The Bush Leadership Quiz

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DO YOU HAVE THE BUSH STUFF?


If President Bush's re-election staff has its way, this election will
revolve around only one question: Can anyone hope to match the heroic
9-11 style leadership of George W. Bush? Do you have what it takes to
protect the American people? Are you tough enough to ride with the
Crawford Gang?


Answer the six questions below to find out if you are made of the same
stuff as George W. Bush...


Pretend you're the 'elected' President of the United States (Since we're pretending, you may as well imagine that you actually won the popular vote):


1. Imagine that you receive multiple warnings from long-time allies
concerning a coming terrorist attack which may use hijacked airliners to attack American symbols of commerce. Do you:

A. Take a month-long vacation.
B. Keep your staff off commercial airlines.
C. Finally deal with that pesky cedar brush on your new ranch.
D. A, B, & C
E. Contact the FBI and CIA and order them to share resources to co-ordinate a national airport security clampdown while expediting a search for known terrorists who have entered the country.


2. On August 6th, just days into your vacation, your National Security
Advisor gives you a briefing entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US." Do you:

A. Take the rest of the day off.
B. Go fishing on your man-made lake.
C. Take the longest Presidential vacation in thirty-two years.
D. A, B, & C
E. Act like the elected President of the United States and return to Washington to ensure the safety of the nation.


3. Having successfully ignored countless warnings, you return from
vacation. On your way to a slow-pitch photo op, you learn that an
airliner has crashed into one of Twin Towers. Do you:

A. Continue to your very important photo-op at a Florida elementary school. Later claim you watched the first crash on television even though that film was not shown until that evening.
B. Fail to make any connection between the crash and the near-constant terrorist warnings of the past month.
C. A, B, & C
D. Act like the elected President of the United States by dropping the children's book and hurrying to Air Force One to direct the country's defense.


4. Though you've already shrugged off anything resembling competence,
when an aide whispers in your ear that a second plane has crashed into
the second tower, do you:

A. Read a book about goats to second graders for seventeen minutes while thousands of Americans burn to death.
B. Delay an order for fighters to defend the White House and the Pentagon.
C. Later claim to be in bed by ten that night, sleeping soundly while the rest of the nation sat up, dumb-struck, horrified by the human loss.
D. A, B, & C
E. Upon hearing of the first airliner strike, immediately order fighters up to defend the second Tower and the Pentagon and, later, have the common decency not to sleep a wink.


5. In the days following the disaster, you learn that the attack was
planned by a wealthy Saudi named Bin Laden and that fifteen of the
nineteen hijackers were also Saudis. Do you:

A. Have a friendly photo op with a Saudi business friend of your father even before you bother posing on the burning rubble of lower Manhattan.
B. Allow a private jet to collect a hundred wealthy Saudis, including fourteen Bin Laden relatives, and fly them out of the country over the protests of the FBI.
C. Round up hundreds of innocent immigrants and imprison them without trial in order to appear to be engaged.
D. A, B, & C
E. Throw your family's substantial business interests to the side in order to detain and question wealthy Saudis and so discover that some financed terrorists in the months before the attack.


6. It was bound to happen. Relatives of the murdered victims and
bi-partisan traitors in Congress have the audacity to push for an
Independent Commission to investigate the massive intelligence and
security failures that led to 9-11. Do you:

A. Grant the Commission a mere fifteen million dollars -- less than one fourth the amount spent to investigate the last President's adultery.
B. Stipulate that any testimony you give be off-the-record, that you can only be called upon to testify one time, and that you have Mr. Cheney, your boss, sitting right next to you so you don't stupidly say anything to contradict all those face-saving lies you've promulgated for the last few years.
C. Announce that pressing Presidential-type duties leave you with less than an hour to spend before the Commission -- despite the fact that in the last year you've played over one hundred and forty hours of golf.
D. All of the above.
E. Save your country time and money by proceeding directly to a six-by-six wire suite in Guantanamo.


ANSWERS:


Welcome to the soft prejudice of dumbed-down expectations!


Question one is a freebie -- just like Florida! Give yourself a bunch of points!


Questions two through six demand a little more cunning. If you answered a, b, or c, you were close.


If you answered d to all of them, congratulations! You've flunked, but those were the President's choices! You're just as much a leader as the steely-eyed rocket man himself! And you did it without oil money!