Bush says he'd kill 'baby Hitler' if he could travel in time

AP via Johnson City Press ^ | November 9, 2015

[don-o]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - Presidential candidate Jeb Bush says he once got an email asking if he would go back in time, if it were possible, and kill the baby Adolf Hitler.

"It said, 'If you could go back in time and kill baby Hitler, would you? I need to know,'" Bush told a Huffington Post reporter on the Bush campaign bus in New Hampshire last week.

Bush's answer, according to the video clip: "Hell, yeah, I would. Look, you gotta step up man."

[catfish1957]

Kemp was soaked in “compassionate” conservatism to an even greater degree than GHWB. No, thanks.

His economic prowess and direction was top notch. He'd be a QB who would knock dim heads as a VP come budget time.

[V K Lee]

This must be his way of shakin’ that nice guy image?
BTW, similar thoughts here about Ms Schiavo....why not little babes, he has killed older ones already.

[sparklite2]

You’re right. And that difference would have kept Clinton in Arkansas for at least four years.

[is_is]

jeb > God /sarcasm

[DoughtyOne]

This is something we discussed in high-school.

Jeb is so freaking behind the times. I’m talking the 1960s.

Jeb thinks this is cutting edge stuff. How embarrassing.

[stillfree?]

Bush is a real odd person.

[alexander_busek]

and just how would Jebbie have known when Hilter was a baby that he would grow up to be that adult Hitler and his early demise would have benefitted the world ??? Crickets

"Presidential candidate Jeb Bush says he once got an email asking if he would go back in time, if it were possible, and kill the baby Adolf Hitler."

This is an extremely common hypothetical question - a meme - a literary trope.

It is clear that the question presupposes that the time-traveller retains all his memory of the original time-line in which Hitler grew to adulthood, seized power in Germany, launched the Holocaust, started WW II, etc.

Regards,

[catfish1957]

One of three thoughts come to mind. (1) Has Jeb's money gotten so bad that his handlers can't control anything (or quality of handler)? (2) Is he really a mental light weight, and that is finally coming more to light. (3) he wants to seem trendy or cutting edge, and he has seriously embarrassed himself instead

Meh thinks it is a combo of the three, and this may be the one single event to finish him off. Adios MOFO!!!!!!

[catfish1957]

Dang,what the heck. Let’s send Jeb back to 1066, and really watch the time line really get shaken up.

[bluejean]

Ohmigod - does Stephen King inhabit your mind? Your imagery was so bizarre and well written I just cracked up. It was like a graphic novel and a Twilight Some episode in a few moments. Way to go!

[The_Media_never_lie]

Isn’t it amazing Hillary never gets asked about her crimes by the media? Very real crimes, not hypothetical.

[5th MEB]

The Battle Of Hastings was a very brutal affair; Gibbering Jeb would have just peed his pants and nothing would have changed.

[catfish1957]

The Battle Of Hastings was a very brutal affair; Gibbering Jeb would have just peed his pants and nothing would have changed.

No doubt, my scenario would have had the wimpy court jester doing his best Nostradamus and teling King Harold where to place his forces for optimum defense.

Court Jester Jebbie has great ring doesn't it?

[RegulatorCountry]

Court Jebster.

[Rodamala]

Finally, after winning reelection in 1916 on the slogan "He kept us out of war," Wilson had Congress declare war on Germany in April 1917, although neither Germany nor any of its allies had attacked or threatened the United States. At the peace conference that followed the November 1918 armistice, Wilson's idealistic rhetoric was drowned out by the imperial and territorial ambitions of the British and French that left Germany and the former Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires in a shambles.

[snip]

Nor should it be forgotten that this U.S. role has cost Americans dearly in other ways: hundreds of billions of dollars in tax money; the growth and increased intrusiveness of the federal government; and their placement in harm's way throughout the world. This has been a heavy price to pay for Woodrow Wilson's war ambitions.

See: Wilson's War: How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin, Stalin and World War II

[csn vinnie]

So, Jeb tired of playing fantasy football? Now it’s fantasy assassin?

[sparklite2]

I don't think it was Wilson who drove the German economy into the ground through Versaille, creating social conditions that necessitated the emergence of a strong horse, ie, Hitler. Indeed your excerpt makes the case.

Wilson's idealistic rhetoric was drowned out by the imperial and territorial ambitions of the British and French that left Germany and the former Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires in a shambles.

I blame France first and foremost.

[montag813]

Wait... I assumed some assclown journalist asked him. HE actually BROUGHT IT UP???

[catfish1957]

Yeah, and play along. We got a 1918 and 1066 scenario going right now for the Jebster. Is there any point in history that you want to send the idiot?