Two generations back: Obama's family and W's family

[Maine-i-acs]

Two generations back, Obama's family: Great-uncle liberated Jews from concentration camp (doesn't make a damn bit of difference which one).

Two generations back, W's family: Grandpa Prescott helped Hitler build the Nazi War Machine. Assets seized by the US gov't for helping the enemy.


That's all you need to know.

Next time someone tries to call this "Obama's latest gaffe", ask them: what was W's family doing at that same time?

[NightWatcher]

1. crack....back back way back. the park wont hold that one. HOME RUN

[DrDan]

2. great point

the neocons sure do hide from Prescott's nazi-dealings during the war.

[shain from kane]

3. Who comes from a family of appeasement?

[ampad]

4. I was saying the same thing yesterday

The fact that so many people would hype this up is astonishing. While one family was working to help these people the other was making money off their suffering. When folks pass this crap off as some type of "lie" they do nothing to help Hillary. The only people they help with this madness are the repigs and I think quite a few of them have profited enough off the suffering of people in war time. There really is no need to help them out.

[VolcanoJen]

5. A swing and a hit!!! INSIDE THE PARK HOME RUN!!!!

:yourock:

[Maine-i-acs]

6. Thanks for your comments ...

I don't post often, but this WWII 'judgement' is frosting my ass. My family sent every able-bodied man to war. My mother grew up without a father as a result. My own great-uncles were scarred for life by war.

Damned if I know every battlefield, sea lane and bombing run they were on. God help anyone who calls me out for saying my grandfather died in Bataan as opposed to Luzon. I would smack a smug smile off any face that dared. But I don't have Obama's grace.

I wish people would stop parroting manufactured outrage and phony controversy. There are real issues and our nation's future at stake here.

[Crabby Appleton]

7. what was W's family doing at that same time?

Guess you forgot about G H W Bush W's dad

On his 18th birthday he enlisted in the armed forces. The youngest pilot in the Navy when he received his wings, he flew 58 combat missions during World War II. On one mission over the Pacific as a torpedo bomber pilot he was shot down by Japanese antiaircraft fire and was rescued from the water by a U. S. submarine. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery in action.

[Maine-i-acs]

8. How many fighter pilots does it take ...

to cancel out a Nazi collaborator?

[shain from kane]

9. Didn't his antics cost the lives of two crewmen? And he should have used a new rubber,

instead of that one he carried in his wallet throughout the war.

[Cha]

17. That's what I read

..and surprised to seeing someone bring up the old reprobate on DU.

[Bucky]

10. Presscott Bush was hardly a Nazi collaborator

He was one of dozens of a group of international investors who happened to own stock in German enterprises when Hitler was rebuilding the German economy. It was an unwise and immoral investment, one which they got reprimanded for during the war, but it was hardly the same as "collaborating" with the Nazis.

I think he'd have had a little trouble getting elected to the US Senate just a few years later if he had actually been working with them. I'm not excusing his behavior, just wish people could get their facts straight.

[shain from kane]

11. If you want everything out on the table, what are the facts of his support of eugenics?

[Bucky]

12. I don't know about his theoretical support for eugenics...

... but judging from the results within his own family, I'm pretty sure he didn't practice eugenics.

[shain from kane]

13. Lots of good sh*t on the internets, regardless of political affiliation.

http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/1920sp7.html

[Raster]

16. Tad more to it than that...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany.

The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

The evidence has also prompted one former US Nazi war crimes prosecutor to argue that the late senator's action should have been grounds for prosecution for giving aid and comfort to the enemy.

The debate over Prescott Bush's behaviour has been bubbling under the surface for some time. There has been a steady internet chatter about the "Bush/Nazi" connection, much of it inaccurate and unfair. But the new documents, many of which were only declassified last year, show that even after America had entered the war and when there was already significant information about the Nazis' plans and policies, he worked for and profited from companies closely involved with the very German businesses that financed Hitler's rise to power. It has also been suggested that the money he made from these dealings helped to establish the Bush family fortune and set up its political dynasty.

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[Galway girl]

19. BULLSHIT . He was a Director and continued to invest even when it became clear

that germany were rearming for a war and after anti-jewish laws had been passed in Germany. The Bush Family are the biggest mother fuckers still ruling on the planet.

[uponit7771]

14. In DA FACE!

[crickets]

15. ZING! "That's all you need to know." Too right. -nt

:dem:

[quantass]

18. K&R