{"id":16149,"date":"2015-09-21T10:36:22","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T17:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=16149"},"modified":"2015-09-21T10:38:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T17:38:41","slug":"jebya-says-dubya-kept-us-safe-a-rebuttal-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/21\/jebya-says-dubya-kept-us-safe-a-rebuttal-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Jebya! Says Dubya \u201cKept Us Safe\u201d \u2013 A Rebuttal Ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From all the lies packed into last Wednesday&rsquo;s GOP debate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/jeb-bush-george-bush_55fa25f2e4b0fde8b0ccf678\" target=\"_blank\">this mendacity caused my jaw to hit the floor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>JEBYA: &ldquo;As it relates to my brother, there&#039;s one thing I know for sure: <strong>He kept us safe. &nbsp;<\/strong>I don&#039;t know if you remember, Donald &#8212; you remember the rubble? &nbsp;You remember the firefighter with his arms around him? &nbsp;He sent a clear signal that the United States would be strong and fight Islamic terrorism, and <strong>he did keep us safe<\/strong>.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And sadly, that whopper got a huge round of applause from the partisan rabble-rousers.<\/p>\n<p>Why, Jebya was so sure of himself he even sent out this Tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He kept us safe. <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Plq9Hm7caE\">pic.twitter.com\/Plq9Hm7caE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jeb Bush (@JebBush) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JebBush\/status\/644542458735525888\">September 17, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I don&rsquo;t know about you, but I think if you&rsquo;re standing on a pile of rubble where 3,000 people had just been killed, it would be a&nbsp;<em>YUUUGGE<\/em> leap of faith to call that &ldquo;Safe&rdquo;.&nbsp; Maybe this Tweet will jog Jebya&rsquo;s &ndash; and all the other mouth-breathers&nbsp;who thinks Dubya&#039;s &nbsp;calendar began on 9\/12\/01 &ndash; memory:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;One thing about my brother, he kept us safe.&quot; &#8212; Jeb Bush <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/Am1EiAB3O2\">pic.twitter.com\/Am1EiAB3O2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Noah Shachtman (@NoahShachtman) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NoahShachtman\/status\/644331330633891840\">September 17, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But there&rsquo;s a great rebuttal ad that will begin airing next week on cable &ndash; well worth the 30 seconds it takes to watch &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/on9q1GrE7Ys?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>From the YouTube intro:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Jeb Bush thinks his brother &quot;kept us safe&quot;&#8230; but we won&#039;t let Jeb rewrite history. Ignoring warnings of terrorists plots by Osama bin Laden, a tragically inept response to Hurricane Katrina, plunging our economy into recession and leading us into a unnecessary war that took the lives of over 4,000 US men and women &#8211; just a few examples of how &quot;safe&quot; Jeb&#039;s brother kept us.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From all the lies packed into last Wednesday&rsquo;s GOP debate, this mendacity caused my jaw to hit the floor: JEBYA: &ldquo;As it relates to my brother, there&#039;s one thing I know for sure: He kept us safe. &nbsp;I don&#039;t know if you remember, Donald &#8212; you remember the rubble? &nbsp;You remember the firefighter with his <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/21\/jebya-says-dubya-kept-us-safe-a-rebuttal-ad\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}