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Bernardo de La Paz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 01:32 PM
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Straw to break Camel's Back
What will be the straw that breaks the camel's back and makes Bush ArBusto again? The cumulative weight of all the information coming out gives the public a more accurate view of Bush, his history, and his personality as they add up. It becomes more and more obvious that Bush used family influence to escape war, didn't take his public obligations seriously, and that this has set a pattern for his life that continues today in his every decision.

What will be the straw? Will it be:


  • Arrest for college prank?
  • Drug use and alcholic binging?
  • Using elite position to jump line on cushy Guard spot?
  • Signature to avoid "overseas duty"?
  • Wearing ribbon not entitled to?
  • Disobeying order to take physical when drug testing begins 1972?
  • Failing to show up in Alabama?
  • Failing to fulfill Armed Services Reserve commitments, Boston for MBA?
  • Driver's licence records from 70's expunged from Texas? DUI?
  • Buyout of Arbusto oil company by daddy's pals?
  • Harkin Energy oil stock sale?
  • Sweatheart deal on Texas Rangers, public funded stadium?
  • Items too numerous to mention as Governor and President?


Others?

(Note: this list is from memory. If any details need sprucing up, please say so.)
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Jacobin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 01:36 PM
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1. None. This is a Faith Based, Special Olympics Presidency
Murkins love their doofus fuckup Idiot-In-Chief and his faux-macho ways. Besides, he's been "saved", so all his former life fuck-ups are ok. Oh, and all his recent fuck-ups?....those are all Clinton's fault.

See how easy it is?

:-(
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msturgis524 Donating Member (297 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 04:27 PM
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2. Don't forget its unpatriotic to ? him
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Claire Beth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 04:29 PM
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3. welcome to DU!
:hi:
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DrFunkenstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 04:33 PM
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4. Not Just Drinking - Driving, Too
In December, 1972, Bush challenged his dad (the ex-president) to a fist fight, during an argument about Bush's drunk driving. He had taken his little brother out drinking, and ran over a neighbor's garbage cans on the way home. Bush's atypical public service job, working with inner city Houston kids, appears to have been an unofficial community service stint set up by Bush, Sr. Apparently the governor didn't learn his lesson, because his drunk driving conviction occured almost four years later.

In another incident, he started screaming obscenities at a Wall Street Journal reporter, just because that reporter predicted that Bush's father would not be the 1988 Republican nominee. The reporter obviously was wrong, but a drunken Bush Jr. walked up to him at a restaurant and started yelling "You fucking son of a bitch. I won't forget what you said and you're going to pay a price for it."

In fact, Bush' running mate Dick Cheney now admits he had two drunk driving offenses in 1962 and 1963, giving the Bush -- Cheney ticket a new world record of 3 DUI's on one ticket.


1. Bush Lied at his Press Conference, 11/3/2000
Bush said he paid a fine on the spot and never went to court. That is clearly a lie, as you can see on this court document showing his court hearing a month later. In fact, it was a man also in court for DUI the same day who revealed Bush' arrest. Here is exactly what Bush said in his press conference:
Bush: "I told the guy I had been drinking and what do I need to do? And he said, "Here's the fine." I paid the fine and did my duty...."
Reporter: "Governor, was there any legal proceeding of any kind? Or did you just -- "
Bush: "No. I pled -- you know, I said I was wrong and I ..." Reporter: "In court? "
Bush: No, there was no court. I went to the police station. I said, "I'm wrong."

2. Bush Lied in Court, 1978

Bush got a court hearing to get his driving suspension lifted early, even though he had not completed a required driver rehabilitation course. He told the hearings officer that he drank only once a month, and just had "an occasional beer." The officer granted his request. But Bush continued drinking for 8 years after that date and has said publicly that he drank too much and had a drinking problem during that time. Presumably Bush was under oath during the hearing, though we haven't been able to pin down that detail. The Bush campaign refuses to comment on this contradiction.

http://www.realchange.org/bushjr.htm#drunk
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maine_raptor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 04:37 PM
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5. Deja Vu all over again
Where is the Straw? The light at the end of the tunnel. Just one more piece of evidence and the truth will come out.

Yup, heard them all before. Where?

During MonicaGate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Wing Nuts drove themselves crazy (hard to tell, I know, but trust me they did) trying to get that ONE piece of whatever, that one fact, that final whatever that would finally bring the American people to their collective senses and join in the March to the White House to toss Clinton out on his ear.

Didn't work then, won't work now.

The ONLY way to His AWOLness out of that big white house in DC, is to get more votes than he does. So many more that there is no way in HELL Tony "The Brain" Scala will even think of overturning the vote.
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