George Bush is still a douche.

[The Dowager Mod]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/us-veterans-charity-george-bush-charged-100000/story?id=32251253
Disgusting on many levels.

[JohnRM]

So, if George Bush charges $100,000 to help a charity raise funds in excess of $1,000,000 (according to one interviewee) for their mission, he is somehow a douche? If they came out on top, what seems to be the problem? Do you know how many of these kinds of charities are out there? Is he supposed to work for free for the rest of his life?

[Phony Moderate]

W.

[Torie]

So, if George Bush charges $100,000 to help a charity raise funds in excess of $1,000,000 (according to one interviewee) for their mission, he is somehow a douche? If they came out on top, what seems to be the problem? Do you know how many of these kinds of charities are out there? Is he supposed to work for free for the rest of his life?

Because he doesn't need the money, and in his position, and at his stage of life, it's infra dig. Ditto the Clintons for that matter to the extent they do this sort of thing.

[JohnRM]

George W. Bush is directly involved with something like 8 or 9 other charities, and how do you know that he doesn't need the money? What makes you qualified to make such a statement? How do you know that he doesn't give the bulk or even all of the money to charity?

[The Dowager Mod]

So, if George Bush charges $100,000 to help a charity raise funds in excess of $1,000,000 (according to one interviewee) for their mission, he is somehow a douche? If they came out on top, what seems to be the problem? Do you know how many of these kinds of charities are out there? Is he supposed to work for free for the rest of his life?

Because he doesn't need the money, and in his position, and at his stage of life, it's infra dig. Ditto the Clintons for that matter to the extent they do this sort of thing.

Actually a Clinton spokesperson was on this right away, they have never accepted money to address a veterans group.

[Torie]

George W. Bush is directly involved with something like 8 or 9 other charities, and how do you know that he doesn't need the money? What makes you qualified to make such a statement? How do you know that he doesn't give the bulk or even all of the money to charity?

It would be passing strange if he gave all his money to charity, and then charged charities to raise money for them, in order to give that money to other charities. Bush gets a big pension from being governor and POTUS, and writing a book and so forth. I don't think his daddy has ever done this sort of thing. He just wouldn't.

[JohnRM]

George W. Bush is directly involved with something like 8 or 9 other charities, and how do you know that he doesn't need the money? What makes you qualified to make such a statement? How do you know that he doesn't give the bulk or even all of the money to charity?

It would be passing strange if he gave all his money to charity, and then charged charities to raise money for them, in order to give that money to other charities. Bush gets a big pension from being governor and POTUS, and writing a book and so forth. I don't think his daddy has ever done this sort of thing. He just wouldn't.

You raise an interesting point, though I think we all have our preferred charities, but you have a point.

[Nutmeg]

To me the bad part is not that he charged a charity a fee (especially if the amount he helped them raise vastly exceeded that fee) but that he charged a fee to help a charity that is trying to help those injured in the wars he started as president. He should be doing all he can for the survivors of his wars. I don't know how he sleeps at night.

[Cassius]

To me the bad part is not that he charged a charity a fee (especially if the amount he helped them raise vastly exceeded that fee) but that he charged a fee to help a charity that is trying to help those injured in the wars he started as president. He should be doing all he can for the survivors of his wars. I don't know how he sleeps at night.

I imagine the $100,000 goes a little way to assuaging his... guilt.

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So, if George Bush charges $100,000 to help a charity raise funds in excess of $1,000,000 (according to one interviewee) for their mission, he is somehow a douche? If they came out on top, what seems to be the problem? Do you know how many of these kinds of charities are out there? Is he supposed to work for free for the rest of his life?

Bush still owes the country over $1 trillion for the ridiculous Iraq war.

[cinyc]

Actually a Clinton spokesperson was on this right away, they have never accepted money to address a veterans group.

No.  The Clintons just took even more money per speech than Bush to address the likes of the Boys & Girls Club, Happy Hearts Fund, Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, and UNLV, among others.  Some honoraria went directly to the Clintons.  Others were routed through their slush fund charity foundation.

[The Dowager Mod]

Actually a Clinton spokesperson was on this right away, they have never accepted money to address a veterans group.

No.  The Clintons just took even more money per speech than Bush to address the likes of the Boys & Girls Club, Happy Hearts Fund, Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, and UNLV, among others.  Some honoraria went directly to the Clintons.  Others were routed through their slush fund charity foundation.

LOL, Not even a good false equivalency , the Clintons did not send any of those groups off to be maimed or killed just to prove Bush had a bigger dick than Saddam.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Meanwhile, the awful, awful Jimmy Carter has been eradicating diseases in Africa without asking anything in return.

[Simfan34]

Meanwhile, the awful, awful Jimmy Carter has been eradicating diseases in Africa without asking anything in return.

So has Bush. It's sort of his thing.

[NeverAgain]

Meanwhile, the awful, awful Jimmy Carter has been eradicating diseases in Africa without asking anything in return.

So has Bush. It's sort of his thing.

I remember when George Bush went with WHO and eradicated Smallpox.