What Else Has George Dubya
Lied About?

"There ought to be limits
to freedom..."

— George W. Bush,
commenting on the website
www.gwbush.com

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QUOTE OF THE MONTH: "If you don't think it's a gamble to put a man in the White House who believes we should have guns in church, who thinks the Taliban is a rock band, who was such a failure as a businessman that his company was nicknamed "El-Busto," who wants to turn our Social Security system into a Wall Street boiler room, who can't name a single thing he disagrees with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson on, who smeared a bona fide hero named John McCain, and whose principle policy proposal is to give America's surplus to the idle rich in the form of a $1.3 trillion tax cut, you're either nuts or a Republican."

... Equal Time co-host Paul Begala, shooting the bull.

Harold Evans - Manchester Guardian - England ; Monday November 6, 2000

To the Guinness Book of Records: reserve a whole page under hypocrisy. It's for George W Bush and the managers of his bid for the White House. They have run a campaign of character assassination.

Knowing that Al Gore has an intimidating grasp of the issues, they have used every trick, every dollar of special interest money, every toady in the press, to smear the vice-president as a liar. The cleverness of that diversionary tactic was that if it worked it would relieve GW of giving proper answers to the questions of substance he finds so bewildering.

It worked.

Now Bush is revealed as a liar on a serious issue of character. And what happens? The smear artists are shouting "dirty politics".

Given the anti-Gore bias of the mainstream press, last Thursday night's revelation that Bush was arrested for drunken driving in 1976, when he was 30, may have come too late to affect his lead. The Republican spin machine has also been adept in damage control. Within 24 hours it had almost managed to turn the story into "who leaked?" instead of "why didn't he come clean?' It is true the disclosure came from a Maine Democrat, though not from the Gore campaign. But the point is that it is true, and the real question is the character of the candidate who tried to conceal his past.  

He did confess to "mistakes" of his youth, but he would never be specific - hoping the "mistakes" would be thought of as youthful pranks, not serious crime. It is an offence to apply for any federal office without divulging an arrest record. Bush not only went to great lengths to cover up his conviction. He lied about it, too. In a 1998 interview, a Dallas Morning News reporter asked Bush point-blank if he had ever been arrested other than for a 1968 fraternity prank and Bush said flatly: "No."  The exchange was not reported at the time; it didn't seem newsworthy. And when Bush was called to jury service in a drunk-driving trial in Texas, he filled out the jury questionnaire, but left blank the yes-no entry asking if he had ever been accused in a civil or criminal case. Then he hastily got himself excused on the basis that he was the governor of the state.

Imagine if this had been Al Gore! The Wall Street Journal, the most sedulous of the defamers, would have dispatched ferrets to find out what happened on the other form-filling occasions when "the liar" had to yield his record. Now the Journal, you bet, will be part of the great "Smeargate" diversion.

Bush's handlers are saying, with some success, that his ready admission of the offence, when found out, is another sign of his probity. This sums up their entire campaign, one of breath-taking arrogance wrapped up in feel-good bromides. And they have got away with it.  

The basic misperception here is to confuse amiability with integrity, marketable charm with ability. The truth, bluntly, is that Bush is an irresponsible know-nothing. His instincts are those of the 1930s isolationist, little America, rather than the America that led the world in the creation of a new liberal world order.  If he is president, say goodbye to the nuclear test ban, to action on global warming, to peacemaking interventions. 

Those of you in sodden Britain who might conclude that global warming, for instance, is a matter of concern should know that Bush, like the Wall Street Journal, regards it as a leftist scare. Asked what he would do, he responds that we need more study before ratifying the Kyoto agreement, putting me in mind of a fire chief who arrives at the blaze to say he will have to study the origins of the fire before trying to put it out. 

On social security, he has never throughout the entire campaign explained how he can take a trillion dollars and put it into personal accounts for mainly young workers without saying where the money will come from to secure the retirement payments for the rest of the ageing workforce. This weekend, attacking federalism, he did not even seem to realise that social security is a federal programme. Why hasn't the press blown the whistle? The economist Paul Krugman in the New York Times, a rare pundit who bothers to do the sums, writes: "Really big misstatements, it turns out, cannot be effectively challenged because voters can't believe that a man who seems so likeable would do that sort of thing." 

But he would. The drunken driving arrest is not the only character evidence from Bush's past that has been suppressed or glossed over. On October 2, the Center for Public Integrity in Washington and Bill Muntaglio and Nancy Beiles in Talk magazine revealed that Bush not once but repeatedly missed the legal deadlines for reporting his insider stock trades when he was a director and member of the audit committee of a ropey Texas oil company, Harken Energy. In 1991, three years before he ran for governor, the Wall Street Journal headlined one instance when Bush sold near the top of the market before the stock plunged, pocketing nearly $850,000. He was eight months late in reporting this coup. He claimed he had but that the SEC had "lost the paperwork". But neither the Journal, or anyone else, has asked Bush if the SEC "lost the paperwork" when he was derelict on three other newly-documented insider trades he did not report in the way required by the anti-corruption laws. 

The 1991 SEC investigation, criticised for being run by friends of then President Bush, ended inconclusively. Bush, it was said, could not have known of the magnitude of Harken's impending loss when he sold out. But the SEC never interviewed Bush and documents obtained last month under the Freedom of Information Act clearly show that Bush had more knowledge than he admitted. At least twice during the month he cashed out, he received memos showing the company was in financial peril. 

The man who claims the presidency on the grounds of probity has asserted: "I believe in individual accountability and individual responsibility." But the credulous press and the cerebrally challenged television talk shows have been too busy pillorying Gore to ask Bush to reconcile rhetoric and action. "I will do everything I can," he has said, "to defend the power of private property and private property rights." But he has failed to reconcile that public testament with his enrichment from the seizure of private land for his Texas Rangers baseball stadium. Though then a private citizen, he contrived to use the power of the state to claim eminent domain over 270 acres - most of which was not needed for the stadium. Families who lost their land so that Bush and his partners could profit from the development potential are still mad at him for the land-grab and the ordeal of court hearings they had to initiate before getting a fair price. Maree Fanning, who lost the family horse farm, told a reporter: "If I saw him today, I'd say 'Bite my ass'."  

Today, too many American voters, deprived of the real story, have probably kissied it.

American Politics Journal - by Dave Gonzo

Monday, Nov. 6, 2000 -- WASHINGTON (AmpolNS) -- American Politics Journal has learned today that in the event George W. Bush is elected in tomorrow's presidential election, an alliance of top-level Democrats and Texas-based moderates is making preliminary preparations to file a request with the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court to stay the inauguration of George W. Bush until the Texas Attorney General and the state prosecutor who claimed Bush lied on a jury questionnaire decide whether to charge him with a felony.

If Bush were to be convicted, American Politics Journal understands that Bush might not be qualified to sit as President of the United States.

A source close to the Republican party tells American Politics Journal that RNC vice-chairman Larry Purpuro "went ballistic and hung up" when a reporter tried to discuss this development.

Additionally, American Politics Journal has learned that Democrat lawyers are presently poring over each and every document they can locate in the public record or volunteered by institutions in which Bush swore under oath that he was never charged or convicted of a crime.

This could re-open the investigations regarding the "mystical" change of Governor Bush's driver's license number in Texas -- and all subsequent comments made concerning Bush's arrest record made by both the Governor and his spokesperson Karen Hughes. It could also re-open the investigation of his service record in the Air National Guard, the oath he took as Governor, and the forms he signed thereupon.

by Linda L. Starr and Bev Conover

There have been so many revelations regarding the past scandals of the Bush family that this almost seems irrelevant. However, since George Dubya is apparently a presidential candidate, it is almost certain we should examine every aspect of his past to see if he is morally fit to become president.

We only question this since it seems to be of such paramount importance to the GOP that we had a salacious report on the sex life of our president blasted on every medium known to man. Having said that, we must now ask some rather curious questions ourselves:

Now why would George Dubya require a Texas driver's license with an entirely new number?

It was obtained on March 31, 1995, as was his wife's Laura Welch Bush's. His wife and daughters didn't need new numbers, nor did his famous parents -- former president and first lady, George H. and Barbara Pierce Bush -- who all would seem to be at as much risk security-wise. And by the way, doesn't Texas require renewal of a driver's license every four years on one's birthday? Did George Dubya have something in his past to hide to cause him to purge the old record and number? This seems especially confusing since his birthday is July 6, 1946, but he obtained his new number on March 31, 1995 as a renewal. 

Due to this little anomaly, we thought perhaps we should check to see if this was a common practice for former governors of Texas, but no, they were not listed among the first four numbers previous to Dubya's. Now, in all fairness to Dubya we must ask why he would get a new number and not just assume it was to hide something in his past life. And why would he be given the nine-digit DL number 000000005? His wife's DL number is 005295107.

Is it at all possible it is innocent? Of course, but if Bill Clinton had done this we would all be hearing about some misdeed he was covering up.

Which brings us to another subject on Dubya. During our search for the truth about Dubya's past, we came across something very interesting indeed! Another George W. Bush, white male, blue eyes, brown hair, but born on Oct. 17, 1964! What called our attention to this person, since there are so many Bushes living in Texas, this person's record was deleted on Dec. 24, 1998. Could there possibly be a connection between this person and Dubya that we as voters as yet are not aware of and why was his record deleted? For that matter, is it possible to have a living skeleton in one's closet from a wildly misspent youth? We shudder to think of the implications considering the havoc wreaked on the president based on lies about paternity of a child, and not even a name or physical description in common? We wonder what Dubya will say about these questions!!

Getting answers to these questions is proving difficult, to say the least. 

A woman at the Governor George W. Bush Presidential Exploratory Committee, who identified herself as Vanessa, said in response to the questions about Dubya's driver's license, "I don't know anything about it." Asked if the George W. Bush, whose last listed address is Houston, was related to Dubya, she responded, "Why do you need this information?" Then she said to call the governor's press office.

The governor's press office referred us back to the exploratory committee. A Megan Moran there told us either a Karen Hughes or Mindy Tucker would call Online Journal directly; that both were too busy to come to the phone then. Moran, despite assurances to the contrary, seemed concerned that the Houston George W. Bush was claiming to be Dubya's son. She asked three times about that.

A call to the Houston phone number listed for the address shown in George W. Bush's Texas Driver's License Detail produced no results.

The woman who answered the phone refused to provide her name. 

Asked if George W. Bush was there, she said, "I don't know that person." When it was pointed out to her that was the phone number that was listed for the address shown on his driver's license record, she again said she didn't know him.

Questioned about whether this George W. Bush was related to Gov. George W. Bush, she responded, "I don't know anything about that."

Mindy Tucker, a spokesman for Bush's Presidential Exploratory Committee, could provide no answers, either. She said she would check into the DL number matter.  Asked if something may have been expunged from the governor's driving record, which could have resulted in the issuance of a new license -- even though that would not explain the low number -- she said she doubted that.

To the question of whether the governor was related to the Houston George W. Bush, Tucker said, "Not that I know of." She added, "It's probably just someone with the same name," but said she would check into that, too.

"What Is George Dubya Hiding?" Copyright © 1999 Linda L. Starr and Online Journal. All rights reserved.  Go to American Politics for more on George Dubya

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