President Bush Did What?

President Bush Did WHAT?
By Ryan Riell

This article is an adaptation of commentary put forth by Glen Beck, as part of his radio program on December 3rd. For the full transcript of the program, please visit www.glenbeck.com.

If you had awakened between 2001 and 2008 and seen any of the following headlines how many of you would have blown a gasket… the evil GW Bush?

1. President Bush had taken over 90 days to come to a decision on how to fight the war on terror in Afghanistan, and only gave his General 75% of the troops he asked for.

2. President Bush has taken charge of General Motors and Chrysler.

3. President Bush now owns many of the banks and financial institutions, to include AIG.

4. President Bush has fired the CEO of a private corporation and hired a man who had helped his Chief of Staff make $16 million dollars in a business deal.

5. President Bush threatened to shut down banks unless they took the money from his bailout package.

6. President Bush had hired quality people for companies like AIG and only pay them $1 to fix them problems with the promise of a year-end bonus, only to vilify them for taking the bonus.

7. President Bush hired a 9/11 Truther, who said the United States government blew up those buildings, is a self-avowed communist, is someone who is speaking in prison anti-cop, and who defended a guy who shot a cop in the head, as one of his high level advisor.

8. President Bush said he had absolutely no information but the cops acted stupidly because they caught a friend of his, appearing to break into his own home. On top of that, President Bush never apologized, instead he invited them all for a beer summit and used it as a learning experience about diversity.

9. The most frequent visitor to President Bush’s White House has been a labor union president who has repeatedly said “workers of the world unite” and “we know that we have got a lot of illegal members, illegal aliens in our membership” and then, as an after thought, added “yeah, but we also represent American workers too.” This guy visited the White House more than the Secretary of Defense (War on Terror, war in Iraq, war in Afghanistan), Secretary of State (see Iran conflict), or the Secretary of Treasury (see the economy).

10. President Bush is following a plan to redistribute the wealth of America amongst the world and government run health care, that was written by a convicted felon, while he was in prison for bank fraud. One of his top advisors called it the “blueprint to success.”

11. President Bush appointed a science czar, who has called for forced abortions and sterilization through the drinking water. Who said that the redistribution of wealth would be necessary and it would happen through the environmental movement.

12. President Bush appointed a diversity czar at the FCC who said Americans have to decide soon which Americans would have to step down from their positions in order to give others a chance. The same man said the revolution in Venezuela was incredible and that we should model our FCC and our programs after Venezuela and the revolution.

13. President Bush had a two day summit to discuss “the role of government in journalism” and be discussing a “government takeover of journalism” and no journalist would actually report on that.

14. President Bush held a job summit and did not invite the Chamber of Commerce.

15. Two uninvited people could got into the White House state dinner, chatted with the president, was near the prime minister of the largest democracy on the planet and the response from the White House was, yeah, we need to do a better job with security.

16. President Bush appointed a Secretary of Homeland Security that:
a. Issued a memorandum declaring military veterans as possible terrorists.
b. After the terrorist attack at a US Army post, she said “don't worry, we're working on things to stop the violence against Muslims in America”
c. Said “the system worked just fine” after a terrorist partially set off a bomb on a passenger plane over Detroit.

17. President Bush referred to the terrorist who attempted to blow up a passenger plan over Detroit as an “isolated extremist” after al Qaeda had already claimed responsibility for the attack AND the terrorist’s father had already warned the US Government about his sons radical views.

18. President Bush said “not to jump to conclusions” after an Islamic terrorists killed 13 people on a US Army post.

19. President Bush spent two minutes thanking people and then giving a “shout-out” and talking about the conference he had with the American Indian prior to addressing the terrorist attack on a US Army post, HOURS AFTER the event had taken place.

20. President Bush received an anti-American book and a photo op from Hugo Chavez and then had a one hour private meeting with Vladimir Putin where Vladimir Putin would “teach the president the history of the Cold War.”

21. President Bush gave an iPod of his speeches to the Queen of England.

22. President Bush sent the bust of Winston Churchill, which was a gift from the people of England back. When the Prime Minister came to America, President Bush would said to him, hey, by the way thanks, but you can take this back to him now. The PM would said to him, no, no, no, that was a gift from the people of England to you and you can keep it in one of your museums; we gave it to you on September 11th. No, no, that's okay, and box it up and shipped it back

23. President Bush appointed a chief of the Treasury, who oversees the IRS, that cheated on his taxes, as did others in the cabinet, to include numerous other appointees who had to withdraw their own nomination in disgrace.

24. Under President Bush’s watch, we have lost millions jobs. The media has report that the White House has created or saved a million jobs even though we have to find the White House’s evidence on a $15+ million redesigned website where it would showed a good portion of these jobs were in 200+ Congressional districts that don't even exist.


How would you have felt if a Republican Congress provided the following headlines:
1. U.S. congressman told the American people that it's unreasonable to expect people in congress to read bills, and he said that because our congress would pass two bills over 1,000 pages, that no one in congress had read.

2. That Congress passed a retroactive tax that only applies to executives that had taken a contractually guaranteed bonus?

3. A job creating stimulus bill would be written nor read by congress. It would be cowritten by the Apollo Alliance, a special interest group whose New York chief was a cofounder of the Weather Underground and no one would care.

4. Congress has openly praise Castro and Chavez.

5. Healthcare has 36% approval rating, which is lower than Hillary Care but Congress and the White House are still jamming it down your throat.

6. That the Senate Majority leader has bribed members of congress with over $400 million to pass a health care bill that only 36% of Americans want.


How would you react to the following headlines in the news:

1. Hundreds of thousands of Americans gathered in a true grassroots event in a National Mall in D.C. and the media would has only dismiss them but the government, the president and the media has deem them a danger to the United States.

2. The president of the European Union (EU) said that 2009 was the year of establishing a global government through the EU and that the climate change treaty would be the next step in one world government.


3. New call for the end of the dollar as the world's reserve currency by several massive countries. Russia leader held up a coin in front of the cameras and say here's a prototype of the new global currency.

4. Government structured bailouts, bondholders lose their legal status and their investments in favor of labor union payoffs. Courts would say, "Hmmm, yeah, okay."

5. You can lose your home and property through eminent domain so a private company could build a chemical plant; eminent domain has expand in staggering ways.

6. California has decided to levy a 10% tax on its people and insist it's not a tax; it's just a forced loan. They are now issuing IOUs instead of tax refunds.

7. New York said by the end of the year they would be broke. New York has issue retroactive taxes such that a tax refund for the poorest of Americans is not really be a tax refund. Instead those poorest of Americans found out many months later that they had to pay income tax on that tax refund.

8. That the symbol of capitalism, the Empire State building, was lit in colors of communist China.

9. Hockey stick chart which describes global warming has been discredited, its founder along with another leader of the global climate change movement who found to have manipulated data, deleted emails and information to avoid Freedom of Information Act. Same scientists have done everything they can to discredit the peer review process to make sure it remained pure for their ideological purposes, yet the media wouldn't report on it. We are still going to Copenhagen with a President who is going to present a 17% reduction in carbon emissions.

10. Gold value increased from $800 an ounce to over $1200 an ounce while the value of the dollar plummeted.

11. Dubai, which a year ago was bailed out our banks, is on the edge of bankruptcy.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I regret to inform you, that all of the above did not happen under George W. Bush, but this is a recap of President Obama’s first year in office. What… this is the first time you’ve heard some of this? A lot of this isn’t on the news… it must be the EVIL right-wing FOX News that is lying to us.

IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE THIS, I’LL PAY $20 TO THE FIRST PERSON THAT CAN DEFINITIVELY DISPROVE ANY OF THE 39 POINTS, IN FULL, WITH DEFINITIVE PROOF.

Is this the “Change We Can Believe In?” Is this the hope and change America voted for?