All-time records - GEORGE W. BUSH RESUME The White House, USA ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT: I attacked and took over two countries. ** I spent the U.S. surplus and then bankrupted the Treasury. ** I shattered the record for biggest annual deficit in history. ** I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any 12-month period. ** I set all-time record for biggest drop in the history of the stock market. ** I am the first president in decades to execute a federal prisoner. ** I am the first president in US history to enter office with a criminal record. ** 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. ** I set the record for most campaign fund-raising trips by any president in US history. ** In my first two years in office over 2 million Americans lost their jobs. ** I cut unemployment benefits for more out-of-work Americans than any other president in US history. ** I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period. ** I appointed more convicted criminals to administration positions than any president in US history. ** I set the record for the fewest press conferences of any president since the advent of TV. ** I signed more laws and executive orders amending the Constitution than any other 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 health-care benefits for war veterans. ** I set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously take to the streets to protest me (15 million people),*shattering the record for protest against any person in the history of mankind. ** I dissolved more international treaties than any president in US history. ** I've made my presidency the most secretive and unaccountable of any 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 in any market in any country in the history of the world. ** I am the first president in US history to order 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 have 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 other president in US history. ** I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US from the Human Rights Commission. ** I am the first president in US history to have the United Nations remove the US*from the Elections Monitoring Board. ** 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 access during the 2002 US elections. ** I am the all-time US (and world) record-holder for most corporate campaign donations. ** The biggest lifetime contributor to my campaign, 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 took the world's 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). ** 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 am the first US president in history to have the people of South Korea more threatened by the US than by their immediate neighbor, North Korea. ** I changed US policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded government contracts. ** I set the all-time record for number of administration appointees who violated US*law by not selling their huge investments in corporations bidding for gov't contracts. ** I have removed more freedoms and civil liberties for Americans than any other president in US history.* In a little over two years I have created the most divided country in decades, possibly the most divided that the US has been since the Civil War. ** I entered office with the strongest economy in US history and in less than two years turned every single economic category heading straight down. * 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 went AWOL from the National Guard. ** I refuse to take a drug test or even answer any questions about drug use. ** All records of any SEC investigations into my insider trading are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public view. ** Records or minutes from meetings I (or my VP) attended regarding public energy-policy are sealed in secrecy and unavailable for public review.
During the Civil War, Lincoln appropriated powers no previous President had wielded: he used his war powers to proclaim a blockade, suspended the writ of habeas corpus, spent money without congressional authorization, and imprisoned 18,000 suspected Confederate sympathizers without trial. Lincoln didn't free the slaves and the civil war wasn't about slavery per se regardless of what you've been taught.
Yea, Lincoln's obliteration of states' rights cause today Fed's DEA raids on med-pot patients, gave precedent to Bush's suspension of habeas corpus, imprison ppl without trial like in Guantanamo. If there was no Lincoln, we wouldn't have Bush Jr. today.
Well, he caught pneumonia at his inauguration speech and died from it a month later! :sick2: It's not like he had much of a chance to do anything! At least he didn't screw anything up! :applause:
George W ain't the worst, what's wrong with all of you? Reagan's #1, then there's assholes like Harding, Hoover, Lyndon B, Pierce, Buchanan etc. What exactly makes George W so bad to you people? Started Afghan War ( with UN ) Started Iraq War ( With Britain ) His economic failures are nothing new of a U.S, Pres. You people just love to hate him, hell he ain't good but he's not the worst I'm telling you.
well you know i haven't lived through all of them. all the presidents the u.s. has ever had. of those i have, the only republicans who publicly appeared mostly harmless, and this is the best that can be said for any of them in my lifetime, were isenhour and ford. not that the democrates have been uniformly god's gift to anything either. although both jfk and carter did at least some good. quite a lot of it actualy. though neither entirely innocent of some harm in the proccess. clinton's biggist sin wasn't getting a blow job, but nafta, which sounded good at the time. and lbj could have gotten our buts out of nam when we should have but didn't. that about covers those i've lived to see. nixxon, raygun and bush II, were all trators to the constitution they were sworn to uphold. and bush I didn't reverse raygun, just stopped publicly and visibly making it worse. but historicly, before i was born, there have been holders of that office who make the current offenders seem almost tame. washington himself, aside from his womanizing, was known among indiginous people as village burner, and jackson, tyler, and several others' defacto genocidal tactics against native americans make anything sadam hussain or even pol pot and malosivich may have done pale by comparison. even hitler claimed, with some justification, andrew jackson as one of his inspirations. none of which in any way excuses the current company. and of course, were even the bloodthirstyist of them, as big an embarassment internationaly to the nation? =^^= .../\...
JBJ will forever be the worst president ever (and you can quote me on that in 100 years). Bill Clinton was one of the best and he is my idol!
Lol you can tell me w/e you want, but I do not choose to accept what your telling me. I could just as easily tell you that you love to hate Reagan and all the other people you says are horrible. JBJ has been the WORST president in regards to foreign policy, he is horrible with domestic policy as well, he has done NO good for the US, and he has no intelligence.
yeah andrew jackson was way worse than george bush could ever be. he forced the cherokee to move out of the land that they had lived for thousands of years, and who had assimilated into the society pretty well. and then to add on to that, he completely disobeyed the rulings of the supreme court! even bush wouldnt do something that dumb. warren harding was pretty bad also because of the teapot dome scandal and his corrupt administration. ironically neither of them are on your poll!
The worse president? It goes something like this;; 1. FDR 2. George W. Bush 3. Abraham Lincoln 4. Richard Nixon I know I'm going to be jumped on for mentioning Abraham Lincoln and FDR but TRUST ME......I know what I'm talking about. Lincoln was a tyrant.....he imprisoned many people without trial and didn't respect the South's right succede from the union. FDR banned weed for the first time, took more power from the people and gave it to the federal government, and made people believe that they need government to survive. This of course is a big lie. I doubt anyone would protest why I put George W. Bush and Nixon here......both presidents were a huge disaster for this country (Nixon with the War on Drugs and Vietnam, and Bush with the Iraq War and the Patriot Act).