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Bush Cousins Launch Pro-Kerry Website

Posted by michael on from the hip-boots-needed dept.

WerewolfOfVulcan writes "CNN is carrying a story about bushrelativesforkerry.com, a site launched by relatives of the President."

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  1. Family connection by byolinux · · Score: 4, Informative

    These are the grandchildren of his great-aunt (George Bush Senior's Father's Sister).

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  2. what's next? by rixdaffy · · Score: 4, Funny


    www.monkeysforkerry.org ?

    sorry, couldn't resist... :)

  3. No Political Bias on /. by Col.+Klink+(retired) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Slashdot is doing a great job covering both sides of this election: both Pro-Kerry and Anti-Bush.

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    1. Re:No Political Bias on /. by benhocking · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Granted, there are a lot of bright people who are pro-Bush. I'm sure the assumption comes from people's first-hand experience that most bright people they know are pro-Kerry. I've spent significant time in both academia and in the commercial world, and my experience is that most (but not all) bright people in academia are anti-Bush (and some are even pro-Kerry), and most (but not all) people in the commercial world (including, but not limited to the bright people) are pro-Bush. Of course, I realize that these generalizations are based on my own experiences, so YMMV.

      Personally, I always enjoy finding a bright person who disagrees with me so I can understand an intelligent alternative view point. Frequently the differences center around your priorities and moral beliefs. E.g., if you're pro-life and pro-environment think that overtuning Roe v. Wade is more important than anything else, Bush is a logical choice. If however, you are think that the environment is more important than anything else, anti-Bush is a logical choice. (Seriously, it's hard to imagine anyone doing more harm to the environment than he has.) There are other reasons to support either belief, and I have made obviously over-simplified statements just to illustrate that differing priorities can lead to differing logical choices, even if both people have the same moral stances and agree on the facts. (Big "if" of course.)

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    2. Re:No Political Bias on /. by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 3, Informative

      Sorry, this has been debunked. According to contemporary reports the explosives were still there when we arrived, no matter what Drudge would like to have you think during the next few days.

  4. so what? by dh003i · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The fact that these people are distant relatives of Bush is completely irrelevant. They have added nothing to the discussion that hasn't already been said in a more intelligent fashion elsewhere. All I see is a poorly designed website that's like a run-on sentence with no organization.

    PS: Vote Badnarik (Libertarian).

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  5. Big deal by jbarr · · Score: 3, Informative

    So he has relatives who don't agree with him. So what? Don't we all? The problem with these types of stories is that they make an issue out of a non-issue. Imagine if a story was run that stated that EVERY relative backed Bush: there would then be whining of collusion and conspiracy.

    Nothing to see here. Move along...

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