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GW Bush left office with an approval of 22%. I think that may mean a lot of people regretted voting for him and won't make the same mistake again. Clinton left office with a RECORD 66% approval so Hillary won't have the same problem.
A vote is your sacred franchise, I suppose to the one casting it, it's never stupid. And there's lots of single issue voters.
Single issue voting is fine. I almost always end up voting for the person I think will do the best job with the economy. I'm not talking about single issue voters. I'm talking about voting for a candidate because you think you won't have to worry about putting gas in your car again, or because he's hot and a rock star, or because she's a woman, or because you don't like the Indian guy, etc. are all stupid reasons to cast a vote for the most powerful person in the world.
Actually its EXTRAORDINARILY relevant to the case. There are a lot of people that are in her position or worse. She had parents that were willing to love her and care for her. She contributed to a quality of life. To the husband...she was merely inconvenient.
Pick an argument and stick with it. Is your argument about eliminating the brain dead or are you really twisted because Jeb Bush intervened between a husband and a family?
Are you sharing this with me because you want my approval, or because you think this is what's being discussed? The topic of this thread is how this will impact Jeb Bush politically, not how you would react if Terri Schiavo were your daughter.
He's much more popular now.
You don't think there will be some TV ads helping the average American voter remember?
You don't think there will be some TV ads helping the average American voter remember?
You and others brought into the discussion the motivation of the parents. I certainly can understand the motivations of the parents as I am a parent as well. However, its an abuse of office for a governor or congress to get involved in a personal medical issue that should was settled in the courts.
I can't say I see this as personal to Bush so much as taking action as a Governor, applying the law in his state as it existed, but I don't know all the details and based on some of the comments here in this thread I don't know if many of us really do know all the details - seems pretty contentious from both sides.
How did he Democrats exploit the family tragedy?
Good afternoon Lady P - enjoying our frosty February??
I can't imagine Obama doing anything to help anyone else electorally. He is strictly, solely, interested in himself. As such, he couldn't care less what the fallout may be from anything he does so long as he has notoriety, good or bad.
As for living a certain lifestyle after leaving office, for reasons related to him personally and reasons beyond his control, I fully expect that the costs to the US Treasury in protecting and traveling with the Obamas will be the most expensive after Presidency bills ever paid and he'll make the Clintons look like pikers on the speaking tours. There'll be no tag days for the Obamas, guaranteed.
Yes, and irrelevant to the story at hand.
I think you're forgetting the ads that would run during the Republican primary. Those would be run by Republicans.Future tense. If they run such ads they will be doing just that.
I think you're forgetting the ads that would run during the Republican primary. Those would be run by Republicans.
I think you're forgetting the ads that would run during the Republican primary. Those would be run by Republicans.
I voted for GW Bush twice and while I was disappointed in him, I don't regret voting for him.
I also know a vote for his brother wouldn't mean another vote for him, just like I didn't think I was voting for his father again, as I had in 1988, when I voted for him.
If people are stupid enough to vote for Hillary because they think they're casting a 3rd vote for her husband, then that's just pathetic, but no surprise actually. The number of clueless voters in this country shouldn't surprise anyone.
He's much more popular now.
GWB handed off a victory in Iraq. BHO threw it away. Unemployment under BHO has only in recent months achieved what was the average level under GWB.
So you support Bush's invasion of Iraq too? Jeb is the same as his brother on foreign policy. He will get us into more quagmires that make us less safe.
but we are not voting for dubya or bill. their approval ratings from seven plus years prior will be meaningless
we will have to choose between hillary or jeb
if we are fortunate, hillary will bow out and we can elect Elizabeth Warren
That's true of some, but your suggesting that because of that, there's a significant number of conservatives that would pull the lever for Hillary, when they largely believe her husband was an epic failure and that she lied us into a war??
what causes you to be so certain of this
unlike dubya, jeb will not have darth cheney whispering into jeb's ear encouraging him to do what his father did not: topple saddam
why do you believe jeb is a clone of his intellectually unchallenged brother ... especially regarding foreign policy
See more at: Jeb Bush - Profile - Right Web - Institute for Policy StudiesAlthough he rarely comments on foreign policy, Bush has appeared particularly unwilling to push back against the neoconservatives who supported his brother's administration, at times echoing their complaints about the Obama administration's foreign policy. In February 2010, for example, Bush told Newsmax that he didn't think "the military option should ever be taken off the table" with respect to Iran, adding in November that the Obama administration's policies toward the country had "empower[ed] bad behavior in Tehran." Bush also mused that "sheer ineptitude and incompetency and corruption will bring down the [Hugo] Chavez regime" in Venezuela, "but we can't sit back passively and let this happen naturally." Instead, Bush advocated offering U.S. support to "elements of Venezuelan society that are fighting back against" the democratically elected Chavez, who eventually died of cancer in early 2013 after being resoundingly reelected.[15] Bush has also stood by his support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, telling CNN in March 2013: "A lot of things in history change over time. I think people will respect the resolve that my brother showed, both in defending the country and the war in Iraq."[16] At one point in the late 1990s, Bush seemed to have been considered a potentially more influential political ally than his brother by the neoconservatives who founded the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). Commenting on the signatories to PNAC's 1997 founding statement of principles, Jim Lobe and Michael Flynn wrote, "Ironically, virtually the only signatory who has not played a leading role since the letter was released has been Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who in 1997 apparently looked to [William] Kristol and [Robert] Kagan more presidential than his brother George."[17] -
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