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(19,326 posts)instead of "what color is the dress" <-- the new Kardashian distraction.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)I'm curious because I really don't think that we should judge people who are alive today based on the actions of their family in the past.
I get it, I understand where your coming from... But I have a hard time doing it.
I know what who my father was, I know who my grandfather was... But beyond that I don't have a clue and I bet there are some skeletons in that closet.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)Last edited Tue Mar 3, 2015, 10:48 PM - Edit history (1)
The Bush Crime Family and Kock family <-- major league evil dude.
And as far as I know, none of the current familial incarnations of that evil have
denounced their evil roots publicly.
NJCher
(35,622 posts)Not that ice cream is so evil, or at least compared with what the bushes and koches do, but John Robbins of the Baskin-Robbins family publicly went vegetarian and denounced the dangers of fat/sugar in ice cream.
There are others--I just can't remember them at the moment.
Cher
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)i rest my case.
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)Survival is often ugly or was up until recently in some parts of the world.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)between 'survival' and treasonous war profiteering with arch enemies of the USA.
BIG difference.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)And just imagine if it had been Michelle Obama who killed someone with her car like Laura Bush did. The point, to me anyway, is the blatant hypocrisy.
Rex
(65,616 posts)their tyrant with military weapons. Republicans loves them some dictatorships! Dubya pined to be dictator, he even said so.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)freedom is slavery
treason is "patriotism"
"Behind every great fortune there is a great crime." - Balzac
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)Karl Rove's SuperPAC? American Crossroads.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Interesting synchronicity, there.
mother earth
(6,002 posts)calikid
(584 posts)dflprincess
(28,072 posts)Great-grandpa Bush made money selling arms to both sides during WWI.
Treason - a Bush family tradition for (at least) 4 generations
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)support of the Nazis. Hmmmm, I wonder if these things had been in Barrack Obama's family history...
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)midnight
(26,624 posts)These two grandpas have passed the reigns down to their grandkids and they are keeping these deals going...