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And he was supposed to be the smart one.
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I don’t think that JEB is the one to be giving parenting advice, what with his daughter’s arrest and all.
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Open mouth, insert non sequitur.
This is on a level with his brother’s infamous “More and more of our imports are coming from abroad.”
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So true Jeb, you tell it like it is!!! Well known studies have proven children adopted by LGBT couples suffer the worst deprivations known to man. Malnourishment, poorly clothed, held out of school, physically abused, exposed to poorly stored guns, meth labs in the back yard, utilities constantly shut off. Oh wait, nevermind. I guess that study was about children of straight couples in Mississippi & Kentucky.
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Or at least vaguely competent, a non-joke, someone you had to take seriously. But I guess we can strike “Take Jeb Bush seriously” off our to-do lists.
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Yes, imagine. Image a world with no religion, its easy if you try.
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Two ADULT families generally do better - obviously, as they share their incomes and half expenses. I have not seen the study that claims parents of the same sex are poor parents - but I’ve seen a lot of the opposite. http://journalistsresource.org/studies/society/gender-society/same-sex-marriage-children-well-being-research-roundup#
So very goddamn conclusive.
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Welcome to 2003. Iraq invasion is all good. Right wing gay bashing is all the rage.
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With one important difference - this stuff will no longer win you a Presidential election.
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Don’t tell Jeb that through, or any other right wing hack.
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"Houston, we have a logic fail problem!!"
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If by traditional marriage he means a marriage where one parent stays home and the other works, like most Republicans this clown doesn’t understand that low wages have made the “traditional marriage” a luxury most Americans can’t afford.
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The former governor said that his position on the matter was informed by his Catholicism.
“Talking about being formed by one’s faith, it’s at the core of the Catholic faith,” he said. “And to imagine how we are going to succeed in our country unless we have committed family life, a child-centered family system, is hard to imagine.”
And that is because, as we all know, Mr. Jeb is startlingly lacking in imagination. Of course Jeb, as is usual, for his kind of right-wing flim-flam artist, is somehow implying that religion is at the core of childrens’ well being. But that’s simply not necessarily true.
Far from being dysfunctional, nihilistic and rudderless without the security and rectitude of religion, secular households provide a sound and solid foundation for children, according to Vern Bengston, a USC professor of gerontology and sociology…
Recent research also has shown that children raised without religion tend to remain irreligious as they grow older — and are perhaps more accepting. Secular adults are more likely to understand and accept the science concerning global warming, and to support women’s equality and gay rights. One telling fact from the criminology field: Atheists were almost absent from our prison population as of the late 1990s, comprising less than half of 1% of those behind bars, according to Federal Bureau of Prisons statistics. This echoes what the criminology field has documented for more than a century — the unaffiliated and the nonreligious engage in far fewer crimes.
See also: > Why Don’t We Practice What We Preach? A Meta-Analytic Review of Religious Racism
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Jeb, let me ask you something … When / Why did you decide that you had to become the village idiot in order to compete in this election?
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It’s vaguely reminiscent of Mitt Romney’s (R-nowhere) recipe for avoiding poverty: “Borrow a couple of million from your parents and start your own business.”
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The lame musings of Bush as a candidate for the Presidency remind me of the “Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy” skits on SNL.Why is it so difficult for people of Jeb’s ilk to grasp the rapidly changing nature of American society? There will be more changes in traditional societal norms as diversity becomes more fully understood and embraced,There will be a further rise in disruptive technology that will engender a world these people have never contemplated and seldom even try to understand. Instead of trying to drag America back to the 50s…how about envisioning what may happen over the next generation and how they will play a role in developing a functional future society that works for those that will have an important role within it…
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More startling to me, is I seem to remember the right wingers going apeshit over the fact that Kennedy was beholden to the Pope because he was Catholic, and therefore wouldn’t be able to run our country.
But apparently, once again, IOKIYAR. Here is Bush clearly stating that Catholic teachings are the basis for his policy. And nobody is going to raise a single peep about Papist influence.
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How successful was “traditional marriage” in his own family? Don’t I recall a daughter who spent a lot of time in rehab? And then there’s always the coke sniffing, alcoholic brother.
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The only “warp speed” I see here is with JEB’s big boy cred’s flight into the bucket.
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