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Once again Dubya skips out on his civic responsibility...

Tenchiro

Tenchiro

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Bush gets jury duty call, says he is busy
Thu Dec 1, 2005 7:26 PM GMT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush had to explain that he was a little busy running the United States when he got called for jury duty.

Bush never received the summons to appear at a court in Crawford, Texas, for jury duty on Monday and the White House learnt about it through media reports, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said on Thursday.

"We have since called the court to inform them that the president has other commitments on Monday, and that he would like to reschedule his jury duty," McClellan said.

Last week, the man Bush beat to get re-elected last year, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, served as foreman on a jury for two days at a civil case in Boston.

Bush, whose ranch is in Crawford, is scheduled to give a speech in North Carolina on Monday.

"One serious note: jury duty is an important civic responsibility. And it's important that people do serve," McClellan said

© Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved.
 
H8R

H8R

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Nov 10, 2004
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rooftest said:
The guy's got better things to do than sit on a jury. Obviously Kerry doesn't.
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No kidding. What can be better than coke?
 
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blt2ride

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That's a bunch of crap! Here in California, it is getting harder and harder (if not impossible) to get out of jury duty. Luckily, my work pays for unlimited days, so I wasn't sweating it too much. However, the court wouldn't even take financial hardship as a viable excuse. Let me just tell you, if anyone had the nerve to say they were too busy with work to sit on a case, the judge would have blown-up. No one there had the courage to use that as an excuse. Although, there were a few people who played the "me no speaka english" role, though. Oh, and a few (only a few), played the race card...those didn't work too well, either. It's really hard to get out of jury duty these days...
 
valve bouncer

valve bouncer

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Feb 11, 2002
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I dunno I reckon they should just let the judge decide who's guilty. Out of 12 people I'd have to reckon 9 are complete nongs based on my unified theory of humanity* and they get to decide the rights and wrongs? No thanks.








*VB's unified theory of humanity- 75% of all people are total f*ckwits.
 
reflux

reflux

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Mar 18, 2002
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MudGrrl said:
to tell you the truth

I wouldn't want him on my jury if I was being tried for something
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Really? If he were on my jury, I would say, "But your honor, if I didn't so this, the terrorists would've won." Bam! Not guilty on all charges.
 
DamienC

DamienC

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reflux said:
Really? If he were on my jury, I would say, "But your honor, if I didn't so this, the terrorists would've won." Bam! Not guilty on all charges.
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To the contrary...if he were involved there wouldn't even be a trial. You'd just be shipped off to Camp X-ray or some secret holding facility in Bulgaria or one the -stans.
 
LordOpie

LordOpie

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reflux said:
Really? If he were on my jury, I would say, "But your honor, if I didn't so this, the terrorists would've won." Bam! Not guilty on all charges.
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ditto what VB said.
 
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