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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 06:38 AM
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Why is there not more pressure on George P. Bush to enlist
We frequently hear calls for the Bush twins to enlist or be drafted as a show of political support for their father, and to set an example at a time when so many other sons and daugthers are having to sacrifice (or may yet be compelled into service). That's fine, but it's important to point out that even then they would not be on the front lines, given the limitations on women in combat on the ground. Besides, these two sorority girl bimbos do not have political ambitions (thank God).

George P. Bush (Jeb's kid) does. He is 28, healthy and a big political supporter of his father and his uncle. Yet, we never seem to hear many of the same calls for him to sign up for duty as we do with regard to the Bush twins. He could enlist and be on the front lines if he really wanted to, or if his family asked him to do so. Making jokes about the Bush twins enlisting or being drafted is fine, but it's a more serious matter to raise this issue with regard to the young man who is most likely to try and continue the Bush family dynasty.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 06:44 AM
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1. Because everyone knows he'd be just as much of a fuck-up
as his Uncle Dumbellyou.
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 06:45 AM
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2. You know, at one time it was
considered imperative that the sons of elected officials be in uniform in time of war. FDRs sons were all in uniform, and LBJ's daughter married a Marine, Chuck Robb, who went to Viet Nam. Further back in history, Lincoln was chastized for not allowing his son, Robert, to enlist. Wonder why the top politicos don't feel the need to put their kids in harm's way now? Could it be because they know this is an unjust war brought on merely by greed for oil?
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Cooley Hurd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 06:56 AM
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5. You're spot-on, aye...
TR's sons all went to war during WW1 (although he wasn't President at the time, he was a proponent of the war and a very vocal critic of Wilson's neutrality policy), and one didn't come back (his youngest, Quentin, was shot down over France in 1918 and killed). All of FDR's son's went to war, as well. Is there a member of the immediate Bush family (Poppy & Bar's evil brood) in uniform now? Of course not...:grr:
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bluestateguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 07:06 AM
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7. Lincoln's oldest son served under Grant's staff
But not until early 1865. He served about 6 months.
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punpirate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 06:47 AM
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3. Yours is...
... a rhetorical question, I take it. :)
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JI7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 06:52 AM
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4. Mayor Daley's son signed up about a week ago and he is 29 years old
surely George P Bush could do the same and help take the pressure off of those who have already done their duty so they can come home.

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Florida_Geek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 07:00 AM
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6. I like this thread
I forgot about "P". I just email a group of Florida Dems. IMHO every place Jebbie goes he should be meet with signs about his son.

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Swamp Rat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 07:19 AM
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8. The Bush twins must enlist. Anything else is unpatriotic!
Jenna and Barbara must enlist!
Jenna and Barbara must enlist!
Jenna and Barbara must enlist!

Sons of Congress must enlist!
Sons of Congress must enlist!
Sons of Congress must enlist!

America haters don't enlist!
America haters don't enlist!
America haters don't enlist!

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TaleWgnDg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 07:26 AM
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9. You gotta be kidding. Tell me you are kidding . . . n/t
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 07:50 AM
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12. George P. Bush (The Little Brown One)
Whenever you refer to him, please remember to always call him:

George P. Bush (The Little Brown One)

As in:

"I think George P. Bush (The Little Brown One) should enlist in the army."


George P. Bush (The Little Brown One)


P. is for pretty boy

Don't hate George W. Bush's nephew just because he's a political prop. What his college friends say about him may surprise you.

<snip>

P. is the son of Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Columba, the nephew of George W. Bush and grandson of former President George Bush, who once famously referred to him and his two siblings, while pointing out his grandchildren to Ronald and Nancy Reagan, as "the little brown ones." That P.'s a Spanish-speaking Latino (his mother was born in Mexico) adds to his value for his uncle's campaign.

<snip>

But even though P. will serve as youth chairman of the GOP convention, his friend Chris Fide says that in recent e-mails, P. still insists he's not sure that politics is for him.

<snip>

In a gushing New York Times profile, one unnamed Bush aide compared P. to "Ricky Martin, except better looking." Another added that P. is "very smooth. Rico suave. Chicks ate him up -- they did." And Uncle George himself has said about P., "He's a handsome dude, isn't he?"

<snip>

"National coverage would seem to indicate that George P. is the essence of passion for his people ... with a la vida loca commitment and an obvious legacy of activism for Latino causes," according to the Press story. "Just don't ask his former classmates at Rice University about that." The story quoted past presidents of the Hispanic Association for Cultural Enrichment at Rice (HACER), both of whom said P. was AWOL on campus Latino issues and events.

<snip>

"If he is going to push his uncle for president under the auspices of being Hispanic, I think it is legitimate to question his credibility, when he has not demonstrated in the past that the these issues are important to him."

<snip>

nd W., who fiercely guards his 18-year-old twin daughters from the press, has been more than willing to grab P. and use him for every purpose imaginable -- and quite shrewdly. At an April campaign appearance in California, where Bush was heralded for "distancing" himself from Gov. Pete Wilson's immigration policies, P. was bolder than his uncle would ever hope to be.

Bush told the National Hispanic Women's Conference at the Regal Biltmore Hotel that he wants "the American dream, el sueño Americano, to belong to all Americans; if your parents are first-generation ... this dream belongs to you as much as anybody else."

http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/07/22/p/


NBC Resurrected the "Little Brown One"

In a profile on Wednesday's NBC Nightly News, George P. Bush noted that with three Bushes sharing the George Bush name you need a "letter to distinguish between us." Feeding off that line, reporter Kelly O'Donnell reminded viewers: "But his grandfather used something else to distinguish George P. as a child. Back in 1988, then Vice President Bush, pointing out his grandchildren to the Reagans."

NBC played old video of George H. W. Bush pointing across an airport tarmac: "That's Jebby's kids from Florida, the little brown ones."

O'Donnell then asked George P: "You were referred to as one of ‘the little brown ones,' by your grandfather. That was controversial then, would it be even more so today?" George P. replied: "My grandfather is the sweetest, most loving man that I know. It was a term of endearment. And I would call my own grandkids that because there's nothing as beautiful as brown skin."
http://www.mrc.org/cyberalerts/2000/cyb20000803.asp#5
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TaleWgnDg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 08:15 AM
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13. Way to go !! n/t
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shesemsmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 07:42 AM
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10. I'd be all for that
love to see any of them in Iraq
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 07:45 AM
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11. Has p registered with the Selective Service?
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RagingInMiami Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 08:19 AM
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14. P should go to war
Edited on Wed Dec-08-04 08:20 AM by RagingInMiami
It's not like he doesn't have violent tendencies.


http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/georgep1.html

"George P. Bush might be a hunkalicious young Republican, but he still seems a bit creepy. So TSG wasn't too surprised to learn that "P" was involved in a troubling 1994 incident described in this Metro-Dade Police Department report. On December 31, 1994, Bush showed up at 4 AM at the Miami home of a former girlfriend. He proceeded to break into the house via the woman's bedroom window, and then began arguing with his ex's father. Bush, then a Rice University student, soon fled the scene. But he returned 20 minutes later to drive his Ford Explorer across the home's front lawn, leaving wide swaths of burned grass in his wake. Young Bush avoided arrest when the victims declined to press charges"
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-08-04 08:58 AM
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15. Ahh, young love!
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