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To Help US Veterans Charity, George W. Bush Charged $100,000

What did he do with the speaking fees? He laundered it through his charitable foundation to save on taxes and ensure he had a large slush fund to secretly make more money. Whoops, wrong former President.

In all seriousness, getting invited to speak at a charity event should never result in getting paid any more than traveling expenses.

Well, I guess that is one opinion. I think there are many angles to such fees and expenses that people may not be aware of. Your comment about a certain former President is a good example. We only know the one side the "journalists" at ABC wanted to report.
 
Greetings, ocean515. :2wave:

Plus he refused his government pension. Did Bill Clinton do the same? Let's stop the Bush bashing - six years of covering your ass by blaming Bush for everything is more than enough! :2mad:

It's important to have villain to distract from the real issues of the day. Consider the illusionist who is expert at distraction with one hand, while picking your pocket with the other.
 
I can't stand Jeb. He is like Golum to me. I still have to say your argument is really weak and lame. It doesn't deserve anymore thought than has gone into this post. Out here.


so, you think it was an appropriate action for dubya to charge for helping the veterans injured in his wars
 
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no, let's assign some personal responsibility for repugnant action

the very president who needlessly sent these veterans into war that maimed them is now charging to speak at a fundraiser on their behalf

who the hell is cold enough to do that



Bill Clinton would get five times that much.
 
Anyone who would criticize President Bush in this manner hasn't a clue about the man or what he and the Bush Institute does and has done to support wounded and other veterans since he left office.
 
What's aslo being left out is that this is an answer ti Hillary charging speaking fees for charities and since they couldn't pin anything like on Jeb, they are going back to 2008 and running against W, despite the fact that he isn't a candidate.

Who is going to pay Jeb a dime to speak? Lets keep it real.
 
so, you think it was an appropriate action for dubya to charge for helping the veterans injured in his wars

I think that you are trying to spin for drama. I also think that if you removed the drama and actually looked beyond a spin article I would be surprised. In other words, if you were really interested in truth and right/wrong you would be raising hell about Hillary rather than dismissing her actions like you previously did in this thread. Jeb is as slimy as they get. I don't like the guy. I would vote for Bernie before I would vote for Jeb. What his brother does is a far reach. Is that all you have? Really? That is the act of desperation.

Jeb and W are brothers, not a husband and wife that are both legally connected to the issues that Bill is being questioned about. Show the legal connection between what W did (which BTW - I think was a case where he should have only charged traveling expenses) and Jeb. I can show the connection between Hillary and the Bill Clinton Foundation with great ease.

a spouse is fair game while a sibling is not
why does that seem a partisan position in this instance

yet another apologist who insists dubya was appropriate in charging $100,000 to speak before a charitable organization helping the troops injured in his wars of choice
 
Remember all, if this was about Hillary Clinton there would be an outrage from everyone on the right. Since this is about W, we hear crickets.

 
you WISH this was a non-story

clearly, jeb's brother, the former president responsible for getting us involved in unnecessary wars that caused the injury to many of our nation's soldiers, found it acceptable to charge $100,000 to speak at an event intended to fundraise for those purple heart recipients
Which has nothing to do with Jeb whatsoever. Keep trying though, the desperation is pretty comical.
 
what does that matter? he accepted them. he charged the charity that was helping the veterans injured in dubya's wars of choice

He accepted pay for a speaking engagement, and that signals the end of his brother's bid for the nomination.

This has to be one of the oddest threads I've seen on here.
 
Remember all, if this was about Hillary Clinton there would be an outrage from everyone on the right. Since this is about W, we hear crickets.


I don't recall reading that GWB was running for President again. Do you have a link?
 
Anyone who would criticize President Bush in this manner hasn't a clue about the man or what he and the Bush Institute does and has done to support wounded and other veterans since he left office.

what we HAVE learned is that dubya charged $100,000 to speak at a charity event intended to help the military personnel who sustained injury during his wars of choice
 
I don't recall reading that GWB was running for President again. Do you have a link?

So its not about the principle of the matter? Glad we can clear it up that its about hackish partisan politics and not some sort of principled issue.
 
I think that you are trying to spin for drama. I also think that if you removed the drama and actually looked beyond a spin article I would be surprised. In other words, if you were really interested in truth and right/wrong you would be raising hell about Hillary rather than dismissing her actions like you previously did in this thread. Jeb is as slimy as they get. I don't like the guy. I would vote for Bernie before I would vote for Jeb. What his brother does is a far reach. Is that all you have? Really? That is the act of desperation.

what you want to avoid having to acknowledge is the awful truth that dubya charged to speak at a charity event raising funds to help the military personnel injured during his wars of choice

and you have good reason to want to hide from that reality
 
Which has nothing to do with Jeb whatsoever. Keep trying though, the desperation is pretty comical.

apple doesn't fall far from the tree

let's see jeb distance himself from his brother's very inappropriate money grab at the expense of injured troops
 
He accepted pay for a speaking engagement, and that signals the end of his brother's bid for the nomination.

This has to be one of the oddest threads I've seen on here.

it comes on the heel of jeb - never a working man - telling us we need to work more hours and more productively to climb out of the rut his brother created

now, let's see if jeb will distance himself from his brother's very unconscionable money grabbing actions at the expense of troops injured in dubya's wars of choice
 
So its not about the principle of the matter? Glad we can clear it up that its about hackish partisan politics and not some sort of principled issue.
Oh now you want to talk about the principle of the topic, instead of the silly hackish partisan comparison to Hillary you attempted before?

If the story is as reported, it's definitely not cool for Bush to charge the charity.
 
it comes on the heel of jeb - never a working man - telling us we need to work more hours and more productively to climb out of the rut his brother created

now, let's see if jeb will distance himself from his brother's very unconscionable money grabbing actions at the expense of troops injured in dubya's wars of choice

Why does Jeb need to distance himself from his brother's speaking engagements again?

And what does how many hours we need to work have to do with his brother's speaking engagements again?
 
Why would it have anything to do with Jeb's presidential bid?

jeb needs to criticize his brother's money grab at the injured soldiers' expense
otherwise, we voters would find that he condoned such unpatriotic behavior
 
I think it's kind of tacky for anyone to accept payment for speaking or performing at a charity event. Most people who are asked to do so for their name or whatnot are wealthy enough to afford a coach plane ticket (God forbid) and a night at a motel 6 (oh hell no) so it should be more about how they can donate their time to the charity and even give something out of their pocket to do so. But yeah right you know. That's just my opinion and just know when I become an ex president or an international superstar rapper you can count on me to do your charity for free. But I'm not everyone and if people pay what these people are charging then I guess it works out for them.
 
what we HAVE learned is that dubya charged $100,000 to speak at a charity event intended to help the military personnel who sustained injury during his wars of choice

And what we have learned is how petty and ignorant some are of the former President, of his true sense of ownership for the fate of the troops he sent into battle and the years he has spent and continues to spend working with and for them. You simply have to hear and read what those very troops have to say about the man.

I don't know the answer about what President and Mrs. Bush did with the collective $150,000 they received from their support of the event outlined in the OP, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if the money went directly to the support of veterans in the direct work he does for them. Perhaps in coming days we'll hear something about that but knowing how President Bush has conducted himself since leaving office, I doubt very much he will be out in front of the cameras trying to counter this story - he just doesn't care what the media thinks or does.
 
jeb needs to criticize his brother's money grab at the injured soldiers' expense
otherwise, we voters would find that he condoned such unpatriotic behavior

Jeb doesn't need to criticize his brother's speaking engagements. His brother is an adult and is free to make his own choices.
 
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