*george bush 2* - -KINGDOM OF JOGA-

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’14 january 2003′
(beginning of ‘term 1’)
‘age 56’
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*OFFICIAL WEBSITE*

“george walker bush”

(born ‘6 july 1946’)
(‘new haven’ / ‘connecticut’)

‘american politician’

(43rd president of the ‘united states’)
(‘2001’ – ‘2009’)

(46th governor of ‘texas)
(‘1995’ – ‘2000’)

(the ‘eldest son’ of barbara + george H W bush)

*’UNCLE JIMMY’ FOR PRESIDENT*

(“no no, not that jimmy…”)
(durante crooning raspily)

(‘had a coach called ‘kostibos’…’)
(“he made us stand on our toes…’)

(married ‘laura lane welch’ in ‘1977’)
(they were ’29’)
(she was a ‘schoolteacher’ + ‘librarian’)

(‘age 30’ marriages seem to be the ‘default’ amongst presidents)
(and wife is usually the same age as him)

they were introduced by friends at a ‘backyard barbecue’)

(they met over ‘hamburgers’)

(he asked her on a date the very next day)

(they played ‘miniature golf’)
(all captured on ‘closed=circuit television’)

(at ’30’, they were the “last of their friends to get married”)

(just like my parents)
(the ‘american south’ sure is conventional!)

(he had moved back to his parents’ texas home to enter the “oil family business” 3 months before his marriage)

(he gave up alcohol in 1986)
(after he woke up with a bad hangover shortly after his ’40th birthday’)

(now laura bush grants interviews on “larry king live”)

(after graduating from ‘yale university’ in ‘1968’ and ‘harvard business school’ in ‘1975’, he worked in ‘oil businesses’)

(he married ‘laura welch’ in ‘1977’ and ran unsuccessfully for the ‘house of representatives’ shortly thereafter)

(he later co-owned the ‘texas rangers baseball team’ before defeating ‘ann richards’ in the ‘1994 texas gubernatorial election’)

(he was elected ‘president’ in ‘2000’ after a ‘close’ + ‘controversial’ election against “al gore”, becoming the 4th president to be elected while receiving fewer popular votes nationwide than an opponent)

(he is the 2nd president to have been the ‘son’ of a ‘former president’, the first having been ‘john quincy adams’)

(he is also the brother of “jeb bush”, a former “governor” of ‘florida’ and candidate for the ‘republican presidential nomination’ in the ‘2016 presidential election’)

(8 months into bush’s first term as president, the ‘september 11’ terrorist attacks occurred)

(‘bush’ responded with what became known as the ‘bush doctrine’, launching a ‘war on terror’…)

(…an ‘international military campaign’ which included…)

‘the war in afghanistan’
(2001)

‘the iraq war’
(2003)

(he also promoted policies on…)

‘the economy’

‘health care’

‘education’

‘social security reform’

‘amending the constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage’

(“o how the mighty have fallen!”)

(he signed into law…)

‘broad tax cuts’

the ‘patriot act’

the ‘no child left behind act’

the ‘partial-birth abortion ban act’

‘medicare prescription drug benefits for seniors’

funding for the ‘AIDS relief program’
(known as ‘PEPFAR’)

(his tenure saw national debates on…)

‘immigration’

‘social security’

‘electronic surveillance’

‘torture’

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(‘bush’ successfully ran for ‘re-election’ against democratic senator ‘john kerry’ in ‘2004’ (in another relatively close election))

(after his re-election, bush received increasingly heated criticism from across the political spectrum for his handling of the ‘iraq war’, ‘hurricane katrina’, and other challenges)

(amid this criticism, the ‘democratic party’ regained control of congress in the ‘2006 elections’)

(in ‘december 2007’, the ‘united states’ entered its longest ‘post-world war II recession’ (often referred to as the “great recession”), prompting the ‘bush administration’ to obtain ‘congressional passage’ of multiple economic programs intended to preserve the country’s ‘financial system’)

(nationally, ‘bush’ was both 1 of the ‘most popular’ + ‘unpopular’ presidents in history, having received the highest recorded presidential approval ratings in the wake of the ‘september 11 attacks’, as well as one of the lowest approval ratings during the ‘2008 financial crisis’)

(bush left office in’ 2009′, returning to ‘texas’ where he purchased a home in ‘suburban dallas’)

(he is currently a ‘public speaker’)

(he wrote a memoir entitled ‘decision points’)

(his ‘presidential library’ was opened in ‘2013’)

(his presidency has been ranked among the worst in ‘historian rankings’ of U.S. presidents published in the ‘late 2000s’ + ‘2010s’)

“that seems a bit harsh….”

(although he ended his term with ‘low approval ratings’, ‘public opinion’ of him has increased since his term ended)