"R. David Steele" wrote in message
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|| "I am angry that so many of the sons of the powerful and well-placed
||managed to
|| wangle slots in the Army Reserve and National Guard units." -- Colin
||Powell, My
|| American Journey, 1995
||
||Bush served in the Military and was discharged honorably...get over it. He
||could have chosen not to serve at all and gone off to Oxford.
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||Sorry. Old man Bush had no influence to get his dumb kid into a school like
||Oxford. He could only wheedle Yale and Harvard to let the" c" student in.
But
||if young Bush didn't have a powerful rich father he never would have
gotten
||into either school nor the National Guard for that matter.
|
|The Bush family does not even begin to have the wealth that
|Senator Edwards (D-NC) has (over $50 million). And Sen. Kerry
|(D-MA) has ten times that ($500 million).
|
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|I can't speak to Edwards or Kerry but it seems that the Bush
|family's money has very deeep roots that mean at least amount
|as the bank bank balance; See
|
|American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of
| Deceit in the House of Bush by Kevin Phillips

Kerry is very old money, as he is a Bonesman like Bush. And far
more wealth. The Bush family is not all that well to do, in
comparison. Most of the big money these days is in the democrat
party. Even the Ford family (Ford motors, Ford foundation) and
Carnegie family (US Steel) have been bankrolling many of the far
left's operations for years. Most of the money in these old
families is tied up in foundations so that they do not pay the
estate tax.

Add Warren Buffet, George Soros, Bill Gates and 9 out of the top
11 wealthiest senators in congress.

Right. I guess that explains why Bush can raise gobs more money for his
reelection campaign than all nine of his original Democratic wannabee nominees
put together.

George Z.