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Title: Wellstone and Webb both received the Bush White House reception line 'treatment'
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Published: Nov 30, 2006
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Post Date: 2006-11-30 01:23:59 by robin
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November 29, 2006 -- Like father, like son. The Presidents Bush do not seem to appreciate White House receptions for newly-elected incoming Democrats who trounced Republicans for whom the incumbent Bushes campaigned. The Hill newspaper is reporting that at a post-election White House reception welcoming newly-elected members of Congress, there was a nasty exchange between George W. Bush and Virginia Senator-elect Jim Webb, who has a son serving with the Marines in Iraq. In the reception line, Bush asked Webb how his son was doing in Iraq, Webb responded by saying he wanted to see his son come back home. Bush responded, "I didn’t ask you that, I asked how he’s doing." Webb said he was so angered by Bush's response he wanted to slug him. Bush campaigned for Webb's defeated incumbent opponent, the neo-Confederate poltroon, George Allen. In 1991, when the late Minnesota Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone met George H. W. Bush in a similar White House pro forma reception line for newly-elected legislators, Wellstone used the occasion to urge Bush on three different occasions to spend more time on issues like education and cautioning him against the Persian Gulf War. Of course, Bush was more concerned about fighting the war against Iraq (sound familiar?) and could care less about Wellstone's issues.
Wellstone and Webb both received the Bush White House reception line "treatment." After Wellstone challenged the president at the White House reception, Poppy Bush was overheard saying, "Who is this chicken shit?" Wellstone had defeated incumbent Republican Senator Rudy Boschwitz, a supporter of Bush 41's foreign and domestic policies. Boschwitz, like Allen, engaged in a dirty campaign against Wellstone. Boschwitz's campaign claimed that because Wellstone, who was Jewish, and his Southern Baptist wife Sheila raised their children as Christians, Wellstone was somehow "anti-Semitic." Boschwitz's religion card failed as miserably as Allen's racial one. Boschwitz co-chaired George W. Bush's Minnesota campaign and was a top "Pioneer" fundraiser (to the tune of $388,000) for George W. Bush in 2000.
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#1. To: robin (#0)
Just one of many reasons why the Bush crime family offed Wellstone.
Check out my blog, America, the Bushieful.
He must have not been a pervert, corrupt, or compromised in some manner- because in the byzantine world of DC power politics- the worst rise to the top and the best and moral are eaten alive.
Though coming from opposite sides of the political spectrum, both Wellstone and Webb were/are populists, i.e., threats to the Establishment. MSM is already raising questions about Webb. A campaign is in the making to trash him. Should he gain too much popularity the Establishment will put his lights out.
Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.
Webb looks Scots/Irish. He's my man! A Celt with brains and balls! We're the ones best people in this country, and the ones who made it, not those Princeton/Harvard/ Yale Yankees (of which Bush is one). I suspect this guy is going to go places.
"We become what we behold. We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan, after Alexander Pope and William Blake.
Let's hope that he sticks to major air carriers.
Give 'til it hurts. Gun Owners of America
unless he's Wellstoned..i also worry that his son will be Tillmaned. i see bush's inquiry about the son to Webb as extremely menacing.
Bush Jr. was also a jerk toward Cindy Sheehan on her visit to the White House as part of parents who'd lost children in the war.
They worship moloch.
Has Smirk attended any funerals? Really unprecedented behavior for the Commander in Chief.
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
#2. To: Arator (#1)
#3. To: Burkeman1 (#2)
#4. To: robin (#0)
#5. To: YertleTurtle (#4)
#6. To: YertleTurtle (#4)
I suspect this guy is going to go places.
#7. To: robin (#0)
I've already said too much.
#8. To: MUDDOG (#7)
Bush Jr. was also a jerk toward Cindy Sheehan on her visit to the White House as part of parents who'd lost children in the war.
-Thomas Paine
#9. To: MUDDOG (#7)
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Bush Jr. was also a jerk toward Cindy Sheehan on her visit to the White House as part of parents who'd lost children in the war.
---Henry Kissinger, New York Times, October 28, 1973
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