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I know you don't follow the news, so you might have missed it, but George W. Bush was most certainly called a

racist:

11. George Walker Bush ~ 43rd President (2001-2009)

Not only did President Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) in 2003 increase the stranglehold of standardized testing on America’s children—tests antiracists have long argued were racist. NCLBA more or less encouraged funding mechanisms that decreased (or did not increase) funding to schools when students were struggling or not making improvements on tests, thus privately leaving the neediest students of color behind.

Then two years later, President Bush’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) publically left thousands of stranded Black folk behind after Hurricane Katrina hit on August 29, 2005. While reporters quickly reached the Gulf Coast, federal officials made excuses for their delays, quickening the death spiral in New Orleans, ensuring that President Bush would land on this list of the most racist presidents of all time. And to top it all off, President Bush’s economic policies—his lax regulation of Wall Street loaners and speculators—helped bring into being the Great Recession, bringing about the largest loss of Black and Latino wealth in recent history.

The 11 Most Racist U.S. Presidents | HuffPost

illiterate:

Is George W Bush the most illiterate president in US history?

America has had several presidents who were not exactly bursting with intelligence. These luminaries include Republican Chester A. Arthur (president from 1881 to 1885), Republican Benjamin Harrison (1889 to 1893), Republican Gerald R. Ford (1974 to January 20, 1977 - Ford, who people said was solid cement between the ears and interested only in American football, was Nixon’s vice-president and became president when Nixon resigned in August 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal), and the avuncular fuddy-duddy Republican Ronald Reagan (1981 to January 20, 1989).

Is it a mere coincidence that all these presidents were members of the Republican Party, aka the “Grand Old Party”? Or could it be that there is something about the GOP that makes it pick dodos as its nominees for president?

Be that as it may, there is no denying the fact that in George W. Bush, the world has been saddled with yet another Republican dodo as President of the United States.. Not for nothing is Bush known as Dubya.

Last week, his job approval rating in opinion polls sank to a new low of 32 per cent, the worst of his presidency. His numbers are likely to sink even further in the wake of Thursday’s US Supreme Court ruling saying that Bush had overstepped his authority by planning to try Guantanamo Bay detainees by “military commissions” - trials marked by their lack of legal protections for defendants. Considered a sharp rebuke for Bush, the ruling is unlikely to do his plummeting popularity any good.

Bush’s tortuous syntax and woeful lack of knowledge of world geography, history, current affairs and a host of other topics have long made him the butt of jokes. But it goes beyond that. In a book titled “The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder”, American author Mark Crispin Miller argues that Bush may be the most illiterate president in US history.

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a member, and beneficiary of, a mafia like crime family:

AN EVIL EMPIRE?

When web surfers tire of reading about the president’s Nazi tendencies, they can turn to the history of the Bush Crime Family, or what is sometimes known on the web as the BFEE, or Bush Family Evil Empire. The website Bushbodycount.com tells the story of hundreds of deaths in which the president and his relatives were allegedly implicated. “This is a list of bodies, a roster of the dead, who might have been called Witnesses had they not met their untimely ends,” Bushbodycount says. The site accuses the president, as well as George H. W. Bush, of involvement in dozens of suspicious deaths, beginning with the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Bushbodycount tells readers that “an internal FBI memo reported that on November 22 [1963] a reputed businessman named George H. W. Bush reported hearsay that a certain Young Republican had been talking of killing the president when he came to Houston.” The site refers to an old, discredited story from The Nation that came out during the 1988 presidential campaign alleging that the elder Bush had been in the CIA in 1963. “George H. W. Bush has denied this,” Bushbodycount concludes in classic conspiratorial style, “although he was in Texas and cannot account for his whereabouts at the time.”

Annals of Bush-Hating | National Review

 

Lest we forget ...

 

Happy Labor Day

 

Fuck you and everyone who defends you.

Happy Labor Day to all The hard-working Americans who made America great

 

Bullshit. The gutsy and honest move would have been to vote against him. The effect was the same, but in that case they would have to own what they were doing as individuals and as a group. They hid from that accountability by not bringing it to a vote. The result was the same. The Republicans in the senate kept a qualified candidate from getting onto the court.

Again, it's about honesty and accountability, two concepts that are clearly foreign to you.

 

Monica had zero to do with an Arkansas land deal, but you seem to have been perfectly fine with that investigation.

And how do you know the Dems would have done the same thing? Has there been a precedent?

 

No doubt about that. Are you going to follow YankeeFan's lead and assume facts not in evidence?

 

Agreed. They need something to talk about on the safe space.

 

I know you don't go outside, so you might have missed it, but people can be more of certain things than other people. Like, in Dungeons & Dragons, some people have, like, an 8 intelligence, and some people have a 4. They're both dumb, but one is more dumb.

In any group, however, someone will be the most of something. You are the most of several things here. Congratulations. You should print out this post and frame it, so you can hang it where other people hang their college diplomas.

 

You hung your college diplomas?

How embarrassing for you.

Where are they hanging? The coffee shop?

 

Your liberal media at work:

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