Well, back to Chapter 1 of SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Humanity. Parts 14 and 15 will deal with President George Walker Bush, #43 POTUS.
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President George Bush, #43
I can’t help but insert here another one of those internet jokes that regularly comes across as almost spam:
Subject: Presidential Alert
Donald Rumsfeld briefed the President this morning. He told Bush that three Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq.
To everyone's amazement, all of the color ran from Bush's face, then he collapsed onto his desk, head in hands, visibly shaken, almost whimpering.
Finally, he composed himself and asked "Just exactly how many is a Brazillion?"
No, this did not, in fact, occur, and the entire above aside, President George W. Bush, actually, just might have the clue to insuring for world peace forever. I have tended to disagree with him on just about everything else, but I support my President on maintaining the effort in Iraq. Why? As Ronald Reagan played a key role in ending the Cold War, George Bush the Younger could well have the solution to world peace, forever. We will discuss this later in the simple solution to wars.
But President George W. Bush is certainly unpopular. In 2004, historians rated Bush a disaster, as 81% of 415 classified this presidency a failure. This was in his first term. As we all know, it got worse.
I count more than 300 polls taken of his overall job rating since then, from August 2005 to 2007. (You need to wait until SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth and Humanity, circa 2009, for the update). During 2005, approve averaged around 40% and disapprove 55%, with unsure at 5%. “Approve” began dropping to a low of 28% level in 2007, and almost always above 60% for disapproval. [But an update: except for FOX, which still tends to rate Bush's approval at 29%, all other polls at the end of 2008 had him at 22% or 23%.] The end of presidency job approval ratings were: Bill Clinton (65%), Ronald Reagan (64%), Dwight Eisenhower (59%), John F. Kennedy (63%), George Bush the Elder (56%), Gerald Ford (53%), Lyndon Johnson (49%), Jimmy Carter (34%) and Richard Nixon (24%). [Yes, Bush will probably do worse than Nixon, if you can delete FOX, waving it's conservative banner.]
Let’s look at the pluses. Bush has “incredible passion and resolve.” His religious feelings I place as a non-negative, but we'll revisit that in Chapter 5. He was quoted to say to Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia in 2004, courtesy of Bob Woodward in his State of Denial, “I get guidance from God in prayer,” and has thusly received guidance. God is great in the Middle East countries. God was, though, not particularly good to Bush.
We recovered from 9/11. He routed the Taliban and took out Saddam Hussein. On August 9, 2007, he put Iran on notice for supporting terrorism. Oh…oh. They overreacted and professed that they gave up on nuclear weapons to undercut any insanity on part of the Americans.
Oh yes, he did win re-election, although the Daily Mirror of London headlined: “How can 59,054,087 people be so dumb.” The U.K. is our closest ally. Further, people are still wondering how John Kerry was tainted by his heroics in the Vietnam war when Bush himself, Dick Cheney, Dennis Hastert, Paul Wolfowitz, Karl Rowe, John Ashcroft, Richard Perle, Andrew Card and Tom Delay somehow managed to avoid that conflict. Speaking of Delay, there was also that Jack Abramoff scandal that the White House deftly sidestepped.
A destructive influence on President Bush was Vice President Richard Cheney. During the transition period before entering the White House, I noticed his arrogance shown in secretly meeting with oil and nuclear executives to carve a national energy policy. During my U.S. Senate days, I recall Cheney as an authoritative figure with commanding presence working for Senator Scoop Jackson (who was a Democrat from Washington). Cheney’s one percent doctrine, from the book by Ron Suskind, might have been particularly damaging. In essence, if there was a 1% chance that certain terrorist acts were possible, he treated it as a certainty, or a 100% probability.
I can’t help but insert here another one of those internet jokes that regularly comes across as almost spam:
Subject: Presidential Alert
Donald Rumsfeld briefed the President this morning. He told Bush that three Brazilian soldiers were killed in Iraq.
To everyone's amazement, all of the color ran from Bush's face, then he collapsed onto his desk, head in hands, visibly shaken, almost whimpering.
Finally, he composed himself and asked "Just exactly how many is a Brazillion?"
No, this did not, in fact, occur, and the entire above aside, President George W. Bush, actually, just might have the clue to insuring for world peace forever. I have tended to disagree with him on just about everything else, but I support my President on maintaining the effort in Iraq. Why? As Ronald Reagan played a key role in ending the Cold War, George Bush the Younger could well have the solution to world peace, forever. We will discuss this later in the simple solution to wars.
But President George W. Bush is certainly unpopular. In 2004, historians rated Bush a disaster, as 81% of 415 classified this presidency a failure. This was in his first term. As we all know, it got worse.
I count more than 300 polls taken of his overall job rating since then, from August 2005 to 2007. (You need to wait until SIMPLE SOLUTIONS for Planet Earth and Humanity, circa 2009, for the update). During 2005, approve averaged around 40% and disapprove 55%, with unsure at 5%. “Approve” began dropping to a low of 28% level in 2007, and almost always above 60% for disapproval. [But an update: except for FOX, which still tends to rate Bush's approval at 29%, all other polls at the end of 2008 had him at 22% or 23%.] The end of presidency job approval ratings were: Bill Clinton (65%), Ronald Reagan (64%), Dwight Eisenhower (59%), John F. Kennedy (63%), George Bush the Elder (56%), Gerald Ford (53%), Lyndon Johnson (49%), Jimmy Carter (34%) and Richard Nixon (24%). [Yes, Bush will probably do worse than Nixon, if you can delete FOX, waving it's conservative banner.]
Let’s look at the pluses. Bush has “incredible passion and resolve.” His religious feelings I place as a non-negative, but we'll revisit that in Chapter 5. He was quoted to say to Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia in 2004, courtesy of Bob Woodward in his State of Denial, “I get guidance from God in prayer,” and has thusly received guidance. God is great in the Middle East countries. God was, though, not particularly good to Bush.
We recovered from 9/11. He routed the Taliban and took out Saddam Hussein. On August 9, 2007, he put Iran on notice for supporting terrorism. Oh…oh. They overreacted and professed that they gave up on nuclear weapons to undercut any insanity on part of the Americans.
Oh yes, he did win re-election, although the Daily Mirror of London headlined: “How can 59,054,087 people be so dumb.” The U.K. is our closest ally. Further, people are still wondering how John Kerry was tainted by his heroics in the Vietnam war when Bush himself, Dick Cheney, Dennis Hastert, Paul Wolfowitz, Karl Rowe, John Ashcroft, Richard Perle, Andrew Card and Tom Delay somehow managed to avoid that conflict. Speaking of Delay, there was also that Jack Abramoff scandal that the White House deftly sidestepped.
A destructive influence on President Bush was Vice President Richard Cheney. During the transition period before entering the White House, I noticed his arrogance shown in secretly meeting with oil and nuclear executives to carve a national energy policy. During my U.S. Senate days, I recall Cheney as an authoritative figure with commanding presence working for Senator Scoop Jackson (who was a Democrat from Washington). Cheney’s one percent doctrine, from the book by Ron Suskind, might have been particularly damaging. In essence, if there was a 1% chance that certain terrorist acts were possible, he treated it as a certainty, or a 100% probability.
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The Dow Jones Industrials went up 62 to 9015, and are 2.75% higher for the year. World markets also increased, and for the year, particularly, Singapore +9%, Hong Kong +8% and Shanghai +3%. Crude oil is at $48.38/barrel, a few cents lower than yesterday. I'm not sure what this means, but the United Nations suspended the Russian Carbon Registry for non-payment, something on the order of $120,000+. Gold is up $9/toz to $864.
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I noticed that in 2008, McDonalds Corp went up 8.3% and WallMart Stores was plus 19.9%. How many realized that Hawaii Electric increased 2.7%, Cyanotech Corp +4.3% and Hawaiian Holdings (Hawaiian Air) zoomed 25.1%?
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