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isadore
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Jul 9, 2015 5:36pm
there is quite a range between coach and a $20,000 flight on a private jet. Could have provided more aid to a recovering vet.FatHobbit;1739972 wrote:Was he supposed to fly coach?
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isadore
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Jul 9, 2015 5:36pm
and this thread is about GWB.HitsRus;1739973 wrote:I asked about BHO.....well?
HitsRus
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Jul 9, 2015 5:37pm
What suckers...they could have had Chelsea Clinton and her vast foreign policy experience for $65K....SMH."Former President George W. Bush charged $100,000 to speak at a charity fundraiser for U.S. military veterans severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, and former First Lady Laura Bush collected $50,000 to appear a year earlier, officials of the Texas-based Helping a Hero charity confirmed to ABC News.:
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isadore
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Jul 9, 2015 5:38pm
about the man who sent those service people in without the support they neededCenterBHSFan;1739961 wrote:This pretty much is the only thing that matters with isadore. It's the fact that it was Bush.
SportsAndLady
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Jul 9, 2015 5:42pm
Why is someone flying a private jet worthy of discussion? News flash isadore: some people have more money than other people. Get over it.
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isadore
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Jul 9, 2015 5:56pm
gosh a ruddies in this case it was $20 thousand dollars that could have been used to help severely wounded veterans.SportsAndLady;1739979 wrote:Why is someone flying a private jet worthy of discussion? News flash isadore: some people have more money than other people. Get over it.
SportsAndLady
Posts: 35,632
Jul 9, 2015 6:09pm
Rich people fly private jets to get places. Welcome to reality.isadore;1739992 wrote:gosh a ruddies in this case it was $20 thousand dollars that could have been used to help severely wounded veterans.
What's next? Mark Cuban should stop flying his private jet to Mavs road games because that money spent on fuel could be better spent on African children's poor living standards?
#liberal
HitsRus
Posts: 9,206
Jul 9, 2015 6:16pm
Bush charged $100K...the group that paid for him was ecstatic...they made $2.5 million!
But for the whole picture, you also have to look what he gives away to charity not just what he collects.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/03/obamas_charity_problem.html
...by the way, the article also compares Obama and Biden!
I find this thread and what it is about laughable and pathetic. We all know that celebrities can command large sums for speaking fees. What is the mindset of a person who criticizes another for only giving back half of his usual speaking fee? If his usual speaking fee is $175,000, and he only takes $100,000, it is the equivalent of a $75,000 donation to the charity.
But for the whole picture, you also have to look what he gives away to charity not just what he collects.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/03/obamas_charity_problem.html
...by the way, the article also compares Obama and Biden!
I find this thread and what it is about laughable and pathetic. We all know that celebrities can command large sums for speaking fees. What is the mindset of a person who criticizes another for only giving back half of his usual speaking fee? If his usual speaking fee is $175,000, and he only takes $100,000, it is the equivalent of a $75,000 donation to the charity.
Oh, hell...why stop at $20 K...the truly pathetic liberal that knows how to spend everybody's money but his own would go for it all!it was $20 thousand dollars that could have been used to help severely wounded veterans.
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isadore
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Jul 9, 2015 6:33pm
Bush charged the charity for that flight. Cuban uses his own moneySportsAndLady;1740001 wrote:Rich people fly private jets to get places. Welcome to reality.
What's next? Mark Cuban should stop flying his private jet to Mavs road games because that money spent on fuel could be better spent on African children's poor living standards?
#liberal
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isadore
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Jul 9, 2015 6:39pm
He was the Commander in Chief of those service people. He ordered them into danger where they suffered their horrendous wounds. And now he charges their charity $100 thousand dollars to speak for them and another $20 thousand for his flight. That money could have helped these people. As the man who put them in danger he owned it to them.HitsRus;1740004 wrote:Bush charged $100K...the group that paid for him was ecstatic...they made $2.5 million!
But for the whole picture, you also have to look what he gives away to charity not just what he collects.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/03/obamas_charity_problem.html
...by the way, the article also compares Obama and Biden!
I find this thread and what it is about laughable and pathetic. We all know that celebrities can command large sums for speaking fees. What is the mindset of a person who criticizes another for only giving back half of his usual speaking fee? If his usual speaking fee is $175,000, and he only takes $100,000, it is the equivalent of a $75,000 donation to the charity.
Oh, hell...why stop at $20 K...the truly pathetic liberal that knows how to spend everybody's money but his own would go for it all!
sleeper
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Jul 9, 2015 6:42pm
Obama is free to donate his entire net worth to help veterans. Why won't he help them?isadore;1739992 wrote:gosh a ruddies in this case it was $20 thousand dollars that could have been used to help severely wounded veterans.
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isadore
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Jul 9, 2015 6:44pm
George took money straight out away from the charity.sleeper;1740014 wrote:Obama is free to donate his entire net worth to help veterans. Why won't he help them?
majorspark
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Jul 9, 2015 6:58pm
George stole from the charity?isadore;1740016 wrote:George took money straight out away from the charity.
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isadore
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Jul 9, 2015 7:04pm
$120,000 that could have helped the severely wounded, he probably used it for art supplies.majorspark;1740020 wrote:George stole from the charity?
believer
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Jul 9, 2015 7:06pm
I go on a 4 week OC sabbatical and come back to see nothing has changed. Isadore is still a liberal troll and you guys still entertain him.
HitsRus
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Jul 9, 2015 7:08pm
They made over $ 2 million and he personally donated $75,000. That's the bottom line.
majorspark
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Jul 9, 2015 7:09pm
So why did this charity not tell George to take his fee and go pound sand?isadore;1740021 wrote:$120,000 that could have helped the severely wounded, he probably used it for art supplies.
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isadore
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Jul 9, 2015 7:12pm
he donated nothing. He took $120,000 dollars away from men and women who followed his commands and were horrendously wounded for it.HitsRus;1740024 wrote:They made over $ 2 million and he personally donated $75,000. That's the bottom line.
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isadore
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Jul 9, 2015 7:20pm
Former Marine Eddie Wright served on the charity’s board and criticized the president’s fee to “speak on behalf of men and women he ordered into harm’s way.”
“You sent me to war,” Wright told ABC News. “I was doing what you told me to do, gladly for you and our country and I have no regrets. But it’s kind of a slap in the face.”
The former Marine lost both hands in a rocket attack in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004.
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2015/07/george-w-bush-charged-100000-to-speak-at-2012-charity-fundraiser-for-wounded-veterans.html/
“You sent me to war,” Wright told ABC News. “I was doing what you told me to do, gladly for you and our country and I have no regrets. But it’s kind of a slap in the face.”
The former Marine lost both hands in a rocket attack in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004.
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2015/07/george-w-bush-charged-100000-to-speak-at-2012-charity-fundraiser-for-wounded-veterans.html/
sleeper
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Jul 9, 2015 8:43pm
Perhaps he should have chosen another career if he was going to be a bitch about it. What did he expect? To sit on base eating bons bons for 6 years?isadore;1740030 wrote:Former Marine Eddie Wright served on the charity’s board and criticized the president’s fee to “speak on behalf of men and women he ordered into harm’s way.”
“You sent me to war,” Wright told ABC News. “I was doing what you told me to do, gladly for you and our country and I have no regrets. But it’s kind of a slap in the face.”
The former Marine lost both hands in a rocket attack in Fallujah, Iraq in 2004.
http://thescoopblog.dallasnews.com/2015/07/george-w-bush-charged-100000-to-speak-at-2012-charity-fundraiser-for-wounded-veterans.html/
Maybe OBama should give him some of his money.
DeyDurkie5
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Jul 9, 2015 8:47pm
Why is this news? Both parties agreed to a set price. Welcome to America, isadore. you dumbass.
Belly35
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Jul 9, 2015 8:59pm
When you can no long defend, support or deflect the fraud, corruption, incompetence of your own community organizer, the party and those who will represent you as a candidate... Go back to plan B... Distract from the real and reality of the present ....
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isadore
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Jul 9, 2015 9:11pm
sleeper;1740039 wrote:Perhaps he should have chosen another career if he was going to be a bitch about it. What did he expect? To sit on base eating bons bons for 6 years?
Maybe OBama should give him some of his money.
This is what he sacrificed for our country, but it was too much to ask for Bush to fly coach.
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isadore
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Jul 9, 2015 9:14pm
Bush negotiates his financial reward taken from the money for the men and women he sent to receive these terrible wounds.DeyDurkie5;1740040 wrote:Why is this news? Both parties agreed to a set price. Welcome to America, isadore. you dumbass.
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isadore
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Jul 9, 2015 9:16pm
$120,000 dollars extorted from those who need it, that is the realityBelly35;1740043 wrote:When you can no long defend, support or deflect the fraud, corruption, incompetence of your own community organizer, the party and those who will represent you as a candidate... Go back to plan B... Distract from the real and reality of the present ....