1. President George W. Bush is the first President since the Great Depression to preside over a loss of jobs during his term.
2. He turned the largest budget surplus in American history into the largest budget deficit in American history.
3. He believes that arsenic probably is not all that bad for our children.
4. He alienated our closest allies by ridiculing them when they correctly highlighted his flaws in foreign policy.
5. He lies less than Vice-President Dick Cheney.
50 Reasons Why I Am Voting For Bush
1. President George W. Bush is the first President since the Great Depression to preside over a loss of jobs during his term.
2. He turned the largest budget surplus in American history into the largest budget deficit in American history.
3. He believes that arsenic probably is not all that bad for our children.
4. He alienated our closest allies by ridiculing them when they correctly highlighted his flaws in foreign policy.
5. He lies less than Vice-President Dick Cheney.
6. He acted like a good Christian by knowingly distorting Senator John McCain's record by accusing him of not caring about people with cancer. President Bush was not bothered by the fact that John McCain supported federal medical research funding but voted against a bill that gave money to a cancer research hospital because John McCain believed it was wrong to direct this money to a single state and take this money out of the defense budget.
7. He redistributes wealth from the poor and middle class to the wealthy by giving tax breaks to the wealthy at higher rates than what they paid into the system.
8. After seeing the evidence gathered by George Tenet and the CIA on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, he says "Is this all we've got?" but then intentionally withholds information from the American people. Coincidentally, polls showed that a majority of the American people would not support an invasion of Iraq if they knew the truth.
9. He pushes the so-called Healthy Forests Act through Congress by arguing that it is necessary to prevent wildfires--even though the act is largely focused on allowing logging companies to cut large trees instead of the brush that actually creates the danger of wildfires.
10. He wears cowboy boots and talks like a John Wayne character with exaggerated grammatical difficulties.
11. In the election of 2000, his campaign treats Al Gore's service in Vietnam as a military photographer like it was a vacation and not dangerous--even though numerous journalists were killed. Then, when he needed positive television coverage during the war with Iraq, he praises American journalists for their courage in covering the war.
12. He called North Korea part of Axis of Evil, and shortly afterward, North Korea announces that it is expelling Western inspectors from its nuclear facilities. Then, he refuses to have private discussions with North Korea. North Korea quickly restarts its nuclear weapons program and increases its nuclear weapons stockpile from two weapons to at least eight weapons.
13. He operates the most secretive administration in memory (unless, of course, his administration suspects that the underlying facts will help Republicans or hurt Democrats).
14. He pushes his so-called Medicare prescription drug bill through Congress by talking about the few elderly people who might benefit from the bill and hiding the fact that the bill will result in billions of dollars for the pharmaceutical industry.
15. He has a nice wife.
16. When his Medicare expert attempted to disclose the true cost of the Medicare bill, the White House kept him quiet by threatening to fire him. His administration told Congress that the bill would only cost $400 billion so that the bill will pass. After the bill is passed by one vote, his administration admits that the bill could cost almost $600 billion or more.
17. His management style delegates so much authority that he has no idea what is going on in many areas of his administration. Consequently, he can more easily argue that he is not responsible for any mistakes.
18. He claims to support free trade but also imposes a steel tariff to win votes in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. However, he abandons the tariff when European countries cleverly threaten to impose tariffs on American goods produced in other swing states.
19. After the Dixie Chicks criticized him and the War in Iraq, he demonstrated his firm support of the American ideal of freedom of speech by encouraging Americans not to purchase the Dixie Chicks' music.
20. He works hard. He also vacations hard--very hard--and very often.
21. He campaigned for Saxby Chambliss and helped him attack Senator Max Cleland, a veteran who left both of his legs and one of his arms on the battlefields of Vietnam, because Senator Cleland voted against the bill that formed the Department of Homeland Security. Bush was not bothered by the fact that he himself had opposed the creation of the Department and that Senator Cleland only voted against the bill because Bush was trying to use the bill take away union rights.
22. He questions the patriotism of critics of the War in Iraq even when the facts have proven every major criticism of the War in Iraq was legitimate.
23. He never makes mistakes and never apologizes for anything unless apologizing will help him win votes, but even then, he will not apologize in a straightforward manner because that would imply that he made a mistake.
24. He works hard to convince Muslims that the War on Terror is not a War on Islam and then refers to the War on Terror as a "Crusade" on at least two occasions.
25. He has not done cocaine within the past twenty-five years.
26. He criticizes Democrats for being anti-business. He also supports reducing government oversight of businesses. Yet, when many of his closest friends and campaign contributors are involved in corporate scandals, he claims that he is the candidate of corporate responsibility.
27. Even though his "misspeaks" can fill two books and a 365-page calendar, he runs commercials highlighting John Kerry's misspeaks.
28. He constantly changed his justification for passing huge tax cuts that primarily benefit the wealthy.
29. He constantly changed the justification for the War in Iraq.
30. He says "God" and "Jesus" a lot.
31. He works tirelessly to shift the tax burden from people who "earn" a significant amount of their income through gifts and inheritance to people who earn almost all of their income through hourly wages (i.e. He proposes eliminating the estate tax and reducing or eliminating taxes on investment income, but he only proposes marginally reducing income tax rates and does not propose reducing the F.I.C.A. tax which costs the working poor and many middle-class Americans more than the traditional income tax).
32. He criticizes President Bill Clinton for allowing campaign contributors to sleep at the White House but invites many of his top campaign donors for overnight stays at the White House.
33. He enjoys Republican control of both houses of Congress and has a Supreme Court with seven out of nine justices appointed by Republicans, yet he still asserts that the Republicans are not responsible for the country's problems.
34. He refused to have the federal government take over airport security so that the government can establish and enforce uniform security procedures. Coincidentally, the private security firms that run many airports' security operations are substantial contributors to the Republican Party.
35. Jesus Christ of Nazareth supports a capital gains tax cut for the wealthy.
36. He claims that fighter-jet landing on the USS Lincoln was not politically motivated (even though the ship was delayed for docking so that he could use the ship as a stage, a helicopter could have flown him to the ship but he flew in on a fighter jet anyway, the ship was positioned so that the San Diego skyline would not be visible to the television cameras, and his administration initially claimed that the Navy arranged for the banner stating "Mission Accomplished" but later admitted that the White House advance team was responsible for the banner).
37. He demonstrates his willingness to listen to all Americans and respect opposing points of view by requiring all Americans who attend his "town-hall meetings" and "Ask President Bush Sessions" to declare their support for him.
38. His administration claims that a memo entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike Within the U.S." did not warrant any follow-up, but when Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is criticized for not advising Congress of the Iraqi prison torture scandal and investigation, his administration claims that a press release with five lines mentioning the investigation is a sufficient explanation to Congress.
39. His Treasury Department uses taxpayer dollars to conduct an analysis of how John Kerry's tax and economic plan will hurt America.
40. He knows a lot about world affairs. He is also surprised when an Islamic, Middle-Eastern nation gets upset after the United States, a Western nation with a Christian majority, invades and occupies it.
41. He convinces America and a skeptical world that the War in Iraq is not personally motivated by saying that we should invade Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein because "After all, this is the guy who tried to kill my dad."
42. He spends months and tens of millions of dollars claiming that John Kerry is a flip-flopper on both sides of the issues but later claims that John Kerry is a liberal consistently on the wrong side of the issues.
43. He admitted that he entered the National Guard to avoid combat in Vietnam but has his campaign criticize John Kerry, a man who volunteered to fight in Vietnam, because John Kerry supposedly threw ribbons (and not medals) over a fence in 1971.
44. He does not read newspapers and receives all of his information after it is filtered through his advisers.
45. He is intelligent and educated. He also believed that Sweden (not Switzerland) is the nation known for its neutrality.
46. He proposes new overtime rules that will allow businesses to force more workers to work overtime hours without overtime pay.
47. In order to convince Americans to support the invasion of Iraq, he claims that Iraqi oil revenue will pay for the Iraqi reconstruction but then requests tens of billions of dollars from Congress for Iraqi reconstruction (with billions of dollars of this money going to Halliburton, the oil company that coincidentally had a man named Dick Cheney as its CEO) and accuses anyone who votes against the funding as abandoning their duties to our troops.
48. He claims that we will be able to leave Iraq because the military is training Iraqi forces to handle Iraqi security, but he fails to ensure that the Iraqi security trainees are defended or have the weapons to defend themselves. Consequently, dozens of the Iraqi trainees are captured and executed by the insurgents.
49. He claims that he is the best candidate to protect our troops and secure the peace, but his rush to war fails to ensure that over 700,000 pounds of munitions are protected. Coincidentally, the weapons are missing and thousands of our troops are killed or injured by roadside bombs and other explosions.
50. He was born into an extraordinarily wealthy family. His grandfather was a United States Senator. His father was President of the United States, Vice-President of the United States, Director of the CIA, etc. He was accepted into Yale on a lackluster academic record because of his family's connections to Yale. His family had numerous business and political connections. Yet, he somehow managed to pull himself up by his bootstraps and make something out these difficult circumstances.
Hmmmm.............On second thought, perhaps an arrogant, ignorant, incompetent, Christian-coated asshole should not be the leader of the free world. "President John Kerry" sounds a lot better--doesn't it?