[Brian S]

Well look at what the Associated Press is flashing across its wire this evening...

[princess leah]

SO WHAT????? It never stopped him from becoming a US Senator, it didn't stop 41 from all those appts, VP and Pres and it didn't prevent the current Bush - so PLEASE, why do we waste copy paper dredging up something so inane!

[dasboot]

Election-Day 2004 Dem prep. Being 'Arnolded'.

[Peach]

President Bush's grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler's rise to power, government documents show.

This is misleadingly written to make it look like Bush's grandfather bankrolled Hitler.

Bush's grandfather worked at a bank. The bank had ties to someone who bankrolled Hitler.

READ THIS CAREFULLY.

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[ex-Texan]

Prescott Bush is very old news. He was investigated at during WW II. I could give a sh!t what old Precott said or did with his bank or how corrupt he might have been.

Time to move on, nothing to see here . . . sins of the grandfathers and yada yada yada.

[RWR8189]

Was he in cahoots with old man Kennedy?

[Scenic Sounds]

President Bush's grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler's rise to power, government documents show.

Wow, the clouds are lifting and everything is suddenly very clear. I wonder how Ashcroft's grandfather might fit into all this. ;-)

[arasina]

They're digging for dirt out of desperation for the Dems. Last week, "60 Minutes" had something about Dubya being a member of some super secret club at Yale. Who cares?

Try, try, try to paint him bad, media. We're not buying your picture.

[Pro-Bush]

From the headline, I thought this article was from Rense.com or IndyMedia. AP throwing low blows...Reminds me of LA Times attempt to associate Arnold with Nazi's.

[MJY1288]

Lookie here

[Gumption]

"The documents do not show any evidence Bush directly aided that effort. His position with Union Banking never was a political issue for Bush,"

Shouldn't this be the end of the story? I stopped reading here.

[the Real fifi]

http://www.spectrezine.org/resist/bush.htm As this review shows, the investment was made in the 1920's; involved, inter alia, Averill Harriman father of the modern Democratic party and Thyssen who left Germany in 1938 after breaking from the Nazis. When can we expect a story about Ambassador Joseph Kennedy who in the 40's supported the Nazis and did whatever he could to keep us from attacking Hitler? (Clue:Don't hold your breath.)

[deport]

And may I ask, what does this have to do with the price of eggs in China?

[Agnes Heep]

I guess this means GWB is a Nazi?

[inquest]

...according to recently declassified National Archives documents....

I'd be curious to know who made the decision to declassify them at this time, and what the decisionmaking process was.

[11th Earl of Mar]

And Bill Clinton's father abused alcohol and women.

But did they report that?

[Nebullis]

Bush's grandfather was director of bank seized by government for affiliation with Nazi-funding German industrialist OMG!

Coming up: Mapplethorpe took nude pictures of George W. Bush!

[shhrubbery!]

I think the writer misspelled his name. It should be Jonathan D. Salant Slant.

We have to wait until the penultimate paragraph to find out this crucial bit of information about Grandfather Bush's so-called Nazi connection:

Fritz Thyssen broke with the Nazis in 1938 over their persecution of Catholics and Jews, and fled to Switzerland. He later was arrested and spent 1941 to 1945 in a Nazi prison.

[Endeavor]

this is so old.

[Waco]

Wasn't it the Rothchilds who often bankrolled BOTH sides in a conflict? Efficiency I reckon?