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Robert Livingston
Citizen
Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 1833
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Friday, March 24, 2006 - 2:54 pm: | 
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Former first lady's donation aids son
Katrina funds earmarked to pay for Neil Bush's software program
"Former first lady Barbara Bush donated an undisclosed amount of money to the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund with specific instructions that the money be spent with an educational software company owned by her son Neil."
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ina
Citizen
Username: Ina
Post Number: 325
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 2:37 pm: |
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Oh but she was also helping HERSELF:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A35297-2003Dec27?language=printer
For the last several years, Bush's main business interest has been Ignite!, the educational software company he co-founded in 1999. To fund Ignite!, Bush has raised $23 million from U.S. investors (including his parents), as well as businessmen from Taiwan, Japan, Kuwait, the British Virgin Islands and the United Arab Emirates, according to documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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LibraryLady(ncjanow)
Supporter
Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 3176
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 4:54 pm: |
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Why did the phrase "Rob from the poor and give to the rich" flash across my brain when I read the above. I can't think of anything sleezier than pretending to be altruistic while actually lining your own pockets. |
tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 4621
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 5:15 pm: |
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and she gets a deduction on her income tax! |
John Caffrey
Citizen
Username: Jerseyjack
Post Number: 135
Registered: 11-2005
| | Posted on Saturday, March 25, 2006 - 11:24 pm: |
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It just got better (sleazier). Barbara Bush is an invester in Neal's enterprize. Check it out at democraticunderground.com
By the way, Neal Bush was the guy who ran Silverado Savings and Loan that went belly up around 1989.
Republican as well as democratic taxpayers had to pony up to pay off the depositors. |
Ukealalio
Citizen
Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 2549
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 2:01 am: |
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BLASPHEMY-Yer talking about the 1st Granny there-HOW DARE YOU!!!. Whats a Mommy Dearest 2 do ?. After all
, Neal needs some way to pay for his Asian hooker fix. Whaddya expect, he reaches into his own lined pockets ?.
It's called FAMILY VALUES folks, and da Bush's got em. |
Darryl Strawberry
Supporter
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 7000
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 7:55 am: |
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The title of the thread should be renamed, "libs are morons, here are a few examples." |
ajc
Citizen
Username: Ajc
Post Number: 4910
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 8:31 am: |
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"... the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund"
Straw, they have no class. Don't waste your time on them pal. Those who gave deserve a special place in heaven. Those who scorn those who gave deserve a special place in hell..... |
Dave
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 8998
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 8:43 am: |
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Looks like Mrs. Bush is taking a lesson from the Book of Enron. It is better to give than receive, but it is even better to give to yourself and receive a tax break. |
ajc
Citizen
Username: Ajc
Post Number: 4911
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 10:20 am: |
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"It is better to give than receive, but it is even better to give to yourself and receive a tax break."
...true Dave, in more ways than one. The more you give the more you get in return. And, it's even better to give smart so you can keep giving more.
Mrs. Bush is a great American. She's loving, smart, generous, and some one to be respected, not ridiculed.
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sbenois
Supporter
Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 14802
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 10:28 am: |
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She's a sick, demented old cow. |
Dr. Winston O'Boogie
Citizen
Username: Casey
Post Number: 2013
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 10:33 am: |
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Quote: Mrs. Bush is a great American. She's loving, smart, generous, and some one to be respected, not ridiculed.
Wow. That sets new records for delusional. People who know the Bush family, and even some members of the Bush family will tell people that old Bar is 40 shades of mean. |
ajc
Citizen
Username: Ajc
Post Number: 4913
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 10:53 am: |
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"People who know the Bush family..."
Believe half of what you see and nothing of what you hear... |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 9002
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 11:20 am: |
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Quote:"And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (she chuckled)--this is working very well for them." -barbara bush
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LibraryLady(ncjanow)
Supporter
Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 3183
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 11:23 am: |
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From Maimonidies..Where does Babs fall???
In this brief list, Maimonides offers a succinct and extraordinarily provocative description of the eight degrees of charity, starting with an ideal and moving progressively further away with each step. This simple framework provides an illustration of a particular tradition of giving that continues in the Jewish Community to the present day.
The highest degree, exceeded by none, is that of a person who assists a poor Jew by providing him with a gift or a loan or by accepting him into a business partnership or by helping him find employment — in a word, by putting him where he can dispense with other people's aid.
A step below this stands the one who gives alms to the needy in such a manner that the giver knows not to whom he gives and the recipient knows not from whom it is that he takes.
One step lower is that in which the giver knows to whom he gives but the poor person knows not from whom he receives.
A step lower is that in which the poor person knows from whom he is taking but the giver knows not to whom he is giving.
The next degree lower is that of him who, with his own hand, bestows a gift before the poor person asks.
The next degree lower is that of him who gives only after the poor person asks.
The next degree lower is that of him who gives less than is fitting but gives with a gracious mien.
The next degree is that of him who gives morosely.
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Dr. Winston O'Boogie
Citizen
Username: Casey
Post Number: 2014
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 11:29 am: |
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ajc,
if you believe nothing you hear and half of what you see, how do you know Barbara Bush is such a loving sweetheart of an old lady?
I put more stock in what people's supporters say, and less in what people who have an axe to grind say. Bar's own sons describe her as a tough, hardassed woman you wouldn't want to cross.
I haven't heard any of her boys describe her as a sweet old lady, though. |
tulip
Citizen
Username: Braveheart
Post Number: 3381
Registered: 3-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 12:05 pm: |
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This whole mess is the fault of George W. Bush, not his mother. Who gives a rat's patootie about Barbara. |
ajc
Citizen
Username: Ajc
Post Number: 4914
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 12:28 pm: |
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I care about all ma's and grandma's.
This world would be in a hell of a mess without them. If you're going to pick on anyone, why pick on them?
Pick on me, I'll give you a run for your money....  |
Scully
Citizen
Username: Scully
Post Number: 252
Registered: 8-2005
| | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 1:29 pm: |
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Cool! I'm both. Do I get a free pass...?  |
Southerner
Citizen
Username: Southerner
Post Number: 863
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 2:32 pm: |
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I think the Bush haters are awfully close to reaching the conservative hatred and infatuation with the Clintons. I still give the edge to the conservatives for our now going on year 15 of our hatred for anything Clinton. You libs are only entering year 7 and yet you are already attacking his mother. I know we dogged Roger pretty hard, and I'm sure some of us went after his mother, but you guys are setting the bar a little higher.
You are quickly losing your high ground in telling us to keep quiet about Clinton. And since Hillary is going to run, it will once again be in vogue to attack anything Clinton. Oh, 2008 will be a fun political year. |
crabby
Citizen
Username: Crabbyappleton
Post Number: 530
Registered: 1-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, March 26, 2006 - 2:44 pm: |
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Yo' mother's so fat.... |
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