George W. Bush Resume

May 28, 2003

A writer named Kelly Kramer recently compiled a ‘resume’ for George W. Bush. In it, she listed his central accomplishments. Among them are:

* 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 year in office 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, presided over the worst security failure in US history;

* In his first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs;

* Cut unemployment benefits for more out of work Americans than any president in US history;

* Appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history;

* Signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any president in US history;

* Presided over the biggest energy crises in US history and refused to intervene when corruption was revealed;

* Cut healthcare benefits for war veterans;

* Set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest a sitting American President, shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind;

* Dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history;

* First president in US 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 US history to order a US 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 US history;

* First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the human rights commission;

* First president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the elections monitoring board;

* All-time US (and world) record holder for most corporate campaign donations;

* Biggest life-time 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 US history;

* 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);

* Took the biggest world sympathy for the US after 911, and in less than a year made the US the most resented country in the world (possibly the biggest diplomatic failure in US and world history);

* With a policy of 'disengagement' created the most hostile Israeli-Palestine relations in at least 30 years;

* Fist US president in history to have a majority of the people of Europe (71%) view his presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and stability; * First US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US 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 US 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 Capitol building. After 18 months he has no leads and zero suspects;

* In the 18 months following the 911 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 US history;

* Entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category straight down.

If you can believe it, this is an edited list. So it goes.