Comments on: Why Pres. Bush Did Not Name Sen. Borah http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/05/why-pres-bush-did-not-name-sen-borah Loaning brain cells to those in need since 2003 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:25:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Christopher E. http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/05/why-pres-bush-did-not-name-sen-borah#comment-36690 Christopher E. Mon, 19 May 2008 21:52:24 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=4177#comment-36690 Bush Family History: Did the Bush family help Hitler? Click the link below, read the article and then decide. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/051908M.shtml C.E. Robin Bush Family History: Did the Bush family help Hitler? Click the link below, read the article and then decide.

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]]> By: Kathy http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/05/why-pres-bush-did-not-name-sen-borah#comment-36530 Kathy Sat, 17 May 2008 18:18:22 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=4177#comment-36530 True, but Rumsfeld could have had similar reasons for not mentioning Borah -- i.e., wanting to implicate present-day Democratic leadership rather than make an historical reference. And regardless of Rumsfeld's motives for not mentioning Borah by name, Pres. Bush's motives could still have been what I speculated (or not, but the earlier reference by Rumsfeld does not really bear on Bush's motives). True, but Rumsfeld could have had similar reasons for not mentioning Borah — i.e., wanting to implicate present-day Democratic leadership rather than make an historical reference. And regardless of Rumsfeld’s motives for not mentioning Borah by name, Pres. Bush’s motives could still have been what I speculated (or not, but the earlier reference by Rumsfeld does not really bear on Bush’s motives).

]]> By: Callimachus http://commentsfromleftfield.com/2008/05/why-pres-bush-did-not-name-sen-borah#comment-36504 Callimachus Sat, 17 May 2008 04:20:20 +0000 http://commentsfromleftfield.com/?p=4177#comment-36504 "I know exactly why he did not refer to Borah by name. He did not refer to Borah by name because the quote was intended to suggest that Sen. Barack Obama supports negotiating with Hitler ...." That's possible, but if you read the Rumsfeld speech, he used pretty similar language and also did not name Borah. And Obama wasn't in the picture then. The intent may have been to draw attention away from specifics of the past (if so, it worked, thanks to the media), but if so, it wasn't invented for this occasion. “I know exactly why he did not refer to Borah by name. He did not refer to Borah by name because the quote was intended to suggest that Sen. Barack Obama supports negotiating with Hitler ….”

That’s possible, but if you read the Rumsfeld speech, he used pretty similar language and also did not name Borah. And Obama wasn’t in the picture then. The intent may have been to draw attention away from specifics of the past (if so, it worked, thanks to the media), but if so, it wasn’t invented for this occasion.

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