Just How Fair-minded Are You?

This was sent to me today via email (hat tips: Brad & Nathan). I thought it was rather interesting...
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If George W. Bush had made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had tried to fill his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cheat on their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had a Republican Congress allocate billions of dollars for a civilian volunteer security force, as “strong and well equipped” as our military forces, and under his personal authority, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed doubling the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed doubling the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had promised detailed tracking of the spending from a $787 Billion Stimulus Bill and then postponed that oversight until 2010, would you approve or would you think otherwise?

If Bush had promised 48-hour advance posting of the same bill on the internet and only released it two hours before congressional approval, would you wonder what was being hidden from the public?

If Bush's White House staff had spent over $300,000 flying Air Force One low over New York City (for a publicity photo with the Statue of Liberty) sending the city into panic, would you have expected Bush to make all the pictures public? Would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had been addicted to using a Teleprompter, and was practically never gave a speech without having one, would you have questioned his intelligence?

If George W. Bush had pre-approved/pre-picked the list of reporters allowed to ask questions at his press conferences and refused to call on the correspondent from a major news network he personally detest, would you have approved? Is that a fair and representative news conference?

If George W. Bush and a Republican Congress had given hundreds of millions of dollars to a group (the right-wing equivalent of ACORN) after its members had been indicted & convicted of voter registration fraud, would you approve of them to doing the 2010 Census, which will determine congressional districts for 10 years? Can you trust ACORN’s involvement for 2010?

Would you have approved of George W. Bush moving the Census from the Dept. of Commerce into the White House and putting his Chief of Staff in control of the counting?

Obama’s administration has done all this in 14 weeks. Do you approve?
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