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Fiery Jeb Bush gets testy over 'anchor babies' term (copies Trump word for word)
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| CNN
| Ashley Killough
Posted on 08/20/2015 2:46:14 PM PDT by nhwingut
Keene, New Hampshire (CNN)Jeb Bush on Thursday defended using the term "anchor babies" after Democrats hounded the former Florida governor and his presidential rival, Donald Trump, for using the term this week.
"No, I don't. I don't regret it," Bush said sharply, growing testy with a questioner while talking to reporters.
Pressed further, a more agitated Bush fired off: "No, do you have a better term? OK, you give me, you give me a better term and I'll use it. I'm serious."
Interestingly, it was an answer that Trump gave almost verbatim the night before, also in New Hampshire, when a reporter asked the GOP front-runner if he was aware that it was considered offensive.
"You mean it's not politically correct, and yet everybody uses it?" Trump said. "You know what? Give me a different term."
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; anchorbaby; birthright; bush; toolate; trump; weak
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GOPe media relations putting out press releases with term "fiery" after Trump called his events snoozefests.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:46:14 PM PDT
by
nhwingut
To: nhwingut
This has the stench of desperation all over it.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:48:40 PM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: nhwingut
Pathetic. If his handlers tell him too, he’ll dye his hair bond and cob it forward. He deserves to crater after this copy cat moment.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:49:06 PM PDT
by
txrefugee
To: Farmer Dean
Trump’ll be all over this theft.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:51:13 PM PDT
by
miss marmelstein
(Richard the Third: I'd like to drive away not only the Turks (moslims) but all my foes.")
To: nhwingut
Poor Yeb
If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes!
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:51:40 PM PDT
by
TexasCajun
(I'll believe in man-made global warming when those that believe it, act like it.)
To: Farmer Dean
Jeb is :
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:53:48 PM PDT
by
jimbo123
To: nhwingut
The Yeb meltdown continues. You can say one thing for Trump. He’s pulled the narrative to the right with the GOPe kicking and screaming all the way.
To: nhwingut
What will be funny is when Jeb tries this without a prior Trump template to follow. He WILL say something completely stupid. Remember, you’re still on training wheels, Jeb. lol
To: jimbo123
That’s some sad dry toast ya got right there.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:56:21 PM PDT
by
moehoward
To: nhwingut
LOL!
I can almost here J. Goebbels voice reading that lame attempt at propaganda.
To: nhwingut
LOL!
I can almost here J. Goebbels voice reading that lame attempt at propaganda.
To: nhwingut
Thanks to Trump, ol Yeb finally got his name in the news.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:57:34 PM PDT
by
GregoTX
(Remember the Alamo)
To: nhwingut
First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Ultimately try to destroy you. Followed finally by trying to copy you.
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posted on
08/20/2015 2:58:52 PM PDT
by
justa-hairyape
(The use of the name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
To: nhwingut
Probably copied off the smart kids in class too.
To: nhwingut
I was amazed at Fox snooze, they went out of their way defining “anchor baby” without actually saying it, then Bill O’Reilly said it several times.
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posted on
08/20/2015 3:02:29 PM PDT
by
BerryDingle
(I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
To: jimbo123
Your picture reminds me of a post on FB. A country man asked his girlfriend to fix him some cornbread. She went to the kitchen, got 4 slices of bread , put them in a pan and poured a can of corn over them. Yep, real cornbread!
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posted on
08/20/2015 3:02:45 PM PDT
by
MamaB
(Heb. 13:2)
To: ballearthout
What will be funny is when Jeb tries this without a prior Trump template to follow. He WILL say something completely stupid. Remember, you’re still on training wheels, Jeb. lol
Ha! Ha!
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posted on
08/20/2015 3:06:25 PM PDT
by
STE=Q
('The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing'... Edmund Burke)
To: nhwingut
Jeb is no Trump. Even after copying his exact reponse, he sheepishily admits its a word he himself doesn’t use, but others do and he is just quoting them. You can’t “copy” being a leader, you just are. Jeb’s NOT!
To: nhwingut
I just saw the clip, and Yeb wasn’t “fiery”. He was apologetic and sincerely asking for another term to use that would be politically correct. He only used the term to attack Trump’s position.
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posted on
08/20/2015 3:08:33 PM PDT
by
Hugin
("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt)
To: nhwingut
Today's rhetoric seems to be a bit more understanding than what he was saying yesterday:
“If there’s abuse, if people are bringing — pregnant women are coming in to have babies simply because they can do it, then there ought to be greater enforcement,” Bush said on Bill Bennett’s conservative radio show, “Morning in America” Wednesday. “That’s [the] legitimate side of this. Better enforcement so that you don’t have these, you know, ‘anchor babies’, as they’re described, coming into the country.”
That is about the most convoluted non-answer he could come up with -- to commit to nothing and make it sound like something.
For some reason, I do no believe he would, as prez, do anything to enforce the law against anchor babies.
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posted on
08/20/2015 3:17:04 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
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