Name a negative Bush story that dropped off the radar...

[LisaM]

I was thinking about the submarine full of Bush/Cheney supporters that rammed into all the Japanese school-aged kids.

[Career Prole]

1. AWOL.

I'm still pissed about that. :grr:

[physioex]

7. I agree with you......

But the past is past and I say let it rest. What bothers me more is the illegal diversion of funds from Afghanistan to Iraq. Why is that never talked about?

[BOSSHOG]

16. If he murdered your parents and you knew he did it

and I said, let it rest, would that be good with you? Let us move on. Unit cohesiveness is irrelevant? Let us only contend with the crimes of today.

[physioex]

25. I never said I disagreed....

But everyone has a skeleton in his/her closet. They guy is a rich spoilt brat, and this is not atypical behavior. (Please don't accuse me of letting him of the hook.) What really bothers me most about this man is not his ideology or his "petty crimes" but more the fact that he has no value on human life. That started early in politics from his days as Governor.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

30. Why are are his skeletons allowed to lie?

But anything about a Dem is rehashed to death by the right and their MSM handmaidens.......especially when it comes to Clinton.

[physioex]

33. I couldn't agree more.....

But we need to come to a decision as to how we are going to do this, and I have no easy solution. Do we get down and dirty and start character assasinations, or communicate intelligently what we are about to try and win over the voters.

[Career Prole]

31. Correction: he sees no value in human life

below a certain level of income and that started with his upbringing, and was illustrated by (among other things) his buying his way out of Vietnam.

[physioex]

You do have a point there.....

It just amazes me how stupid the population of this country is and how easily they can be manipulated.

[zann725]

87. Or when, as a child, he stuffed firecrackers in frog butts, & blew them up

And we wonder why he chose Gonzalez?

[rfkrfk]

89. That was hashed out, in 2000

I don't think the awol story changed anyones mind.
The other side would argue, shrub got his {at least]
the minimum number of 'NG service points' for each of
the six years of his obligation, after which he was
honorably discharged from the service.

It was just a distraction, diverted attention away from
Kerry.
To an individual reporter, he/she wants a 'story',
but does that help the voters make an informed choice?
Most people did not know anything about Kerry,
before 2004, or something like , ya, he's the other Kerrey.

[Career Prole]

91. Honorably discharged?

Maybe.
Served honorably?
No.

I got my honorable discharge the honorable way. I don't like to see 'em handed out as party favors to rich kids.
Daddy can buy him a letterman's jacket, but that won't make him a football hero.
He's a phony and that speaks directly to the perception that he's an honest man. He's not honest...his whole life is a lie.

[BOSSHOG]

2. Desertion of his military unit to avoid a drug test

[Streetdoc270]

3. all of them

Texas ANG
Missing RDX in Iraq
Missing WMD
DUI
Cocaine abuse
Missing flight physical

[Clark2008]

10. To continue:

Valerie Plame
The FIRST missing millions from the Iraqi War
Culpability in the 9/11 investigation
Lack of getting OBL

[Just Me]

61. Also, "torture", "torture", "torture" at US military prisons,...

,...the cover-up of mass killing of 4,000 Afganistans, "secret mind-control stations".

[BOSSHOG]

4. Insider trading at Harken (A Federal Crime)

[meppie-meppie not]

35. you bet! Clinton had to testify during the Paula Jones crap because

the crime she alleged took place did so before he became President. So this insider trading stuff of Shrubs, if properly investigated would no doubt impeach him!

[itcfish1]

95. You Forgot

Whitewater. That was a 20 year old land deal

[meppie-meppie not]

101. Whitewater was investigated ad nauseum and there was nothing

there! Starr wanted Susan McDonald to lie and she wouldn't. Whitewater never got to deposition stage because it was a land deal that they lost money on and nothing more. I haven't forgot anything.

[Carolab]

5. Valerie Plame. n/t

[Roland99]

100. That came first in my mind.

[BOSSHOG]

6. INTENTIONALLY Lying about WMD

[Just Me]

65. Which relates to Rummie's OSP (which was also covered-up).

[meppie-meppie not]

104. OSP? n/t

[Just Me]

107. "Office of Special Plans" eom

[BOSSHOG]

8. The REAL reason he gave George Tenant a medal

[Beaverhausen]

9. Ken Lay/Enron

[McCamy Taylor]

ENRON is coming back--documentary at Sundance, Lay trial in the works

[Cyrano]

11. Anyone can become president.

And sure as hell, it happened.

[meppie-meppie not]

102. And isn't that pathetic!! :( n/t

[DeaconBlues]

12. the Plame incident

there's a traitor in the White House and the press doesn't give a damn, unless they are inconvenienced by having to testify.

Clinton would have been hanging from the White House rafters if a similar scandal had occurred when he was president.

[DeaconBlues]

17. oh, and money and troops taken from Afghanistan and the hunt for bin Laden

in order to carry out his personal vendetta against Iraq and Hussein.

[DeaconBlues]

20. God, there are so many

the EPA lieing about how safe the air at Ground Zero was after 9/11. That cruel piece of work probably put the lives of thousands at risk.

[BlueEyedSon]

13. Full disclosure of the Cheney "energy task force"

Probly where the impetus to invade Iraq came from....

[Just Me]

60. Halliburton, Halliburton, Halliburton!!! eom

[zann725]

88. Speaking of which, I saw a 'Bush/Haliburton' bumper sticker today!

n/t

[meppie-meppie not]

103. what did it say? n/t

[NC_Nurse]

14. Most of them....

Plame/AWOL/questionable stock sale/Halliburton/blahblahblah...

I can't think of all the rest, probably because it's been so long since I've heard about them.

Media control, it's what dictatorships are built on! :dunce:

[cthrumatrix]

63. how about Sibel Edmunds ...?

[MuseRider]

15. Name one that hasn't.

If it was negative it went away.

[fob]

98. ditto that, Muse.

Or how about naming a "negative" story that WASN'T spun away as "politics as usual", or turned around into a "positive" for bush* or that wasn't simply media "re-assigned" to the democrats.

/noneedtoanswer

[Hobarticus]

18. Mocking the death-row born-again Christian woman...

Remember that little gem?

God, what an ass.

[greyXstar]

19. How about naming one that DIDN'T drop off the radar?

Seems everything negative about the Dimson gets buried or not reported at all. We should start calling him the Teflon Shrub or something.

[kath]

78. Exactimundo - pretty much EVERY negative Bush story drops right off

the radar - if it even gets covered AT ALL in the US media.

[AlCzervik]

21. How about this one, it never even made the radar, not even a blip

He went around congress and took $77 million from the education budget and then he farmed it out to groups, like the one Bill Bennett runs to encourage school choice. I saw that on NOW about 6 months ago, never reported on.

[Just Me]

64. That reminds me of the bribery for a vote deal. n/t

[AlCzervik]

67. oh geez, i forgot about that one!!!

[kuozzman]

22. I like this thread. n/t

[independentchristian]

23. Laughing about no WMDs

http://www.truthandhope.org/Funny.mov

[Just Me]

59. Pushing a "new nukes" program and pissing on environment laws. n/t

[Sanity Claws]

24. Ignoring a memo on Osama before 9/11

Being wired for the debates
Not being to talk in a coherent fashion in the first debate

[Just Me]

108. Osama isn't important, anymore (now that we got our oil war). n/t

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

26. Asking for more war money every six months.......

....everytime he does, it like something new to the media.

[Rose Siding]

27. Salon has a list of 34- "The Scandal Sheet"

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/01/18/scandal/index_np.html

Print it out, send it to Harry Reid, or just read it and weep. Here are 34 scandals from the first four years of George W. Bush's presidency -- every one of them worse than Whitewater.

1. Memogate: The Senate Computer Theft

The scandal: From 2001 to 2003, Republican staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee illicitly accessed nearly 5,000 computer files containing confidential Democratic strategy memos about President Bush's judicial nominees. The GOP used the memos to shape their own plans and leaked some to the media.

The problem: The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act states it is illegal to obtain confidential information from a government computer.

The outcome: Unresolved. The Justice Department has assigned a prosecutor to the case. The staff member at the heart of the matter, Manuel Miranda, has attempted to brazen it out, filing suit in September 2004 against the DOJ to end the investigation. "A grand jury will indict a ham sandwich," Miranda complained. Some jokes just write themselves.........

[BrklynLiberal]

44. Here is another site that has a good list of the casualties of the Bush

Crime Family's Vendettas and Secrets

http://www.bushbodycount.com/list.php

[meppie-meppie not]

105. great link, thanks! :-) n/t

[BlueEyedSon]

45. Noyce... kick!

[Just Me]

57. OMG that list is rivoting,...and stunning!!! Thank you. Am printing now!

I mean, good gawd!!! Whew!!! No wonder I so loathe these barbaric, destructive, corrupt neoCONspirators! :mad:

[BlueEyedSon]

28. Lying about the medicare bill (by $134 billion) nt

[carnie_sf]

29. plamegate

[DeaconBlues]

32. anthrax killer is still on the loose

every time I hear that Bush is great for national security and that no terrorist attacks have occurred since 9/11, I feel like going berserk. Americans have such short and selective memories.

[Dr Fate]

34. Democratic leadership refused to talk about all of them.

Dem leadership let them all get away.

[rzemanfl]

36. When Jeb's druggie daughter got picked up for violating her

probation it was all over the news. That same afternoon the Alert Level went to Orange, presto, the story dropped off the radar screen.

[DeaconBlues]

40. speaking of terror alerts

when the Hell is the press going to notice that we haven't had a terror alert since the election? That should be a scandal in and of itself.

[DistressedAmerican]

37. I Was Quite Interested In The Duck Hunting Trip...

Just faded away as so many complaints against Bush do.

[Just Me]

38. Taxpayer-funded, government-created, deceptive/manipulative propaganda.

:mad: Another very long phrase meaning FRAUD!!! :mad:

[wicket]

39. Missing explosives in Iraq

It was a huge story right before our election, and then went *POOF*

[BrklynLiberal]

41. The DUI that Gonzales helped him to cover up when he was called for jury

duty when Gov of Texas

The cocaine arrest that was covered up and Jim Hatfield was murdered over.

[quiet.american]

42. Misappropriation of $700 million

Diverting the money from the Afghanistan war to fund preparation for the Iraq invasion without the consent of Congress.

[Carolab]

43. NORAD/FAA 9/11 "response" timelines. n/t

[blm]

46. The fact he NEVER READ the Hart-Rudman Report on Global Terror

that was handed to him on Jan.30, 2001.

9-11 was PREVENTABLE.

[Mist]

47. All of them

Though the social security issue won't go away.

[Toby109]

48. No response to USS Cole bombing.

Not exactly a scandal since NO ONE mentioned it at the time or since. I love it when the neo-cons accuse Clinton of ignoring terrorism before 9/11 when Bush clearly avoided the problem. He had a chance, after it was determined that al-Qaeda was behind the bombing, to send bin Laden a message and didn't. Might have even persuaded bin Laden to give the final go-ahead for 9/11.

[Stephanie]

49. Trashing the Hart Rudman Report

because they wanted a New Pearl Harbor

[Stephanie]

50. Allowing Iraqi nuclear sites to be looted - google Tuwaitha

Which proves they never believed their own lies about WMD's, especially the mushroom cloud lies. If they ever believed it they would have rushed to secure those sites.

[XemaSab]

51. The absolute worst

was trying to put Kissinger in charge of the September 11th commission.

Like, I wouldn't believe in any 9-11 conspiracies but for that.

Also, the Plame incident was completely reprehensible.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

52. Pentagon misplaces $2,300,000,000,000.00

[Just Me]

55. HAH,...great minds and all that!!! eom

[Just Me]

53. "Misplaced" 2.3 BILLION in defense funds by Rummie. n/t

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

62. Trillion.

:scared:

[Just Me]

69. Aw shit,...it was 2.3 TRILLION!!! G*dDAMN!!!

I thought it was billion!!!!

Shit! :scared:

What's scary is,...where the hell are they funnelling that much money,...nearly two and a half MILLION MILLION!!!

YIKES!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

70. It's more than the GDP of Germany.

:scared:

[Just Me]

71. They could DESTROY the world economy with that kinda' $$$

Eeeek! And being the obsessed with destruction types, it's way disturbing that they can just "misplace" so much $$$$$$$$$

[DeaconBlues]

54. the faked celebration during the toppling of the Hussein statue when

Baghdad was occupied. Never heard about it except on the net.

Sorry for posting so many times on this one thread. I just keep remembering one outrage after another.

[Just Me]

56. The intentional "cover-up" of cost of medicaid bill. n/t

[ScreamingMeemie]

58. The high up spy in the Pentagon. Arrests were coming any day. Glad

I didn't hold my breath over that one.

[radar]

66. "100 Facts and 1 Opinion..."

The Non-Arguable Case Against the Bush Administration
by Judd Legum
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20041108&s=facts

Hehe - So many to choose from...

[tom_paine]

68. His very own Stock Swindle aka Martha Stewart the Harken Stock

Three times as costly as Whitewater.

And in addition, unlike Whitewater, there is some quite obvious fraud there.

But of course, I am pretending again that I live in a Free Nation with such talk.

This is Imperial Amerika and we have as much chance of getting a conviction on any of his dozens of scandals for which the evidence is laying around, as the German Social Democrats had of indicting Hitler in 1933.

The EXACT same chance!

[No Exit]

72. The Cipro heist--connected with the anthrax scare

I don't claim to know all that went into this, but what it looks like to me in retrospect is:

Someone wanted to sell a WHOLE LOT of Cipro/stock. Scaring the hell out of everyone in the country--remember how people all over the country thought they might get anthrax by touching their mail?--sure got a lot of people to rush to be vaccinated. I believe that the anthrax scare was started in order to jack with the price of certain pharmaceuticals--and by extension, with the prices of the stock for said pharmaceuticals.

Insider trading is trading with knowledge which is not fairly disseminated to other traders. This, to me, looks like a twist on insider trading--instead of merely having knowledge that other traders don't have, these insider traders CREATED the crisis, and then made hay with it.

[No Exit]

73. The very real connection btw Hinckley and the Bush family n/t

[No Exit]

74. "Mission Accomplished"

His excess in celebrating that--the little airman's suit, the big banner... and the stark contrast btw that made-for-TV moment, and what has really happened.

[TexasLawyer]

75. Laura Bush's alleged murder of her boyfriend

http://www.childbutcher.com/laura_bush.htm

CONSCIOUSNESS OF GUILT

THE LIES OF LAURA BUSH

Laura Bush has spent a lifetime lying about murdering her boyfriend.

Laura Lie #1: Laura Bush said that she was not driving. The police report said that she was.

Laura Lie #2: Laura Bush said that it was raining and slick. No, Laura, the weather was dry and clear.

Laura Lie #3: Laura Bush said that her boyfriend was riding in an open jeep. No, Laura, it was a 1962 Corvair Sedan.

Laura Lie #4: Laura Bush said that Michael Douglas was not her boyfriend. The District Attorney said that he was!

Laura Lie #5: Laura Bush said that she was sorry. It hasn’t kept her from any of the class reunions.

[Stephanie]

81. Wow! You are -

right to the point. Many facts I had not heard before, plus some gossip!

[No Exit]

76. How he couldn't even "testify" to 9/11 commission w/o Cheney there n/t

[No Exit]

77. Bush campaign ad showed him addressing the troops, but some of

the "troops" were photoshopped into the picture to make it look like the crowd was much bigger. This was all over the web during the campaign. These bastards are masters of all kinds of propaganda and fakery.

[No Exit]

79. The missing explosives in Iraq.

[zulchzulu]

80. PNAC and the link to ignored warnings about impending 9/11 attacks

That is the shit.

It's treason. It's impeachable. It's got legs that go all the way through the Bush administration and the Iraq war and back again.

Essentially, Bush allowed 9/11 to happen to get the public sympathetic to attacking Iraq...with Halliburton's war profiteering ALL OVER IT.

[cindyw]

82. His Presidency

[msgadget]

83. The fishing trip before easter.

He was going to tape a show but cancelled it once the story leaked, opting instead for a photo-op of him attending Easter services and a visit to wounded troops.

Bush talks turkey back at the ranch
April 13, 2004

In the middle of a gruelling week in Iraq, the US President is fishing and talking to Ladies Home Journal, writes Joel Brinkley in Crawford, Texas.

President George Bush, emerging drawn and sombre from seclusion at his Texas ranch, acknowledged on Sunday morning that "it was a tough week last week" in Iraq.
...

White House communications director Dan Bartlett insisted that "most Americans will understand" that the President wanted to spend the Easter holiday with his family.

This is Mr Bush's 33rd visit to his ranch since he became President - all told he has spent almost eight months of his presidency here.
...

On Friday, as Americans worked to put a ceasefire in place in Iraq, Mr Bush fished in the bass pond on his ranch with Roland Martin, host of the cable TV show Fishing with Roland Martin.

Mr Bush "took the biggest one of the day" - a two-kilogram bass, Martin said. "The President was very relaxed. He didn't really talk about politics at all."

The White House said Mr Bush had to cancel another fishing trip scheduled for Saturday because of meetings with his advisers on Iraq. Martin said the President told him, "'I've been busy, all these crises.' "

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/12/1081621893025.html?from=storyrhs&oneclick=true

[Skittles]

84. every f***ing stupid, idotic f***ing thing he has ever said

TONS OF THEM

[msgadget]

85. When a member of the press yelled out a Ken Lay question

and he had a choice expletive about the press and their relations with their mothers:

Tubb prescribed the anti-depressants after a clearly-upset Bush stormed off stage on July 8, refusing to answer reporters' questions about his relationship with indicted Enron executive Kenneth J. Lay.

“Keep those motherfuckers away from me,” he screamed at an aide backstage. “If you can’t, I’ll find someone who can.”

Bush’s mental stability has become the topic of Washington whispers in recent months. Capitol Hill Blue first reported on June 4 about increasing concern among White House aides over the President’s wide mood swings and obscene outbursts.

http://www.betterworld.com/getreallist/article.php?story=20040804174956161

[zann725]

86. All the Anti-Inaugural protests not covered, or minimalized at best by MSM

And NO coverage at all of the snowballs hitting Cheney's limo, and the fruit hitting Shrub's.

And those who watched OTHER THAN CSPAN, did NOT even see the limo's & Secret Service speeding up in that portion. It was edited out (due to time-delay) on CNN for sure.

Guess we'll just have to wait for Michael Moore's new movie, to see the actual footage!

[VOX]

90. * has not attended the funeral of a single U.S. soldier killed in Iraq.

The troops' Commander-in-Chief, who sent them into the face of danger in Iraq, just can't be bothered. And yet he feigns crocodile tears when he speaks about the fallen soldiers. His predecessors -- Clinton, Bush Sr., Reagan and Carter -- all attended memorials or funerals for soldiers killed in action.

This thread is so right-on, it's making my blood-pressure absolutely boil. :grr:

[susu369]

92. Playing games with fully releasing Presidential Papers

and changing archivist to a political appointment. Gonzales will come in real handy to advance this secrecy plot.

[Just Me]

109. Executive Orders suppressing the public access to information. n/t

[Just Me]

110. "SCRUBBING" FACTS AND FIGURES!!!! *grrrrrr* eom

[gcole]

93. Openly lying about JK's positions and statements during the campaign

[sabra]

94. The man was a cocaine addict!

How much grief did Clinton get for his did not inhale comment...peanuts!

[Unmoderator]

96. NEWitshappening.com

Hi all,
Some of you may know that www.itshappening.com has closed down last week.
www.NEWitshappening.com has now been set up to keep former IH members in contact!
Please feel free to visit/join!

Thanks!

[Just Me]

111. .

:kick:

[Les BOOGIE]

97. dropped off the radar

the large volume of stock trades just before 9/11

[Blue_Tires]

99. 1. enron

2. his entire environmental record (and the battles with Whitman at the EPA)

3. Firing his treasury secretary (O'Neill) for having the nerve to say his economic plan was worthless

4. The train wreck that was/is the Texas Rangers

[Supersedeas]

106. Lying about cost of Medicare & threatening auditor (Foster) w/termination