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EarlG

(21,934 posts)
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 12:29 PM Oct 2015

Pic Of The Moment: Jeb Bush At Fundraiser: My Brother's Response To 9/11 Was "Awe-Inspiring"



Jeb Bush: My Brother's 9/11 Response Was 'Awe-Inspiring'


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Pic Of The Moment: Jeb Bush At Fundraiser: My Brother's Response To 9/11 Was "Awe-Inspiring" (Original Post) EarlG Oct 2015 OP
I'll say! forest444 Oct 2015 #1
As long as there are Bush family members around, they'll be able to justify Frustratedlady Oct 2015 #2
it.'s god, it's god, I C god scotto the old guy Oct 2015 #27
Boy Howdy.... yuiyoshida Oct 2015 #3
Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2015 #4
Awe-Inspiring winetourdriver Oct 2015 #5
Hey Jeb, Gary 50 Oct 2015 #6
You're being kind. nt SusanaMontana41 Oct 2015 #28
Vacation? Scarsdale Oct 2015 #37
George spent most of his time on vacation, at his farm. rladdi Oct 2015 #40
Truth in country fucking. K & R lonestarnot Oct 2015 #45
He belongs in the GitMo of his own making! KansDem Oct 2015 #7
That's the look of d_legendary1 Oct 2015 #8
Surely he means "Awwwww SHIT!!!" inspiring....? MADem Oct 2015 #9
Yup.The birds in your video represent Bush. SusanaMontana41 Oct 2015 #29
It's beginning to look to me like Jeb is being schooled by Karl Rove... C Moon Oct 2015 #10
The Smart One, speaks again... SoapBox Oct 2015 #11
It left me full of awe. It was downright aweful. Ed Suspicious Oct 2015 #12
Good effort! Good effort! hibbing Oct 2015 #13
Bjaaajjjjjjj jaj jaj aja lonestarnot Oct 2015 #14
roflmao! SusanaMontana41 Oct 2015 #30
And he did it ALL... MarianJack Oct 2015 #15
democrat response was awe-inspiring for republicans captainarizona Oct 2015 #16
Like the way he flew from base to base on AF1 all day?! That was awesome...... Dont call me Shirley Oct 2015 #17
Bush is an... Rafale Oct 2015 #18
K&R! stonecutter357 Oct 2015 #19
It still baffles me that Bush gets a pass for 9/11... Initech Oct 2015 #20
The Untouchables Rosa Luxemburg Oct 2015 #21
Bush not only got a pass, he got re-elected. I mean elected. eom SusanaMontana41 Oct 2015 #31
Hey, he kept us safe! Well, not "us" so much as Saudi Arabia. tclambert Oct 2015 #22
So was his Katrina response The Second Stone Oct 2015 #23
how is someone this incredibly stupid, clueless, tone-deaf and hatefully ignorant allowed niyad Oct 2015 #24
He's lying through his sociopathic teeth. He knows fox truthers and limbaugh types will believe Cha Oct 2015 #34
I don't think orwell foresaw that the inmates would be running the asylum. niyad Oct 2015 #43
Kick and recommend oasis Oct 2015 #25
I'm gonna play psychiatrist for a minute HassleCat Oct 2015 #26
I love your story. I'll stick with it, too. SusanaMontana41 Oct 2015 #32
well, that is a much kinder thought than "that person is batshit nuts!" niyad Oct 2015 #44
I'll just bet it was! "I wanna be just like my deadbeat bro when it comes to tragic crises"! Cha Oct 2015 #33
That was a pretty strange moment Art_from_Ark Oct 2015 #35
Always curious why the top target in the United States at the time. raouldukelives Oct 2015 #36
I don't know why the SS thought he'd be safer there Art_from_Ark Oct 2015 #38
Human shields? raouldukelives Oct 2015 #46
does the school video of GWB still exist? NoMoreRepugs Oct 2015 #41
Here you go Art_from_Ark Oct 2015 #42
OMG! OMG! OMG! marew Oct 2015 #39

forest444

(5,902 posts)
1. I'll say!
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 12:33 PM
Oct 2015

To have done something so bestial and treasonous, straight-faced, and then to have gotten away without even the slightest media scrutiny.

That takes talent.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
2. As long as there are Bush family members around, they'll be able to justify
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 12:40 PM
Oct 2015

their selfish and evil deeds. God help the last one standing...they'll get a whole s**t-load of criticisms.

Response to EarlG (Original post)

Gary 50

(381 posts)
6. Hey Jeb,
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 12:50 PM
Oct 2015

how awesome was your idiot brothers response to dire warnings that we were about to be attacked. If I recall his response to being told an attack was imminent was to tell the national security adviser that he had covered his ass and then Bush went on vacation. Maybe awesome wasn't the right word. How about despicable?

rladdi

(581 posts)
40. George spent most of his time on vacation, at his farm.
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 09:31 AM
Oct 2015

No wonder 9/11 happened and he didn't seem to know about it. He was to busy cutting down bush and riding the tractor.

KansDem

(28,498 posts)
7. He belongs in the GitMo of his own making!
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 12:55 PM
Oct 2015

And waterboarded until he releases the 28 pages he redacted from the official 9/11 Commission report!

The information, redacted by President George W. Bush, is believed to point to allegations that Saudi Arabia may have assisted in financing the 9/11 terrorists.

“The 28 pages primarily relate to who financed 9/11 and they point a very strong finger at Saudi Arabia as being the principal financier,” said former Sen. Bob Graham, D-Florida, who co-chaired the inquiry and helped to write the report.

Saudi Arabia has denied any involvement. The report in question is the Joint Inquiry Into Intelligence Activities Before and After the Terrorists Attacks of September 2001. It was an investigation by House and Senate committees, released in December 2002.

“The position of the United States government has been to protect Saudi Arabia,” former senator Graham contended.

“At virtually every step of the judicial process, when the United States government was called upon to take a position, it has been a position adverse to the interests of United States citizens seeking justice and protective of the government which, in my judgment, was the most responsible for that network of support,” Graham said, referring to Saudi Arabia.

Today, Graham joined Reps. Walter Jones, R-North Carolina, and Stephen Lynch, D-Massachusetts, who introduced legislation calling on President Obama to declassify the 28 pages.

--more--
ABC News


You know the Saudi Arabia? Our friends and allies? The country with the pampered-pervert prince who wanted to see naked p***y?

d_legendary1

(2,586 posts)
8. That's the look of
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 01:27 PM
Oct 2015

-WTF am I doing here?

-I could go for some pretzels and beer right about now.

-I wonder what time Reba's on?

-Did I turn off the stove before coming here?

-I wish I had a bunker like uncle Dick's!

Nothing awe inspiring about that.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
9. Surely he means "Awwwww SHIT!!!" inspiring....?
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 01:50 PM
Oct 2015

The guy ran like a chickenshit and flew around the country frantically while he left the pointy-headed Mayor of NYC to display 'leadership." He was a coward.

When the going got tough, he shrieked and skee-daddled!!!


RUN!!! RUUNNNNNN!!!!! Nahn-Wun-WUNNNNNNN!!!!!!!

SusanaMontana41

(3,233 posts)
29. Yup.The birds in your video represent Bush.
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 03:05 AM
Oct 2015

I'm pretty sure those children are fleeing a grade school in Florida.

C Moon

(12,208 posts)
10. It's beginning to look to me like Jeb is being schooled by Karl Rove...
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 01:52 PM
Oct 2015

And it doesn't seem to be working this time around.

SoapBox

(18,791 posts)
11. The Smart One, speaks again...
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 01:55 PM
Oct 2015

It's unimaginable how Jeb! just doesn't get that he should shut the fuck up.

Oh well...keep on talking Jeb!

hibbing

(10,094 posts)
13. Good effort! Good effort!
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 03:16 PM
Oct 2015

Like all Republicans, they try to rewrite history. I'm actually kind of surprised that the majority are not falling for it.

I loved how in the debate that the most animated this second idiot son got was when he tried to defend his brother's presidency.

He kept us safe! Do you remember the rubble? Gosh, what kind of delusional thinking would prompt such idiotic statements?

Peace

MarianJack

(10,237 posts)
15. And he did it ALL...
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 03:52 PM
Oct 2015

...with a stupid and shifty look on his face that revealed just what a little shit he is!

PEACE!

 

captainarizona

(363 posts)
16. democrat response was awe-inspiring for republicans
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 06:48 PM
Oct 2015

Democrats rolled over and asked the republicans to rub their belles! It was nancy pelosi's finest hour. NOT! Ask the anthrax victims if he kept them safe. Oh thats right their dead including the inquirer editor who showed a picture of dubya's two daughters drunk on bar floor. No one was ever caught I wonder why ???

Initech

(100,036 posts)
20. It still baffles me that Bush gets a pass for 9/11...
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 08:35 PM
Oct 2015

While there's a million hearings and investigations into Benghazi. WTF.

tclambert

(11,084 posts)
22. Hey, he kept us safe! Well, not "us" so much as Saudi Arabia.
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 09:26 PM
Oct 2015

That's the country he used all his strength to protect.

 

The Second Stone

(2,900 posts)
23. So was his Katrina response
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 09:27 PM
Oct 2015

I'm just awed that Republicans can stomach Jebbie. Oh, wait, they can't. He's barely showing up in the polls.

niyad

(113,049 posts)
24. how is someone this incredibly stupid, clueless, tone-deaf and hatefully ignorant allowed
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 09:57 PM
Oct 2015

out without a keeper?

Cha

(296,821 posts)
34. He's lying through his sociopathic teeth. He knows fox truthers and limbaugh types will believe
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 04:53 AM
Oct 2015

any damn thing he says.

trump called them out on it.. maybe some listened to him? Now I hear he's in 2nd place and someone crazier has topped the list.

 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
26. I'm gonna play psychiatrist for a minute
Tue Oct 27, 2015, 11:52 PM
Oct 2015

I'm not a psychiatrist, but... I figure if the climate change deniers can say, "I'm not a scientist, but..." then I should be able to get inside Jeb Bush's head with absolutely no qualifications. My theory is that he's intentionally torpedoing his own run at the presidency. I mean, he could defend his brother without expressing it in such categorical terms. "He did what he thought was right." "He took action based on the best information he could get." Something like that. Sure, he has to defend his brother, or people will think he's disloyal, but he's way, way over the top, making statements that transcend the ridiculous and shoot right for the sublime. I think he likes running for president, but does not want the nomination, let alone the actual job. Unlike his brother, he recognizes his limitations. Well, that's my theory and I'm sticking to it, kind of like Jeb is sticking with his story.

Cha

(296,821 posts)
33. I'll just bet it was! "I wanna be just like my deadbeat bro when it comes to tragic crises"!
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 04:50 AM
Oct 2015

Sit it out and then go into hiding.. and yes, then he invaded the wrong damn country. Which the neocons had already decided on before the bush2 coup.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
35. That was a pretty strange moment
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 05:04 AM
Oct 2015

I don't know if he was actually reading the book, though, since the kids were actually reading it to him. Watching all of those kids reading about a goat to him, in unison, just after he had supposedly been informed about the attack on the second tower, was a truly surreal moment.

It's a shame that Michael Moore edited most of Bush's bizarre reaction, as shown in the school's video, from Fahrenheit 911 and added his own unnecessary commentary. It would have been far more effective just to include the whole unedited video of Bush's non-action, without commentary, and let that speak for itself.

raouldukelives

(5,178 posts)
36. Always curious why the top target in the United States at the time.
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 07:42 AM
Oct 2015

Just sat in a room endangering a bunch of children after being told we were under attack.
Even seems like the SS would demand he be escorted out. I guess they felt he was safer there.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
38. I don't know why the SS thought he'd be safer there
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 07:49 AM
Oct 2015

since it was no secret that he'd be at that school, at that time.

raouldukelives

(5,178 posts)
46. Human shields?
Thu Oct 29, 2015, 10:32 AM
Oct 2015

In all seriousness, who the heck knows. Most likely just another feeble response to moment of crisis. The hallmark of a Bush franchise.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
42. Here you go
Wed Oct 28, 2015, 11:02 AM
Oct 2015


The still shot of this video (which appears at 5:04 in the video) shows Andy Card, Bush's chief of staff, whispering something into Bush's ear for a couple of seconds. He supposedly said "The second tower's been hit-- America's under attack", but there's no way he could have crammed all that into two seconds.
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