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1. Bush -- George W Bush
   George W. Bush is a failed oilman. Three times, friends and investors have bailed him out to keep his business from going bankrupt. However, in 1988, the same year his father becomes president, some Saudis buy a portion of his small company, Harken, which has never performed work outside of Texas. Later in the year, Harken wins a contract in the Persian Gulf and starts doing well financially. These transactions seem so suspicious that the Wall Street Journal in 1991 states it “raises the question of… an effort to cozy up to a presidential son.” Two major investors in Bush’s company during this time are Salem bin Laden and Khalid bin Mahfouz. Salem bin Laden dies in a plane crash in Texas in 1988.
2. George W. Bush -- World
   George W. Bush is not evil, certainly not in his own mind. Without a doubt, he believes that what he is doing is right, but he still doesn't trust the American people (or the world) enough to tell them the truth. George W. Bush may be unethical, but he is not evil.
3. George W. Bush
   Prior to this year, President George W. Bush is a failed oilman. Three times, friends and investors have bailed him out to keep his business from going bankrupt. However, in 1988, the same year his father becomes president, some Saudis buy a portion of his small company, Harken, which has never performed work outside of Texas. Later in the year, Harken wins a contract in the Persian Gulf and starts doing well financially. These transactions seem so suspicious that the Wall Street Journal in 1991 states it “raises the question of… an effort to cozy up to a presidential son.” Two major investors in Bush’s company during this time are Salem bin Laden and Khalid bin Mahfouz. Salem bin Laden dies in a plane crash in Texas in 1988.
4. George W. Bush -- President
   Bush was inaugurated President on January 20 2001. Bush had faced Vice President Al Gore, a Democrat, and won electoral votes in 30 of 50 states for a narrow majority of the electoral votes (Bush-271, Gore-266). Neither candidate received a majority of the nationwide popular vote (Green party candidate Ralph Nader received 2,695,696 votes, Libertarian Party candidate Harry Browne received 386,024 votes, pushing Gore under 50%), but Gore received more votes by approximately 540,000 out of 105 million, a margin of barely one-half of one percent. It was the first presidential election since the 1876 election in which a candidate received fewer popular votes while winning the electoral vote, and the first presidential election since the U.S. presidential election, 1888 where the prinicpal party of the winning candidate received fewer popular votes than the principal party of the losing candidate. It was ... the first presidential election to be directly affected by a Supreme Court decision.
5. George W. Bush -- Governors
   For years, George W. Bush would not admit to the American people that he has been convicted of driving drunk. He kept this secret to himself even after he had been elected to public office as governor of Texas. Bush only acknowledged that he is a convicted drunk driver after investigative reporters found about his conviction on their own.
6. George W. Bush -- Man
   At the town hall meeting, Kerry will be joined by two local Dayton residents who have experienced firsthand the impact of the Bush economy, Lucy Hopkins and Vicki Johnson. Lucy was laid-off from Delphi’s Moraine plant on November 30th. She was employed as a millwright, a position not given to many women, because of the physical difficulty of the job including movement of heavy machinery and welding. Lucy has three daughters. Vicki is currently employed as an electrician at Delphi’s Needmore Road plant in Dayton. Vicki has watched many friends and co-workers lose their jobs and worries that she could be next.
7. George W. Bush -- Policies
   That is the root of the popular sentiment that allows George W Bush to pursue tax policies that unashamedly favour the rich and increase economic inequality [21]. But it may not be enough to save him from the divisions and contradictions that are now evident even in conservative circles. Since the late 1970s, a conservative ascendancy has been maintained in American politics by the alliance between economic and pro-business libertarians, on the one hand, and “social” and religious conservatives, on the other.
8. George W. Bush -- Father
   Bush graduated from Yale with a bachelor’s degree in history in 1968. Upon completing college, he became eligible for the military draft. To meet his service obligation, Bush enlisted in the Texas Air National Guard in 1968. He told the admitting officer that he wanted to become a pilot like his father, who was a highly decorated Navy flier in World War II (1939-1945). He did his basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, and entered a pilot-training program at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia. He received favorable reports from his superiors, attained the rank of second lieutenant, and was certified to fly the F-102 jet fighter during training missions in the South and along the Gulf Coast.
9. George W. Bush -- Election
   Bush emphasized a careful approach to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Bush denounced Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat for alleged support of violence. However, he sponsored dialogs between prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas. Bush supported Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan, and lauded the democratic elections held in Palestine after Arafat's death.
10. George W. Bush -- Families
    Upon gaining office in 2001, Bush signed into law a $1.35 trillion cut in taxation over 10 years. The plan included the objectives of doubling the child tax credit from $500 to $1,000, reducing the tax penalty on married couples and fully repealing the tax on estates. A United States Senate Finance Committee Report estimated that with all the planned reductions fully phased in, the average family of four making $50,000 would save $1,825 per year.[14]

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