How much do you know about GW?
not a lot. ill take the quiz and find out!
When reading those I find I am usually aware of most everything referred to but able to come up with the details for only about a third to half of them.
Some of that would be funny if he weren’t the President. The last question #19, is just pointless. Four of the most common words out of the top ten. What were the other six they neglected to include? Probably didn’t fit their agenda.
I agree with you about question #19, but many of the quiz’s questions are quite revealing.
Fascinatin, but boy, did I do badly.
me too!
ill take it!
7/17 = 41%
In mitigation, as a mere limey, I have no idea who some of the lesser known names mentioned are - all those journalists and stuff.
It’s disturbing how many of the quotes and anecdotes are so plausible.
Larry Beinhart is the author of Wag the Dog, The Librarian, and Fog Facts:
Hey Stevyo!!!
This was on page 3 and falling, so I hope you don’t mind I jack it to talk about Hillary:
Billy
August 9, 2006 at 15:58:18
Larry Beinhart: An Impossible Dream
by Larry Beinhart
The other day, at poker – gambling’s not the madness I’m talking about – one of the players brought along a flimsy John Tasini flyer. Tasini is running against Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination for the Senate.
Over the course of a couple of hands so dead that I folded before the first round of betting, I read the piece. I was shocked. Deeply shocked. Tasini was taking clear, sensible positions. And he was taking them in clear, straightforward language.
Tasini is against the war. He’s for withdrawal of American troops. He has a sensible proposal for a universal, national health program. He’s for same sex marriage. He’s against unrestrained corporate power, against unrestricted free trade. He’s for unions and protecting pensions.
I decided I wanted to vote for him. The primary, by the way, is September 12th.
More than that, I decided to do whatever I could to support his candidacy. Write posts like this. Become a volunteer.
Hillary, by the way, voted for the war with Iraq. It was easy to know then that there were no WMDs and that Saddam had no ties to Al Qaeda. Sensible people predicted that it would turn into a quagmire and destabilize the region. Thoughtful people could have figured it out for themselves.
But Hillary wanted to have a pro-war record to run for president on. She wanted to appear tough. So she voted for a war that would lose 2,500 American lives (and counting), 100,000 Iraqi lives (who’s counting?), that would unleash chaos, civil war and religious madness. That would cost a vast sum of money, something between $250,000,000,000 and $2,000,000,000,000.
That should be unforgivable.
In addition, she’s to the right of George Bush on immigration. She’s against gay marriage. She’s for a flag burning amendment. Her health care plan was bad back then and her positions on health care are worse now. Worse for us. Good for the health care industry. She’s number two on their contribution list, just behind Rick Santorum.
So I’m for John Tasini.
I just went on opensecrets.org and I was stunned. Sometimes I think I’m supposed to be past shock and cynicism. But this one got me. As of 6/30/06, Hillary Clinton had raised $44,915,515. And she had already spent $23,196,563.
Nearly $45,000,000 for a senate race? There has to be something wrong with that. There has to be something wrong with us, if we vote for that.
Tasini, by the same date, had raised all of $132,439 and spent $120,652. He’s not a high tech millionaire like Ned Lamont, able to jump start his candidacy with a three million bucks or so. He’s a union organizer. A guy who’s worked for a living, worked for the kind of living you make working for ideals, a guy who’s lived on a salary.
A regular person. Not a millionaire. Not a part of dynasty.
That has to sound totally, utterly hopeless.
On the other hand, wouldn’t it be grand, wouldn’t it be a pleasure, to vote for a regular guy, a guy with the public interest at heart?
Wouldn’t it make you feel like democracy was actually still possible?
The sensible part of me says that Tasini can’t win. Even if he’s exactly right on the issues and Hillary, well, Hillary does what’s good for Hillary and doesn’t care a damn if it’s bad for us. After all he’s up against a celebrity, a machine, and $45,000,000 dollars.
So I invite you to join me, in your own way, and figure out how that could possibly happen. Send emails. Send single dollar bills. Get on the radio. Send blogs. Check out his web site, see where he stands. Pass the message along. Make up your own message.
Thank you.
Larry Beinhart
Larry Beinhart is the author of Wag the Dog, The Librarian, and Fog Facts: Searching for Truth in the Land of Spin. All available at www.nationbooks.org
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I know his birthday is the same as mine…July 6th…quite an age difference though.
not only that, but bush and burjzyntski both smoke too much pot to respond in a coherent and logical fashion.
this actually does NOT apply to burjzyntski. 
Mind? I’m thrilled. I would love to get Hillary out of there. She sells out her votes as badly as the top GOP guys. And she’s too hated to get anywhere in the 2008 Pres elections, anyway.
I like it.
Thanks for this, BTM.
The conservative press will keep this from you–shortened version
http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=263825
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 26, 2006 Contact: Press Office
Phone: 202.228.3685
Levin Senate Floor Statement on Foreign Corruption and Oil
WASHINGTON – In a Senate floor statement today, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., discussed foreign corruption and oil, particularly in light of the arrival in the United States of Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan, and his scheduled meeting with President Bush at the White House later this week.
Last month, on August 10th, President Bush announced a new U.S. initiative to combat corruption around the world. He named it a “National Strategy to Internationalize Efforts Against Kleptocracy.” In introducing this initiative, President Bush said:
“High-level corruption by senior government officials, or kleptocracy, is a grave and corrosive abuse of power and represents the most invidious type of public corruption. It threatens our national interest and violates our values. It impedes our efforts to promote freedom and democracy, end poverty, and combat international crime and terrorism.”
I couldn’t agree more.
But lately, some of the President’s actions are at odds with his rhetoric. The first principle of the President’s initiative against corruption is to deny entry into the United States to kleptocrats, meaning high-level officials engaged in or benefitting from corruption. Yet in recent months the Administration has welcomed two of the world’s most notorious kleptocrats: Teodoro Obiang, the President of Equatorial Guinea, and Nursultan Nazarbayev, the President of Kazakhstan.
What do these two men have in common besides corrupt dictatorships? Oil. Both control their nations’ vast oil resources. Both supply oil to the United States. By welcoming these corrupt dictators into the United States, in contradiction to the anti-corruption principles articulated by the President in August, the Administration announces to the world that we’ll compromise our principles for a price: oil.
human rights abuses; election fraud; widespread and high level corruption.
Though Equatorial Guinea’s oil money makes it, on a per capita basis, one of the wealthiest nations in the world, the standard of living of its people is among the world’s poorest. Equatorial Guinea ranks 121st on the United Nations’ Human Development Index. According to a 2002 State Department report, there is “little evidence that the country’s oil wealth is being devoted to the public good.”
Mr. Obiang is a principal cause of his people’s misery.
There’s more. A few months ago, in May, the Administration announced a new program directing the Defense Department to help 20 specified countries build up their military forces. One was Equatorial Guinea. Despite a terrible human rights record, a reputation for corruption, and their own oil wealth, the Administration proposed spending U.S. taxpayer dollars to build up the Obiang regime’s military.
The President’s courting of Mr. Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan is also disturbing. Mr. Nazarbayev is an iron-fisted dictator who imprisons his opponents, bans opposition parties, and controls the press. The State Department’s 2005 Kazakhstan Country Report on Human Rights Practices states that “the government’s human rights record remained poor,” and “corruption remained a serious problem.”
Bush quiz goes to archives
The New Yorker has the Bush Quiz in the archives now.
Don’t tell me you read that pinko rag.
i dont think i know anything besides president
Just the poetry.
