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By Jack Nichols
1. He talks out of both sides of his mouth, mostly in quarter sentences. 2. He needs to fine-tune his whine. 3. He should have been asked to speak up when he said, "Read my lips, no new taxes." 4. He provided Sadaam Hussein with cash and military muscle so that he'd look good when he thereafter declared war on him. 5. He called Sadaam Hussein "worse than Hitler" coaxing the Kurds to rise up against him following the war. Expecting his help, the Kurds did so. They got zilch and Sadaam is still hopping. 6. He thinks he's fit to lead the nation but nobody can recall the last time he drove a car; when he didn't require a chauffeur. 7. He was-hah!-Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). 8. He opposes the right of a woman to control what takes place within the confines of her own body (i.e. the Pro-Choice position). 9. He fired the Director of the National Endowment of the Arts and replaced him with a person who promises to squelch all sexually-oriented art.
14. He pretended to be serious about the War on Drugs, then downgraded its budget and appointed former Florida governor "Mad" Martinez as his top drug general. 15. He is the father of the Silverado Son, who with his peers, may cause a $600-billion plus debt for future taxpayers. 16. He said that Ronald Reagan was recommending Voo-Doo Economics and then joined him to practice the same. 17. He thinks Dan Quayle is smart enough to make a top-notch president. 18. He muzzled former Surgeon General Koop-in concert with Reagan-from talking about AIDS until 1985. 19. He was part of the conspiracy that dumped AIDS Commission Chair Watkins' alarming report and promised the White House would produce a better plan in 30 days. 20. He allowed Watkins, AIDS Commission Chair, to sit with him for a photo opportunity during his last campaign, but would not allow him to speak to the media within the White House. The AIDS chair addressed the press outside on the White House driveway. 21. He tried to co-opt Magic Johnson by appointing him to his AIDS Commission, later to have Johnson lambast him for his slow, do-nothing approach. 22. He has allowed government insurance funds for banks to run into the red. 23. He crusades for a nearly $300-billion Pentagon budget, exceeding most Cold War levels and eliminating the prospect of peace dividends to upgrade U.S. living standards. 24. He publicly turned thumbs down on the one vegetable rated best for our health. 25. He has a large financial stake in the world-wide pollutant, oil. 26. He seems convinced that the true inner-city enemy is not poverty but poor people. 27. He blames AIDS on immoral lifestyle choices. 28. He lies openly about huge sums he claims his administration gives to AIDS assistance. 29. He vomits on the table at foreign state functions.
30. He insists on appointing a Supreme Court Justice heavily under suspicion for sexually harassing an attractive university professor.
31. He appointed as CIA Director a Cold War ideologue whose incompetent memory disallowed his ability to recall details on nearly half of the significant questions put to him during hearings. 32. He told media in Kennebunkport he was more concerned with the disruption of a day's business at expensive Kennebunkport tourist traps than with the AIDS message carried to him by protestors. 33. He was nearly last among Western leaders to recognize the independence of The Baltics. 34. He was nearly last among Western leaders to recognize former Yugoslavian territories yearning for independence from murderous Serbian bombadeers. 35. He promised to be the Education President and did doodely-squat. 36. He promised to be the Environmental President and has used his position to toxify the environment. 37. He remains silent and supportive while his FBI puts roadblocks in the way of technology that detects spying on U.S. citizens through wiretaps. 38. He remained silent at the National Republican Convention when Republican yuppies surrounded AIDS demonstrators and punched, kicked, and threw beer on them. 39. He listens too carefully to the lunatic right-wing of his party. 40. He sent Brent Snowcroft, his Mormon Security advisor, to Beijing following the pro-democracy uprising in Tienamen Square to assure Chinese warlords he was on their side. 41. He has disallowed medical access to fetal tissues from elected abortions, though such tissues can be used to save lives and treat a host of childhood and adult diseases. Only tissues from miscarriages, with far fewer benefits, can be used, he says. 42. He commands a noisy, fuel-wasting, macho missle boat annoying to his neighbors with its loud power bursts. 43. He's pushing hard for the multi-billion dollar Star Wars (SDS) system, one we can't be sure will work until we're all dead. 44. He acted like a big deal showing off military technology (now selling well in Third World countries) until it was discovered that half our casualties were self-administered, and that we even killed our allies, the Brits, by mistake. The Pentagon recently released a report showing that Bush's "intelligence" over-rated Sadaam's troops by more than half, and that much of our machinery not only mis-fired badly (ala the Patriot Missles) but that it cracked up to the tune of hundreds of millions. 45. He went to inspect South Central Los Angeles and pontificated piously about causes after having run his 1988 campaign with racist references to Willie Horton. 46. He claims he doesn't know anything about American drug runners who helped support the contras in Nicaragua. 47. He claims utter ignorance about Reagan and his cronies trading arms for hostages with Iran. 48. He assured right-wing religious fanatics he'd oppose upcoming legislation in Washington, D.C. that allows domestic partnerships for lesbians and gays. 49. He's busily playing spoil-sport at the international conference on environmental crisis held in Rio. 50. He's turning a deaf ear to overpopulation (in 2085 there will be twice the present population worldwide) and cutting funds for Planned Parenthood in nations where that organization dares to speak of abortion as an alternative. 51. His "Justice Department" is fighting to keep Yale's Professor of Law and his students from interviewing individual Haitian refugees about political asylum. Bush has stopped pickups of Haitians at sea, allowing them, if fate allows, to drown. 52. He has recently sabotaged regulations imposed on profiteering industries meant to eliminate air pollution. 53. He concluded a Mexican treaty so American industry could get cheap labor, scuttling American jobs. 54. He is generally confused. |
Prior to the 1992 elections when incumbent U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush attempted and failed to retain his office, I wrote a list giving 54 reasons why American voters should dump him. This list was published in Florida's TWN (The Weekly News), Re-reading the 54 reasons nearly a decade later, it seems they apply nearly as well to his son, George W. Bush, the current White House occupant:
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