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Rachel Maddow - Awkward stumble for Jeb Bush in Poland (Original Post) Galraedia Jun 2015 OP
That was funny. passnobuck Jun 2015 #1
For the beltway press to miss this is inexcusable. DFW Jun 2015 #2
+1 daleanime Jun 2015 #4
I like Rachel Maddow, but I think she needs to edit and I don't mean Baitball Blogger Jun 2015 #3
No, in this hurry, hurry world.... daleanime Jun 2015 #5
..And so, JEB tops it off by going to Auschwitz PeoViejo Jun 2015 #6
thank you heaven05 Jun 2015 #8
You are very welcome PeoViejo Jun 2015 #13
Jeb going to Auschwitz in itself doesn't bother me DFW Jun 2015 #9
JEB was after the Jewish Vote. PeoViejo Jun 2015 #11
I'm sure it got him about 3 DFW Jun 2015 #14
All surviving members of the Stern Gang PeoViejo Jun 2015 #15
what can be expected heaven05 Jun 2015 #7
Ancient History PeoViejo Jun 2015 #12
Is anyone responsible for running Thespian2 Jun 2015 #10

Baitball Blogger

(46,743 posts)
3. I like Rachel Maddow, but I think she needs to edit and I don't mean
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 10:16 AM
Jun 2015

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censor herself. I mean that when listening to news on television, people want to hear the point and move on to the next tidbit. And there were some really good points to be made in her segment, just that it became tedious watching her wade around the same waters.

She talks like she's on the radio where people need more visual clues and repetitions to get the point, because they're busy doing something else.

daleanime

(17,796 posts)
5. No, in this hurry, hurry world....
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 10:55 AM
Jun 2015

it's nice that some one will spent time on one subject every now and again.

 

PeoViejo

(2,178 posts)
6. ..And so, JEB tops it off by going to Auschwitz
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 11:17 AM
Jun 2015

..where his Grandfather had investments and profited from Slave Labor.

"When Thyssen died, the Alien Property Custodian released the assets of the Union Banking Corporation to Brown Brothers Harriman. The remaining stockholders cashed in their stocks and quietly liquidated the rest of UBC's blood money.

Prescott Bush received $1.5 million for his share in UBC. That money enabled Bush to help his son, George Herbert Walker Bush, to set up his first royalty firm, Overby Development Company, that same year. It was also helpful when Prescott Bush left the business world to enter the public arena in 1952 with a successful senatorial campaign in Connecticut. On October 8th, 1972, Prescott Bush died of cancer and his will was enacted soon after.

In 1980, when George H.W. Bush was elected vice president, he placed his father's family inherence in a blind trust. The trust was managed by his old friend and quail hunting partner, William "Stamps" Farish III. Bush's choice of Farish to manage the family wealth is quite revealing in that it demonstrates that the former president might know exactly where some of his inheritance originated. Farish's grandfather, William Farish Jr., on March 25th, 1942, pleaded "no contest" to conspiring with Nazi Germany while president of Standard Oil in New Jersey. He was described by Senator Harry Truman in public of approaching "treason" for profiting off the Nazi war machine. Standard Oil, invested millions in IG Farben, who opened a gasoline factory within Auschwitz in 1940. The billions "Stamps" inherited had more blood on it then Bush, so the paper trail of UBC stock would be safe during his 12 years in presidential politics.

It has been 60 years since one of the great money laundering scandals of the 20th century ended and only now are we beginning to see the true historical aspects of this important period of world history, a history that the remaining Holocaust survivors beg humanity to "never forget." [Investigative journalist John] Loftus believes history will view Prescott Bush as harshly as Thyssen. "It is bad enough that the Bush family helped raise the money for Thyssen to give Hitler his start in the 1920s, but giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war is treason. The Bush bank helped the Thyssens make the Nazi steel that killed Allied solders. As bad as financing the Nazi war machine may seem, aiding and abetting the Holocaust was worse. Thyssen's coal mines used Jewish slaves as if they were disposable chemicals. There are six million skeletons in the Thyssen family closet, and a myriad of criminal and historical questions to be answered about the Bush family's complicity."

http://prorev.com/bush2.htm

 

heaven05

(18,124 posts)
8. thank you
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 12:38 PM
Jun 2015

for the continuing revelation(s) of the total hypocrisy of the bush klan....and they are seen as the good, loyal americans'...what evilness that is allowed to pass because they are rich and influential is amazing. And other 'good' americans will vote for this fucking clown.

 

PeoViejo

(2,178 posts)
13. You are very welcome
Sun Jun 14, 2015, 02:24 PM
Jun 2015

My motives are no entirely altruistic in this matter....I'm just returning a favor; one owed for a very long time.

DFW

(54,412 posts)
9. Jeb going to Auschwitz in itself doesn't bother me
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 12:40 PM
Jun 2015

Jeb going to Auschwitz for a publicity stunt does. As if he cared one whit about what happened there or to whom. He knows perfectly well what the public record has to say about his grandfather. He would be better off leaving Auschwitz out of his campaign altogether.

About 25 years ago, an elderly friend of mine went there. If was his second visit. His first visit was as a young teenager. When he left after his first visit, it was with a number tattooed on his arm that wasn't there when he got there. He is from the Netherlands, and was one of the few Dutch Jews who made it out of there alive. A soccer fanatic in later life, he once traveled to Poland for a match with the Dutch national team playing against Poland. He made a side trip to Auschwitz. I asked him why in the world he would want to go back there again. He said he went so he could stare at the ruins and say, "ha ha, I'm still here, and you're not."

Now THAT is a reason I can see for wanting to go there. Jeb Bush going there for a photo op, considering how his family acquired some of its wealth, is less easy to swallow. But his whole campaign up to now doesn't seem to have been managed by the brightest of tacticians.

Thespian2

(2,741 posts)
10. Is anyone responsible for running
Sat Jun 13, 2015, 08:58 PM
Jun 2015

Jebbie's campaign? His criminal family can surely afford someone who will tell the poor asshole when he is being completely stupid...

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