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It seems to me that pundits and reporters miss the influence of the stuff that flies over the net as email. Of course you cannot measure or respond to something you cannot see or do not get. Websites are considered a lot and, I think, over-rated in their influence; preaching to the choir.

This piece of work has been sent to me a couple of times. It is thoroughly damning and, as far as I can tell, thoroughly truthful. I have passed it on to others and I never do that. This has to be in the mega millions of proliferation. Does it influence anyone? I dunno. Maybe. Take a look. Does it influence you? Even if you are already in the oppo camp, it will shiver your timbers enough to get you active or insure your voting when the time comes.

George W. Bush--Curriculum vitae
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
LAW ENFORCEMENT:
* I was arrested in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1976 for driving under the
influence of alcohol. I spent time in jail.
* I pled guilty, paid a fine, and had my driver's license suspended for 30
days. My Texas driving record has been "lost" and is not available.
MILITARY:
* I joined the Texas Air National Guard and went AWOL.
* I refused to take a drug test or answer any questions about my drug use.
* By joining the Texas Air National Guard, I was able to avoid combat duty
in Vietnam.
COLLEGE:
* I graduated from Yale University with a low C average. (I'm amazed it was even that high!)
* I was a cheerleader. (How butch, Mary....)
PAST WORK EXPERIENCE:
* I ran for U.S. Congress and lost.
* I began my career in the oil business in Midland, Texas, in 1975.
* I bought an oil company, but couldn't find any oil in Texas.   The company
went bankrupt shortly after I sold all my stock. (Always a winner, that G.W.!)
* I bought the Texas Rangers baseball team in a sweetheart deal that took
land using taxpayer money.
* With the help of my father and our right-wing friends in the oil industry
(including Enron CEO Ken Lay), I was elected governor of Texas.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS:
* I changed Texas pollution laws to favor power and oil companies, making
Texas the most polluted state in the Union.
* During my tenure, Houston replaced Los Angeles as the most smog-ridden
city in America.
* I cut taxes and bankrupted the Texas treasury to the tune of billions in
borrowed money.
* I set the record for the most executions by any governor in American
history.
* With the help of my brother, the governor of Florida, and my father's
appointments to the Supreme Court, I became President after losing by over
500,000 votes.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS AS PRESIDENT:
* I am the first President in U.S. history to enter office with a criminal
record.
* I invaded and occupied two countries at a continuing cost of over one
billion dollars per week.
* I spent the U.S. surplus and effectively bankrupted the U.S.
Treasury.
* I shattered the record for the largest annual deficit in U.S.  history.
* I set an economic record for most private bankruptcies filed in any
12-month period.
* I set the all-time record for most foreclosures in a 12-month period.
* I presided over the biggest drop in the history of the U.S. stock market.
* In my first year in office, over 2 million Americans lost their jobs and
that trend continues every month.
* I'm proud that the members of my cabinet are the richest of any
administration in U.S. history.
* My "poorest millionaire," Condoleeza Rice, has a Chevron oil tanker named
after her.
* I set the record for most campaign fundraising trips by a U.S.
President.
* I am the all-time U.S. and world record-holder for receiving the most
corporate campaign donations.
* My largest lifetime campaign contributor, and one of my best friends,
Kenneth Lay, presided over the largest corporate bankruptcy fraud in U.S.
history, Enron.
* My political party used Enron private jets and corporate attorneys to
assure my success with the U.S. Supreme Court during my presidential
election decision.
* I have protected my friends at Enron and Halliburton against investigation
or prosecution. More time and money was spent investigating the Monica
Lewinsky affair than has been spent investigating one of the biggest
corporate rip-offs in history.
* I presided over the biggest energy crisis in U.S. history and refused to
intervene when corruption  involving the oil industry was revealed.
* I presided over the highest gasoline prices in U.S. history.
* I changed the U.S. policy to allow convicted criminals to be awarded
government contracts.
* I appointed more convicted criminals to administration than any President
in U.S. history.
* I created the Ministry of Homeland Security, the largest bureaucracy in
the history of the United States government.
* I've broken more international treaties than any President in U.S.
history.
* I am the first U.S. President to have the United Nations remove the U.S.
from the Human Rights Commission.
* I withdrew the U.S. from the World Court of Law.
* I refused to allow inspectors access to U.S. "prisoners of war" detainees
and thereby have refused to abide by the Geneva Convention.
* I am the first President in history to refuse United Nations election
inspectors (during the 2002 U.S. election).
* I set the record for holding the fewest number of press conferences of any
President since the advent of television.
* I set the all-time record for most days on vacation in any one-year
period. (Well deserved, of course.....)
* After taking off the entire month of August, I presided over the worst
security failure in U.S. history. (Not his fault, remember folks there was NO WARNING!  Yep, NO WARNING)
* I garnered the most sympathy for the U.S. after the World Trade Center
attacks and less than a year later made the U.S. the most hated country in
the world, the largest failure of diplomacy in world history.
* I have set the all-time record for most people worldwide to simultaneously
protest me in public venues (15 million people), shattering the record for
protesters against any person in the history of mankind.
* I am the first U.S. President to order an unprovoked, preemptive attack
and the military occupation of a sovereign nation. I did so against the will
of the United Nations, the majority of U.S. citizens, and the world
community.
* I have cut health care benefits for war veterans and support a cut in duty
benefits for active duty troops and their families-in war time. (Very patriotic of him!)
* In my State of the Union Address, I lied about our reasons for attacking
Iraq, then blamed those lies on our British friends.
* I am the first President in history to have a majority of Europeans (71%)
view my presidency as the biggest threat to world peace and security.
* I am supporting the development of a nuclear "Tactical Bunker Buster," a
Weapon of Mass Destruction.
RECORDS AND REFERENCES:
* All records of my tenure as governor of Texas are now in my father's
library, sealed and unavailable for public view.
* All records of SEC investigations into my insider trading and my bankrupt
companies are sealed and unavailable for public view.
* All records or minutes from meetings that I, or my Vice-President attended
regarding public energy policy are sealed and unavailable for public review.