Seeing that today is the last Friday of W, lets see what did NOT happen..

[SkinsHokieFan]

The United States never launched a major attack or invasion or went to war with Iran, Syria, North Korea, Saudi Arabia or France

The draft was never re-instated (remember those MTV commercials in 2004?)

Patriot Act 2? :whoknows:

Internment camps for Muslims?

Bush hasn't done this

http://www.volconvo.com/forums/politics-government/24056-executive-order-13233-there-chance-bush.html


The presidential directive says that, when the president considers an emergency to have occurred, an "Enduring Constitutional Government", comprising "a cooperative effort among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government, coordinated by the President," will take the place of the nation's regular government, presumably without the oversight of Congress.

Conservative activist Jerome Corsi and Marjorie Cohn of the National Lawyers Guild have said that this is a violation of the Constitution of the United States in that the three branches of government are separate and equal, with no single branch coordinating the others. The directive, created by the president, claims that the president has the power to declare a catastrophic emergency.

Any other fear mongering from 2004 I am unable to recall?

[Burgold]

As near as I can tell, tens of thousands of Americans are not imprisoned without due process on the basis of illegal wiretapping. Then again, if they were in secret prisons and had no right... how would we know?

[Mongo2365]

There wasn't another terrorist attack. That's a good thing.

[Burgold]

The bird flu never materialized killing off 20% of our population.

[BigMike619]

I didnt shoot that man in Reno just to watch him die..

[#98QBKiller]

I didnt shoot that man in Reno just to watch him die..


When I heard that whistle blowing I never hung my head to cry....

[Burgundy Burner]

I didnt shoot that man in Reno just to watch him die..

I didn't wreck Dale Earnhardt, Jr. at Richmond on purpose - or any other track. :D

[PleaseBlitz]

The English language has indeed survivorated.

[zoony]

He never did reveal that he's the sith- so a bit dissapointed in that. time is running out

[BigMike619]

he never did that spread in Playgirl and his home movie with Paris Hilton still hasnt been released.

[PleaseBlitz]

Neither of his daughters got arrested for drunk driving. Lushes.

[Thiebear]

He didnt basically make himself King Jorge and end the Presidency ...

Or in Soviet Union Style: Hand it to Cheney
Then have Cheney disband the Congress and give it back.

[MattFancy]

The English language has indeed survivorated.

a great george bush quote: "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/bushvideos/youtube/bushfoolme.htm

One of his best!

[zoony]

I was listening to bubba the love sponge tuesday and they were playing his press conference and ripping him over top of it... when Bush was talking about Katrina he referred to the heroic "chopper drivers" that pulled people off rooftops. Hilarious

[Switchgear]

SHF, don't you hate it when you spend the time to look a few things up to start a substantive thread, point out the over the top "BUSH IZ EVILLLZ!!!1!!" rhetoric that seemed to be everywhere you looked the last few years, and all you get is jokes and other thread derails? Ah well, what do you expect, it's the internet.

[MattFancy]

SHF, don't you hate it when you spend the time to look a few things up to start a substantive thread, point out the over the top "BUSH IZ EVILLLZ!!!1!!" rhetoric that seemed to be everywhere you looked the last few years, and all you get is jokes and other thread derails? Ah well, what do you expect, it's the internet.

what would you like us to say? yeah he did some good things, but he also did some things that the majority of people didn't agree with. yeah, there hasn't been another terrorist attack, but the economy is a disaster and we are fighting 2 wars. so its not like he's been amazing as president.

[BigMike619]

SHF, don't you hate it when you spend the time to look a few things up to start a substantive thread, point out the over the top "BUSH IZ EVILLLZ!!!1!!" rhetoric that seemed to be everywhere you looked the last few years, and all you get is jokes and other thread derails? Ah well, what do you expect, it's the internet.

did we ruin your thread?

I pretty much thought it was tongue in cheek and we all knew that most of this didnt happen anyways so lets see what else didnt happen.

Ya know, he didnt eat any live babies on national television...

I thought the idea of this thread was that he isnt the monster he is portrayed as most of the time..

[PleaseBlitz]

SHF, don't you hate it when you spend the time to look a few things up to start a substantive thread, point out the over the top "BUSH IZ EVILLLZ!!!1!!" rhetoric that seemed to be everywhere you looked the last few years, and all you get is jokes and other thread derails? Ah well, what do you expect, it's the internet.

This thread has more potential as a joke thread than as just being another one of 50 billion "Bush is/isnt evil" threads on this forum.

[Midnight Judges]

SHF, don't you hate it when you spend the time to look a few things up to start a substantive thread, point out the over the top "BUSH IZ EVILLLZ!!!1!!"

If he wanted to start a substantive thread he wouldn't have started it with a quote from Jerome freakin' Corsi.

[Thiebear]

Ya know, he didnt eat any live babies on national television...

I thought the idea of this thread was that he isnt the monster he is portrayed as most of the time..

He was biting the heads of the baby alive dolls that looked real.
Then one day a lady threw a real baby on the stage and thats when he became a legend.

[BigMike619]

He was biting the heads of the baby alive dolls that looked real.
Then one day a lady threw a real baby on the stage and thats when he became a legend.

Is he Ozzy Osbourne? :silly:

[Corcaigh]

He said Bush ... heh, heh

http://images.chron.com/blogs/specialfeatures/archives/beavis.jpg

[Predicto]

I credit the loyal opposition for keeping him from getting too far out of line. :D

[rdsknbill]

pretty sure this didn't happen
http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/2/bush_and_bear.gif (http://www.threadbombing.com/details.php?image_id=2597)

[China]

He never did reveal that he's the sith- so a bit dissapointed in that. time is running out

I thought the pope was the sith Lord:

http://i483.photobucket.com/albums/rr197/ParallelUniverseParking/Awkward.jpg

[rdsknbill]

http://www.threadbombing.com/data/media/1/unlimitedpower.jpg (http://www.threadbombing.com/details.php?image_id=899)

[TMK9973]

He didn't work in a cross partisan tone
He didn't bring dignity back to the White House
He didn't return us to budget surpluses
He didn't spread democracy to the middle east
He didn't eliminate Al-qaeda or kill OBL
He didn't fix Social security

Your right - He didn't do a lot of things!

[TMK9973]

Here was his 2004 promises..... which ones do you think were kept?

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/09/02/gop.bush/index.html

[mjah]

There was concern in 2000 that Clinton would refuse to vacate the White House for one reason or another. I'm convinced that this "maybe-he-won't-leave" story comes up every time a 2-termer gets close to his last year as president. ...Unless he's Reagan, who by 1988 didn't even remember what color the White House was.

This time around, the irony is that Bush couldn't possibly want to get the hell out of there any MORE than he already does. He's over being president, and has been since about 2005.

[Chachie]

1. "The mission" was NOT accomplished.

2. There was NOT weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

3. Osama Bin Laden was NOT brought to justice.

[Cooked Crack]

I wonder if in another 8 years you'll be trumpeting that we haven't become a socialist state.

[Yusuf06]

Something else that didn't happen? Competence. (http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/070318/26glo.htm)

And it wasn't a one off deal. There was more incompetence. Much more:

First, everyone loves to trot out the tired rhetoric that "We haven't been attacked since 9/11". Well, that is true. However, why does nobody seem to hold W. to task FOR 9/11 when his terrorism Czar had been trying since day one of the Bush administration (http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB147/index.htm) to impress the seriousness of the threat (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/19/60minutes/main607356.shtml) on the them. Unfortunately, they knew but did nothing. (http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/they-knew-but-did-nothing/2008/03/07/1204780065676.html?page=fullpage) With that in mind, the familiar refrain that "We haven't been attacked since 9/11" means little.

So in spite of what his advisors were telling him, W. and Co. decides that Iraq was to blame somehow for 9/11. They then proceed to waste a brilliant performance by the military in routing Saddam's forces by going to incredible heights of incompetence by not planning for, and mismanaging post-invasion Iraq.
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/nov/04/iraq.midterms2006)
So, after looking at the lessons learned from the chaos of 9/11, did they learn anything about managing disasters? Looking strictly at the Federal "response" to Katrina, evidently not. (http://media.www.kaleo.org/media/storage/paper872/news/2005/09/15/Editorials/Poor-Katrina.Preparation.An.Example.Of.Bushs.Ineptitude-2797293.shtml)

Competence also didn't happen with regard to early warnings (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28001417/) about the pernicious effects of deregulation on the economy.

So nevermind what didn't happen under W., I'm looking forward to what WILL happen in an Obama administration, competence and leadership based much less on ideology than what works.

[Chief skin]

This is a PARTY WEEKEND, The Worst President of modern times is finished. We party now because next week we start CLEANING UP THE MESS the son of a whore left

[Larry]

This is a PARTY WEEKEND, The Worst President of modern times is finished. We party now because next week we start CLEANING UP THE MESS the son of a _____ left

Uh,

I don't think there are very many who would accuse me of being a big Bush fan. But do you think you could clean up your language a bit?

[ACW]

If he wanted to start a substantive thread he wouldn't have started it with a quote from Jerome freakin' Corsi.Which quote is Corsi's?

[Yusuf06]

Uh,

I don't think there are very many who would accuse me of being a big Bush fan. But do you think you could clean up your language a bit?
Yeah, that's incredibly unfair to Bar. I'm sure she denies she's his mother whenever it comes up. :)

FWIW, I like W. and Bush Sr. They both seem like good guys in their own way and I think H.W. Bush got a really bad rap. However, there's just no way to sugarcoat it, W. is/was simply a horrible POTUS. He has turned out to be the GOP's Jimmy Carter.

I feel like a real moron to have voted for him...twice.

[Rdskns2000]

Yeah, that's incredibly unfair to Bar. I'm sure she denies she's his mother whenever it comes up. :)

FWIW, I like W. and Bush Sr. They both seem like good guys in their own way and I think H.W. Bush got a really bad rap. However, there's just no way to sugarcoat it, W. is/was simply a horrible POTUS. He has turned out to be the GOP's Jimmy Carter.

I feel like a real moron to have voted for him...twice.

How could you vote for Bush twice? By 2004, it was clear he wasn't a good president and had to go. It's just the democrats didn't have a good candidate against him. I think Al Gore would've won a rematch. Hillary Clinton would've beaten him in 2004.

I voted for W in 2000 but saw my mistake and voted Libertarian in 2004.

[Rdskns2000]

1. Bush was not a uniter but a divider.

2. The war or terror is hardly over and frankly has been made worse. After 9/11, Bush could've gotten the whole world to help confront terror head on and end the conditions that bread it. His Iraq diversion killed that.

3. America is not safer and quite frankly is more at risk now.

4. The U.S. is not so energy dependent on terrorists oil.

5. Government spending went down.


You can go on and on. Someone said Bush will end up as a Top 20 president. No he won't. He will be in the Bottom 10.

[Yusuf06]

How could you vote for Bush twice? By 2004, it was clear he wasn't a good president and had to go. It's just the democrats didn't have a good candidate against him. I think Al Gore would've won a rematch. Hillary Clinton would've beaten him in 2004.

I voted for W in 2000 but saw my mistake and voted Libertarian in 2004.
Total and utter stupidity. I will now throw myself on the mercy of the court. :doh:

[Jumbo]

He didn't sell the defense satellite codes to the Jovian invasion fleet.

****. Forgot I wasn't supposed to say anything.

[ljs]

The draft was never re-instated (remember those MTV commercials in 2004?)


Whats really really funny about this part..is that it was Charles Rangle and a bunch of Democrats that were trying to get the draft going....NOT the republicans. Jesse Jackson was right there w/ him...
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:HR00163:@@@L&summ2=m

here are the 14 Co-Sponsors..
Rep Abercrombie, Neil (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/?&Db=d108&querybd=@FIELD(FLD004+@4((@1(Rep+Abercrombie++Neil ))+00002))) [HI-1] - 1/7/2003Rep Brown, Corrine (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/?&Db=d108&querybd=@FIELD(FLD004+@4((@1(Rep+Brown++Corrine))+ 00132))) [FL-3] - 1/28/2003Rep Christensen, Donna M. (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/?&Db=d108&querybd=@FIELD(FLD004+@4((@1(Rep+Christensen++Donn a+M.))+01474))) [VI] - 5/19/2004Rep Clay, Wm. Lacy (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/?&Db=d108&querybd=@FIELD(FLD004+@4((@1(Rep+Clay++Wm.+Lacy))+ 01654))) [MO-1] - 1/28/2003Rep Conyers, John, Jr. (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/?&Db=d108&querybd=@FIELD(FLD004+@4((@1(Rep+Conyers++John++Jr .))+00229))) [MI-14] - 1/7/2003Rep Cummings, Elijah E. (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/?&Db=d108&querybd=@FIELD(FLD004+@4((@1(Rep+Cummings++Elijah+ E.))+00256))) [MD-7] - 1/28/2003Rep Hastings, Alcee L. (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/?&Db=d108&querybd=@FIELD(FLD004+@4((@1(Rep+Hastings++Alcee+L .))+00511))) [FL-23] - 1/28/2003Rep Jackson, Jesse L., Jr. (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/?&Db=d108&querybd=@FIELD(FLD004+@4((@1(Rep+Jackson++Jesse+L. ++Jr.))+00587))) [IL-2] - 7/21/2004Rep Jackson-Lee, Sheila (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/?&Db=d108&querybd=@FIELD(FLD004+@4((@1(Rep+Jackson-Lee++Sheila))+00588))) [TX-18] - 1/28/2003Rep Lewis, John (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/?&Db=d108&querybd=@FIELD(FLD004+@4((@1(Rep+Lewis++John))+006 88))) [GA-5] - 1/7/2003Rep McDermott, Jim (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/?&Db=d108&querybd=@FIELD(FLD004+@4((@1(Rep+McDermott++Jim))+ 00766))) [WA-7] - 1/7/2003Rep Moran, James P. (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/?&Db=d108&querybd=@FIELD(FLD004+@4((@1(Rep+Moran++James+P.)) +00832))) [VA-8] - 1/28/2003Rep Stark, Fortney Pete (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/?&Db=d108&querybd=@FIELD(FLD004+@4((@1(Rep+Stark++Fortney+Pe te))+01101))) [CA-13] - 1/7/2003Rep Velazquez, Nydia M. (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/?&Db=d108&querybd=@FIELD(FLD004+@4((@1(Rep+Velazquez++Nydia+ M.))+01184))) [NY-12] - 1/28/2003Rep Norton, Eleanor Holmes (http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/?&Db=d108&querybd=@FIELD(FLD004+@4((@1(Rep+Norton++Eleanor+H olmes))+00868))) [DC] - 1/28/2003(withdrawn - 6/21/2004)