God didn't bless Bush because he was out for the rich white men alone. He cared nothing about what happened to the poor, the middle class, blacks, Asians, white women, Hispanics, Indians, Native Americans, etc:

1. "One of the very difficult parts of the decision I made on the financial crisis was to use hardworking people's money to help prevent there to be a crisis." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 2009

2. "I'm telling you there's an enemy that would like to attack America, Americans, again. There just is. That's the reality of the world. And I wish him all the very best." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Jan. 12, 2009

3. Sat back and did nothing for a week and a half as New Orleans drowned in rape, looting and water during Hurricane Katrina. He let this happen because he knew that poor whites, Democrats and blacks lived there and he knew that they weren't supporting him or his party.

4. Threw 2 white female war protesters in a cold jail cell naked on fake trespassing charges.

5. Did nothing as more black women were strip-searched at airports more than any other group...although studies showed that they weren't more likely to carry guns, drugs or contraband onto planes than other races or genders. The ones most likely to hijack planes were white men. Bush should have been strip-searched before HE got on a plane. He fit the profile.

6. Did nothing as gas prices rose. Told Americans if they couldn't afford the high prices then they shouldn't drive.

7. Sat back as jobs went overseas.

8. Allowed regulations on Wall Street and the banks to fade away...resulting in the Stock Market crash, the Banks collapsing, etc.

9. Auto companies failed. Houses went into foreclosure. The housing bubble swelled.

10. Black-listed the Dixie Chicks so that they couldn't get jobs or get their songs played on the radio. He did this because they criticized the war in Iraq, or rather said they were ashamed of him.

11. Wasted the surplus Clinton left on 2 unnecessary wars (from 5 BILLION plus, to to 5 BILLION deficit).

12. Brought back the deficit that Clinton eliminated for the first time in American history...along with the national debt...which Bush brought back by borrowing money from China and using it to fight for his war-for-oil struggle in Iraq.

13. Forged documents to get us into Iraq and then lied to say that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction even though one weapons inspector had already come forward to assure him that there were NO weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

14. Pretended to cut taxes for all Americans but actually cut taxes for the wealthy and the top corporations.

"I'll be long gone before some smart person ever figures out what happened inside this Oval Office." --George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., May 12, 2008

God wasn't testing him. He brought on the disasters by himself. Do you know that I looked up George Bush's name in the World dictionary and I couldn't find it.

Do you know why?

Instead of being listed under "George Bush," he was placed under the list of the five worse apocalypses that have struck our nation.

A Day in the Life of Joe Republican

Joe gets up at 6 a.m. and fills his coffeepot with water to prepare
his morning coffee. The water is clean and good because some
tree-hugging liberal fought for minimum water-quality standards. With
his first swallow of coffee, he takes his daily medication. His
medications are safe to take because some stupid commie liberal fought
to insure the safety of medications and that they work as advertised.

All but $10 of his medications are paid for by his employer's medical
plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for
paid medical insurance -- now Joe gets it, too. He prepares his
morning breakfast, bacon and eggs. Joe's bacon is safe to eat because
some girly-man liberal fought for laws to regulate the meat packing
industry.

In the morning shower, Joe reaches for his shampoo.
His bottle is properly labeled with each ingredient and its amount in
the total contents because some crybaby liberal fought for his right
to know what he was putting on his body and how much it contained.

Joe dresses, walks outside and takes a deep breath.
The air he breathes is clean because some environmentalist wacko
liberal fought for laws to stop industries from polluting our air. He
walks to the subway station for his government-subsidized ride to
work. It saves him considerable money in parking and transportation
fees because some fancy-pants liberal fought for affordable public
transportation, which gives everyone the opportunity to be a
contributor.

Joe begins his work day. He has a good job with excellent pay, medical
benefits, retirement, paid holidays and vacation because some lazy
liberal union members fought and DIED for these working standards.

Its noontime and Joe needs to make a bank deposit so he can pay some
bills. Joe's deposit is federally insured by the FSLIC because some
godless liberal wanted to protect Joe's money from unscrupulous
bankers who ruined the banking system before the Great Depression.

Joe has to pay his below-market federal student loan because some elitist liberal decided that Joe and the government would be better off if he was educated and
earned more money over his lifetime.

Joe is home from work. He plans to visit his father this evening at
his farm home in the country. He gets in his car for the drive. His
car is among the safest in the world because some America-hating
liberal fought for car safety standards. He arrives at his boyhood
home. His was the third generation to live in the house financed by
Farmers' Home Administration because bankers didn't want to make rural
loans. The house didn't have electricity until some big-government
liberal stuck his nose where it didn't belong and demanded rural
electrification.

He is happy to see his father, who is now retired.
His father lives on Social Security and a union pension because some
wine-drinking, cheese-eating liberal made sure he could take care of
himself so Joe wouldn't have to.

Joe gets back in his car for the ride home, and turns on a radio talk
show. The radio host keeps saying that liberals are bad and
conservatives are good. He doesn't mention that the beloved
Republicans have fought against every protection and benefit Joe
enjoys throughout his day.

Joe agrees: "We don't need those big-government liberals ruining our
lives! After all, I'm a self-made man who believes everyone should
take care of themselves, just like I have."

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The original version of this essay doesn't address Medicare, which the conservatives fought against, and of course voting rights for women, which KKKonservatives were against, too.

And just this week 30 repub senators all white, all male, voted Pro-RAPE!!!

FOR corporations' right to be free from legal consequences if their female employees are raped by her co-workers in the Halliburton/KBR rape case.

Of course they lost that vote, as per usual.

It's unforgivable on moral level, but if you don't have morals, it's even really STUPID on a simple vote-count political level: They must have known that they would lose, so why not even withhold or just vote with the majority? Ah, they don't care about  the raped-women constituency, it's too small, right? WRONG! People who hate rape supporters are a dazzling majority.

Amongst those who voted pro-rape? David Vitter and John Ensign, big time wife-cheaters, and whorists.

The I-like-rape voters got a bad press:

Senators Crapo, Risch, (lmtribune.com in Idaho!!! of all places!!!) Cochran, Wicker, (clarionledger.com Mississippi???? Aaargh!!) sen. from Kansas (Osawatomie Graphic?? I guess the Kansas media elites don't mind a bit of rape), in Tennessee!!!! the Crossville Chronicle was harsh against their own senators. As was the case in Georgia, (Athens Banner Herald Online) Louisiana (shreveporttimes.com).

I guess all others don't want a bit of rape get in the way of GOOD business, i.e. good means: swindling the taxpayers out of their taxdollars, like Halliburton/KBR did.

`Joe the Plumber,' Who Dislikes Obama Tax Plan, Owes Back Taxes

By Ryan J. Donmoyer

Oct. 16 (Bloomberg) -- ``Joe the plumber,'' the Toledo, Ohio, man whose complaints about Barack Obama's tax plan were featured in the final presidential debate, owes the state of Ohio almost $1,200 in back income taxes.

According to records on file with the Lucas County Court of Common Pleas, the state filed a tax lien against Samuel J. Wurzelbacher for $1,182.98 on Jan. 26, 2007, that is still active.

Wurzelbacher was thrust into the national spotlight this week when he told Obama he worried that the Illinois senator's proposals to roll back Bush administration tax breaks for Americans earning more than $250,000 would prevent him from buying a plumbing business that would earn between $250,000 and $280,000 a year.

Republican John McCain, the Arizona senator, pointed to the exchange during the debate last night when he turned to the camera and said, ``I will not stand for a tax increase on small- business income.'' Directly criticizing Obama, he added, ``what you want to do to `Joe the plumber' and millions more like him is have their taxes increased and not be able to realize the American dream of owning their own business.''

Today, at a rally in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, McCain said that ``the real winner last night was `Joe the plumber.'''

Wurzelbacher's home telephone number is unlisted, and efforts to reach him by calling his neighbors and family were unsuccessful. Attempts to reach Wurzelbacher at the plumbing company where he works were also unsuccessful. The address on the lien and other records for him matched the address published by the Toledo Blade, which also noted the lien.

A Lien

The state of Ohio places a lien on real property after several steps to try to collect a tax debt, according to John Kohlstrand, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Taxation who said he couldn't discuss any specific case.

If a delinquency notice goes unheeded, the Department of Taxation issues a billing notice, Kohlstrand said. If that is ignored, a more formal assessment notice is sent. Failing to appeal an assessment or losing an appeal puts the debt into the hands of the state attorney general for collection. The attorney general typically sends a collection notice and simultaneously files a lien.

``The taxpayers may not necessarily know about the lien,'' Kohlstrand said, although they would receive other notices.

In Wurzelbacher's case, the lien indicated that the notice was sent to a previous address in Toledo.

Under Obama's proposal, Wurzelbacher would face about $900 more in taxes if he netted $280,000 of income from his new business, said Gerald Prante, a senior economist at the Tax Foundation, a Washington research group that is examining both candidates' plans. ``His average tax burden, the final bill he pays to the IRS isn't going to go up much if he's just making $280,000 a year,'' Prante said. He would face higher marginal tax costs to expand the business beyond that, he said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Ryan J. Donmoyer in Washington at rdonmoyer@bloomberg.net

What we have learned over this year is that hope is making a comeback. It is making a comeback. And let me tell you something -- for the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction and just not feeling so alone in my frustration and disappointment. I've seen people who are hungry to be unified around some basic common issues, and it's made me proud.

The people who think this are unpatriotic statement are clearly unaware of how difficult it is to be black in this country. They live in some dreamworld where there's no racism, no racial profiling, and where a young black girl from the Southside has as easy a life as say, Cindy McCain?

When you're a white kid, your grandpa tells you stories about how much fun his childhood was. Then you go out the door into the suburb and ride your bike and play and you feel all warm and fuzzy.

When you're a jewish kid, your grandpa tells you stories about his childhood about persecution in Europe. Then you go out the door into the suburb and ride your bike and you're relieved because that was far away and long ago. And those Nazis are all dead.

But ... when you're black, your grandpa tells you stories about his childhood how he was always afraid at night, listening if there was that hard knock on the door, meaning that outside were these hooded men, a burning cross and he was gonna get lynched. This was how he felt EVERY night. And then you go out the door and you see that you STILL live in a ghetto and you realize, that the grandkids of the people who did that your grandparents, live just a couple of blocks away.

Yeah, Michelle Obama has LOTS to be proud for.

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PS And yes, yes, I'm sure there are some white grandpa's who had it hard too ... only not in the same numbers black grandpa's had it hard, i.e. virtually ALL of them.

PS Perhaps the need to viciously attack Michelle Obama comes from delayed guilt?

PS Some have suggested that it was all semantics, that Mrs. Obama was always proud, but now she was REALLY proud. I don't think that was what she meant.

I think she meant that growing up black in America means that you are basically f'ed up the old wazzoo. You get a raw deal, no matter what. And that for the first time, the rethorical bullshit about "Everybody can be president" can really become true.

I dunno if anybody realized it, but if Obama becomes president, he won't ONLY be the first black president of the USA, but also the first minority leader of all white countries, of all the industrialized nations, of the G8, of Nato.

He might be the first minority head of state of the entire world, not counting some African consensus/powersharing presidents.