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  • Premium Parrots
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    • Feb 2008
    • 9760

    #1

    Is This Actually True?

    Ok ppl heres an email I received from a friend of mine today. Theres quite a list here and, as I don't follow politics too closely I was wondering if all this is true. I'm not trying to start a debate here, I just would like to know if this is true.


    Fw: What a difference between then and now

    Sent By:
    tinka On: Jun 06/09/09 1:26 PM

    To: "The Amazing PP" premiumparrots@comcast.net



    If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

    If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have approved?


    If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?

    If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

    If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved?

    If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

    If George W. Bush had a Republican Congress allocate 5.6 Billion dollars for a civilian volunteer security force, as strong and well equipped as the regular Army and under his personal authority, would you have been concerned?

    If George W. Bush had proposed doubling the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

    If George W. Bush had then proposed doubling the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

    If George W. Bush had promised detailed tracking of the spending from a $785 Billion Stimulus Bill and then postponed that oversight until 2010, would you approve or would you think something "smelled fishy"? If Bush had promised 48 hour advance posting of the same bill on the internet and only released it two hours before congressional approval, would you wonder what was being hidden from the public?

    If Bush's White House Staff had spent over $300,000 flying Airforce One low over New York (for a publicity photo flyby with the Statue of Liberty) frightening the city, wouldn't you have expected Bush to make the pictures public? Would you have approved? Obama won't give them up, but he will release the secret "torture memos".

    If George W. Bush had been "addicted" to using a TelePrompTer, and was afraid to give a speech without having one, would you have approved ? Would you think he was intelligent?


    If George W. Bush had pre-approved/pre-picked the list of reporters allowed to ask questions at his press conferences and refused to call on the correspondent from MSNBC (FOX with Obama), would you have approved? Is that a Fair and Balanced news conference?

    If George W. Bush and a Republican Congress had given hundreds of millions of dollars to a group (the right-wing equivalent of ACORN) after its members had been convicted of voter registration fraud, would you approve of them to doing the 2010 Census, which will determine congressional districts for 10 years? Will you trust ACORN in 2010?

    Would you have approved of George W. Bush moving the Census from the Dept. of Commerce into the White House and putting his Chief of Staff in control of the counting?

    He's done all this in 14 weeks -- so we still have three years and eight-and-a-half months full of surprises.
    Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I killed because they were annoying......





    I've been wrong lots of times.  Lots of times I've thought I was wrong only to find out that I was right in the beginning.


  • HK11
    Member
    • May 2009
    • 631

    #2
    I probably would not have approved and don't of the current president. I didnt like Bush either

    I would have to research a few, but most of those are true.

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    • Premium Parrots
      Super Moderators
      • Feb 2008
      • 9760

      #3
      Truthfully I haven't really liked any president since Ike.

      "I LIKE IKE" was a great slogan.
      Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I killed because they were annoying......





      I've been wrong lots of times.  Lots of times I've thought I was wrong only to find out that I was right in the beginning.


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      • lxskllr
        Member
        • Sep 2007
        • 13435

        #4
        I'm sure it's true, and would be true of any president in office. It's full of technical problems that pop up whenever you try to run a bureaucracy as large as the US government.

        FYI Any mail you receive with the subject line of Fw. Fw. Fw. xxxxx Can be assumed to be 1 of a few things... Spam, a (insert opposite party here)political agenda, a feel good story that isn't true, bullshit ;^)

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        • HK11
          Member
          • May 2009
          • 631

          #5
          Originally posted by lxskllr
          I'm sure it's true, and would be true of any president in office. It's full of technical problems that pop up whenever you try to run a bureaucracy as large as the US government.

          FYI Any mail you receive with the subject line of Fw. Fw. Fw. xxxxx Can be assumed to be 1 of a few things... Spam, a (insert opposite party here)political agenda, a feel good story that isn't true, bullshit ;^)
          Or one of those emails that are supposed to make you smile and then send to 10 friends. Those really only cause hate though.

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          • EsotericPC
            Member
            • Mar 2009
            • 166

            #6
            Originally posted by lxskllr
            I'm sure it's true, and would be true of any president in office. It's full of technical problems that pop up whenever you try to run a bureaucracy as large as the US government.

            FYI Any mail you receive with the subject line of Fw. Fw. Fw. xxxxx Can be assumed to be 1 of a few things... Spam, a (insert opposite party here)political agenda, a feel good story that isn't true, bullshit ;^)
            I completely agree. That email, as well as over 9,000 fit the description you indicated.

            Bush was shady as was every pres.

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            • ctimb2002
              Member
              • Apr 2009
              • 483

              #7
              You know PP the most fascinating thing about that WHOLE email was that I have grown so accustomed to hearing people BASH Bush so hard that for the first 5 or 6 lines I actually thought they were bashing Bush NOT Obama. It wasn't until I got to the Firing a CEO one that I realized who it was they were bashing. Funny I think.

              As far at being true or not. Most of these are "facts." They are obviously written in a way to sound a little more hateful and bent to one side but in one way or another you could probably not be called an all out liar for saying them.

              Peace!

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              • RobsanX
                Member
                • Aug 2008
                • 2030

                #8
                All 90% of people, and 99% of politicians care about is their party and themselves. And they care about their party only as a means to benefit themselves.

                All politics is utter bullshit...

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                • EsotericPC
                  Member
                  • Mar 2009
                  • 166

                  #9
                  Interesting read on MSNBC.com

                  "For U.S., a sea of red ink, years in the making
                  Business cycle, Bush policies linked to most of federal government's deficits"

                  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31199889/

                  I am not saying either Bush or Obama is good, I just figured this seemingly unbiased analysis was interesting.

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                  • EsotericPC
                    Member
                    • Mar 2009
                    • 166

                    #10
                    Wow.. just freaking wow...

                    http://www.autoblog.com/2009/06/09/c...-the-next-guy/

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                    • jamesstew
                      Member
                      • May 2008
                      • 1440

                      #11
                      None of this would have happened under the rule of General Zod.

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                      • HK11
                        Member
                        • May 2009
                        • 631

                        #12
                        Originally posted by jamesstew
                        None of this would have happened under the rule of General Zod.
                        But tights would have been mandated.

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                        • Badfish74
                          Member
                          • May 2009
                          • 1035

                          #13
                          Very interesting email PP! I know that several of those blunders are indeed a fact...the ones that I haven't heard about really don't seem farfetched enough to automatically dismiss!

                          Kinda puts in perspective how much scrutiny people in power are. I myself just plain ole don't like politics. I think Bush would be fun to smoke a doobie with though! 8)

                          Great food for thought!

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                          • jamesstew
                            Member
                            • May 2008
                            • 1440

                            #14
                            Originally posted by HK11
                            Originally posted by jamesstew
                            None of this would have happened under the rule of General Zod.
                            But tights would have been mandated.
                            Not at all; that's the sort of thing that the son of Jor-El would wear.

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