Comments on: U. of Fla. Denies Degree To Jeb Bush

School Faculty Votes Against Awarding Honorary Degree To Former Fla. Governor

[jebby_one]

neo-commie proclaims:

"Moreover, the Jeb is a VERY BAD PARENT!"

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Wow!

Since you broke the subject I guess it's now ok to compare Jeb's daughter to Democrat Presidential candidate George McGovern's daughter Terry. Did George get any honarary degrees? I can't imagine any business school giving him an honorary degree. Besides his miserable failure as a parent he also had a miserable failure as a business owner.

http://www.sonic.net/~barny/terry.html

[rohink-2009]

Parents who's children suffer bouts of drug addiction doesn't make them bad parents. And as for "genetic connections" getting you out of trouble, has been going on since the dawn of man. It's not fair. It's fact.

[rohink-2009]

There failures and success in everyone's lives.

[agnim]

Moreover, the Jeb is a VERY BAD PARENT!

His drug addicted child (like her drug addicted uncle and cousins) repeatedly gets away with drug-related crimes just because of her genetic connections.

[rohink-2009]

If Jeb feels that he has earned the honor and the respect that comes with it.
He should already have the prestige not to question the decision of the committee.
Posted by wizest

Hey wizest,
I didn't read anywhere that he questioned the decision.

[agnim]

"U. of Fla. Denies Degree To Jeb Bush"

Good move!

Those degrees should be for people who would promote the Common Good, not for those who rather promote narrow and narrow-minded special interests.

[rohink-2009]

Yet another Bu$h family failure...
Posted by inventagod

How so? Because of College politics? Hardly.

[rohink-2009]

Barbra Streisand : Completed high school. Career: Singing and acting

Cher: Dropped out of school in 9th grade. Career: Singing and acting

Martin Sheen : Flunked exam to enter University of Dayton. Career:
Acting

Jessica Lange Dropped out college mid-freshman year. Career: Acting

Alec Baldwin Dropped out of George Washington U.
...

These people received honorary college degrees. So did kermit the frog and Robert Mugabe.

Bush doesn't need an "honorary degree". He earned his on his own.

[inventagod]

Yet another Bu$h family failure...

[jebby_one]

"... simply because his name is Bush "

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hmmm? isn't that the kind of thinking that usually precedes the commission of a hate crime?

[walt1944-2009]

Being a native of another state, I am not sure what Jeb Bush's accomplishments (if any?) have been to the state of Florida, aside from helping deliver the state for his brother (Yuch!) in 2000, even though it later appears that Al Gore won Florida. I have often wondered how people who never crack open a book or spend a dime of their own money, can get an "honorary" degree simply because they have "influence", while the average family spends thousands of dollars just to get their kid a bachelor's. In Jeb Bush's case, if it were up to me, I wouldn't give the guy a pot to boil water in, simply because his name is Bush and knowing what his father and brother have done to (not for) this country. Besides, Jeb, being a Bush, probably wouldn't know how to boil water anyway!

[bigsk8fan]

The reason for the rejection of Jeb for the honorary degree must have been apparent to even Bush fans. You see what is happening, but you close your eyes to the impact. They create laws that sound like they are supporting something, for example: the Clean Air Act which has nothing to do with clean air, but how much pollution can we make; the No Child Left Behind Act, which underfunds and leaves almost all children with a minimal education; and JEB's own ecuational proposals that are more like left handed compliments. Conservatives will probably be out clammering how much a Southern college is now controlled by "liberals". This is always their chant for how bad things always seem to happen to our conservative "victims".

[jebby_one]

UofF has taken over from Miami as the party school of America with a faculty more interested in developing welfare reciepients and perpetual victims than in developing leaders.

Such action was to be expected. What next? How about an honorary degree to Fidel Castro?

[vancouverboo]

Because he opposed racial quotas and because he started 3 medical schools. According to the story.
Sorry I can't give him an award for fighting illness and fighting racism. But that's politically correct America.

[wizest]

If Jeb feels that he has earned the honor and the respect that comes with it.
He should already have the prestige not to question the decision of the committee.

[tucson23]

I got a degree by studying for years and banging co-eds...it's the only way to go.

[Razzl]

University administrations play the kiss-*** game with lightning-rod politicians at their own peril. They should have had some inkling given the high feeling in the country at this time over the Bush dynasty and it's misuse of the political system that this would not be a good year to put forward Jeb's name.