President George W. Bush

I am the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. I was re-elected in 2004 and I am currently serving my second term. I was formerly the 46th Governor of Texas from 1995 to 2000. A Republican, I belong to one of the most politically influential American families, being the son of former President George H. W. Bush and elder brother of Jeb Bush, the present Governor of Florida. Supporters and detractors alike refer to me by the nickname Dubya, playing on a stereotyped and generalized Southern pronunciation of the letter W.I was an entrepreneur in the oil industry in Texas and had run for the U.S. House of Representatives in 1978. After working on my father's presidential campaign, I purchased a share of the Texas Rangers baseball team. In 1994 I was elected Governor of Texas where I worked on education reform, school finance and tort reform and sponsored the largest tax cut program in Texas history. I was re-elected as governor of Texas in 1998. I won the 2000 presidential election as the Republican candidate in a close and controversial contest. Although I did not secure a majority of the popular vote, I did win the required number of electoral votes after a very close battle in the state of Florida. As President, I pushed through a $1.3 trillion tax cut program and the No Child Left Behind Act, and made efforts to privatize Medicare and Social Security. I has also pushed forth socially conservative efforts such as the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, faith-based welfare initiatives, the Palm Sunday Compromise and the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment, which aims to define marriage as between one man and one woman, and thus prevent recognition of same-sex marriage in the United States.Following the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, I declared a global War on Terrorism and ordered the invasion of Afghanistan which I publicly stated was in order to overthrow the Taliban, destroy Al-Qaeda and to capture Osama Bin Laden. In March 2003, Bush ordered an invasion of Iraq, which habored and funded terrorism and was a threat to the security of the US. Following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime, I committed the U.S. to establishing democracy in the Middle East, and specifically in both Afghanistan and Iraq in the short term. A self-described "war President", I won re-election in 2004 after an intense election campaign, becoming the first candidate to win a majority vote in 16 years.Layout Provided By CodeMyLayout.com - Myspace Layouts