{"id":128040,"date":"2015-09-17T19:23:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T01:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/17\/not-sure-if-jeb-bush-or-chris-christie-was-more-disturbing-last-night.html"},"modified":"2015-09-18T10:32:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-18T16:32:25","slug":"not-sure-if-jeb-bush-or-chris-christie-was-more-disturbing-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/17\/not-sure-if-jeb-bush-or-chris-christie-was-more-disturbing-last-night.html","title":{"rendered":"Not sure if Jeb Bush or Chris Christie was more disturbing last night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When asked who he&#39;d like to see on the $10 bill, Jeb Bush said &#8230; Margaret Thatcher?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2015\/09\/17\/jeb-bush-wants-margaret-thatcher-on-a-10-bill-brits-are-bemused\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2015\/09\/17\/jeb-bush-wants-margaret-thatcher-on-a-10-bill-brits-are-bemused\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-34276001\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-34276001<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#39;t know that there&#39;s a law about only Americans being on our paper money (which would also disqualify John Kasich&#39;s choice of Mother Teresa), but I strongly suspect we can come up with a few American choices that would be fit before we have to go overseas to import our currency icons.<\/p>\n<p>What&#39;s more aggravating is that Chris Christie suggested Abigail Adams, who I would <i>TOTALLY SUPPORT<\/i> for the honor. And I really dislike finding myself agreeing with something Chris Christie has to say &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Amusing side note: Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz went for Rosa Parks, who, aside from her normally recognized fame, was also inconveniently a board member for Planned Parenthood.)<\/p>\n<p>(Also, -10 points for anyone who had a family member teed up as a cute non-answer. I&#39;m looking at you Messrs. Trump, Huckabee, and Carson.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style='text-align:center'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/photos\/101083456815352083930\/albums\/6195657806706857985\/6195657806742802754'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-579KfGFwz4Y\/Vftl8wDH0UI\/AAAAAAADYpg\/_-8wM7Azj_0\/_85591502_thatcher_976%255B1%255D.jpg?imgmax=660' style='max-width:650px;' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<a href='' style='width:50px;height:50px;display:inline-block;background-size:cover;background-image:url();'><\/a>\u00a0\n<\/div>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/4qf52Vkf4W4'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When asked who he&#39;d like to see on the $10 bill, Jeb Bush said &#8230; Margaret Thatcher? https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/worldviews\/wp\/2015\/09\/17\/jeb-bush-wants-margaret-thatcher-on-a-10-bill-brits-are-bemused\/http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-34276001 I don&#39;t know that there&#39;s a law about only Americans being on our paper money (which would also disqualify John Kasich&#39;s choice of Mother Teresa), but I strongly suspect we can come up with a few American &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/17\/not-sure-if-jeb-bush-or-chris-christie-was-more-disturbing-last-night.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Not sure if Jeb Bush or Chris Christie was more disturbing last night&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,532,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2016","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/_85591502_thatcher_9765B15D.jpgimgmax=660.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129881,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/21\/jeb-jeb-jeb.html","url_meta":{"origin":128040,"position":0},"title":"Jeb! 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