15. Election Night 2000 - Sitting around the Tube with Daddy

shaking his head as he learned he LOST FLORIDA and the subsequent phone call daddy made.

[Cleita]

16. The Patient's Bill of Rights which no one on either

side of the aisle is talking about.

[notadmblnd]

17. I knew I disliked him in 1999...

when it was quoted in a major magazine that he said "some people have too many rights". He was referring to a web site that satirized him. If I remember correctly Bush and Co did everything they could to get the site taken down.

[Poiuyt]

18. Stem cell research

May not be the most hated moment, but it was one of the earliest. There is some history of Alzheimer's Disease in my family, so I had great interest in the progress of this kind of research. When Nancy Reagan came to bat in favor of it, I thought for sure he would side with science. This was my first clue that he was controlled by the religious right.

[AZCat]

19. Remember the Executive Order Hiding his Daddy's Files?

That was like, Summer 2001, and * signed the order blocking the release of the papers under the 1978 Presidential Records Act.
Just in time to hide all the dirt on Daddy, Rummy, etc.

They really are a bunch of bastards.

[Corgigal]

20. To continue reading to children

about a damn goat on 9-11. Then claiming that he didn't want to scare the children while he used them as a backdrop to explain to the nation what we already knew, we were attacked.

Don't forget canceling the egg roll/hunt on the kiddies. Also not showing up for the kids at the boy scout national meeting after telling the kids and parents he was coming.

[Design8edGrouch]

21. It starts before the [S]election of 2000

The first thing I hated him for was the realization that a former coke-head presided over a penal system that was imprisoning young drug users at a rate as high, if not higher than any other state in the US. * benefited from a family rich enough to afford rehab--why didn't he assume that others would, also. Rehab for all the drug users he imprisoned would have been less expensive, more efficient and considerably more humane.

The second thing was his casualness regarding the death penalty. Someone facing execution deserved more consideration than the 15 minutes he gave them before deciding not to issue a stay. This is even more disgusting when one considers the poor representation that a huge number of Texas inmates received.

The most important one, however, concerns his response when asked by a reporter about his favorite political philosopher. He answered Jesus Christ and when the follow-up came as to why that was so. He muttered something on the order of, "if you don't know, I can't explain it to you." I would I been OK with this if he had said the Golden rule, Jesus' love for humanity, he changed my life from that of a mean-spirited hopeless drunk to that of a loving kind man, or whatever. As it was, however, he only said this because it appealed to the fundies. His cunning knows no bounds.

Now just ask me about my hatred for him since the selection!

[David Zephyr]

22. My Most Hated Bush Act? His Bullying the Democrats to Follow Him.

No doubt.

[AVID]

23. Bring'em on

[Tansy_Gold]

24. Reinstituting the global "gag" rule on abortion

This was one of his very first acts after the swearing in, and if I had any shred of a doubt that this creature was totally evil, this horrible assault on the rights of women around the world removed that doubt.

Of course, he coupled that malicious deed with rejection of the Kyoto Protocols, indicating he had no respect for the planet, the lives of millions, the health of millions more.

Add to that the arsenated water, the mountaintop mining, the nominations of ultra-right-wing woman-hating religious nutcases like Ashcroft, Thompson, Olson, to the cabinet and then the nominations of all his ultra-right-wing woman-hating cronies to the federal bench.

And then let's throw in just for good measure all his faith-based shit to stink the place up even more.

I'd go on, but I have to go :puke: now, thankyouverymuch.

[bushh8ter]

25. Oh goodie I hit the Trifecta!

EOM

[laruemtt]

26. going on vacation for a month

right before 9/11, after having been warned of what was being planned and knowing full well what was coming.

[mykpart]

27. I live in Texas, so

I hated him before he ran for president. He ruined the economy here before he left for Washington! Started out with a surplus, turned it into a huge deficit. He's done the same thing for the country that he did for Texas.

How about the Kyoto protocols? Didn't he piss off everyone else in the world long before 9/11? Didn't he ask the president of Brazil if they had black people there?

[PaDUer]

37. Did you know...

he is one of the major stock holders of Baxter--the toxic breast implants, per Jim Hatfield's book, "Fortunate Son"? Now you know why he wants to cap lawsuits..He likes killing people since he was the governor of Tx ans how many he sentenced!

pg. 161 footnote--"A 1995 study by Public Citizen, a watchdog group founded by Ralph Nader, later released a report to the AP that showed 3/4's of the companies in which Bush owned stock, were defendant corporations & could be drastically affected by lawsuit reforms, including Baxter International Inc., & Baxter Trevanol Labs, two companies at the center of more than 3,000 breast implant suits."

[countmyvote4real]

28. AIDS support in Africa on condition of abstinence.

Include birth control and our money and drugs go elsewhere. Sorry.

[Generic Other]

29. Bringing Barbara Bush back into the public eye was bad enough

A few more hateful acts:

Changing bankrupcy laws

Patriot Act
Homeland Security
Taxbreaks for the rich

Giving 40 million to the Taliban
Escorting the bin Ladens out of the US after 9/11
Kissing Saudi Royal Ass as often as possible

Inflicting his brother Jeb on the Nation.

Destroying overtime pay

Kenny Boy and Enron

Ignoring warnings prior to 9/11

Spending half his time in Crawford, the other half fund raising.

Using black school children as props.

Using corporate CEOs dressed as workers as props to promote tax cuts for the rich.

Starting the stupid flag lapel fad

Taking the badge of a dead policeman from his aging mother to use as a prop.

Causing the Japanese stockmarket to crash when he visited.

Causing North Korea to start their nuclear plants again.

Giving Neil Bush the lucrative contracts to sell educational and testing software to support the No Child Left Behind Law.

Free Speech Zones

And mostly for insulting my intelligence every time he opened his mouth. Every time.

on edit: And how could I forget how he treated the French!

[Kathy in Cambridge]

30. Good list!

And turns out the French were right!

[PaDUer]

38. Hi Rational Rose!

Good to see you again!!

[Bitchgoddes]

33. good list I agree

that just about covers it for me

[K-W]

31. Apointing corporate shills to all the positions.

Oil men in charge of energy, loggers and miners in charge of the forests, etc

[Kanary]

32. What nobody remembers, or has interest in

The big cuts coming in HUD Section 8 housing.

Over 130,000 units to be cut.

Where do those people go?

Anyone here listening?

Will this be passed by, yet again?

HELLO?

Kanary

[Kanary]

45. You're proving me right.

Nobody at all interested in Section 8 housing cuts.

[GreyV]

35. Mass murder?

Mass murder of tens of thousands human beings under the under the guise of spreading democracy. Does that count?

[Liberalboy]

36. It was early in his presidency

and someone asked about Saddam Hussein and Bush actually answered "He tried to kill my Daddy." That's when I turned off the TV and realized it was the end of democracy as we know it.

[Generic Other]

42. That one just made me ROTFL like the pretzel incident

He did provide a few laughs.

My favorite moment was at the Inauguration when Skinner threw eggs at him. Don't ya'll remember?

:evilgrin:

[The Night Owl]

39. Poindexter and Total Information Awareness.

Fun stuff.

[GreyV]

43. Total Information Awareness?

Total Information Awareness and programs like it have been operating since late 1940s, when they were founded to combat the Communist infiltration. Yet they proved and this a fact, almost completely useless in combating the Communists. By 1956, KGB had over 6000 agents and informants in the continental US alone.

[quaker bill]

40. So many choices,

But I think killing all those people in Iraq for no good reason tops my list.

The tax cut for the wealthy was priceless.

Sending thugs to stop the vote count was precious.

Appointing Asscroft

Where to begin or stop??

I can't really argue with the other choices in here.

[maveric]

41. Allowing members of his administration to let planes crash into

the WTC, Pentagon, and a field in PA, killing 3000 innocent people.

[K8-EEE]

44. Playing Dress-Up "War Hero" On the Air Craft Carrier

Our soldiers dying and him high-fiving on the "Mission Accomplished" photo-op. That is the moment when I went to from disliking him to actually hating his guts.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

46. Saying Jesus was his favorite philosopher. Any time he invokes God. n/t

[Sabriel]

47. What's not to hate?

For me, #1 is taking whatever positive image the U.S. had in the world and trashing it in the space of only a year.

[fujiyama]

48. Appointing Ashcroft

lying about the air quality at ground zero

only christians go to heaven (signed a bill making "Jesus Day" into law in Tx)

I could go on and on...but you know what...I'd be writing on and on...for days at a time..

[fortyfeetunder]

49. He thinks he's an instrument of God

but I really think he is an incarnation of the Devil! How he uses religion to justify his work. His growing intolerance of diversity.

Tampering with the Fair Labor Standards Act.

[wickerwoman]

50. Screwing around with the Presidential Records Act to screen Reagan

and encouraging his staff members to obstruct FOIA requests.

After 9/11 the list gets too numerous to count but that's the first time I realized what a shameless destructive bastard he was.

For anyone interested in a longer journey down memory lane, here's a link to the GWB Scorecard of Evil:

http://www.wage-slave.org/scorecard.html

[laylah]

51. 9-11

If not for MIHOP, then for sure, LIHOP! :mad:

Thanks for the topic!

Jenn

[supercrash]

52. Looks like almost everything is covered....

16 words

Bugging UN memebers

No bid contracts

Texas Rangers land deal

Harken insider trading

Harboring traitors (Plame leaker)

Arbusto financed by Bin Laden family

AWOL

[0007]

53. His birth!

[banana republican]

54. The Dixie Chicks Book Burnings

hey I even liked their music...

[skypilot]

55. Remember the BBC footage...

...of Bush goofing in front of the camera before announcing that we were going to war with Iraq? He was goofing around and making faces at someone off-camera and then had to sit there practicing looking serious at a time when looking serious should have come naturally. The despicableness of this asshole was unmistakable in that footage. To this day I think that that footage could sink him if it got as much play as Dean's "Iowa Screech" footage.

[bobbieinok]

56. have a link to this??

...

[skypilot]

57. I'll seach around.

I'm sure it's still out there somewhere. Believe me, it's not an urban legend or anything. I saw this asshole with my own eyes. Bush didn't know that the BBC had left their camera on and we get a glimpse of his lively mood before sending our men and women overseas. Truly disgusting.

[webtrainer]

58. * saying that it would be a lot easier for him . . .

if this were a dictatorship.

Then his acting as if he were the leader of Imperial Amerika.

[nomatrix]

59. If you are going to read anything today

Read This

International War Crimes Tribunal

http://www.deoxy.org/wc/warcrim2.htm

This page is as important as PNAC, or any primer in the lead up to occupation. The same players behind the scenes.

Pay attention to the charges they were found guilty.

Caution. It will sicken you.

[skypilot]

60. BOBBIEINOK...

...here is a link to that BBC footage I was telling you about.

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/03/24_groomv.html

Or try these:

http://news.globalfreepress.com/images/wonk/VariousMovies2/

[Bandit]

61. The Endless Lies ~ I Trust the People

:shrug: whatever

[nostamj]

62. OK'ing the use of anthrax

to silence critics

among roughly a BILLION other things including showing his scale-encrusted ass in NYC after 9/11 rescued his presidency...

[napi21]

63. Protecting the corporate crooks!

I'm an accountant, and I'm most PI**ED off because GWB is doing everything he can to protect his buddies like Ley from prison time!

I litterally cheer when I see the FEW perp-walks that have occurred, but it's not enough.

These guys will do anything to get more money, EXCEPT...........risk jail time! We desperately need some good l o n g examples...NOW!!!