what family? was there another bush before sr.?

Yea you do with family to help you. A name alone can take you far if someone in your family has money.

so there was another bush before sr.?

you don't have tobe in the presidential office to have pull with the government for starters half of bushe's family owns weapon and oil factories where do you think the taliban got their weapons from

from Russia...or China...AK-47 is not American made...

Actually President Bush's grandfather Prescott Bush was a Senator from Conn for over ten years.

aaand so you think that an ak-47 is the onlyweapon they use in iraq? i go news for you the m16 is used a lot more over there by them than an ak-47 is although it doesn't really matter they can't aim for **** anyway lol

Wow, now your saying President Bush's family makes weapons?

People will come up with the stupidest things out of ignorance.

BTW, AK's are the number one weapons that the terrorists use, since they confiscated a ton from the Soviets in Afganistan.

I miss the Bush twins!

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Please discuss the topic, without the insulting remarks.

Thank you,
Mark

Bush twins?

half of bushes family owns an oil refinery out in texas the other half is a co-owner in one of the biggest weapons factories in the world

why hate any party , they both have good and bad apples


its sad on both sides that they spend so much time competing with each other instead of working together,,,

Really? Do tell which Republican's you like because all's I've ever seen you do is slam them every chance you get.

its not about liking or hating any of them as I have only personally known a couple,,

but having lived in Ohio, California, and Nevada and Arizona,


two republicans who come to mind as seemingly decent are,,

McCain and Voinovich

I believe that one of your leading democrats Rev Jesse Jackson (probably the wrong spelling) got it about right when he compared the UK political scene to the one in the USA. This was a response to the election of the so called New Labour Government under Tony Blair back in 97: " [...] in the USA today we have two main parties sharing much the same agenda - Republican and Republican lite. You seem to have something similar over here [...]" Not an exact reproduction - you can find the full version within the book by John Pilger - 'The new rulers of the World' 1998.

My point is that you should look to who stands behind your political leaders. Where does their money come from? Where do the advisers come from? what are the business interests of the leading lights of the administration: (for example - the Bush family and many of that administrations leading lights were involved in Oil, not to mention 'security', weapons manufacture and supply etc) Over here, whilst serving members of the Government must declare 'an interest' within something called 'the register of members interests' - this only disbars them in rather minor ways - and then only whilst in office. Officials, advisers and senior figures move in and out of government via something described by many commentators (when they bother to comment at all) as 'the revolving door'. From government - to the board room - then back again. Just in case our glorious leaders still fail to get the message - we also have something called the 'lobby system', which happens to be an industry worth millions and involving a large number of professionals whose job it is to bend the ear of Government on behalf of mostly powerful corporate clients.

Of course, the reality is that such has always been the way of power. Before modern 'democracy' - we had a feudal system in most of Europe. Here the most powerful had the ear of the King (because it was this group who raised the king's armies and their men who raised the King's taxes.) The Privy council is a hang over from these days in the UK. The English Civil War of the early to mid 16 hundreds was largely about a power grab by the barons through the auspices of the early Parliament. It was not entirely the intention to execute the King - just get him to give over more of his powers. The fact that a new monarch (William of Orange) was in place not that long after the war is a good indication of the true intentions.

In conclusion - whichever administration or Government you end up with, chances are that the fundamentals of political direction will remain much the same. Of course - there are times when an administration will break cover and do something 'different' (hence your pre war recession busting public works programmes over there in the 30's). In our contemporary world, we live under a consensus - one that places 'the market' at the pinnacle, and one in which real power rests in the hands of a small minority of super wealthy trans-national corporations - who in turn sponsor and fund the campaigns of our political leaders.

It is not all doom and gloom - see through the BS is the first step - then help others to do the same. Government can only work if a suitable majority remain apathetic enough to not stand against it. Government is indeed powerful - but the people united are far more powerful.

actually none every time we get a republican for president they screw up the economy then the democrats have to come into office clean up their mess all the republicans do is whine and cry about why they lost their seat then somehow manage to convince enough extremely gullible people mind u most of these people are also the same people who would become easily encouraged to join a cult manage to over take the office with promises of they will make it better then all they do is screw it up again then it's right back where we started this has gone on since hoover it needs to stop and the only way to make it stop is to completely disassemble the republican party along with the god awful tea party

I think Jeb was the smarter one but not mamas fave,,,,,

just my opinion