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Ten dollar bill with Thatcher's face, proposed presidential hopeful Jeb Bush
US Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush has picked the UK's former Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, as his choice for the face of the $10 bill. The former Florida governor made the surprise suggestion during a televised debate for the top Republicans vying for the presidential nomination. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI´m a fan of Mrs. Thatcher. I really sorry we didn´t have a good relationship with her. And most definitively I would have loved to have her on charge down here. I wish we had a Mrs. Thatcher here in Argentina, just one every 50 years.
Sep 17th, 2015 - 11:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0But since this is about US currency, I think that Mrs. Rosa Parks should be there. In spite of any remark you may make on her, the segregation rules were a shameful stain on US history, and she showed a massive attitude and a great spirit by confronting them.
mother Teresa, although a powerful symbol, is not what they try to sell. She wouldn´t be my choice at all.
Yes, they could use a Maggie here.
Sep 17th, 2015 - 11:39 am - Link - Report abuse 0Yes, Maggie showed the Military Junta she had a pair of big ones but, isn't the face of currency reserved for people of that country?
Sep 17th, 2015 - 01:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's a non starter and somewhat of a joke of a question.....as was the debate. This was nothing more the a beauty pageant for the GOP. Man.....I never realized just how much Jeb's body language is identical to George's.
Sep 17th, 2015 - 02:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Their responses are not different than they ever are. reduce taxes on the super wealthy, cut taxes across the board, create a VAT tax, repeal healthcare for everyone, cut business taxes. And worse, Gov. Huckboo wants to have a Christian taliban running the USA.......he'll give us a morals dept. I wonder if he came to the aid in the namea of religious freedom for the Muslim flight attendant who refused to serve alcohol and was fired?????
Now, the opposite of that is yet to show it's ugly face.....the Democrats debate. A
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cut the military
increase taxes on the rich (dems rich starts at 50k a year)
Amnesty for the immigrants living in the USA illegally
Somewhere in the middle “WE THE WORKING PEOPLE” get fucked between the rich and the poor. No wonder non politicians running are becoming popular regardless of the stupid things they say. As Shakespeare said of the lawyers, we should make unto the politicians.
Some of these answers were lame! Surely there must be more than one American woman who deserves a place on a US banknote?
Sep 17th, 2015 - 03:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Amelia Earhart
Sally Ride
Jane Addams
Clara Barton
Susan Brownell Anthony
Elizabeth Blackwell
Margaret 'Molly' Tobin Brown
Martha Jane 'Calamity Jane' Cannary
Emily Dickenson
Mary Fields aka 'Stagecoach Mary'
Annie Oakley
These are to name but a few, other than Rosa Parks, and it didn't take me more than a minute to search for them.
It's a pity that some of the Republican candidates couldn't be bothered.
Again it was also a non-question question. I mean how serious of a question be posed to a Republican and expect an real answer? If we here in the USA need to go ahead and make our currency a little mo PC as well as everything else, hell.......my choices would be:
Sep 17th, 2015 - 04:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Harriet Tubman
Julia de Burgos
Jovita Idár
Pocohantas
Deborah Moody
Abigail Adams
Man there are so many.......Emily was a nut Jobs......and Annie Oakley? A boon to the gun freaks. But again......a light hearted non question question.
Sarah Palin anyone.
Sep 17th, 2015 - 05:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Racoon hat, gun in hand on the battlements of the Alamo perhaps.
Or even on horseback, sabre wielding at wounded knee.
Khe Sanh maybe with a napalm strike in the background.
The Blessed Margaret stole many a mature man's heart.
Sep 17th, 2015 - 05:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Pity we have such a cunt in the office now.
@6 Captain Poppy
Sep 17th, 2015 - 08:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The USA puts Presidents on the bank notes, but why don't you ever change the design? Don't all your Presidents deserve go on the currency?
Perhaps taking the Presidents who owned slaves off the currency would be the 'politically correct' thing to do. Why not get rid of Washington (a slave owner) and replace him with Teddy Roosevelt? Get rid of Franklin (a slave owner) and replace him with Kennedy? Get rid of Jefferson and replace him with Reagan?
Or get rid of the Presidents on the currency all together and replace them with Americans who've achieved great things, whether they be a man or woman?
Or why not have both, like the British do. Head of State on one side, and a famous Briton on the other, or in the case of the US, President on one side, famous American on the other.
It could work.
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Sep 18th, 2015 - 02:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0The US created and perpetuated their own traditions, to give themselves a distinct identity, and celebrate a unique and independent history.
They will stick by those traditions - US banknotes have artwork from the 1920's and immortalized the significant Founding Fathers and architects of the Republic - a far cry from the Nixon, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan Presidents.
I only watched 10 minutes of the debate before I turned off.
Sep 18th, 2015 - 03:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Jeb Bush's answer may appear unimportant but it reveals a lot about what Americans can expect from him. His brother had a bust of Winston Churchill, a leader of a foreign power. And not only a foreign power but a client power. We can see how well his administration worked out for America.
The US needs an American for president - whether he be a member of the GOP, the Democratic Party or some other. The president needs to serve the US and not angle for a British lordship like Lord Casper Weinberger or Benedict Arnold.
Lady Gaga?
Sep 18th, 2015 - 04:35 am - Link - Report abuse 011 Hepatia
Sep 18th, 2015 - 06:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Jeb Bush's answer may appear unimportant but it reveals a lot about what Americans can expect from him. His brother had a bust of Winston Churchill,...”
Too bad for you, “Hepatia” - looks like the US sympathies lie with the UK, Maggie, and the Falklanders, rather than the screeching harpy, CFK
11 Hepatia
Sep 18th, 2015 - 08:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0The affinity comes from a DNA blueprint. It explains why the USA is more like Canada and less like Mexico: as you know, a lot of you RG's whine and cry about this and what could have been - if we'd have taken you in all those years ago.
Lep it's not only US president's on out bank notes for some current and past notes. I second what Troy posted as well. And this talk of changes.....a stunt and nothing more. This PC crap needs to end.
Sep 18th, 2015 - 10:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hep C, greatness knows no nationalities.
@ 11 Hepatia
Sep 18th, 2015 - 05:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We have Cipayos everywhere.
Within the next 25 years we will control Argentina.
@16 Pugol-H,
Sep 18th, 2015 - 09:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0If we ever do control Argentina, we'll have our work cut out trying to bring order out of chaos & making the country fit for its citizens to live in.
Maggie would look good on the Argentine £10 note.!
So, it official. The winner of the second GOP debate is the same as the winner of the first - Bernie Sanders: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/253993-bernie-sanders-won-the-gop-debate-for-the-second-time-in-a-row
Sep 19th, 2015 - 01:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0Thatcher is scum and so is Trump.
Sep 20th, 2015 - 11:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0@ 19 John III (Pope)
Sep 20th, 2015 - 12:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Being an argie, you would think that, especially as she kicked your arses off the island FOREVER!
You do realise that all the argie crap about UN so called resolutions died at that point and what you spout now has no support under international law at all?
If only you idiots had not gone down the Peronism route and stuck with the Brits your country would still be powerful and lauded internationally instead of being laughed at!
Ha, ha, ha.
@20 ChrisR,
Sep 20th, 2015 - 08:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They know that now, but their stupid Latino pride & RG arrogance will never allow them to admit it.
l bet the RGs wish it was 1900 instead of 2015! lol.
I see the wing nuts are on their anti immigrant roll again. They have been attacking the British born actress Emily Blunt who dared to criticize the GOP debate. She joked that British people tend to look down on Americans and that she had lost that right to do so by taking US citizenship. She also said, “I had to renounce my Queen.”
Sep 21st, 2015 - 02:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0I support her right to make political criticism of the debates or any other aspect of US political life. She has earned the right by becoming a US citizen and by renouncing her Queen. I wish that more British people would follow her example.
No one here actually cares what you support Hep A. But this I will tell you; free speech is a thing of beauty as well as ugly....at least in the USA. If you were an American.....i.e., of the USA, you too can say much of anything, but you cannot expect there to be no feedback if you do so in a public arena.
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 01:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0Trump in the latest move to try and deflect criticism of him for his support for the birthers is trying to claim that Clinton started it:
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 02:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/09/21/trump-fox-and-friends-hillary-clinton-started-birther-questions-about-obama-2008
24 hep C
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 06:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Is there still a Communist Party in the US, Hep?
Pfft... as if you would know anything about living in America!!
@11 Hep
Sep 22nd, 2015 - 03:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Showing your ignorance again. To the best of my knowledge Benedict Arnold did NOT receive a British lordship and Caspar Weinberger certainly didn't.
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Sep 22nd, 2015 - 05:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I wish that more British people would follow her example.
Why ? What possible business is it of yours.
It doesn't affect you one way or the other
Compounding your usual inaccuracies you say
”a British lordship like Lord Casper Weinberger or Benedict Arnold.”
Weinberger was given an honorary Knighthood -not a Lordship.
Benedict Arnold received NO honours from the British government .
At least try to get the facts correct before you press submit.
Again you don't deal in facts, only twisted prejudices.
Trump has now gone to war with Fox. This will be interesting.
Sep 23rd, 2015 - 03:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's still time?
Sep 23rd, 2015 - 05:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0Here it is:
1. Cristina Fernández de Kirchner
2. Eva Perón
I know you'll all love it.
@29 Enrico,
Sep 23rd, 2015 - 09:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0Who cares whose picture is on currency?
lts still able to be exchanged for goods & services……,
Well some country's is……lol.
@27 Clyde15,
l think that secretly, Hepatia longs to be a part of the British aristocracy. lol!
l notice that it didn't reply to any of you.
I suspect that Hepatitis C seems to think that anyone against Kirchner's is a conservative and that every American writing here is a GOP or Tea Bagger.
Sep 23rd, 2015 - 10:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0Hep...get a life! Most Americans can see through Trump so get over it.
Now that Trump's polling numbers are going down it is time to ask, “Has he had his Sarah Palin Moment?” I think he has. And I would like to think that his suggestion of putting the picture of a foreigner on US currency contributed to the Moment. Especially since the particular foreigner suggested was the leader of a royalist theocracy!
Sep 24th, 2015 - 01:34 am - Link - Report abuse 032
Sep 24th, 2015 - 02:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0“...the... foreigner suggested was the leader of a royalist theocracy!”
who talks like that???
Exiled South American socialists, like Stevie SUPA TUPA, vestige, Danny Burger, ThinkvoiceCedron ;-)))), Nostrils... etc.
#32 Hep C......some American's read more than one news source. Don't plagiarize from the Huff Post with regard to “Trumps Palin moment” and use it as if it were your own thought.
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